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Privacy Policy

Privacy & Safety

Don's Liquors & Wine knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This privacy policy lets you know what information we collect, how we may from time to time share that information, and your choices regarding the sharing of your information.


How To Contact Us

If you have questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us in the following ways:
Phone: 408-225-2991
Email:  support@donsliquorsandwine.com

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PRIVACY POLICY CONTENTS

  • Our Privacy Commitment to Our Customers
  • Acceptance of and Changes to this Privacy Statement
  • Information Collection and Use
  • Cookies & Clickstream Technology
  • Updating Your Personal Information
  • Account Registration
  • Security of Your Personal Information
  • Disclosure of Personal Information
  • Information from Third Parties
  • Children’s and Minor’s Privacy
  • California Privacy Rights

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OUR PRIVACY COMMITMENT TO OUR CUSTOMERS

​We value the relationship we have with our customers and are committed to responsible information-handling practices. We take great care in safeguarding your personal information and in complying with all applicable federal and state privacy laws and our own internal standards and best practices.

We follow these privacy principles in connection with the collection, use, security and sharing of customer information:

  • When we contact you for marketing purposes, we will let you know how to remove your name from future marketing efforts.
  • We will use reasonable security measures to protect the personal information we receive from you

​COOKIES & CLICKSTREAM TECHNOLOGY

​As you navigate the site, we may also collect information through the use of commonly-used information-gathering tools, such as cookies and web beacons (collectively “Website Navigational Information”). Website Navigational Information includes standard information from your web browser (such as browser type and browser language), your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, and the actions you take on the Site (such as the web pages viewed and the links clicked).

​Cookies

​Like many companies, we may use cookies on this Site. Cookies are pieces of information shared between your web browser and a website. Use of cookies enables a faster and easier experience for the user. A cookie cannot read data off your computer's hard drive.

There are different kinds of cookies with different functions:

(i) Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session. They are automatically deleted when the browser is closed. They usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page. They do not collect any information from your computer.

(ii) Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is one stored as a file on your computer, and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again.

(iii) First-party cookies: the function of this type of cookie is to retain your preferences for a particular website for the entity that owns that website. They are stored and sent between Don's Liquors & Wine servers and your computer’s hard drive. They are not used for anything other than for rationalization as set by you. These cookies may be either Session or Persistent cookies.

(iv) Third-party cookies: the function of this type of cookie is to retain your interaction with a particular website for an entity that does not own that website. They are stored and sent between the Third-party’s server and your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are usually Persistent cookies.

​We do use third-party cookies on our Sites, as well as third party provided web beacons (please see the section on Web Beacons below). These cookies are used by us and our marketing partners to better understand your preferences, purchases and/or to tailor your experience on the site to your interests.

​More specifically, this Site uses Google Analytics and other similar services, which are web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. and other third party companies. These services use cookies to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by these vendors on servers in the United States. These vendors will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage for Don's Liquors & Wine and its marketing affiliates. These vendors may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on their behalf. These vendors will not associate your IP address with any other data held by them. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google and Don's Liquors & Winein the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Along with the above noted uses, we use cookies for the following purposes:

​Where strictly necessary

​These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Site. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, such as obtaining a quote or logging into your account, cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.

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Performance

​These cookies collect information about how visitors use a Site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. They also allow us to record and count the number of visitors to the Site, all of which enables us to see how visitors use the Site in order to improve the way that our Site works. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a person, as all information these cookies collect is anonymous and is used to improve how our Site works.

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Functionality

​These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced features. For instance, the Site needs to remember your log in details, so that you do not have to repeatedly sign in to your account when using a particular device to access our Site. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, font and other parts of web pages that you may be able to customize from time to time. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on an article. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymized. They do not gather any information about you that could be used for advertising or remember where you have been on the internet.

For information on all of these categories of cookies, and for more information generally on cookies please refer to aboutcookies.org. Please consult your web browser's ‘Help’ documentation or visit aboutcookies.org. for more information about how to turn cookies on and off for your browser.

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Web Beacons

​The Site may also use web beacons (including web beacons supplied or provided by third parties) alone or in conjunction with cookies to compile information about users’ usage of the Site and interaction with e-mails from Don's Liquors & Wine. Web beacons are clear electronic images that can recognize certain types of information on your computer, such as cookies, when you viewed a particular Site tied to the web beacon, and a description of a Site tied to the web beacon. We use web beacons to operate and improve the Sites and e-mail communications. We may use information from web beacons in combination with other data we have about our clients to provide you with information about Don's Liquors & Wine and our services. We will conduct this review on an anonymous basis.

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IP Addresses

When you visit our Sites, Don's Liquors & Wine collects your Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses to track and aggregate non-Personal Information. For example, Don's Liquors & Wine uses IP addresses to monitor the regions from which users navigate the Sites. IP addresses will be stored in such a way so that you cannot be identified from the IP address. In addition, Don's Liquors & Wine uses your IP address to get an approximate location so we can find offer you targeted marketing or other services based on your location. We do this for both your convenience, as well as for legal compliance reasons.

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Do-Not-Track

​The major browsers have attempted to implement the draft “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (“W3C”) in their latest releases. As this standard has not been finalized, the Don's Liquors & Wine site is not compatible with DNT.