Privacy Policy

The Young Members Circle of the International Wine & Food Society operates this website.

This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service, the Website Name website.

If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at Website URL, unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you. To manage the Society effectively and to communicate with its members, the Society must store and process their personal information. This information may include names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses, and in the case of joint membership, the member’s partner, together with records of dues paid, attendance at events, and appointments and awards made by the Society. The information may have been provided directly by you, or it may be derived from records presently held by the Society, its regions or its branches.

Member records are not released to any other organization without your consent, unless we are required to do so by law, other than to distribute Society materials such as Newsletters or Society Accounts and Reports. In this case, your name and address may be provided on a confidential basis to a mailing house. It should also be noted that the names, addresses and contact information for officials of the Society may be shown on the members’ area of the Society’s website and in its publications.

We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. Your IP address may be used to gather broad demographic information. This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. This site may contain links to other sites but we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Visitors to the website may be asked for contact information which may be forwarded to our regions and branches so they may contact you. You may opt-out of receiving future mailings as described below.

The Society may contact you from time to time by mail, phone, fax or e-mail, to inform you of events and services which may be of interest to you. Please use the appropriate ‘Contact Us’ facility for your region on this website if you would prefer not to receive such information, if you have any questions or concerns, if you wish to revoke your consent to store your personal information, or if you are unable to correct personal data held about you on this website that you believe to be inaccurate. If you revoke your consent then we regret that we shall be unable to maintain your registration to the Members’ only area of the website and may be unable to supply you with the full range of member services.

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer's hard drive.

Our website uses these “cookies” to collection information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

To facilitate our Service;
To provide the Service on our behalf;
To perform Service-related services; or
To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children's Privacy

Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

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