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Privacy Policy

ONLINE GLOBAL PRIVACY POLICY

 

LAST UPDATED AND EFFECTIVE:  September 9, 2022

 

  1. Who Is Collecting Your Personal Data?

 

Gargoyle Inc. (“Gargoyle,” "us," "we," or "our") offers and maintains the website(s) located at https://gargoylewineclub.com/, including all subdomains and subparts, as well as our social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms (collectively, the “Site”).  When you visit the Site, you may choose to provide us with personal data that identifies you.  This Privacy Policy explains how we process and use your personal data, and it applies regardless of how you access the Site. 

 

Please take time to read this Privacy Policy carefully.  Please also review our Terms and Conditions for Online Sales (https://gargoylewineclub.com/pages/terms-conditions).

 

BY CHECKING THE BOX PROMPT BEFORE SUBMITTING DATA TO US OR USING THE SITE, YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE TO THE COLLECTION, USE, DISCLOSURE, RETENTION, AND DESTRUCTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA SUBMITTED TO US IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR ONLINE SALES.

 

  1. What Personal Data Do We Collect?

 

When you provide it to us, we collect information that identifies you (“Personal Data”), such as your:

 

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Address
  • Telephone number
  • Company name
  • Birthdate
  • Payment information
  • Content of your email messages to us

 

When you visit the Site, we collect data from the device or browser through which you access the Site (“Log Data”), such as:

 

  • Your internet protocol (“IP”) address
  • Browser type
  • Browser version
  • Statistics on your activities on the Site (such as the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at the Site)
  • Information about how you came to the Site
  • Data collected through Cookies or other similar technologies discussed in more detail in our Cookie Policy.

Much of this Log Data does not identify you personally. However, we may associate this Log Data with your Personal Data. When we do, we will treat any such combined data as Personal Data until such time as it can no longer be associated with you or used to identify you. 

What Is The Lawful Basis for Processing Your Personal Data?

We collect your Personal Data after receiving your explicit consent to do so.  You provide this consent by checking the box prompt before submitting your data to us.

  1. How Do We Use Your Personal Data?

 

We use your Personal Data for the purposes for which you provided it, including to:

 

  • fulfill your product or service needs;
  • register your online account;
  • maintain our own accounts for billing and delivery;
  • advise you about products, services, offers, or events that may be of interest to you; and
  • provide customer service to you.

 

We may also use your Personal Data or Log Data to administer our internal business activities, including to:

 

  • design and arrange the Site content and functionality in the most user-friendly manner;
  • better understand customer trends and requirements and visitors to the Site;
  • create non-personally identifiable data to be used for marketing;
  • detect unauthorized activity on the Site;
  • manage your account; and
  • provide a service that is reliable, responsive, and efficient.

 

In addition, we may use third-party services and advertising networks, such as Google Display Network or Google Analytics, that collect, monitor, and analyze Log Data to deliver online behavioral advertising that serves ads to you on our behalf on other sites throughout the Internet.  We may also contract with third-party vendors to send direct mail or catalogs to customers whom we think may be interested in our products or services.

 

  1. How Do We Share Your Personal Data?

 

No Sale of Personal Data

 

We will not sell your Personal Data to third parties, including third party advertisers. We also do not share your Personal Data with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising.  There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may disclose, transfer, or share your Personal Data with certain third parties after obtaining your consent.  By checking the box prompt before using the Site or submitting your Personal Data to us, you expressly consent to our sharing your Personal Data, as set forth below.

Sharing Personal Data With Affiliates, Successors, and Agents

For purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy, we may share your Personal Data with:  

  • our parent companies, subsidiaries, and/or affiliates;
  • successors who acquire your Personal Data if we sell, merge, reorganize, dissolve, or similarly change our ownership or corporate structure;
  • other companies we engage to perform business-related functions, such as:
    • vendors who provide services to our customers;
    • marketing agencies;
    • database service providers;
    • backup and disaster recovery service providers;
    • email service providers; and
    • payment processors.

Third parties with whom we share your Personal Data maintain and use it securely and only in accordance with their own privacy policies.

Sharing Data Through Social Media

We work with social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and Google, and with application developers who specialize in social commerce so you can connect to us, share your interests, express opinions about products and services, purchase our products, and generate interest in our products and services among members of your social networks.

Using these integrated tools enables you to share your Personal Data with other individuals or the public, depending on the settings that you have established with social networking websites. If you use third party social media features available on our Site, we or the third party may collect or share your data, including your Personal Data. 

If you do not want us to be able to access information about you, including Personal Data, from Third Party Sites, you must limit data collection and disclosure in the privacy settings on the Third Party Sites.  We reserve the right to remove the Personal Data or other data of any person for any reason we, in our sole discretion, deem appropriate. 

Legally Compelled Disclosure of Personal Data

 

We may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in our good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

 

  • comply with a legal obligation;
  • protect or defend our rights, interests, or property, or that of third parties;
  • prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Site;
  • act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public; or
  • protect against legal liability.

 

  1. What Are Your Rights About The Processing Of Your Personal Data?

You have the right to consent or withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Data at any time, subject to exceptions defined by law.  If you change your privacy preferences in the future, that will not limit the lawfulness of any processing performed based on your prior consent.  To withdraw consent, please email us at hello@gargoylechicago.com and specify what you would like us to do.  You may have additional rights, under the laws of your jurisdiction, with which we comply. 

To stop email communications from us, you can also follow the unsubscribe instructions set forth at the bottom of our promotional e-mail messages.  You may also access and correct some of your Personal Data by logging into your online account, if you have one.  If you choose to limit our use of your Personal Data, you may not have access to certain functionality of the Site, such as promotions, product information, or opportunities. 

 

  1. How We Secure Your Personal Data

 

We secure your Personal Data by: keeping Personal Data up to date; storing and destroying it securely; not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; protecting Personal Data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access and disclosure, alteration, and destruction; and ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect Personal Data.   However, no network, server, database, or Internet or e-mail transmission, is ever fully secure or error free. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what Personal Data you send to us electronically.  

We comply with the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and ensure the following:

  • Biometric data stored cannot be used or reverse engineered to create a biometric fingerprint or facial image.
  • Biometric data is secured using proper security measures and encryption.
  • Biometric data is removed immediately from our devices and servers when we no longer need it.
  • Biometric data registration and capture/authentication will be disabled if you do not consent to biometric usage.

 

  1. How Long Will I We Keep Your Personal Data?

 

We will retain your personal data as long as necessary to carry out the function for which you provided it to us, including maintenance of your account. You may close your account, unsubscribe to emails, and otherwise limit our use of your Personal Data by contacting us. However, we may retain your Personal Data for an additional period as is permitted or required under applicable laws.

  1. How Do We Use Cookies?

What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a piece of information that is placed on your web browser or device when you access and/or use the Site.  Cookies store text and can later be read back by the Site or third parties.   Cookies can remember the information you access on one webpage to simplify your subsequent interactions with the Site or to use the information to streamline your transactions on related webpages.

What Do You Use Cookies For?

We use cookies to recognize your browser and you as a unique visitor to the Site through an anonymous unique identifier.  We use cookies to:

  • monitor and analyze how you use the Site;
  • remember your preferences to make your online experience easier and more personalized;
  • route Site traffic to effectively distribute the Site workload across servers; and
  • test new features.

In the future, we may use cookies placed by third parties to deliver focused online banner advertisements to you both on and off the Site.

How You Can Manage Cookies

You can manage cookies through your web browser's option settings.  You may be able to be notified when you are receiving new cookies and disable or delete cookies. Please refer to your web browser's help section for information on whether you can and how to do this.

Many of the third party technologies that enable targeted banner advertising also allow you to opt out. Such third party service providers include Adroll, Rubicon, Google, Media Math, Perfect Audience, Quantcast, Retargeter, and Yahoo! among others.  You can control your preferences directly with each such third party service provider.

You can learn more about cookies at the following third-party websites:

Note that if you disable, delete, or refuse to accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of the Site and/or some of our pages might not display properly.

Do Not Track (DNT) is an optional browser setting that allows you to express your preferences regarding tracking by advertisers and other third-parties. We do not currently respond to DNT signals. Therefore, please be advised that third party web analytics companies may collect information about your online activities over time and across our website and other online properties.

  1. What Data Is Not Covered By The Privacy Policy?

 

The limitations in and requirements of this Privacy Policy do not apply to:

 

  • Third Party Sites: Any data you disclosed on websites not operated or controlled by us (“Third Party Sites”), even though we may provide links to them on the Site or in our emails. We are not responsible for the policies and practices employed by, or the content of, Third Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information about their privacy policies and practices. 

 

  • Non-Personally Identifiable Data: Any non-personally identifiable data we collect, including, without limitation, Log Data, domain names of your Internet Service Provider, your approximate geographic location, a record of your usage of the Site, the time of your usage, and aggregated personally identifiable information, but only to the extent the foregoing cannot be used to specifically identify you.

 

  • Aggregated Personal Data: Any aggregated Personal Data that can no longer be used to identify you will be treated as non-personally identifiable data under this Privacy Policy.

 

  1. We Do Not Collect The Personal Data of Those Under 21

 

We do not intentionally or knowingly collect any Personal Data from those under the age of twenty-one (21), nor do we target our emails to them.  Those under the age of twenty-one (21) should not submit any Personal Data through the Site.  We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's use of the Internet and instruct them to never provide Personal Data through the Site.  If you believe someone under the age of twenty-one (21) may have provided Personal Data to us through the Site, please contact us at hello@gargoylewineclub.com, and we will use reasonable efforts to delete it from the Site and our files.

 

  1. International Privacy Laws

 

If you are visiting the Site from outside the United States, please be aware that you are sending information (including Personal Data) to the United States where our servers are located. That information may then be transferred within the United States or back out of the United States depending on the type of information and how it is stored by us. We will hold and process your Personal Data in accordance with privacy laws in the United States and this Privacy Policy. Please note that privacy laws in the United States may not be the same as, and in some cases may be less protective than, the privacy laws in your country, and while in the United States Personal Data may be subject to lawful access requests by government agencies.

 

  1. What If We Change This Privacy Policy?

 

We may occasionally make changes to this Privacy Policy.  If we wish to use your Personal Data for a new purpose not covered by this Privacy Policy, we will provide you with a new Privacy Policy explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing of your Personal Data pursuant to the new Privacy Policy and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. If we change this Privacy Policy, your checking the box prompt before submitting continued use of the Site or submission of Personal Data to us will signify your express consent to new uses of your Personal Data.

 

  1. How You Can Resolve A Privacy Dispute With Us

If you have a complaint about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, we will work with you in an attempt to resolve your complaint.  Please contact us at hello@gargoylewineclub.com. Please also refer to the arbitration procedures described in the section 16.2 of the Site’s Terms and Conditions of Online Sales.  BY CHECKING THE BOX PROMPT BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO US, WE EACH AGREE TO SETTLE DISPUTES ONLY BY NON-CLASS, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION, INSTEAD OF SUING IN COURT (EXCEPT CERTAIN SMALL CLAIMS).  THE RULES IN ARBITRATION ARE DIFFERENT.  THERE IS NO JUDGE OR JURY, LIMITED DISCOVERY RIGHTS, AND REVIEW IS LIMITED, BUT AN ARBITRATOR CAN AWARD THE SAME DAMAGES AND RELIEF, AND MUST HONOR THE SAME LIMITATIONS STATED IN THE AGREEMENT, AS A COURT WOULD. 

To initiate an arbitration proceeding, you must send us a notice of your complaint that includes a written statement of your name, address, and contact information, the facts giving rise to your complaint, and the relief you are requesting (the “Dispute Notice”).  The Dispute Notice must be addressed to: Gargoyle Inc. 50 Carroll St Toronto, ON M4M 3G3] and sent to us by certified mail as described in the Dispute Resolution section of the Site’s Terms of Use.  If we do not reach an agreement to resolve your privacy complaint within sixty (60) days after we receive your Dispute Notice, you may commence an arbitration proceeding under the Dispute Resolution section of the Site’s Terms of Use.   

  1. How Can I Contact You?

 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our practices, or your dealings with us, or to exercise any and all of your rights, please contact us at hello@gargoylewineclub.com.