The respect of privacy is at the heart of our concerns. That is why we invite you to read in detail the information below which summarizes our provisions in terms of data protection.
A. Introduction
1/ Privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information.
2/ Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our site.
B. Collection of Personal Information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
3/ Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
4/ Information about your visits to and use of this web site including the referring source, length of visit, pages viewed, and web site navigation paths;
5/ Information such as your e-mail address, which you provide to us when you register on the site;
6/ Information you enter when you create a profile on our website such as your name, profile picture, title, date of birth, marital status, interests and hobbies, educational background, and employment history;
7/ Information such as your name and e-mail address, which you enter to subscribe to our e-mails and/or newsletters;
8/ Information that you enter when you use the services on our website;
9/ Information generated when you use our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
10/ Information about purchases you make, services you use or transactions you engage on our site, which includes your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and credit card information;
11/ Information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures and the content of your posts;
12/ Information contained in any communications you send to us by e-mail or on our website, including their content and metadata;
Any other personal information you provide to us.
Before you disclose personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person's consent to the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
C. Use of your personal information
Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information to:
13/ Administer our website and our business;
14/ Personalize our website for you;
15/ Enable your use of the services offered on our website;
16/ Send you goods purchased on our website;
17/ Provide you with services purchased on our site;
18/ Send you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collect your payments;
19/ Send you non-marketing communications;
20/ Send you e-mail notifications that you have expressly requested;
21/ Send you our newsletter by e-mail, if you have requested it (you may inform us at any time that you no longer wish to receive our newsletter);
22/ To send you marketing communications relating to our company or to carefully selected third party companies that we believe they may be interested in you, in the form of a publication, or if you have expressly agreed, by e-mail or similar technology (you may inform us at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
23/ Process requests and complaints made by or about you in relation to your website;
24/ Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
25/ to monitor compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website's private messaging service);
26/ Other uses.
If you submit personal information to our website for the purpose of publication, we will publish it and may use that information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.
Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and may be adjusted in your privacy settings on the website.
Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing, or that of other third parties.
D. Disclosure of Your Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set forth in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our corporate group (which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and any of its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
27/ To the extent we are required to do so by law;
In connection with any pending or future legal proceedings;
28/ To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes);
29/ to the purchaser (or potential purchaser) of any business or assets in our possession that we wish to (or are considering) selling;
30/ to any person whom we reasonably believe to be an integral part of a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such a court or authority would be likely to require disclosure of such personal information.
Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
E. International Data Transfers
31/ Information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred to any country in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
32/ Information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
33/ Personal information that you post on our website or submit for posting may be available, via the internet, throughout the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by third parties.
34/ You expressly consent to the transfer of personal information described in this Section E.
F. Retention of Your Personal Information
35/ This Section F details our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and disposal of personal information.
36/ Personal information that we process for any purpose is retained no longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
37/ Despite of the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain records (including electronic records) containing personal data:
a. To the extent we are required to do so by law ;
b. If we believe the records may be relevant to any current or potential legal proceedings;
c. To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).
G. Security of Your Personal Information
38/ We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
39/ We will store all personal information you provide to us on secure servers (password and firewall protected).
40/ All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.
41/ You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure, and that we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent over the Internet.
42/ You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
H. Amendments
From time to time we may update this policy by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by e-mail or through our website's private messaging service.
I. Your Rights
You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:
43/ Presentation of sufficient proof of your identity (e.g., identification card)
We may retain personal information requested by you to the extent permitted by law.
You may ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
J. Other websites
Our website contains hyperlinks to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these sites, and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.
K. Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
L. Cookies
a. Definition
A cookie is the equivalent of a small text file, automatically deposited on the user's terminal (computer hard drive, tablet, smartphone, or any other similar device) through his browser in order to record his activities during his browsing time on the Premium Spirits website.
b. Cookies used
Cookies are used to collect and store different types of information, such as language preferences of visitors, statistics about visitors to a website or to ensure that the website functions in optimal conditions. Some of these cookies are therefore necessary to enable you to access our site in an optimal way.
Other cookies are only stored if you give your consent.
The cookies used by Premium Spirits are strictly necessary for the provision of the service and are therefore exempt from prior consent.
These are the following cookies:
*Purchase cart cookies for a merchant site,
*Session ID cookies for the duration of a session or persistent cookies limited to a few hours,
*Authentication cookies,
*Session cookies created by a media player,
*Session load balancing cookies,
*Some analytics solutions,
*Persistent cookies for user interface customization (language choice or layout).
Premium Spirits reserves the right to add other types of cookies for which prior consent is required.
c. How long cookies are kept
Most cookies only work for the duration of a single session or visit. Persistent cookies are stored until your consent expires unless you choose to delete them first. Session cookies expire at the end of the session, as soon as you close your browser window.