At Wine Gifts (Vine Culture Group Pty Ltd) we understand and respect your privacy and take the protection of personal information very seriously.

 

The purpose of this policy is to describe the way that we collect, store, use, and protect information that can be associated with you or another specific natural or juristic person and can be used to identify you or that person (personal information).

 

Audience

 

This policy applies to you, if you are:

 

• a visitor to our website; or

• a customer who has ordered or requested the goods or services that we provide online or in-store.

 

POPI ACT Agreement and Consent Declaration:

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Whereas it is agreed that;

 

All parties agree that they will comply with POPI regulations and process all the information and/or personal data in respect of the services being rendered in accordance with the said regulation and only for the purpose of providing the Services set out in the agreement to provide services.

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The company (also called the service provider), all the parties to this agreement, the service provider’s employees and the client’s employees and any subsequent party/parties to this agreement acknowledge and confirm that

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• One or more of the parties to this agreement, will possess and will continue to possess information that may be classified or maybe deemed as private, confidential or as personal information.

• Such information may be deemed as the private, confidential or as personal information in so far as it relates to any party to this agreement.

• Such information may also be deemed as or considered as private, confidential or as personal information of any third person who may be directly or indirectly associated with this agreement.

 

Further it is acknowledged and agreed by all parties to this agreement, that such private, confidential or as personal information may have value and such information may or may not be in the public domain. For purposes of rendering services on behalf of the client, the service provider and any party associated with this agreement and/or any subsequent or prior agreement that may have been/will be entered into, irrevocably agree that “confidential information” shall also include inter alia and shall mean inter alia:

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• (a) all information of any party which may or may not be marked “confidential,” “restricted,” “proprietary” or with a similar designation;

• (b) where applicable, any and all data and business information;

• (c) where applicable the parties may have access to data and personal and business information regarding clients, employees, third parties and the like including personal information as defined in POPI regulation; and

• (d) trade secrets, confidential knowledge, know-how, technical information, data or other proprietary information relating to the client/service provider or any third party associated with this agreement and (including, without limitation, all products information, technical knowhow, software programs, computer processing systems and techniques employed or used by either party to this agreement and/or their affiliates.

 

All parties irrevocably agree to abide by the terms and conditions as set out in this agreement as well as you agree and acknowledge that all information provided, whether personal or otherwise, may be used and processed by the service provider and such use may include placing such information in the public domain. Further it is specifically agreed that the service provider will use its best endeavours and take all reasonable precautions to ensure that any information provided, is only used for the purposes of the agreement.

 

It is confirmed that by submitting information to the service provider, irrespective as to how such information is submitted, you consent to the collection, collation, processing, and storing of such information and the use and disclosure of such information in accordance with this policy.

 

SHOULD YOU NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS SET OUT IN THIS AGREEMENT AND CONSENT DECLARATION YOU MUST NOTIFY THE SERVICE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY FAILING WHICH IT WILL BE DEEMED THAT YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET OUT ABOVE.

 

Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact us.

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Personal information

 

Personal information includes:

 

• certain information that we collect automatically when you visit our website;

• certain information collected on registration (see below);

• certain information collected on submission; and

• optional information that you provide to us voluntarily (see below);

but excludes:

• information that has been made anonymous so that it does not identify a specific person;

• permanently de-identified information that does not relate or cannot be traced back to you specifically;

• non-personal statistical information collected and compiled by us; and

• information that you have provided voluntarily in an open, public environment or forum including any blog, chat room, community, classifieds, or discussion board (because the information has been disclosed in a public forum, it is no longer confidential and does not constitute personal information subject to protection under this policy).

 

Common examples

 

Common examples of the types of personal information which we may collect and process include your:

 

• identifying information – such as your name, date of birth, or identification number of any kind;

• contact information – such as your phone number or email address;

• address information – such as your physical or postal address; or

financial information – such as your bank account details.

 

Acceptance

 

Acceptance required

You must accept all the terms of this policy when you order our goods or request our services. If you do not agree with anything in this policy, then you may not order our goods or request our services.

 

Legal capacity

You may not access our website or order our goods or request our services if you are younger than 18 years old or do not have legal capacity to conclude legally binding contracts.

 

Deemed acceptance

By accepting this policy, you are deemed to have read, understood, accepted, and agreed to be bound by all of its terms.

 

Your obligations

You may only send us your own personal information or the information of another data subject where you have their permission to do so.

 

Changes

 

We may change the terms of this policy at any time by updating this web page. We will notify you of any changes by placing a notice in a prominent place on the website or by sending you an email detailing the changes that we have made and indicating the date that they were last updated. If you do not agree with the changes, then you must stop using the website and our goods or services. If you continue to use the website or our goods or services following notification of a change to the terms, the changed terms will apply to you and you will be deemed to have accepted those updated terms.

 

Collection

 

On registration

 

Once you register on our website, you will no longer be anonymous to us. You will provide us with certain personal information when you register on our website.

 

This personal information will include:

 

• your name and surname;

• your email address;

• your telephone number;

• your postal address or street address; and

• your username and password.

 

We will use this personal information to fulfil your account, provide additional services and information to you as we reasonably think appropriate, and for any other purposes set out in this policy.

 

On order or request

 

When you order our goods, or request our services from us, you will be asked to provide us with additional information on a voluntary basis (goods or services information).

 

From browser

 

We automatically receive and record Internet usage information on our server logs from your browser, such as your Internet Protocol address (IP address), browsing habits, click patterns, version of software installed, system type, screen resolutions, colour capabilities, plug-ins, language settings, cookie preferences, search engine keywords, JavaScript enablement, the content and pages that you access on the website, and the dates and times that you visit the website, paths taken, and time spent on sites and pages within the website (usage information).

 

Please note that other websites visited before entering our website might place personal information within your URL during a visit to it, and we have no control over such websites. Accordingly, a subsequent website that collects URL information may log some personal information.

 

Cookies

 

We may place small text files called ‘cookies’ on your device when you visit our website. These files do not contain personal information, but they do contain a personal identifier allowing us to associate your personal information with a certain device.

 

These files serve a number of useful purposes for you, including:

 

• granting you access to age restricted content;

• tailoring our website’s functionality to you personally by letting us remember your preferences;

• improving how our website performs;

• allowing third parties to provide services to our website; and

• helping us deliver targeted advertising where appropriate in compliance with the applicable laws.

 

Your internet browser generally accepts cookies automatically, but you can often change this setting to stop accepting them. You can also delete cookies manually. However, no longer accepting cookies or deleting them will prevent you from accessing certain aspects of our website where cookies are necessary. Many websites use cookies and you can find out more about them at www.allaboutcookies.org.

 

Third party cookies

 

Some of our business partners use their own cookies or widgets on our website. We have no access to or control over them. Information collected by any of those cookies or widgets is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it, and not by us.

 

Purpose for collection

 

We may use or process any goods or services information, or optional information that you provide to us for the purposes that you indicated when you agreed to provide it to us. Processing includes gathering your personal information, disclosing it, and combining it with other personal information.

 

We generally collect and process your personal information for various purposes, including:

 

• goods or services purposes – such as collecting orders or requests for and providing our goods or services;

• marketing purposes – such as pursuing lawful related marketing activities;

• business purposes – such as internal audit, accounting, business planning, and joint ventures, disposals of business, or other proposed and actual transactions; and

• legal purposes – such as handling claims, complying with regulations, or pursuing good governance.

 

We may use your usage information for the purposes described above and to:

• remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you access the website;

• monitor website usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed; and

• track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities in connection with your usage of the website.

 

Consent to collection

 

We will obtain your consent to collect personal information:

• in accordance with applicable law;

• when you provide us with any registration information or optional information.

 

 

Disclosure

 

Sharing

 

We may share your personal information with:

 

• other divisions or companies within the group of companies to which we belong so as to provide joint content and services like registration, for transactions and customer support, to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and violations of our policies, and to guide decisions about our products, services, and communications (they will only use this information to send you marketing communications if you have requested their goods or services);

 

• an affiliate, in which case we will seek to require the affiliates to honour this privacy policy;

 

• our goods or services providers under contract who help provide certain goods or services or help with parts of our business operations, including fraud prevention, bill collection, marketing, or technology services (our contracts dictate that these goods or services providers only use your information in connection with the goods or services they supply or services they perform for us and not for their own benefit);

 

• credit bureaus to report account information, as permitted by law;

 

• banking partners as required by credit card association rules for inclusion on their list of terminated merchants (in the event that you utilise the services to receive payments and you meet their criteria); 

 

• our third party suppliers who provide us with their goods; and

 

• other third parties who provide us with relevant services where appropriate (for example our couriers).

 

Regulators

 

We may disclose your personal information as required by law or governmental audit.

 

Law enforcement

 

We may disclose personal information if required:

 

• by a subpoena or court order;

• to comply with any law;

• to protect the safety of any individual or the general public; and

• to prevent violation of our customer relationship terms.

 

No selling

 

We will not sell personal information.

No personal information will be disclosed to anyone except as provided in this privacy policy.

 

Marketing purposes

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We may disclose aggregate statistics (information about the customer population in general terms) about the personal information to advertisers or business partners.

 

Employees

 

We may need to disclose personal information to our employees that require the personal information to do their jobs. These include our responsible management, human resources, accounting, audit, compliance, information technology, or other personnel.

 

Change of ownership

 

If we undergo a change in ownership, or a merger with, acquisition by, or sale of assets to, another entity, we may assign our rights to the personal information we process to a successor, purchaser, or separate entity. We will disclose the transfer on the website. If you are concerned about your personal information migrating to a new owner, you may request us to delete your personal information.

 

Security

 

We take the security of personal information very seriously and always do our best to comply with applicable data protection laws. Our hosting company will host our website in a secure server environment that uses a firewall and other advanced security measures to prevent interference or access from outside intruders. We authorize access to personal information only for those employees who require it to fulfil their job responsibilities. We implement disaster recover procedures where appropriate.

 

Limitation

 

We are not responsible for, give no warranties, nor make any representations in respect of the privacy policies or practices of linked or any third-party websites.

 

Enquiries

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If you have any questions or concerns arising from this privacy policy or the way in which we handle personal information, please contact us at info@onlinewineclub.co.za