Privacy - Niseko Wine Supply | Order Quality Wines For Your Holiday in Niseko

Niseko Wine Supply is aware your privacy is very important and that you have a right to control the way in which your personal information is used and shared.  We are dedicated to ensuring the privacy of our customers and have implemented rigorous security measures and procedures so that you can be rest assured that any details you submit on-line remain secure.  By visiting our website you are accepting the practises described in this Privacy Policy.  Niseko Wine Supply may from time to time, review and update this Privacy Policy to take account of new laws and technology as well as changes to our operations.  All personal information held by Niseko Wine Supply will be governed by its most recent policy posted.
 

What personal information do we gather?

The information we learn from customers helps us personalise and continually improve your shopping experience with us.

We record the following information

• Information You Give Us:  We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way.  You can choose not to provide certain information, however you may not be able to take full advantage of many of our features.  We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customising future shopping for you, improving our site, and communicating with you.
  
• Other information:  We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us.  For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," to track your purchases and when you are logged onto our site.  If you have cookies switched off you will not be able to purchase from this site or log in for special members' pricing or offers.
  
• E-mail Communications:  To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we may receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from us if your computer supports such capabilities.

What about cookies?

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognise your browser and to provide features such as storage of items in your shopping cart and logging in or out of the website.

The "Help" tab on the tool bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

Do we share the information we receive?

We will not collect any personal information about you except when you knowingly provide it.  We know that providing personal information is an act of trust and we take this seriously.  Under no circumstances will your personal information be used for any other purpose than intended.  We will not supply or sell these details to any third party whatsoever with the following exceptions.

• Business Operations:  Third parties engaged by Niseko Wine Supply to perform functions on its behalf, such as processing credit card information, order fulfilment, mail outs, shipping, debt collection, marketing, research and advertising.
  
• Business Transfers:  Future development of the business may require the merging, acquiring or selling of businesses or assets.  In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets.  Customer information in such transactions will of course be one of the transferred assets.
   
• Protection of our business and others:  We may release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our business, our users, or others.  This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction, and supplying of information to Law Enforcement agencies.
   
• Express Consent:  Third parties authorised by you to receive information held by Niseko Wine Supply.

How secure is information about me?

We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts sensitive financial information you input during the ordering process.  It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer.  Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.  Our Secure Certificate is supplied by

What choices do I have?

You can always choose not to provide information by not completing web forms and turning your cookies off.  You will however, not be able to purchase from this web site while cookies are switched off.

This policy is effective 1 August 2008.  If you have enquiries or wish to provide feedback about this policy please contact us.