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Privacy Policy

We are committed to ensuring your privacy and we believe in giving you full disclosure about the information we gather and what we do with it. You can be confident that we do not sell or exchange our customer´s names and email addresses, or any other information about our customers, with third parties.

We may have collected personally identifiable information from various contact forms on our website or from our electronic newsletter subscription form. This information includes, but not limited to, name, mailing address, email address, demographic information, interests and preferences, user defined settings.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://winetourhub.com. This website is owned by Expose Design Studio, 1934 Water Street, Kelowna, BC Canada. 

All materials (graphics, icons, HTML, javascripts, color schemes, multimedia, logos, photographs, copywriting, et al) that appear on this website are the property of Wine Tour Hub and copyrighted by same.

Other materials on this website not originally produced by us (some audio, video, trademarks, et al) are copyrighted by their respective creators/owners and appear here either by permission, example or as public domain reference material.

Wine Tour Hub updates the information on this website regularly. However, such information is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all matters and developments concerning Wine Tour Hub and cannot guarantee the accuracy, currency or completeness of the information at all times and assumes no responsibility in this regard.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Personal information about visitors to our site is collected only when knowingly and voluntarily submitted. For example, we may need to collect such information to provide you with further services or to answer or forward any requests or inquiries. It is our intention that this policy will protect your personal information from being dealt with in any way that is inconsistent with applicable privacy laws in Canada.

We may use the information we collect to contact our customers through both email and regular mail to alert them of new products and services or announcements. We use demographic and profile data to tailor our visitor´s experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. We make every reasonable effort to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of personal information under our control. Our security policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. You always have the option to instruct us not to use your name, address, e-mail address, etc. beyond providing you with the product, information or service you requested.

Copies of correspondence sent from the web site, that may contain personal information, are stored as archives for record-keeping and back-up purposes only.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Links to other sites

We provide links to Web sites outside of our web sites, as well as to third party Web sites. These linked sites are not under our control, and we cannot accept responsibility for the conduct of companies linked to our web site. Before disclosing your personal information on any other web site, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions of using that Web site and its privacy statement.

Analytics

Each time you visit our website we automatically recognize your IP address, Internet service provider, operating system platform, and browser type. We also collect statistical information on which pages and images are accessed at our site, however you cannot be identified as an individual based on our website log files. We also track statistical information from our electronic newsletter campaigns such as number of impressions and number of click-throughs, however, they are not reported on a per subscriber basis.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell or exchange our customer´s names and email addresses, or any other information about our customers, with third parties.

Personal information that visitors submit to our site is used only for the purpose for which it is submitted or for such other secondary purposes that are related to the primary purpose, unless we disclose other uses in this Internet Privacy Policy or at the time of collection. Copies of correspondence sent from the web site, that may contain personal information, are stored as archives for record-keeping and back-up purposes only.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How we protect your data

We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our sites, and we review and update our security measures in light of current technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.

However, we will endeavor to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us or from our online products and services. Once we do receive your transmission, we will also make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us. However, we will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorized access to your personal information.

We do not collect email addresses from our sites visitors or form users for the purpose of selling, transferring, giving away, or for promoting SPAM. All email addresses voluntarily given to us via signing up for our Newsletters, Forms, or by other means of transfer will only be used to communicate with our sites visitors or for customer relations.

Concerns and Questions

If we become aware of any ongoing concerns or problems with our web sites, we will take these issues seriously and work to address these concerns. If you have any further queries relating to our Privacy Policy, or you have a problem or complaint, please Contact Us for Further Privacy Information.

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