Security and Privacy Statement
The Wine Report Companies including Winesouth LLC, and our internet partners and providers offer security combined with a safe shopping guarantee that allows visitors to this web site protection while shopping and ordering products or festival tickets via credit cards through our remote server software. We also respect your privacy and guarantee the following:
The Wine Report Companies guarantee that credit card transactions made while visiting winesimple.com will be safe*. This guarantee will stand behind you if unauthorized charges are made to your card as a result of ordering items through winesimple.com *See guarantee requirements below.
any incidents of credit card fraud. Our technology used from our web host and software ordering program has been proven for over three years and is in full compliance with industry standards for secure online commerce transactions**.
Various contest and promotions may be offered on our web site, some of which will require you to share information about yourself, your lifestyle, how you read our magazine and web site, and more. Our intentions are to gather more specific demographic information about our readers and visitors to this web site. This information will not be shared specifically, with anyone. Your name and address, email address and other information as it pertains to you as an individual will not be sold or shared with any company for marketing or other purposes.
Guarantee
Requirements:
Under the Fair Credit Billing Act, your bank cannot hold you liable for
more than $50 of fraudulent charges. If your bank does hold you liable for
the first amount (or portion of) this $50, winesimple.com will cover the
entire liability for you, up to the full $50. Winesimple.com will cover
this liability only if the unauthorized use of your credit card resulted
through no fault of your own from purchases made at winesimple.com while
using the secure server. In the event of unauthorized use of your credit
card, you must notify your credit card provider in accordance with its reporting
rules and procedures.
*Secure Ordering Disclaimer
Only transactions that are initiated by clicking the "Secure Checkout" button are completely encrypted through software and firewall technology. Other ordering methods such as "Regular Checkout" and simply putting your credit card and other personal information in the body of an email are not secure, and could possibly be captured or used by third parties for illegal purposes. For total security, always click the "Secure Checkout" button on the winesimple.com order form before transmitting your credit card information.
The Wine Report Companies also respect your privacy:
First, when you visit our website at winesimple.com our webmaster is able to capture your internet provider's domain name and country that you came from (e.g., 'aol.com') and the paths taken as you move from page to page (i.e., your "click through" activity). We use this information to enhance our layout and your use of this web site so that we may become more user friendly. This may or may not include future browser customization based on captured information.
Winesimple.com may communicate special offers or information about our festivals or product activities to you from time to time. This will be done traditionally, though individual email. The Wine Report Companies will never include your email address in "bulk" fashion or in any way allow other visitors to this site to know your email address.
Secondly, we use log files to help us count visitors and evaluate our web site's technical requirements and capacity. We use this information to find out how many people visit winesimple.com, and we may record information on site traffic but not information on individual visitors to our site. If you would like to browse without cookies, you can configure your browser to reject all cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is set.
Lastly, when you send us an email, we use your email address to correspond back to you or reply to your question, and we will store your communication and our reply in case we correspond further. Beyond our initial reply, we will rarely use your email address to send you any unsolicited messages or information. In terms of your email address(es)--Winesimple.com will never share it with or sell it to anyone else for any purpose or similar use. When you request information or other services, we use your email address and any other information you give us to provide you with the information or other services you request.
Important Policy Updates/Notes:
If you
link to other sites from winesimple.com, this Privacy Policy is no longer
in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other web site, including
any site that has a link on winesimple.com, is subject to the rules and
policies of that site. We encourage you to read the rules and policies of
the sites you visit to further understand their procedures for collecting,
using, and disclosing personal information.
This Privacy Policy was posted on January 1, 2004. Winesimple.com (Atlanta Wine Report, Inc, d/b/a The Wine Report® Magazine) and its subsidiaries (Winesouth LLC and future companies) reserves the right to change, modify or amend this policy at any time. Please also read over the Security information at the Top of this Page . Winesimple.com will occasionally update its privacy policy and will post those updates on this page. You are responsible for revisiting this page to review our privacy policy updates.
If you have any questions, comments, criticisms, or complaints about winesimple.com's privacy policy please feel free to email us at thewinereport@aol.com