Crooked Vine, Inc. and doing business as Stony Ridge Winery (collectively referred as "we," "us" and "CV") are committed to respecting your privacy. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information, if any, will be treated. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically. This policy will let you know the following:
1. What personally identifiable information is collected from me?
2. What are cookies and how they are used by CV?
3. How is my information used?
4. Who is collecting my information?
5. With whom will my information be shared?
6. How can I access, update or delete my information?
7. What does "opt-out" mean?
8. What else should I know about my privacy?
9. Other legal notices.
1. What personally identifiable information is collected from me?
On some CV Web pages, you can make requests and/or receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages are your name, e-mail address and standard contact information, including addresses and phone numbers.We may also ask you to voluntarily provide us with information regarding your personal or professional interests, travel preferences, demographics, and experience with the services we provide and contact preferences. Wherever CV collects personal information, we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page. This privacy policy covers only personal information collected through this Web Site
.2. What are cookies and how are they used by CV?
CV may place Internet cookies on your hard drive. Internet cookies are small files that may be placed on your hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies are used to (a) remind us of who you are in order to deliver you better service; (b) estimate our audience size by determining repeat usage of the Web site to help target advertisements based on user interests and behavior; (c) track your progress and entries in promotions, sweepstakes and contests, if any; and (d) measure certain traffic patterns for use as a research tool to understand how our users' habits are similar or different from one another. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. By not accepting cookies, some Web pages may not display properly or you may not be permitted to access certain information.CV may also collect IP addresses (the Internet address of a computer) to track a user's session while the user remains anonymous. We analyze this data for certain trends in statistics, such as which parts of our site users are visiting and how long they spend there. In general, we do not link your IP addresses to anything personally identifiable to you.
3. How is my information used?
CV will not sell, rent or lease your personally identifiable information to others without your consent. The information you provide will be used to support your customer relationship with CV. Your information may be shared with agents, contractors or business partners for the purpose of performing services for CV. We want to help you quickly find information on CV and alert you to specific offers, updated information, and other new products and services from CV. Accordingly, we may send you direct mailings or contact you by telephone about our various products and services or other products and services we feel may be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply "opt-out" by the means provided for in the mailings or by contacting info@crookedvine.com. Notwithstanding, CV does research on our users' demographics, interests and behavior based on the information provided to us during your use of the CV Web site. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. Aggregated data does not include personally identifiable information. CV may share this aggregated data with others.
4. Who is collecting my information?
When you are on a CV site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with CV alone, unless specifically stated otherwise. If data is being collected and/or maintained by any company other than STU or an agent for STU, you will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by using that particular service or purchasing those particular goods.Please be aware that CV advertisers or Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those Web sites linked to CV either through advertisements or other hyperlinks are not covered by this privacy statement
5. With whom does CV share my information?
We may share the personal data you provide with other CV agents, contractors or our business partners for the purposes of performing services for CV. CV also may share aggregated data with others. Aggregated data does not include personally identifiable information. We also believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the Terms of Access, or as otherwise required by law. Except as provided above or in the event of a merger, consolidation, or sale of all or substantially all of CV's assets, we will not share any of your information with any third party without your permission and you may "opt-out" of such disclosures as described below.
6. How do I access, update or delete my information?
You can request the individual information that CV has collected about you, opt-out of disclosure of personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes, correct factual inaccuracies in your information, remove personal information from CV's data bases and/or update your personal information by contacting info@crookedvine.com by email. You can send mail to the following postal address: Crooked Vine, Inc., 4948 Tesla Road, Livermore, CA, 94550; or you can call the following telephone number: (925) 449-0458.
7. What does "opt-out" mean?
To "opt-out" means that you have notified CV that we no longer have permission to use your information for [an enumerated particular purpose(s)]. For example, when we send you information on a new product, you will be given the opportunity to "opt-out" of receiving such information in the future.
8. What else should I know about my privacy?
Third party Internet sites and services accessible through CV have separate privacy and data collection p.ractices, independent of us. CV has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions. Please be careful and responsible online. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. While we strive to protect your information, CV cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information through the transmission process and you do so at your own risk.
9. Other Legal Notices.
Any dispute over privacy is subject to this privacy policy and our General Conditions, including limitations on damages and application of the law of the State of California. If you have any concern about your privacy in connection with this policy, please send us a thorough description to info@crookedvine.com, and we will try to resolve it. We may post a revised privacy policy on our site. Please note that the use of information that we gather is subject to the privacy notice in effect at the time of use. You should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes.
Privacy Policy effective as of October 31, 2009.