At Mixology & Craft® Whiskey Set, we take your privacy seriously. This privacy policy describes how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website or make purchases from our online store.

Effective Date: 01 January 2023

Collection of Information

We collect different types of information from you when you visit our website, make purchases, or interact with us. The main types of information we collect are:

• Personal Information: When you make a purchase or register on our site, you may provide us with personal information like your name, email address, phone number, and billing/shipping addresses. We collect this to process orders, create accounts, and communicate with you.
• Automatic Information: When you use our website, we automatically collect certain computer information by using cookies, web server logs, web beacons, and other tracking technologies. We use cookies and other technologies to recognize you as a customer, customize your experience, advertise to you, measure our performance, and other similar functions.
• Transaction Information: When you purchase products from us or use certain site features, we collect information about the transaction like payment details, purchase history, etc. This allows us to process the purchase and maintain your accounts.
• Social Media Information: If you interact with us on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc., we may collect information like your profile, pictures, posts, etc. This allows us to interact with you, advertise to you, and gain insights for marketing.

Use of Information

We use the information collected from you for the following general purposes:

• To fulfill your orders and process transactions.
• To provide products, services, and customer support you request.
• To customize your experience and send you product recommendations.
• To notify you about product updates, new services, promotions, and other announcements.
• To administer contests and sweepstakes.
• To improve the content, functionality, and usability of our website.
• To analyze site usage trends, popularity, and other aggregate metrics.
• To diagnose and address technical issues.
• To conduct research and analysis to improve our products and services.
• To communicate with you by email, social media, telephone, text/SMS, or other means.
• To protect against fraud, spam, phishing, intellectual property infringement, and other misuse of our site.
• To comply with legal requirements like subpoenas, court orders, requests from regulators, etc.
• For any other legitimate business purpose, with your consent, or as permitted by law.

Sharing of Information

We take care to allow access to personal information only to those who require it to fulfill their duties and responsibilities on our behalf. We may share your personal information with the following parties:

• Service Providers: We share information with third parties that provide certain services to us, like payment processing, shipping, email/SMS delivery, marketing, analytics, customer support, web hosting, IT services, auditing, etc. These service providers are restricted from using your data in any way other than to provide services for us.
• Business Transfers: If we are acquired by or merged with another company, if substantially all of our assets are transferred to another company, or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, we may transfer the information we have collected from you to the other company.
• In Response to Legal Process: We may disclose your information to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, subpoena, or other legal process.
• To Protect Our Rights: We may disclose information to enforce our policies, terms and conditions, and to protect the rights, safety, and security of Mixology & Craft® Whiskey Set, our employees, customers, and others.
• With Your Consent: We may share your information for any other purpose with your consent.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is permitted or required by law. We determine retention periods based on criteria like legal obligation, necessity for our business operations, collection and use of the information, account activity, etc.

When we no longer need to use your personal information, we will remove it from our systems and records and take steps to properly de-identify or aggregate it.

Data Protection

We take reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We implement safeguards like encrypted connections, firewalls, site monitoring, restricted access, etc. to protect our systems. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. You should take special care in deciding what information you send to us electronically. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any personal information to us.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies, web server logs, web beacons, pixels, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of our website and online services. Cookies are small text files stored by your browser that help websites remember things like login credentials and site preferences. Web beacons are small images embedded in web pages and emails to track user activity.

We use these technologies to do things like:

• Recognize you as a repeat visitor
• Track your interactions with our communications
• Save your shopping cart, account info, order history, etc.
• Measure website performance and optimize our services
• Analyze site usage trends and visitor demographics
• Test different versions of web pages and features
• Compile aggregate statistics about site usage and response rates
• Deliver relevant ads and offers tailored to you

You can adjust your browser settings to block or limit cookies, but this may affect your ability to use our site or access certain features. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for instructions.

Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites like social media platforms, advertisers, payment processors, etc. If you click on one of these links, you will be directed to a third-party site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these external sites. You should read the individual privacy policies for each third-party site accessed through our website.

Social Media Features

Our website includes social media features like the Facebook Like button. These features may collect information like your IP address and which pages you visit to personalize ads and recommendations. Social media features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the feature.

Online Advertising

We may allow third-party companies to serve ads and collect certain data when you visit our site. These companies may use cookies, web beacons, SDKs, and other technologies to deliver relevant ads and measure their effectiveness. They may collect information about your use of our site and other sites or apps to provide relevant ads about goods and services that may interest you. The ads may be based on your activity across sites, apps, online services, and devices. This data may also help us improve our online advertising.

Online Analytics

We use third-party analytics services like Google Analytics to help understand use of our website and improve our services. These services may collect information about your visits and browsing, like pages visited, time spent, links clicked, devices used, IP address, and other anonymous site usage data. We use these analytics insights to better understand our audience, identify site issues, and optimize the website experience.

Your Rights and Choices

You have certain rights and choices when it comes to the personal information we collect. These include:

Access/Update/Correct: You can request access to the personal data we hold about you and ask that we update or correct it if inaccurate or incomplete.

Delete: You can ask us to erase or delete your personal information from our systems.

Object or Restrict Processing: You can ask us to stop using your personal information for certain purposes or place restrictions on our processing activities.

Data Portability: You can ask for a copy of your personal data in a common portable digital format.

Complain: You can file a complaint about our privacy practices with us or with your local data protection authority.

To make a request, please contact us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below. We will consider and respond to all requests in accordance with applicable laws. Keep in mind that certain data may be exempt from deletion or other requests based on legal obligations or other lawful reasons.

Your California Privacy Rights

Under California Civil Code Section 1798, California residents may request certain details about how we disclose personal information to third parties for marketing purposes. No such disclosure is made by this site.

California residents also have the right to request information from businesses with whom we have shared personal information about you for the businesses’ direct marketing purposes. You can submit such a request to us using the contact information provided below.

Global Site Visitors

Our website and services are hosted in and operate from the United States. If you choose to use the site or provide information from regions with laws governing data collection that may differ from U.S. law, you agree that you are transferring personal information outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing. You consent to having your personal data transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States.

Children’s Privacy

Our website is not directed to children under 18 and we do not intentionally collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us. If we become aware that a child has provided us with information, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.

Changes to This Policy

We may occasionally update this privacy policy to comply with legal requirements and reflect changes in our privacy practices. We will post a notice on our website homepage when changes are made. The effective date at the top of this policy indicates when it was last revised. Your continued use of our website constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or need to exercise any of your rights under this policy, please contact us at:

Email: [email protected]