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privacy policies
Oakville Ranch Vineyards has created this privacy statement in order to
demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our
information gathering and dissemination practices for the website:
www.oakvilleranch.com .
Personal Information and Data Gathering
Oakville Ranch Vineyards often uses third-party development partners to
assist in online development and deployment as well as in data and
information collection. These companies are strictly bound by our
privacy policy covered below, as well as by all other conventions and
business practices of Oakville Ranch Vineyards concerning user
information and data from online sources. For the purposes of this
document, the terms "We," "Us" and "Oakville Ranch Vineyards also
represent these third-party developers.
We collect anonymous information from visits to our site to help us
understand the usage patterns of our site, and to provide better
customer service. Information collected in this manner is provided
automatically by your system and the systems that you use to connect to
our site. For example, we keep track of what time people enter our site,
how long they stay on the site, and what sections they visit on the
site. This information is kept in aggregate, anonymous format. We use
this information to better tailor our site for our visitors and their
usage patterns, as well as to gauge performance and other measures of
the site, again in anonymous and aggregate format.
Cookies are sometimes used to further track usage patterns of the site
by users, in aggregate and anonymous format. Cookies left on your system
by our site are sometimes used for the purpose of allowing users the
convenience of not having to re-enter usernames and passwords on our
site, however, no username or password information is kept on your local
machine. Only a unique identifier is kept on your system that will allow
you to access the records stored on our secure, password-protected
server(s). No financial or personal information will ever be left on
your system in the form of a cookie.
Registration is required to use certain features of our site. We will
collect general contact information, such as name and e-mail address, as
well as demographic information, such as age, gender and zip code. Data
collected from online user-completed forms is stored in secure, password
protected server locations. Demographic information collected is used to
help us, or our partners, to analyze our aggregate user base and better
tailor our site, promotions or other features to better serve that user
base. Contact information is also used to better understand our user
base.
From time to time, Oakville Ranch Vineyards will contact our registered
users who have opted in to be e-mailed with promotional information that
we feel would be applicable to, and desired by that user. At any time a
user wishes to opt-out of these e-mails, they may do so by contacting
info@oakvilleranch.com. Once opted-out, the user will not receive any
further communication from us, aside from any system messages that are
necessary to that user in specific transactions, such as e-commerce
order summaries.
Further use of personal information and data gathered by Oakville Ranch
Vineyards. Oakville Ranch Vineyards will occasionally utilize partners
and vendors to assist it in analysis of the data and information
collected by our sites. This information is used in aggregate and
anonymous format for the purpose of better tailoring our website,
promotions or other company endeavors to better suit our user base. This
information is shared with our partners and vendors only on an as-needed
basis. Financial information will never be shared with any organization
other than those necessary for completing the financial transaction
required.
On occasion, Oakville Ranch Vineyards will sponsor sweepstakes and other
promotions that are managed by third-party organizations. Information
and data gathered in those instances will be held by the third-party and
will normally by shared with Oakville Ranch Vineyards . Once shared with
v that data and information is subject to Oakville Ranch Vineyards'
stated privacy policy. Information and data retained by the third-party
will be subject to the privacy policy stated by the third-party.
Oakville Ranch Vineyards will make a reasonable best-effort to have the
third-party utilize that information in accordance to Oakville Ranch
Vineyards stated privacy policy, however, cannot take final
responsibility for the third-parties' actions.
Oakville Ranch Vineyards may share any data and information gathered on
its branded websites with other internal Oakville Ranch Vineyards
branded website owners and managers. Information shared will still be
subject to this privacy policy.
Information and data gathered solely by Oakville Ranch Vineyards will
never be sold, traded or shared with third-parties for any other reason
other than for assisting Oakville Ranch Vineyards in its analysis,
research and promotional needs.
This site may contain links to other sites. Oakville Ranch Vineyards is
not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such
websites.
Public Forums
This site may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news
groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that
is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should
exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. We
also encourage visitors to be courteous in communicating with others and
to be smart about choosing when and to whom to release personal
information online. Never disclose any personal information that is of a
sensitive or confidential nature on any public area of our site.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our control. All registration
information is stored in secure locations on password-protected servers.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving
communications from our partners at the point where we request
information about the visitor. Please contact info@oakvilleranch.com to
"opt-out" of this feature, and have yourself removed from our databases.
This will not affect the use of cookies and other system data that we
gather from you, as this is generally anonymous information that is used
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