Privacy Policy
What information we collect and how it is used
Passive data collection and use
Use of cookies
Use of personally identifiable information
Privacy Policy
Wine Adventure Magazine through the auspices of our website, WAMagazine.com has a firm commitment to privacy. We take your privacy concerns seriously and want to make every effort to address them as we strive to offer our site visitors a high quality, interactive and personalized experience. We have adopted the following policy which explains our position on information gathering and how we intend to use and share any information we collect. It is important to note that this policy applies only to information collected by WAMagazine.com and does not apply to information obtained or used by our advertisers.
WAmagazine.com collects and stores Personally Identifiable Information such as your name, address, e-mail address, etc. What information we collect and store depends on the page you are visiting and the services you elect to participate in. We use this information to operate our services, provide you with the highest quality services, offer you opportunities we think will be of interest, and better tailor the advertising you see from us to suit you. This information is not shared with anyone outside of Wine Adventure Magazine and WAMagazine.com except as provided for in this Privacy Policy.
This privacy policy is subject to change from time to time. If the policy is revised, a notice will be placed in the Member Center where registered members of our service may also update their personal information, subscribe to e-mail newsletters and revise the permissions that they previously granted WAMagazine.com. They may also receive an e-mail outlining the change. Non-registered users of WAMagazine.com. may view the privacy policy, including any revisions, by clicking on the "Privacy Policy" link on the home page of WAMagazine.com. If the changes represent a material departure from our current policy or materially affect users' rights and obligations, if feasible, the changes will be posted on this page 30 days in advance of their effective date.
What information we collect and how it is used
Access to special content, services and features on WAMagazine.com requires users to be subscribers to Wine Adventure Magazine and to become registered members at WAMagazine.com. Member registration requires you to provide certain Personally Identifiable Information, such as your name, e-mail address, and street address. You will be asked to provide a password so that you have access to this information and can revise it in the future. To complete the registration process, we will send you a confirmation e-mail message. You will also have the opportunity to subscribe to e-mail newsletters and alerts and elect to receive E-mail Offers sent to you on behalf of WAMagazine.com advertisers. Some features and services may require additional Personally Identifiable Information or other demographic information. We may collect other personal information when you provide feedback, comments, engage in chat, message boards, interactive forums or participate in surveys, or if you contact us offline. For example, when you enter contests you will be asked to also provide your phone number so that we can reach you in the event you've won a prize. All users may decline to share such information with us, by choosing not to register on the web site or use our services. Only registered members, however, may access certain content, services and features.
You may also be asked to create a separate registration account with some of the services provided by partners and other providers on WAMagazine.com. Be aware that the information collected by a provider may be subject to the privacy policy and terms of use of that provider, and we recommend reviewing these prior to submitting your registration.
If you wish to forward an article to a friend, we will ask that you provide your friend's name and e-mail address. While we may collect statistics on which articles are forwarded, we do not sell, rent, or market your friend's personal information, and retain the information only as long as necessary to provide this service.
Passive data collection and use
Like most Web sites, WAMagazine.com also collects and logs information automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to you, such as your IP address, the name and location of your Internet Service Provider, the type and version of your browser, the length of time that you stay on WAMagazine.com, search queries, your click-stream data, the location that referred you to WAMagazine.com and the average number of pages viewed. If you visit another website prior to browsing WAMagazine.com, that website might place personally identifiable information within a URL, which may be logged by us. Your IP address is the identifier assigned to your particular computer when you access the Internet. Depending on how you connect to the Internet, your IP address may always be the same, or it may change each time you access the Internet. Note that logging your IP address does not in and of itself provide us with your name, e-mail address or home or work address. We use this log information for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes and may also use it to gather general demographic information about you such as your general location and your Internet Service Provider. In order to better provide our services to you and to develop member profiles that enable us to focus our site, services and advertisements on your interests, we may correlate this log information with other information about you, such as your registration information or newspaper subscription records.
Use of cookies
Most standard Web browsers contain a feature called "cookies," which allow a Web site to place information about a user's visit to that Web site in a small data text file that is stored on the user's computer. Our use of cookie technology will likely be transparent to you and is used to recognize you and hold information from one visit to the next in an effort to increase your ease of use of WAMagazine.com and to allow us to better understand how people use our site through click-stream analysis. For example, cookies are used to store your member name and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit. Another example is that we may use cookie technology to control the number of times you see a particular advertisement while visiting WAMagazine.com You can turn the cookies feature off by using your browser preference options, but doing so will severely limit your access to WAMagazine.com and may prevent you from registration.
Some of WAMagazine.com's third party content providers also may place a cookie on the user's computer. If a user chooses to monitor or restrict cookies that are placed on his computer, the user can determine the Web site that is attempting to place a cookie. Those cookies are controlled by the content provider, and users should refer to that provider's privacy policy for further information regarding its use of cookies.
Use of personally identifiable information
Personally Identifiable Information may be accessed by the user who entered it, by Wine Adventure Magazine and WAMagazine.com personnel, and by certain third parties, such as those who provide technical support or content services to WAMagazine.com. We ask these third parties to keep any personal information supplied by us confidential. We also endeavor to keep your Personally Identifiable Information inaccessible to other users or advertisers of WAMagazine.com. Note that your first name may be displayed on WAMagazine.com when you visit WAMagazine.com as a logged in member. We will also display your e-mail address and contact information in your Member Center. We make every effort to make the Member Center secure, such that; it can only be accessed by logging in successfully with your password.
We also reserve the right to disclose Personally Identifiable Information when deemed necessary or appropriate to comply with the law, respond to claims, protect our computer systems and customers, ensure the integrity and operation of our business and systems, or protect the rights, property or safety of WAMagazine.com, its affiliates, or others.
We will not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information without your advance permission except as explained in this privacy policy or as explained at the time the information was collected.
