Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy:

French Food & Wine ("French Food & Wine") operates wine-food-languedoc.com and may operate other websites. It is French Food & Wine's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, French Food & Wine collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. French Food & Wine's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how French Food & Wine's visitors use its website. From time to time, French Food & Wine may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

French Food & Wine also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on wine-food-languedoc.com blogs/sites. French Food & Wine only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to French Food & Wine's websites choose to interact with French Food & Wine in ways that require French Food & Wine to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that French Food & Wine gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at wine-food-languedoc.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with French Food & Wine are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, French Food & Wine collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with French Food & Wine. French Food & Wine does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

French Food & Wine may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. French Food & Wine may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, French Food & Wine does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

French Food & Wine discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on French Food & Wine's behalf or to provide services available at French Food & Wine's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using French Food & Wine's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. French Food & Wine will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, French Food & Wine discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when French Food & Wine believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of French Food & Wine, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an French Food & Wine website and have supplied your email address, French Food & Wine may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with French Food & Wine and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. French Food & Wine takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

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. French Food & Wine uses cookies to help French Food & Wine identify and track visitors, their usage of French Food & Wine website, and their website access preferences. French Food & Wine visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using French Food & Wine's websites, with the drawback that certain features of French Food & Wine's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If French Food & Wine, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that French Food & Wine goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of French Food & Wine may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by French Food & Wine and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, French Food & Wine may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in French Food & Wine's sole discretion. French Food & Wine encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a wine-food-languedoc.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.