HOOD RIVER DISTILLERS INTERNATIONAL PRIVACY POLICY
1. General Policy. Hood River Distillers, Inc., an Oregon corporation (“Hood River Distillers”), owns and operates this Website (this “Site”). Hood River Distillers knows that you, its visitors, care about how information about you is used and shared. Hood River Distillers promises that it will use information about you carefully and sensibly. This document describes the information that Hood River Distillers collects about visitors to this Site, how Hood River Distillers uses that information and how Hood River Distillers protects that information. It also discusses certain choices you have regarding your personal information.
2. Personal Information Hood River Distillers Collects
Hood River Distillers collects and stores the following information about visitors to this Site:
2.1 Automatically Generated Information. Cookies are bits of electronic information that a web site operator can transfer to your hard drive to help tailor and keep records of your visit to the site. The use of cookies is standard on the Internet and many web sites use them. Cookies allow us to better customize your visits to our site to your individual preferences. We also contract with third party service providers who assign cookies (which do not contain any personally identifiable information) to conduct site tracking for us. These companies use cookies solely to provide us with aggregate data about site traffic. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, you can usually change your browser to prevent that or notify you whenever you’re sent a cookie. This gives you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it.
3. How Hood River Distillers Uses Information. Hood River Distillers uses information about you in order to provide the services described in this Site. In addition, Hood River Distillers shares customer information with its affiliates and as described below.
3.1 No Sale of Personal Information. Hood River Distillers will not sell your personal information to others except in connection with the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of Hood River Distillers related to this Site.
3.2 Third Party Service Providers. Hood River Distillers may from time to time engage others to provide services to Hood River Distillers, to you and to other visitors to this Site. For example, Hood River Distillers may engage other companies to host, operate and maintain this Site, analyze data, provide marketing assistance, process credit card payments, perform inventories or assessments and provide other services. Hood River Distillers will give them access to your personal information to the extent necessary to do their jobs. Hood River Distillers cannot guaranty that those companies will protect your personal information to the same extent described in this Privacy Policy.
3.3 Statistical Information. Hood River Distillers sells or otherwise share some information about its visitors with advertisers, business partners, sponsors and other third parties. However, that information is statistical in nature and does not identify specific individuals. For example, Hood River Distillers counts the number of visitors for purposes of managing its banner advertising business or it may report that X percent of Hood River Distillers’s visitors are [men][junior executives] and Y percent are [women][senior executives]. Hood River Distillers uses that aggregate data to, among other things, customize content, services and advertising to better suit the needs of its visitors and customers.
3.4 Emails. From time to time, Hood River Distillers may send email messages to Opt-in users users Hood River Distillers may use a bulk email service to distribute that information. If you do not want to receive bulk emails, please indicate that preference on your registration information or contact Hood River Distillers at decline@ixpres.com. Except for email message that you send to Hood River Distillers, Hood River Distillers will not monitor, edit or disclose the contents of your email unless required in the course of normal maintenance of this Site and systems. Email content may be tailored to the specific interests of the user based on the registration pofile information.
3.5 Credit Card Information Provided to Others. If you use a credit card to pay for goods or services from a service provider who provides services through this Site (each, a “Third Party Provider”), you will be subject to the privacy policy and terms of use of that Third Party Provider, and Hood River Distillers will not be responsible for the use of that information. Hood River Distillers will not store your credit card information unless you authorize it to do so.
3.5 Cookies. Upon your first visit to this Site, our Website sends a “cookie” to your computer. A cookie is a file that identifies you as a unique user. It stores personal preferences and user data. Cookies do not identify you by name. Hood River Distillers has two primary uses for its cookies. First, Hood River Distillers uses them to specify unique facts. For example, cookies can identify visitors’ zip codes. This way you don’t have to tell us over and over again in which state you live. Secondly, Hood River Distillers uses cookies to track user trends and patterns. This helps Hood River Distillers better understand and improve this Site and its services. While both of these activities depend on the use of a “cookie,” visitors to this Site should have the option of disabling cookies through their browser preferences. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some Hood River Distillers services may not function properly if you disable cookies. For example, without cookies, you may not be able to set customized searches, personalized preferences or other customized preferences.
3.6 Other Disclosures/Use. Hood River Distillers will disclose your personal information if Hood River Distillers in good-faith believes it is required to do so: (a) by law or to comply with the law or legal process served on Hood River Distillers; (b) to protect and defend Hood River Distillers’s rights or property; or (c) in an emergency to protect the personal safety of Hood River Distillers’s customers, visitors or the public.
4. Links to Other Websites. When you visit this Site, you could be directed to Websites to Third Party Providers and to other Websites that are beyond our control. There are many links to other Websites from this Site that may take you outside our service. Hood River Distillers believes that this is one of the strengths of this Site. For example, if you “click” on a banner advertisement link or if you click on a Third Party Provider link, the “click” may take you from this Site to the Website of that other person. Those other Websites may not have privacy policies or may have privacy policies that are not as protective of your personal information as Hood River Distillers’s policy. These other Websites may send their own cookies to visitors, collect data or solicit personal information. Hood River Distillers strongly recommends that you review and understand the privacy policies of the Websites you visit, whether you visit those Websites directly or through a link from a page on this Site.
5. Chat Groups. Whenever you give out personal information online, including via forums, message boards or chat groups, that information can be collected and used by others. While Hood River Distillers strives to protect its visitors’ personal information and privacy as outlined in this Privacy Policy, Hood River Distillers cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online and you do so at your own risk.
6. Policy Regarding Children. This Website is for people 21 years of age and older. If you are under 21 years of age, please do not submit any information to Hood River Distillers without the consent of a parent or guardian. Hood River Distillers does not intentionally collect any information about children or minors.
7. Disputes regarding use of Personal Information. All disputes regarding Hood River Distillers’s use of your personal information and/or the terms of this Privacy Policy will be heard by any state or federal court located in the State of Oregon, USA, as more specifically provided in the Legal Notices. [link]
8. Miscellaneous. Hood River Distillers’s policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond Hood River Distillers’s control. Hood River Distillers uses reasonable precautions to keep your personal information secure. However, Hood River Distillers is not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of any third parties.
If you at any time have questions about this Privacy Policy, please send your question via email to privacy@ixpres.com or send via first class mail to Hood River Distillers, Inc., 660 Riverside Drive, P.O. Box 240, Hood River, OR 97031, USA.