Privacy Policy
Welcome to https://www.spirits-foodandbooze.com. We understand that privacy online is important to users of our Site, especially when conducting business. This statement governs our privacy policies with respect to those users of the Site who visit without transacting business and Visitors who register to transact business on the Site and make use of the various services offered by Spirits Food and Booze.
“Personally Identifiable Information”
Refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, financial profiles, social security number, and credit card information. Personally Identifiable Information does not include information that is collected anonymously (that is, without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual.
What Personally Identifiable Information is collected?
We may collect basic user profile information from all of our Visitors. We collect the following additional information from our Authorized Customers: the name, email address,
What organizations are collecting the information?
In addition to our direct collection of information, our third party service vendors (such as credit card companies, clearinghouses and banks) who may provide such services as credit, insurance, and escrow services may collect this information from our Visitors and Authorized Customers. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use personal information provided to them from Visitors and Authorized Customers. Some of these third parties may be intermediaries that act solely as links in the distribution chain, and do not store, retain, or use the information given to them.
We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy
How does the Site use Personally Identifiable Information?
We use Personally Identifiable Information to customize the Site, to make appropriate service offerings, and to fulfill buying and selling requests on the Site. We may email Visitors and Authorized Customers about research or purchase and selling opportunities on the Site or information related to the subject matter of the Site. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to contact Visitors and Authorized Customers in response to specific inquiries, or to provide requested information.
With whom may the information may be shared?
Personally Identifiable Information about Authorized Customers may be shared with other Authorized Customers who wish to evaluate potential transactions with other Authorized Customers. We may share aggregated information about our Visitors, including the demographics of our Visitors and Authorized Customers, with our affiliated agencies and third party vendors. We also offer the opportunity to “opt out” of receiving information or being contacted by us or by any agency acting on our behalf.
How is Personally Identifiable Information stored?
Personally Identifiable Information collected by Spirits Food and Booze is securely stored and is not accessible to third parties or employees of Spirits Food and Booze except for use as indicated above.
What choices are available to Visitors regarding collection, use and distribution of the information?
Visitors and Authorized Customers may opt out of receiving unsolicited information from or being contacted by us and/or our vendors and affiliated agencies by responding to emails as instructed, or by contacting us at spiritsfoodandbooze@gmail.com
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.
We use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Are Cookies Used on the Site?
Cookies are used for a variety of reasons. We use Cookies to obtain information about the preferences of our Visitors and the services they select. We also use Cookies for security purposes to protect our Authorized Customers. For example, if an Authorized Customer is logged on and the site is unused for more than 10 minutes, we will automatically log the Authorized Customer off. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using https://www.spirits-foodandbooze.com , with the drawback that certain features of website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Cookies used by our service providers
Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website. You can find more details about which cookies are used in our cookies info page.
How does Spirits Food and Booze use login information?
Spirits Food and Booze uses login information, including, but not limited to, IP addresses, ISPs, and browser types, browser version, pages visited, date and time of visit, to analyze trends, administer the Site, track a user’s movement and use, and gather broad demographic information.
What partners or service providers have access to Personally Identifiable Information from Visitors and/or Authorized Customers on the Site?
Spirits Food and Booze has entered into and will continue to enter into partnerships and other affiliations with a number of vendors. Such vendors may have access to certain Personally Identifiable Information on a need to know the basis for evaluating Authorized Customers for service eligibility. Our privacy policy does not cover their collection or use of this information.
How does the Site keep Personally Identifiable Information secure?
All of our employees are familiar with our security policy and practices. The Personally Identifiable Information of our Visitors and Authorized Customers is only accessible to a limited number of qualified employees who are given a password in order to gain access to the information. We audit our security systems and processes on a regular basis. Sensitive information, such as credit card numbers or social security numbers, is protected by encryption protocols, in place to protect information sent over the Internet. While we take commercially reasonable measures to maintain a secure site, electronic communications and databases are subject to errors, tampering, and break-ins, and we cannot guarantee or warrant that such events will not take place and we will not be liable to Visitors or Authorized Customers for any such occurrences.
How can Visitors correct any inaccuracies in Personally Identifiable Information?
Visitors and Authorized Customers may contact us to update Personally Identifiable Information about them or to correct any inaccuracies by emailing us at spiritsfoodandbooze@gmail.com .
GDPR Privacy Policy:
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR.
We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:
● Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific
purposes.
● Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an
agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
● Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to
which the Company is subject.
● Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital interests or of
another natural person.
● Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public
interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.
● Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate
interests pursued by the Company. In any case, the Company will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Your Rights under the GDPR:
The Company undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can
exercise Your rights.
You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:
● Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information We
have on You. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of Your
Personal Data directly within Your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these
actions yourself, please contact Us to assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of the Personal Data We hold about You.
● Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You. You have the right to have
any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about You corrected.
● Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where We are relying on a
legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing and there is something about Your particular
situation, which makes You want to object to our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground.
You also have the right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for direct marketing
purposes.
● Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove
Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.
● Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide to You, or to a third-party You have
chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note
that this right only applies to automated information which You initially provided consent for Us to
use or where We used the information to perform a contract with You.
● Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent on using your Personal Data.
If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be able to provide You with access to certain specific
functionalities of the Service.
Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights:
You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting Us. Please
note that we may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible. You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact Your local data protection authority in the EEA.
Can a Visitor delete or deactivate Personally Identifiable Information collected by the Site?
We provide Visitors and Authorized Customers with a mechanism to delete/deactivate Personally Identifiable Information from the Site’s database by contacting. However, because of backups and records of deletions, it may be impossible to delete a Visitor’s entry without retaining some residual information. An individual who requests to have Personally Identifiable Information deactivated will have this information functionally deleted, and we will not sell, transfer, or use Personally Identifiable Information relating to that individual in any way moving forward.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address “Children”, anyone under the age of 18 years , and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18 years.
If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please get in touch with us immediately in the contact details provided. If we come to know that children below 18 years have provided personal information, we will delete the information from our servers immediately.
Compliance With Laws
Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information to comply with the law. We will disclose Personally Identifiable Information in order to comply with a court order or subpoena or a request from a law enforcement agency to release information. We will also disclose Personally Identifiable Information when reasonably necessary to protect the safety of our Visitors and Authorized Customers.
What happens if the Privacy Policy Changes?
We will let our Visitors and Authorized Customers know about changes to our privacy policy by posting such changes on the Site. However, if we are changing our privacy policy in a manner that might cause disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information that a Visitor or Authorized Customer has previously requested not be disclosed, we will contact such Visitor or Authorized Customer to allow such Visitor or Authorized Customer to prevent such disclosure.
Links
https://www.spirits-foodandbooze.com contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are moving to another website. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policies may differ from ours.
USE OF FACEBOOK SOCIAL PLUGINS/WIDGETS
This website uses ‘social plugins’ (‘plugins’) from the Facebook social network, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (‘Facebook’). The plugins can be identified by the Facebook logo, the phrase ’Social Plugin from Facebook’ or ‘Facebook Social Plugin’. You can find an overview of Facebook plugins and their appearance here: https://developers.facebook.com/products/social-plugins/overview/
If you access a page from our website which includes such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection with a Facebook server. The contents of the plugin are sent directly to your browser by Facebook and embedded into the web page.
Facebook receives the information via the plugin embedding that your browser has accessed the appropriate page from our website, even if you have no Facebook account or are not currently logged in to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is sent by your browser directly to a Facebook server in the USA and is stored there.
If you are logged on to Facebook, Facebook is then able to allocate the visit to our website directly to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example, if you click on the ‘Like‘ button or enter a comment, the corresponding information will be sent directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The information will also be published on Facebook and shown to your Facebook friends.
Facebook may use this information for purposes of advertising, market research and personalized design of Facebook pages. Facebook creates usage, interests and relationships profiles for this, e.g. to analyze your use of our website regarding the adverts displayed to you on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users about your activities on our website and to provide further related services using Facebook.
If you do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our website and to link this with your data stored on Facebook, you should log-off from Facebook before visiting our website.
The purpose and scope of data collection and ongoing processing and use of data by Facebook, as well as your rights and the setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in Facebook data protection: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
PRIVACY POLICY FOR USE OF INSTAGRAM
On our pages, functions of the Instagram service are integrated. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. If you are logged in to your Instagram account, Instagram can be accessed by clicking the Instagram button contents of our pages. This allows Instagram to connect your visit to our pages to your user profile account. We would like to point out that we as a provider of the site, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or the use of the same by Instagram.
For more information, see the Instagram Data Protection: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/
PRIVACY POLICY FOR USE OF PINTEREST
On our site, we use social plugins of the social network Pinterest, which is run by the Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94103-490, USA (“Pinterest”). If you access a page, which contains such a plugin, your browser provides a direct connection to the servers from Pinterest. The plugin sends log data to the server from Pinterest to the USA. These log data may contain your IP address, the address of the visited sites, the included Pinterest features, type, and settings of the browser, date and time of the browser, your use of Pinterest and cookies.
Further information on the purpose, extent and further processing and use of the data by Pinterest as well as your rights and opportunities to protect your privacy can be found in the privacy policy of Pinterest: https://about.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
Disclaimer
Our Services are provided “AS IS.” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. Spirits-Food And Booze and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Spirits-Food And Booze, nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that our Services will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, our Services at your own discretion and risk.
Alcohol Disclaimer
Some content we create for this site may contain recipes with alcohol and are meant for responsible adults of legal drinking age to try. Our site may also contain affiliate links to purchase alcohol that do not require an age limit to access the website. Please take your health into consideration before trying any of the recipes or recommendations on this site. Drink in moderation. We take no responsibility on the effect the drinks make on you.
It is prohibited to sell intoxicating beverages to minors. Consumption of alcoholic beverages impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery, and may cause health problems. Please remember to drink responsibly.
Donations
We accept any and all donations made directly through our Donation button located at the bottom of our pages/posts.
By clicking on the Donation button you accept the terms and policy of the Venmo website.
You agree that you are making this donation at free will and we are not asking for donations for ourselves, or our needs but for business transactions to support our travels, purchases and functionality of the website so our viewers can continue to enjoy the website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at spiritsfoodandbooze@gmail.com
Last Updated: March 2, 2024