Privacy Notice
Your privacy is important to VITIS Vines, Inc., ("VITIS Vines, Inc.", also referred to as "we", "us", and "our"). This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, and disclose your Personal Information when you interact with us or otherwise access, use, or purchase any of our products or services, including our website (together, the "Services").
Please read this Privacy Notice carefully to understand how we deal with your Personal Information. VITIS Vines, Inc. will obtain consent where required by law for the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information. By accessing or using the Services or otherwise submitting your Personal Information to us, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information for the purposes and in the ways described in this Privacy Notice.
If you do not agree with our collection, use, or disclosure of your Personal Information, you may choose not to use our Services. You also have the legal right to later withdraw or modify your consent, completely or partially at a later date, but please note that any withdrawal or modification of consent could prevent us from being able to provide you with certain Services.
If you object to the collection, use, or disclosure of your Personal Information and want to withdraw consent, if you are seeking access to or a correction of your Personal Information that is held by us, or if you wish to complain, make an inquiry, or ask questions about this Privacy Notice or our privacy practices, please contact our Privacy Officer at Thomas@vitisvines.ca.
WHY AND HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect Personal Information from you to deliver the Services to you; to obtain payment for the Services; to communicate with you; to market our Services; to comply with audit, compliance, and legal requirements; to comply with this Privacy Notice; and for any other purposes for which we have consent (or do not need consent) under applicable law.
"Personal Information" is any information relating to an individual that, alone or with other information, identifies or can be used to identify that individual. Personal Information does not include certain business contact information used for employment, business, or professional purposes, nor does it include de-identified, anonymous, or aggregated information used for statistical or research purposes.
The Personal Information that we collect from you, whether directly or indirectly (automatically), when you access, use, or purchase our Services or otherwise interact with us is as follows:
· first and last name, address, email, phone[TG1] , credit card information;
· Information about the technology and devices used to access our Services such as IP address, cookies, networks, and unique identifiers such as IDFA, Android Ad ID, IDFV, and MAC address; information about your interaction with our Services such as search engine(s) and keywords used to find our Services, referring pages, pages visited on our website, and frequency of visits.
· any other information you or your device or browser provide to us.
COOKIES
We may use cookies to understand how our website is used and to improve the online experience.
A “cookie” is a string of information that assigns you a unique identifier that is stored on your computer and is provided to us by your browser each time you access our website. We use cookies to record your user preferences, remember your search queries, and track the pages you visit. This helps us understand how our website is being used and to improve your user experience by ensuring the information on our website continues to be relevant and easy to navigate, and that your language preferences and search terms are remembered for ease of future use.
Most browsers accept cookies by default, however, you can remove or reject cookies in your browser’s settings. Please note that such action could affect the availability and functionality of your user experience on our website.
HOW PERSONAL INFORMATION IS DISCLOSED TO THIRD-PARTIES
We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties, including our contractors, agents, partners, and service providers, (together, the "Third-Parties") on a need-to-know basis as described in this Privacy Notice or as permitted by applicable law. These Third-Parties may access the Personal Information for the following purposes:
• Provide marketing and/or promotional assistance;
• Help us create industry partnerships to improve our Services;
When possible, we will use contractual measures that require Third-Parties to keep your Personal Information secure and confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclosed it to them, and to comply and act in accordance with this Privacy Notice and applicable privacy laws.
We may also use or disclose Personal Information: to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to assert legal rights or defend against legal claims or proceedings; or to prevent, detect, or investigate illegal activity, fraud, abuse, violations of our terms, threats to the security of Services, public safety, or safety of an individual.
HOW PERSONAL INFORMATION IS RETAINED AND PROTECTED
We will retain your Personal Information as long as needed or reasonable to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, for our legitimate business interests, for legal and regulatory compliance, and to prevent harm, as described in this Privacy Notice.
We store your personal information in Canada and use physical, electronic, contractual, and administrative measures appropriate for the sensitivity of the Personal Information and designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We may use Third-Parties to do so.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time at our sole discretion. Any changes take effect as soon as we post them but, where required by applicable law, we will also notify you by email and by posting a temporary notice on our website and will obtain additional consent.