Privacy Policy
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, BKL Wine Merchants collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. BKL Wine Merchants’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how BKL Wine Merchants’ visitors use its website. From time to time, BKL Wine Merchants may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
BKL Wine Merchants also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. BKL Wine Merchants does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-identifying information
Certain visitors to LBKL Wine Merchants’ website choose to interact with BKL Wine Merchants in ways that require BKL Wine Merchants to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that BKL Wine Merchants gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who register for an account to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with BKL Wine Merchants – by completing online wine orders, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, BKL Wine Merchants collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with BKL Wine Merchants.
BKL Wine Merchants does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
BKL Wine Merchants may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, BKL Wine Merchants may monitor plugin downloads or number of comments. BKL Wine Merchants may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, BKL Wine Merchants does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
BKL Wine Merchants discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on BKL Wine Merchants’ behalf or to provide services available at BKL Wine Merchants’ websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.
Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using BKL Wine Merchants’ website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. BKL Wine Merchants will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.
Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, BKL Wine Merchants discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when BKL Wine Merchants believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of BKL Wine Merchants, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of a BKL Wine Merchants website and have supplied your email address, BKL Wine Merchants may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with BKL Wine Merchants and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.
If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. BKL Wine Merchants takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. BKL Wine Merchants uses cookies to help BKL Wine Merchants identify and track visitors, their usage of the BKL Wine Merchants website, and their website access preferences. BKL Wine Merchantsvisitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using BKL Wine Merchants’ website, with the drawback that certain features of BKL Wine Merchants’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If BKL Wine Merchants, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that BKL Wine Merchants goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of BKL Wine Merchants may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.