Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for The Barrel Wine Shop

Effective Date: 12 May 2024

1. Overview

Welcome to www.thebarrelwineshop.com. At The Barrel Wine Shop, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of the information you provide to us. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices concerning the collection, use, and sharing of your personal data through our website.

2. Data Controller

The Barrel Wine Shop is the data controller responsible for processing your personal data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We are located at:

3. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information through our website:

  • Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, and payment information.
  • Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types, geolocation information about where you might be, operating system and version.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

4. How We Use Your Information

Your data is used in the following ways:

  • To Provide Services: Processing transactions, delivering products, managing and servicing your account.
  • To Improve Our Website: Using data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
  • Marketing: Delivering relevant website content and advertisements to you and measuring the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
  • Communication: Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy and providing you customer support.

5. Legal Basis for Processing

The legal basis for processing your personal data includes:

  • Consent: Specifically where you have provided consent to receive our marketing communications.
  • Contractual Necessities: Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  • Legal Compliance: Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
  • Legitimate Interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

7. Sharing Your Data

We may share your data with selected third parties, including:

  • Service Providers who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Professional Advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
  • Authorities if required by law or to respond to legal processes.

8. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data.

9. Your Rights

Under GDPR, you have rights including:

  • Access: The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data.
  • Rectification: The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data.
  • Erasure: The right to require us to delete your personal data—in certain situations.
  • Restriction: The right to require us to restrict processing of your personal data—in certain circumstances, e.g., if you contest the accuracy of the data.
  • Data Portability: The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations.
  • Objection: The right to object at any time to your personal data being processed for direct marketing (including profiling) and in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal data.

10. How to Contact Us

For questions or requests regarding this Privacy Policy and your personal data, please contact us at hello@thebarrelwineshop.com.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. Please check this page frequently to ensure you are aware of any changes.