Privacy policy 

Privacy Policy
Last modified: May 17, 2023

Introduction

Mark Ryan Winery, LLC ("Company" or "We") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://www.markryanwinery.com (our "Website") or participate in any of the offline activities described below (the “Offline Activities”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

On this Website.

• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

• When you subscribe to any of our mailing lists or newsletters, make a purchase, request a tasting, sign up for any of our events, or register for our wine club, whether through this Website or offline.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or

• Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this 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, your choice is not to use our Website or to participate in the applicable Offline Activity. By accessing or using this Website or participating in the applicable Offline Activity, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website or participation in the applicable Offline Activity after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Not Directed to People under the Legal Drinking Age of 21

Our Website is not intended for people under the legal drinking age of 21. We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 21. If we learn we have unknowingly collected or received personal information from an individual under the age of 21, we will delete that information.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and from your participation in the Offline Activities, including information:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, and date of birth ("personal information");

• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your city, state, or zip code and/or

• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.

• Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and web beacons.

• From third parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us 

The information we collect on or through our Website or the Offline Activities may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our services, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.

• Information you provide in Offline Activities.

• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

• Details of transactions you carry out through our Website, in person at our winery, or over the phone and of the fulfillment of those orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website, at our winery, or over the phone. 

• Your search queries on the Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies 

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including pages visited, how long you remained on our Website, traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information. The information we collect automatically helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.

• Speed up your searches.

• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

• The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.

• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.

• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

• To provide you with notices about your wine club membership, including expiration and renewal notices.

• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.

• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

• For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please click “unsubscribe” in the email footer for that communication or send us an email stating your request to info@markryanwinery.com. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Mark Ryan Winery, LLC 's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Mark Ryan Winery, LLC about our users is among the assets transferred.

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.

• To send a gift from our Website.  If you send a gift from our Website, we will collect contact information, such as name, shipping address, email address, and phone number, for gift recipients to help ensure correct gift delivery. We will disclose this information to our service providers to effectuate the delivery of the gift. We also collect the date of birth of the recipient, to help ensure that the recipient is at least 21 years of age. In addition, gift recipients may receive offers from us and/or our business partners highlighting new features, products, services, and special offers we think they will find interesting.  Gift recipients can opt out of receiving marketing messages or newsletters by clicking the unsubscribe link available at the footer of the email.

• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

• With your consent.

  We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

• To enforce or apply our terms of use [INSERT AS LINK TO WEBSITE'S TERMS OF USE] and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Mark Ryan Winery, LLC, our customers, or others.