PRIVATE POLICY

This statement discloses the privacy practices and policies for Fine Vintage Ltd. website. If you have any questions about these practices and policies, please contact us by using our contact form.

We respect your personal privacy. We believe ensuring the security of your personal information is an important part of our job, and we strive to protect any personal information you may provide us. If we ask you to provide any personal information, we will tell you the purposes for which we intend to use that information.

Aggregate Site Use Information

We record information about the pages viewed by all of our website visitors. This data includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, connection speed, read time, display time, and number of clicks. We use this data, in aggregate form, to compile statistics and reports for Fine Vintage Ltd. use, and improve the online experience for all visitors.

We may, on occasion, provide portions of this aggregate information to vendors, consultants, potential advertisers, or news agencies. Typical uses of the data in this fashion would be to gauge the amount of interest in our site and/or to plan for site infrastructure improvements.

Cookie Use

A cookie is a small text file stored on a user’s hard drive. Depending on how you have configured your browser, when you visit our site we use cookies. Cookies are not required to use our site but are required to register, update your personal information, or shop on our site. In order to use these services, you must configure your browser to allow cookies from the domain www.finevintageltd.com. There are simple ways to either refuse all cookies, or accept them each time they are offered. Consult your browser’s help files for assistance on changing cookie settings or removing cookie files.

Online Order Information and Security

If you register online, we only request the information needed to complete the processing of your registration. We will process this information with credit card processing companies in order to bill your account. We do not provide any more information than necessary for these purposes. We may also use the information to contact you regarding your registration.

Please note that all WSET course registration information is shared with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust in England for the purpose of ordering the appropriate exams or certificates and to obtain an individual candidate number on your behalf.

Fine Vintage Ltd.’s e-commerce provider uses digital certificates to authenticate the identities of both the sender and receiver when data is being transmitted. Certificates reside on both the client and server sides of the commerce site.

Our Site Security

We use appropriate security safeguards to protect your personal information against loss, theft, and unauthorized access. Any personal information you provide to Fine Vintage Ltd. is exchanged on a secure server. We use one of todays most advanced security systems, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), to encrypt, or encode, information you send to us in the order process. The encryption process protects information, such as your credit card number, and billing information by scrambling it before it is sent from your computer. Only once we receive your information is it decoded, and we make all reasonable efforts to ensure its security on our own systems. All information is also stored behind a firewall to ensure further protection.

Warning: e-mail is not a secure means to send personal information, as it is not encrypted. We strongly encourage you to use our secure registration process when registering online.

Fraud Prevention

Fine Vintage Ltd. reserves the right to co-operate with local, national, or international law enforcement or other authorities in the investigation of improper or unlawful activities and this may require the disclosure of personal information. If such an investigation requires disclosure of personal information kept in our records, we may be required by law to cooperate. We also reserve the right to report improper or unlawful user activities on our site, which may require the disclosure of personal information relating to those individuals conducting such improper or unlawful activities.

Links

This web site contains links to other sites and advertisements. This privacy statement only applies to information collected by our web site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices and policies of these third parties.