Fish Out of Malbec‘s creator, owner and/or writers may be compensated by companies mentioned through advertising, affiliate programs, or otherwise. All material connections (as defined by the FTC guidelines) with any companies, brands or products are, and shall be, fully disclosed, where applicable. Any references to third party products, rates, or websites are subject to change without notice. You do not need to click any links to products or services advertised on this website and are under no obligation to purchase any products or services advertised. Please do the appropriate research before participating in any third party offers.
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What Information We Collect
Voluntary Information
Fish Out of Malbec collects as little information as possible from users looking to post comments and messages on our website. We will typically collect a name (either real or alias), personal website, and e-mail address.
Automatically Collected Information
We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the website. For example, when you use the website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the website, such as links clicked.
When visitors leave comments on this site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help SPAM detection.
Cookies / IP Address tracking
Fish Out of Malbec uses cookies to uniquely identify users for the purpose of log files, posting comments, and voting on the site. No personal information is stored in these cookies and is simply a way to identify your computer.
The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, track sharing of posts on social media, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, Facebook, Jetpack for WordPress, YouTube, or Bloglovin, as described herein.
If you leave a comment on our site you may “opt-in” to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year and are called persistent cookies.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. This type of cookie is called a session cookie.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.
With Whom Information is Shared
None of your information will be shared with third parties. Fish Out of Malbec may use your e-mail address in the future to contact you regarding the site, however, an opt-out will always be provided. Your name and website may be displayed on the site if you post a comment or a message. However, your e-mail address and privacy will be kept secure unless you voluntarily disclose it yourself.
How Information May Be Used
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the website;
- To create your account, identify you as a user of the website, and customize the website for your account;
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To provide you with user support;
- To track and measure advertising on the website;
- To aggregate information on site traffic to use in advertising proposals;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
Third-Party Use of Information
Fish Out of Malbec utilizes the following third-party services and each one has their own respective privacy policies to determine the use of your personal information:
Google Analytics
This service tracks website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. In addition, your IP address will be made anonymous prior to anything being stored.
MailChimp
MailChimp is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to MailChimp’s privacy policy for further information. If you don’t want your information shared with MailChimp, please don’t sign up for our mailing list. Makes sense, right?
Opting Out
If Fish Out of Malbec chooses to send out newsletter updates in the future and we have your email address on file, you may receive a copy of our newsletter. However, at the bottom of every newsletter will be an easy way to opt-out. We don’t wanna SPAM you.
Third Party Advertising
We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our website. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date and/or the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you.
These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit Network Advertising.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These include Instagram, YouTube, GoogleMaps, Facebook, Pinterest, etc.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Treatment of Children’s Information
The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. This website is intended to be used by adults who are of the legal drinking age in their home country. If a parent or guardian believes that this website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately. We will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Questions?
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