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Privacy policy

Defining Wine respects your privacy and will not sell or make available in any way your personal information except where you have specifically asked us to. The nature of the services provided by Defining Wine means that we may obtain certain information about you. This statement sets out the principles governing our use of your data. By registering to use the services and by using the Defining Wine website generally, you agree to this use. Our general guidelines regarding the use of your data are as follows:

When you register to use certain areas of the site, we will ask you to provide certain data, such as your contact details and company information. We will store this data and use it to contact you, provide you with details of services and otherwise for the normal use and improvement of the site, unless you have asked us not to do so.

We may also use the data you provide us in response to surveys and to aggregate user profiles. For the avoidance of doubt, Defining Wine will not pass data to any third parties except to enable you to receive information you have requested to be sent to you by post (we will disclose your address).

To enable us to monitor and improve the site, we may gather certain information about you when you use it, including details of your operating system, browser version, domain name and IP address, and the details of the website you came from.

Our site may link to other websites and we are not responsible for their data policies or procedures or their content.

We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal data but cannot guarantee the security of any data you disclose online. You accept the inherent security implications of dealing online over the internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless we have been negligent or in wilful default.

Cookie policy

Cookies are small text files held on your computer. They allow us to give you the best possible user experience by telling us how you use our site. You can disable cookies in your browser settings. See here for more information: http://www.aboutcookies.org/.

We use Google Analytics to track how users interact with our website. Full details of Google Analytics cookies can be found here.

From time to time, we will use other cookies from advertisers to help target interesting content to our previous visitors. See here for more information on how to disable these in your browser settings: http://www.aboutcookies.org/.