Privacy Policy

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ALTCELLARS is committed to protecting your personal data. We are committed to ensuring the highest level of protection for your data in compliance with the French Data Protection Act of January 6, 1978 and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the EU Council of April 27, 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This Privacy Policy describes how ALTCELLARS (the "Site", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from www.altcellars.com (the "Site") or otherwise communicate with us (collectively, the "Services"). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any of the Services.

This Policy, together with our Terms of Service, thus formalizes the contractual agreement between our Site and its users.


Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site and take any other steps required by applicable law.


How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

To provide the Services, we collect personal information about you from a variety of sources, as set out below. The information that we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.

In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use information we collect about you to communicate with you, provide the Services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.


What Personal Information We Collect

The types of personal information we obtain about you depends on how you interact with our Site and use our Services. When we use the term "personal information", we are referring to information that identifies, relates to, describes or can be associated with you. The following sections describe the categories and specific types of personal information we collect.


Information We Collect Directly from You

Information that you directly submit to us through our Services may include:

- Basic contact details including your name, address, phone number, email.

- Order information including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, phone number.

- Account information including your username, password, security questions.

- Shopping information including the items you view, put in your cart or add to your wishlist.

- Customer support information including the information you choose to include in communications with us, for example, when sending a message through the Services.

Some features of the Services may require you to directly provide us with certain information about yourself. You may elect not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.


Information We Collect through Cookies

We also automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services ("Usage Data"). To do this, we may use cookies, pixels and similar technologies ("Cookies"). Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our Site and your account, including device information, browser information, information about your network connection, your IP address and other information regarding your interaction with the Services.


How We Use Your Personal Information

- Providing Products and Services. We use your personal information to provide you with the Services in order to perform our contract with you, including to process your payments, fulfill your orders, to send notifications to you related to your account, purchases, returns, exchanges or other transactions, to create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, to arrange for shipping, facilitate any returns and exchanges and to enable you to post reviews.

- Marketing and Advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send marketing, advertising and promotional communications by email, text message or postal mail. This may include using your personal information to better tailor the Services on our Site.

- Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal or malicious activity. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe. We highly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other access details with anyone else. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately.

- Communicating with you. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support and improve our Services. This is in our legitimate interests in order to be responsive to you, to provide effective services to you, and to maintain our business relationship with you.


Cookies

Like many websites, we use cookies on our Site. We use cookies to power and improve our Site and our Services (including to remember your actions and preferences), to run analytics and better understand user interaction with the Services (in our legitimate interests to administer, improve and optimize the Services).

Most browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but you can choose to set your browser to remove or reject cookies through your browser controls. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some of the Services, including certain features and general functionality, to work incorrectly or no longer be available.


How We Disclose Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

- With vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment and shipping).

- With business and marketing partners, including Shopify, to provide services to you. Our business and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices.

- When you direct, request us or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship your products.

- In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including to respond to subpoenas, search warrants and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.


Retention of Your Information

How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, to provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.


Your Rights

If you reside in the European Union, you have the rights listed below in relation to your personal information:

- Right to Access / Know. You may have a right to request access to personal information that we hold about you, including details relating to the ways in which we use and share your information.

- Right to Delete. You may have a right to request that we delete personal information we maintain about you.

- Right to Correct. You may have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.

You may exercise any of these rights by contacting us using the contact details provided below.

We may need to collect information from you to verify your identity, such as ID, your email address or account information, before providing a substantive response to the request. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required under applicable law.

If you reside in the European Union, please note that we may transfer, store and process your personal information outside the country you live in, including Canada and the United States.


Contact

Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, please email us at info@altcellars.com or mail us at 61 Rue de Lyon, 75012, Paris, France.