Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 26, 2021

This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Wine Growers British Columbia Society (the “Wine Growers BC”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (“Users” or “you”) of the winebc.com website and all affiliated websites (“Site”). This Privacy Policy applies to all products and services including the Site offered by Wine Growers BC. Ultimately, the information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our Site.

Privacy laws in Canada generally define “personal information” as any information about an identifiable individual, which includes information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person. Personal information does not include business contact information, including your name, title, or business contact information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices for collecting, processing, and storing your personal information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Site. By accessing or using this Site, you indicate that you understand, accept, and consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. We will notify you in advance of any material changes to this policy and obtain your consent to any new ways that we collect, use, and disclose your personal information, unless otherwise authorized by applicable laws.

NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may collect non-personal information from Users when they interact with our Site. Such non-personal information helps us improve our Site and deliver a better and more personalized service. Non-personal information does not directly or indirectly reveal a User’s identity or directly relate to an identifiable individual. Non-personal information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.

PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION
We may collect personal information from Users in a variety of ways. For example, when you voluntarily submit your personal information to us when you visit our Site, subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, interactive features or resources we make available on our Site. Such personal information may include name, email address, and phone number.

You may also provide information to be published or displayed on areas of the Site that are visible to other users or transmit to other Site users or third parties (collectively, “User Submissions“). Your User Submissions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other Site users with whom you may choose to share your User Submissions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that unauthorized persons will not view your User Submissions.

USING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use the information that we collect about or from you to provide you with information, products, and/or services that you request from us; to respond to your request; to customize the contents presented to you based on your past visits to our Site; to communicate with you; to present our Site and its contents to you; to improve our Site, services, marketing, or user relationships and experiences; to fulfill the purposes for which you provided the information or that were described when it was collected, or any other purpose for which you provide it; to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts with you, including to comply with legal requirements; to allow you to participate in interactive features on our Site; and for any other purpose with your consent.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose personal information that we collect from or about you as described in this Privacy Policy: to our subsidiaries and affiliates; in accordance with applicable law, to a successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Users is among the assets transferred; to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our operation (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Site improvement and optimization) and who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, and to process the personal information with the same standards set out in this policy; to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it; for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; with your consent; to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, in accordance with applicable law; to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; and if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Wine Growers British Columbia, our Users, or others.

We also aggregate information on what pages you access. Such aggregated information does not identify any individual.

We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal information to others.

LINKS
The Site may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share information about you. If you follow a link to a third-party website or engage a third-party plugin, please note that these third parties have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We do not control these third-party websites, and we encourage you to read the Privacy Policy of every website you visit.

SECURITY OF INFORMATION
We use secure socket layer (SSL) encryption to protect the transmission of information you submit to us when you use our secure online forms. All the information you provide us through these forms is stored securely offline.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. For example, if you send us an email or complete the Contact Us Form, please note that email is not necessarily secure against interception. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.

USE OF CONTACT INFORMATION
Wine Growers BC presents contact information including various email addresses. We have taken precautions to protect our contact information as much as possible, while still providing it to those who wish to make legitimate contact. The presentation of our contact information is by no means authorizing solicitation and spamming.