Your personal information is kept strictly confidential and not shared with any third party. We use your address, phone number and email to contact you and keep you abreast of our current offers. By default your name is added to our mailing list but you can simply notify us in the comments box if you do not want to receive any newsletter from us. We will then use your email only to inform you of the processing of your orders.

Updated: 05/14/2012

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This policy covers how the Organic Wine Company (OWC) treats personal information that OWC collects and receives, including information related to your past use of OWC products and services, your use of www.theorganicwinecompany.com and/or any OWC web sites. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
Clients

OWC services and products are developed for the use of, and distributed to, third party clients. OWC encourages its clients to adopt privacy policies similar to its own. OWC sells its services and products only to reputable and ethical clients. OWC cannot be held responsible if a client chooses unethical or immoral use of the information that the OWC products gather.
   
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that OWC does not own or control, or to people that OWC does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

When you register for a OWC event, we ask that you provide basic contact information such as your name, address, and email address. In addition, other questions specifically for an event might be asked and recorded so as to better equip the event hosts for customizing their event. This information is provided to the specific sponsor for the event you registered for. On the OWC website, viewers are only asked to provide the above information in the event they wish to view an archived webinar. This information is provided to the specific sponsor for the archived event you view.
    OWC may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
    OWC automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address and the page you request.
    OWC uses information for the following general purposes: to fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients. Additionally, as stated above, When you register for a OWC event, your contact information is provided to the specific sponsor for the event.

Information Collected Automatically

We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us via OWC.

Computer configuration: We automatically receive and log information from your browser, including your IP address, your operating system, browser type and version, CPU speed, and connection speed.

Email delivery and open rates: To help us make our emails more useful and interesting, and to ensure that we are delivering the services you have ordered, we often receive a confirmation when you receive and/or open email from OWC.

Information from Other Sources

We may receive information about you from other sources, add it to our account information and treat it in accordance with this policy.

Customer and order data from our partners: If you registered directly with a business partner for which we provide fulfillment or other services, your account information and order information is passed to us.
   
Updated delivery and address information: We may obtain updated contact information from third parties in order to correct our records and fulfill your orders or deliver communications to you.
   
Demographic and purchase information: We may reference other sources of demographic and purchase information in order to provide you with more targeted communications and promotions.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

OWC does not rent, sell, or share personal information provided by you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except if you are a registrant for one of our sponsored events. Your information is then provided to the specific sponsor for the event you registered for.
Email Communications to our Users

OWC sends email communications solely in connection with our providing OWC services to clients. The following outlines the types of email OWC sends to our users, and the choices you have about which messages to receive:

Messages required to service event registrations: OWC will send you email notifying you of your event details. We may also send you communications related to your upcoming event, for example reminding you of the details, or when those details change.
   
Marketing messages about OWC: We may send you marketing messages related to our services you receive, for example, encouraging you to register for more Webinars or extend your Web event presence.

Information Protection

OWC uses industry-standard protocols to safeguard confidentiality of information.
Cookies

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that a Web site can store on your computer's hard drive. When you visit www.theorganicwinecompany.com, create a user account, or otherwise interact with a OWC event online, we may set cookies on your personal computer. OWC's website does not require you to enable cookies in order to browse its site.
Confidentiality and Security

Internally, we limit access to your personal information to OWC associates who will use the data to troubleshoot, support your use of the service, improve the service.
   
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

'No Spyware' Policy

www.theorganicwinecompany.com does not contain Spyware. Spyware is software that is installed deceptively to gather information about you without your knowledge. This can include centrally recording your personal internet usage, monitoring your keyboard strokes or capturing personal information. If you think that you downloaded and/or installed spyware, we suggest reporting it on the alt.privacy.spyware newsgroup. Available on Google Groups.

Opt-Out

To opt out of all OWC email and phone communications, please contact us.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

OWC may update this policy by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions, please let us know via the email form on our contact page.