Things we collect without asking the user:

‍CONTACT US
‍If you communicate with us through the "Contact Us" link on our website or other applications (if applicable), we may ask you for information such as your name, email address, and telephone number so we can respond to your questions and comments. We may also use the information you provide to evaluate the quality of our products and to communicate with you about our products and services. If you decide to opt-out of any of the various ways we communicate with you, keep in mind that these preferences regarding promotional contacts do not mean that we might not contact you for other reasons, such as those related to an order you placed, an inquiry you made, a message that a friend or acquaintance requested be delivered, a newsletter to which you have subscribed, a membership you undertook, an event for which you registered, or a legally required notice. 

‍JOIN OUR MAILING LIST
‍On our website or other applications if applicable, you may sign up to receive newsletters, exclusive offers and promotions, notice of special events, and product news. To sign up, we require your name, email address, and zip code. We use your contact details to send you the information you request and communicate with you about our products and services. You may stop the delivery of future email from us by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided, but note, it may take up to 10 business days to honor your request. By providing your personal information you consent to our transferring and processing it in the United States. 

‍OTHER WEBSITE AND TECHNICAL APPLICATION FEATURES
‍We offer visitors to our website and applications various features for their information and enjoyment, which we may change from time to time. Your use of our website is subject to our Terms of Use. 

‍INFORMATION WE COLLECT BY AUTOMATED MEANS
‍We collect certain information by automated means when you visit our website, web applications or our technical applications, such as how many users visited our sites and apps and the pages accessed. By collecting this information, we learn how to best tailor our websites and technical applications to our visitors. We collect this information through various means such as "cookies," "web beacons," and IP addresses as explained below. 

We collect internet-related information from visitors to our website and applications, including the referring URL, your IP address, which browser you used to come to the website or applications and the pages of our website that you viewed during your visit, for the purposes of system administration, to gather broad demographic information, and to monitor the level of activity on our website. We also utilize certain graphics in our email messages to determine things like which email messages were opened and how many times they were opened. We may also implement Google Demographics and Interest Reporting which, in the aggregate, groups our users into certain categories including: age ranges, gender, affinity categories, and in market segments.  We may use location tracking technologies.   

‍PURCHASING AND CLIENT SERVICES INFORMATION 
We may collect information about your transactions via our website, applications and partners including what products are purchased, how frequently products are purchased, any rewards or promotions associated with the purchases.  If such transactions require the use or input of checking or credit card information this data will be protected in accordance with our Storage Policy below.

COOKIES
‍Like many companies, we use "cookies" on our website and applications. Cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer's hard drive when you visit certain websites or applications.  We use cookies to tell us, for example, whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor and to help us identify website and application features in which you may have the greatest interest. Cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular website or application. Most browsers and applications will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of all our website and application features. 

‍WEB BEACONS
‍Certain pages on our website or applications may contain "web beacons" (also known as internet tags, pixel tags, and clear GIFs). Web beacons allow third parties to obtain information such as the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the beacon appears, the URL of the page on which the beacon appears, the time the page containing the beacon was viewed, the type of browser used to view the page, and the information in cookies set by the third party.

LOCATION INFORMATION
‍We may collect information about the location of your device, including GPS location, for purposes of enhancing or facilitating our services, such as enabling the functionality of our websites or mobile applications that provide you with information about stores near you, enabling you to remotely order and pay for our products and services.   We may also use information about the location of the device you are using to help us understand how our websites, mobile applications, and other services and functionality are being used and to deliver more relevant advertising. If you want to opt out of the collection of this location information, please see the section below titled "How to Contact Us."

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM OTHER SOURCES
‍Some information we collect is publicly available. For example, we may collect information you submit to a blog, a chat room, or a social network like Facebook, Twitter or Google+. We may also collect information about you from other companies and organizations. By gathering additional information about you, we can correct inaccurate information, enhance the security of your transactions, and give you product recommendations and special offers that are more likely to interest you.

‍HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
‍We may use the information we collect about you in a variety of ways, including to:

‍IP ADDRESSES
‍An IP address is a unique identifier that certain electronic devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the internet. When you visit our website or use our applications, we may view the IP address of the device you use to connect to the internet. We use this information to determine the general physical location of the device and understand from what regions of the world our website visitors come. We may also use this information to enhance your experience on our website and applications. 

‍MINORS
‍Our website is not directed at children, and as a result we will not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age of 21. We will not knowingly market alcoholic beverages to anyone under the legal purchase age. If we receive notice or believe that someone under the legal purchase age has provided us with personal information, we will make every reasonable effort to remove such personal information from our files or flag such personal information and retain it for the sole purpose of ensuring that it is not used any further.  If you are a parent or guardian and believe we may have collected information about your child, please contact us as described in the "How to Contact Us" section of this Statement. 

‍INFORMATION WE SHARE
‍We do not sell, license, or otherwise disclose information about our customers, clients or members, except as described herein. We may share information you provide with our affiliated companies so they can communicate with you about products we think might interest you. We may also share the information with service providers we have retained to perform services on our behalf. We have not authorized these service providers to use or disclose your information, except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. In addition, we may disclose information about you (i) if we are required to do so by law or legal process, (ii) to law enforcement authorities or other government officials, (iii) to bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms of Use or any other terms applicable to any activity or feature of our website, or (iv) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity. 

We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee to use the information you have provided through our websites and applications in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Promotional Communication Choices
‍You can opt out of receiving promotional emails and mailings by informing us of your preference at the time you sign up for an Advocate.Wine  account  or following the opt out instructions in the promotional emails or messaging we may send you. Similarly, you may opt in to receive text messages, telephone calls and mailings. Where our mobile applications may allow for the delivery of “push notifications" you can also opt out of receiving these notifications should they become active by toggling the “Notifications" switches within our mobile applications to "off." By downloading and using our mobile application, you may receive promotional messages, offers, news and information about Advocate.Wine or our business partners within the mobile application itself. These “in app" messages are part of our mobile application’s functionality and cannot be turned off. If you do not want to receive “in app" messages, offers, news and information, do not download or use our mobile application.

Please note that if you opt out of receiving promotional communications from us, we may still send you transactional communications, including emails about your accounts or purchases.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
‍If you are a California resident, you may ask us to refrain from sharing your information (whether collected online or offline) with our affiliates and other third-parties for direct marketing purposes. Please tell us your preference by contacting us as indicated in the "How to Contact Us" section of this Privacy Policy. 

California Do Not Track Notice: because there are not yet common, industry accepted "do not track" standards and systems, our website and applications do not respond to Do Not Track signals. In addition, we may allow third parties to collect personal data from your activity on our website and applications, as described herein. 

‍LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
‍From time to time, we may provide links to third-party websites. These websites may operate independently from Advocate.Wine and may have their own privacy policies in place, which we strongly suggest you review if you visit any linked website. To the extent any linked website you visit is owned or operated by someone other than Advocate.Wine, we are not responsible for its content or any use of the website. 
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‍HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
‍We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards on this website to help protect against unauthorized disclosure, use, alteration, or destruction of the personal information you provide. We use secure socket layer (SSL) technology to help protect your credit card and/or ACH bank information as it is transmitted to us. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any username and password you use.  While we have employed security technologies and procedures to assist safeguarding your personal information, no system or network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. 

‍STORAGE
‍Your information will be kept on servers in a physically and technologically secure environment located in the United States accessed only by authorized personnel or contractors who are bound to keep your information confidential. Any transmission of your credit card or ACH information will be encrypted. If you contact us regarding identity theft or some other form of unauthorized use of your data, we may disclose pertinent information to law enforcement agencies and other third parties with responsibility and authority to investigate such a claim. 

FAIR INFORMATION PRACTICES
‍The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
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‍In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
‍We will notify users via email within 7 business days of a breach being discoveredWe also agree to the Individual Redress Principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors. 

‍CAN SPAM ACT
‍The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.We collect your email address in order to send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions and to market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred. 

‍To be in accordance with CANSPAM we agree to the following:‍

‍If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can follow the instructions at the bottom of each email and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence or you can email us your request to support@advocate.wine.   

‍UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
‍This Privacy Policy may be updated without prior notice to you, to reflect changes in our information practices. Advocate.Wine reserves the right to change this policy from time to time. However, all changes will be posted to this Privacy Policy at the time such changes are made. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page and you are encouraged to review this policy on each new visit.  Please note that continued access of advocate.wine will constitute your acceptance of the current Privacy Policy and to any changes or revisions to the Privacy Policy.
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 HOW TO CONTACT US
‍If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like us to update or remove any information we have about you, please contact us by emailing us at info@advocate.wine or by writing to us at: Advocate.Wine, 30 West Main Street STE 301 Walla Walla Wa, 99362 Advocate.Wine