Privacy

AVEC DRINKS CO. Privacy Policy

Last Updated and Effective as of: JUNE 19, 2020

AVEC DRINKS CO (“AVEC”, “we”, “our” or “us”) understands that privacy is important to our users. Protecting your private information is our priority. This Privacy Policy below discloses our practices regarding information collection and usage for AVECDRINKS.COM (the “Website”) and any websites, communications or services that we provide, including our online and offline events (collectively, the “Services”), unless another applicable privacy policy is posted on that Service or provided on-site.

Overview:

• We collect Personally Identifiable Information (as defined below) from users of our Website and Services when it is voluntarily provided to us and use it for the purposes for which it was provided (see Information We Collect Directly From You).

• We automatically collect information from users of our Website and Services for advertising and analytical purposes (see Information We Collect From You Automatically).

• We will not use or share your Personally Identifiable Information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you should not use the Website or the Services. By accessing or using the Website or Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy.  If you have questions, you can always contact us using the information in the section below titled Contact.

Information We Collect Directly From You:

We may collect information, including Personally Identifiable Information, when you provide such information to us directly, such as when you send us an email, sign up to receive communications from us, create an account, purchase our products through our Website, participate in our on-site events or surveys or otherwise interact with us on the Website or through our Services. Your provision of your Personally Identifiable Information to us is completely voluntary. “Personally Identifiable Information” is information that specifically identifies you.  We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information unless you submit that information to us. Categories of Personally Identifiable Information we collect directly from you include identity data (e.g., name, username or other similar identifiers), and contact data (e.g. address, email address, telephone number).  We may also collect other information that you directly provide us including marketing and communications data (e.g. your preferences in receiving marketing from us) and the content of communications we receive from you.

Information We Collect Automatically:

AVEC, our service providers or our third party partners may also automatically collect information from you when you visit our Website and use our Services through cookies and other tracking technologies.  Such information does not directly identify you as an individual and may include:

  • Cookies and Similar Technology

We may store some information on your device or device hard drive as a cookie or similar type of file (such as clear gifs, web beacons, tags, and similar technologies that work on mobile devices) to collect data related to usage of the Website or our other Services. "Cookies" are pieces of information that may be placed on your computer by a website for the purpose of collecting data to facilitate and enhance your communication and interaction with that website.   Such data may include, without limitation, the address of the websites you visited before and after you visited the Website, the type of browser you are using, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, what pages in the Website you visit and what links you clicked on, the region where your device is located, geo-IP data, the time of your visit to the Website, and whether you are a new or return visitor. We may use cookies to customize your visit to the Website, to serve you advertising that may be of interest to you and for other purposes to make your visit more convenient or to enable us to enhance our Services.

  • Clickstream

As you use the Internet, a trail of electronic information is left at each website you visit.  This information, which is sometimes referred to as "clickstream data," can be collected and stored by a website's server.  Clickstream data can tell us the type of computer and browsing software you use and the address of the website from which you linked to the Website.  We may collect and use clickstream data as a form of aggregate information to anonymously determine how much time visitors spend on each page of our Website, how visitors navigate throughout the Website and how we may tailor our web pages to better meet the needs of visitors.  This information will be used to improve our Website and our Services and may be used to serve you advertising that may be of interest.

  • Site Analytics

We may work with third-party service providers who use the technologies described in this section to conduct website analytics to help us track and understand how visitors use our Website.  

 One such provider is Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help analyze how users use the Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Website, compiling reports on activity for its staff and providing other services relating to web page activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. By using the Website and accepting cookies, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. Please refer to the Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the web, found at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

We also use Crazy Egg Heatmap, a third-party analytics service provided by Crazy Egg, Inc. (“Crazy Egg”), to provide us with information on how you interact with our Website such as the pages you view and the duration of your visits. To learn more about the types of information that is collected from you by Crazy Egg, please see https://www.crazyegg.com/privacy. You may also learn more about Crazy Egg’s available opt-outs for the web at https://www.crazyegg.com/opt-out.

How We Use Your Information

In addition to the above, we use Personally Identifiable Information and other information as described herein including for the following purposes:

  • to process and fulfill any orders that you place with us;
  • to contact you about and provide you with our Services;
  • to allow you to use and interact with our Services, including to post reviews on our Website, to create a user account, or to participate in our offline events or surveys;
  • to personalize your experience with us including by presenting products or offers tailored to you;
  • to respond to your direct inquiries;
  • to add you to our mailing lists and send you emails from time to time;
  • for any additional purposes that you specifically consent to.

If you participate in our referral programs and want to tell your friends about our Website or products, we may ask that you provide us with your friend’s name and contact information. We will only use the information you provide us for a one-time communication to your friend containing further information about our Website or products as you requested. If you have received a referral communication from us and would like us to delete your information from our records, please contact us at cheers@avecdrinks.com.

 We also reserve the right to supplement your Personally Identifiable Information with information we gather from other sources which may include information we gather from online and offline sources. We may aggregate or de-identify Personally Identifiable Information so that the information does not personally identify you or anyone else, such as by using Personally Identifiable Information to calculate the percentage of our customers who live in a particular area.  Because Non-Personally Identifiable Information, including aggregate or de-identified information, does not personally identify you, we may collect, use and disclose Non-Personally Identifiable Information for any purpose permitted by law.

How We Share Your Information

Besides using your information ourselves, we may send your Personally Identifiable Information and other information to other companies, affiliates and third parties in the following instances:

  • Service Providers. We may share your Personally Identifiable Information with third parties who may use your information to provide us services such as website hosting, data analysis, infrastructure provision, information technology services, customer service, e-mail delivery services, auditing, and anti-fraud monitoring.  These third parties may have access to Personally Identifiable Information that is necessary to perform their functions.  One such third party is Shopify, who processes payments for purchases on our Website. To see how Shopify will use your Personally Identifiable Information, please review their privacy policy here. To view their Terms of Use, click here.
  • Advertising Partners.  We may share your Personally Identifiable Information and other information with our advertising partners so that they may contact you about products and services that may be of interest to you.  If you prefer not to receive such communications, you may opt-out by contacting us at cheers@avecdrinks.com.
  • Legal Compliance and to Defend Our Rights. We may disclose Personally Identifiable Information and other information as we believe necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
  • Business Transfers. We may share your Personally Identifiable Information and other information with third parties in connection with a corporate restructuring, acquisition or divestiture.
  • Aggregated or Non-Personally Identifiable Information. We may share aggregated information or Non-Personally Identifiable Information with unaffiliated third parties, such as business partners, manufacturers, distributors and retailers, in a form in which means the shared information will not contain nor be linked to any Personally Identifiable Information, to improve and enhance your experience using the Website and Services and for our market research activities.   

Please note that if you specifically consent to additional uses of your Personally Identifiable Information, we may use your Personally Identifiable Information in a manner consistent with that consent.

Interest-Based Advertising

We may ourselves, or with third party vendors, use information we collect or vendor information to deliver targeted advertising to you when you visit other websites or use our Website or Services. Cookies, clickstream data, and other similar technologies described above may be used in this process. For example, if you are searching for information on a particular product, we or our vendor may cause an advertisement to appear on other websites you view with information on that product. This form of advertising, sometimes called “behavioral advertising,” which enables us and our vendors to know your interests in connection with the delivery of that specific ad. We believe that such advertising is helpful because you will see advertisements that are relevant to your interests. However, if you would like to opt out of these interest-based advertisements, please follow the opt-out process described below under “Opt-Out.”

Competitions and Other Promotions

We may offer competitions and other promotions (“Promotions”) through the Services, which may require you to submit your Personally Identifiable Information that we will use to process your online entry forms and facilitate any prizes you may win, such as your name, phone number and email address   By entering any Promotion, you consent to us sharing the information you provide us with any co-sponsors, service providers or other third parties that may help us administer such Promotion. Promotions will be covered by this Privacy Policy and the Promotions’ official rules, if applicable.

Security

The security of your information is very important to us.  However, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and AVEC, or information stored on the Website, our Services or our servers, will be free from unauthorized access by third parties such as hackers and your use of the Website or Services demonstrates your assumption of this risk. We have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect.  Only those employees who need access to your information in order to perform their duties are authorized to have access to your Personally Identifiable Information.  If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the Contact section below.

Data Retention

We will retain your information for as long as your account or inquiry is active or as needed to provide you with the Website or Services and for a reasonable time thereafter in accordance with our standard procedures or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. Even if we delete some or all of your information, we may continue to retain and use anonymous or aggregated data previously collected. Please note that we will not be liable for disclosures of your data due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties.

Protection for Children

Our Website and Services are intended for ages 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information from minors.  When we become aware that Personally Identifiable Information (or other information that is protected under applicable law) from a child under 13 (or such other age as may be restricted under local law) has been collected, we will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database. If you believe we might have any Personally Identifiable Information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at cheers@avecdrinks.com.

Other Websites and Social Networking Services

As a convenience to you, we may provide links to third party websites, apps or services from within the Website or Services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third party sites, and by providing a link we are not endorsing or promoting such third party sites.  When you navigate away from our Website or Services, you do so at your own risk.  We encourage you to read the policies and terms of every website, app or service you visit.

The Website or Services may integrate with social networking services.  We do not control such services and are not liable for the manner in which they operate.  While we may provide you with the ability to use such services in connection with our Website or Services, we are doing so merely as an accommodation and, like you, are relying upon those third party services to operate properly and fairly.

You should be aware that Personally Identifiable Information which you voluntarily include and transmit online in a publicly accessible blog, social network or otherwise online may be viewed and used by others.  We are unable to control such uses of your Personally Identifiable Information, and by using such services you assume the risk that the information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties.

Opt-Out

To opt-out of any future promotional messages from us, you should send an unsubscribe request to us at cheers@avecdrinks.com. We will process your request within a reasonable time after receipt.  Please note that if you opt out in this manner, certain aspects of the Website or Services may no longer be available to you.

The online advertising industry provides a service through which you may opt-out of receiving targeted ads from certain data partners and other advertising partners that participate in self-regulatory programs. You can opt-out of targeted advertising from certain providers that participate in the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising set forth by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) at www.aboutads.info/consumers. Other providers are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, and you can opt-out of interest-based advertising by those members by visiting http://optout.networkadvertising.org/. Please note that by opting out, you will continue to see generic advertising that is not tailored to your specific interests and activities. To be clear, cookie-based opt-outs must be performed on each device and browser that you wish to have opted-out. For example, if you have opted out on your device browser, that opt-out will not be effective on your mobile device. You must separately opt out on each device.

If you want to stop or restrict the placement of cookies or flush any cookies that may already be on your computer or device, please refer to and adjust your web browser preferences. Further information on cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org. By deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our Website or some of its functionality may be affected.

Please note that, unless required by law, we do not respond to or honor “do not track” (a/k/a/ DNT) signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers.

Changes to policy:

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this policy at any time, provided that any such modifications will only be applied prospectively. Your continued use of the Website or Services following the posting of any changes to this policy means you accept such changes.

Contact:

For questions or concerns relating to privacy, we can be contacted at: cheers@avecdrinks.com

Site Maintenance:

Our Website is maintained in the United States of America. If you are located outside the U.S., by using the Website, you authorize the export of your information to the USA and its storage and use as specified in this policy.