Privacy policy

Halleck Vineyard has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the website:  shop.halleckvineyard.com.

We collect anonymous information from visits to our site to help us understand the usage patterns of our site, and to provide better customer service. Information collected in this manner is provided automatically by your system and the systems that you use to connect to our site. For example, we keep track of what time people enter our site, how long they stay on the site, and what sections they visit on the site. This information is kept in aggregate, anonymous format. We use this information to better tailor our site for our visitors and their usage patterns, as well as to gauge performance and other measures of the site.

Cookies are sometimes used to further track usage patterns of the site by users, in aggregate and anonymous format. Cookies left on your system by our site are sometimes used for the purpose of allowing users the convenience of not having to re-enter usernames and passwords on our site, however, no username or password information is kept on your local machine. Only a unique identifier is kept on your system that will allow you to access the records stored on our secure, password-protected server(s). No financial or personal information will ever be left on your system in the form of a cookie.

Registration is required to use certain features of our site. We collect general contact information, such as name and e-mail address, as well as demographic information, such as age, gender, and zip code. Data collected from online user-completed forms is stored in secure, password-protected server locations. Demographic information collected is used to help us analyze our aggregate user base and better tailor our site, promotions, or other features to better serve that user base. Contact information is also used to better understand our user base.

From time to time, Halleck Vineyard will contact our registered users who have opted in to be emailed with promotional information that we feel would be applicable to, and desired by that user. At any time a user wishes to opt-out of these emails, they may do so by contacting jennifer@halleckvineyard.com. Once opted-out, the user will not receive any further communication from us, aside from any system messages that are necessary to that user in specific transactions, such as e-commerce order summaries.

We do not sell, trade, or share your personal information with outside companies, except as strictly required to complete your financial transaction (such as credit card processing).

This site may contain links to other sites. Halleck Vineyard is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

This site may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. We also encourage visitors to be courteous in communicating with others and to be smart about choosing when and to whom to release personal information online. Never disclose any personal information that is of a sensitive or confidential nature on any public area of our site.

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All registration information is stored in secure locations on password-protected servers. By signing up for an account, purchaser has agreed that he/she is over the age of 21.

Consent to receive customer service or transactional SMS messages from Halleck Vineyard is obtained exclusively via verbal opt-in (such as when a customer verbally requests text-based updates over the phone or in our tasting room). We do not collect or solicit SMS opt-in consent through our website or online forms. Under no circumstances will mobile phone numbers, SMS opt-in data, or consent information be shared with, sold to, or rented to third parties, partners, or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications. Please contact jennifer@halleckvineyard.com to "opt-out" of this feature, and have yourself removed from our databases. This will not affect the use of cookies and other system data that we gather from you, as this is generally anonymous information that is used in aggregate form.