WINE A BEE™ Privacy policy

WINE A BEE™ knows you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we'll do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By using WINE A BEE™, you're accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

Depending on the context, the term “WINE A BEE™” refers to the name of the mobile application created by Vin & Wine inc. “Vin & Wine” used below refers to both Vin & Wine inc. and its mobile application WINE A BEE™. 

The mention “seller” below refers to:

• Wine bars
• Wine clubs
• Restaurants
• Wine growers
• Supermarkets
• Private Importers
• Wine stores (SAQ, LCBO, etc.)

What personal information about You, our client, does WINE A BEE™ gather?

The information we learn from you, the clients helps us personalise and continually improve your WINE A BEE™ experience. Here are the types of information we gather.

• Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our mobile Application or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customising future shopping for you, improving our mobile Application, and communicating with you.
• Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Mobile Applications, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your mobile device accesses WINE A BEE™ or other content served by or on behalf of WINE A BEE™ on other Mobile Applications.
• Mobile: When you download or use apps created by WINE A BEE™ or its subsidiaries, we may receive information about your location and your mobile device, including a unique identifier for your device. We may use this information to provide you with location-based services, such a wine suggestion that correspond to your taste and budget the moment you enter a wine store, search results, and other personalised content. Most mobile devices allow you to turn off location services. 
• Email Communications: To help us make emails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open email from WINE A BEE™ if your computer supports such capabilities. Also, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to you, our clients, we compare our client list to lists received from other companies. If you don't want to receive email or other mail from us, please advise us on info@vinoveritas.ca.
• Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.

What About Cookies?

Cookies are unique identifiers that we transfer to your device, to enable our systems to recognize your device and to provide features such as easy purchasing, personalised advertisements on other Websites.

The Help feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's settings or visiting the Web site of its manufacturer. 

Because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of WINE A BEE™'s essential features, we recommend you leave them turned on. For instance, if you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able to add items to your Shopping Cart, proceed to Checkout, or use any WINE A BEE™ products and services that require you to Sign in.

Purpose of the information about You

We collect, process and use information about you in order for us to manage our user relation with you, including managing your account and provide you with access to our Mobile Application. The processing of your personal data is performed on the legal basis of fulfilment of our contractual obligations when delivering the Mobile Application to you.

We process your ratings of wine to provide you with better, more personnalised wine suggestions based on your tastes preferences and for other users to follow your ratings. We process your personal data the legal basis of your freely given consent provided when signing up to the Mobile Application.

This consent, disabling the ability for other users to follow your ratings may withdraw at any time. Please advise us on info@vinoveritas.ca.

We process your personal data to facilitate your purchase of wine via the Mobile Application on the legal basis of fulfillment of our contractual obligations to facilitate your purchase of wine.

We also process your personal data to deliver and improve our Mobile Application, and manage our business, to improve our offerings, develop new features and updates, develop personalisation services and other types of service, including but not limited to develop and implement algorithms and machine learning. This processing is on the basis of our legitimate interest to improve our Mobile Application and services.

We also use your personal data to display to you personalised marketing message on our Mobile Application, to inform you about new features, updates on our Mobile Application, and let you know about our policies and Terms and Conditions, among others.

The processing of your personal data is performed based on your freely given consent to receive marketing by email and push notifications provided when signing up to the Mobile Application, which you may withdraw at any time by contacting us on info@vinoveritas.ca.

If you withdraw your consent to receive personalised marketing message, will we still display marketing message to you on the Mobile Application, but they will be of a generic nature and therefore less relevant to you.

The different categories of data we may use

We mainly collect the personal data that you submit to us, including your contact information, reviews and purchase history. But we also collect information in several ways from different parts of our Mobile Application, as further detailed below, including but not limited to the way you use our Mobile Application and if applied tracking information about your whereabouts on the Internet and technical information about your devices and location.

When registering via our Mobile Application, you provide us with certain information, including email, password, username, name, country of origin, preferred language. When registering and signing in via third-party application login (such as Facebook or Google), and you authorise us to access certain account information from that third-party application, such as basic profile information; name, profile picture, email address (optional), current city (optional). Some of this information will never be made public, such as password. Other information can be either hidden by default (email address, country of origin) or public by default (name and profile picture if third party application sign up). Geolocation will not be disclosed, but you have the possibility to add a geotag when reviewing wines as a public user. You can manage the visibility of this information under Profile Settings.

When using our Mobile Application: 

• We register the information you provide when using the Mobile Application, including ranking wines, your wine orders on our Mobile Application and your communication with us.
• You are encouraged not to reveal personal data concerning your and others. When You make such information about them or others public, you are responsible for ensuring legal ground for disclosing the information.
• Our App will ask for your permission to enable the collection of the location of your device/you. If you have given permission to collect your device location, we will use the location to show you certain offers available around your location as personalised marketing message. Location may also be used for analytics etc.

Does WINE A BEE™ Share the Information It Receives?

Information about our clients is an important part of our business, and we're not in the business of selling it to others. We share client information only as described below and with subsidiaries WINE A BEE™.com, Inc., controls that are either subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.

• Affiliated sellers we do not control: We work closely with our affiliated sellers. In some cases, these sellers may operate stores at WINE A BEE™ or sell offerings to you at WINE A BEE™. In other cases, we operate stores, provide services, or sell product lines jointly with these sellers. You can tell when a third party is involved in your transactions, and we share client information related to those transactions with that third party.
• Third-Party Service Providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and email, removing repetitive information from client lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing client service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
• Promotional Offers: Sometimes, we send offers to selected groups of WINE A BEE™ clients on behalf of other sellers. When we do this, we don't give that business your name and address. If you don't want to receive such offers, please advise us on info@vinoveritas.ca.
• Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, client information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the client consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that Vin & Wine Inc. or substantially all of its assets are acquired, client information of course will be one of the transferred assets.
• Protection of WINE A BEE™ and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of WINE A BEE™, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit-risk reduction. However, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from clients for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.
• With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you'll receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you'll have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

How secure is the information about You, the client ?

• We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you enter.
• We reveal only the last four digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
• It's important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and your computer. Be sure to sign off when you've finished using a shared computer.

About Third-Party advertisers and links to other Mobile Applications

Our Mobile Application includes third-party advertising and links to other Mobile Applications. For more information about third-party advertising on WINE A BEE™, including personalised or interest-based ads, please read our Interest-Based Ads policy.

Information You can Access

WINE A BEE™ gives you access to a broad range of information about your account and your interactions with WINE A BEE™ for the limited purpose of viewing and updating that information. This list will change as our Mobile Application evolves.

Choices you have

• As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage of such WINE A BEE™ features as Wine Reviews and Wine Lists.
• You can add or update certain information on pages such as those referenced in the "Information You can Access" section, above. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records.
• If you don't want to receive email from us or want us to use personal information that we gather to allow third parties to personalise advertisements we display to you, please advise us on info@vinoveritas.ca. 

You are entitled to request access to your personal information and, if necessary, to have it corrected. The request must be in writing. Your request will be handled as provided by law. Send your request to:

Vin & Wine inc.

2189 Concession Rd 3

St-Eugene Ontario, K0B 1P0

Phone: 514-463-1140

Email: info@vinoveritas.ca

Are children allowed to use WINE A BEE™?

WINE A BEE™ is intended for use by adults of legal drinking age in the jurisdiction in which you reside. If we receive notice or reasonably believe that someone under the legal drinking age has provided us with personal information, we will promptly delete the account and all personal information that has been provided to us.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

If you choose to use WINE A BEE™, your usage and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law in Canada. If you have any concerns about privacy at WINE A BEE™, please contact us with a thorough description, and we'll try to resolve it.

Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use will change also. We may email periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, but you should check our Mobile Application frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of client information collected in the past without the consent of affected clients.

When you delete your account, we delete the data attached to your account including your username. The username will be deleted from all reviews, and the reviews will be anonymized for future viewing.

Please note that some information may remain in our records after your account has been deleted, and that we may only be able to delete this information later when updating our backups.