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privacy policy Thank you for visiting SwirlWineNews.com™ ("Swirl Wine News"), an SW14 Group LLC site. We know that you care how information about you is used and shared, and the security of your information is important to us. This notice explains our online information collection and use practices. By visiting Swirl Wine News, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice. If you do not agree to this, please do not use our sites or services. Information We Collect Directly From You Information About Yourself. At Swirl Wine News, you may be able to order products, enter contests, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion, or subscribe to one of our services such as Swirl Wine News or one or more online newsletters. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: your name, physical mailing address, email address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and billing address. Optional Information. We may also ask for optional demographic information such as your gender, age, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. You may always choose not to provide such optional information to us. Note: At certain parts of some of our sites, only those who provide us with the requested personally identifiable information will be able to order products, programs, and services or otherwise participate in the site's activities and offerings. Information About Others. You can submit information about other people on our site. For example, you might send an invitation to them to visit the site, or order a gift subscription and have it sent directly to the recipient. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected about other people at these pages include: recipient's name, physical mailing address, email address, and telephone number. Other Information We Collect Cookies. Our site uses cookies, which are strings of text and numbers that can identify your computer to us when you visit our site, and which may be correlated with identity information in our log files. Cookies also help us know which areas are your favorites and which may need improvement as well as which technologies and Internet services our visitors are using. Knowing this information helps us continually improve the online experience for our visitors and subscribers. Standard Log Information. When you visit our site(s), we log standard information such as your IP address, which is a number that can be used to identify your Internet Service Provider, along with the URL from which you came to our site and the URLs visited on our site. A URL is the full address of a Web site page, which may contain some personal or identifying information about the person who is viewing it. URL Links. When we send messages to you or others, we may provide a URL link to the Swirl Wine News or other SW14 Group LLC site(s) that contains an alphanumeric identifier, which allows us to identify the person to whom we sent the message so that we can personalize our content for that individual. The information described above in the Sections entitled "Information We Collect Directly From You" and "Other Information We Collect" is referred to collectively in this policy as "Data." How We Use the Information We Collect Fulfilling Your Requests. We use the collected Data to send our product(s) to you and to bill you for them. Promotional Content and Messages. We may also use the Data to provide personalized content, advertising, and commercial messages (collectively, "Content") to you, to send you information about other SW14 Group LLC sites, products, and services, or to inform you of other products, services, and special promotions which might be of interest to you. We may also share your Data with carefully selected companies whose products or services we think might be of interest to you. Information About Others. We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them your gifts or other services or information that you may request be sent to them. Use of our Site and Services. In addition, we may use your Data if we need to contact you regarding the use of our products or services. Third-Party Providers. We engage other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples of these functions include fulfilling orders, sending postal mail, and email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. These third parties have access to the Data needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Business Transfers. As we continue to develop our business, SW14 Group LLC might create, sell or buy other sites or assets. In such transactions, Data we have collected may be shared with those entities. In addition, in connection with an assignment, sale, joint venture, or other transfer or disposition of some or all assets of SW14 Group LLC or its affiliated entities, SW14 Group LLC may accordingly assign, sell, license, or transfer any Data, including personally identifying information, that our visitors or subscribers have provided to us to those third parties directly involved in the transfer or disposition of such assets. Protection of SW14 Group LLC and Others. SW14 Group LLC may disclose visitor or subscriber information in special cases when we have reason to believe that doing so is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) SW14 Group LLC’s rights or property, other SW14 Group LLC visitors or subscribers, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. SW14 Group LLC may disclose visitor information when we believe in good faith that the law requires us to do so. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Our Parent Company. The Swirl Wine News site is wholly owned by SW14 Group LLC. Swirl Wine News may share visitor and subscriber Data with SW14 Group LLC. IP Addresses. We use your IP Address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site and otherwise provide our service to you. IP addresses may be disclosed to a third party if Swirl Wine News believes in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, or to protect the rights or property of Swirl Wine News or others. In addition, we may use information derived from your IP address, such as conducting a reverse domain name lookup, in order to provide Content more tailored to your interests. Cookies. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, among other purposes. You can always choose not to accept cookies through your browser's preference options, but you may not be able to use some of our services if you do not accept cookies. Please keep in mind that any information you provide in your in any publicly available areas of the site, such as a Guest Book, is accessible to others, and can be collected and used by them. If you choose to stop receiving future communications from us, either about our products or services or on behalf of others, please see the Opt-Out section below. Children SW14 Group LLC does not sell products or services for purchase by children under age 18, nor does it market its products to children under age 18. Other Web Sites; Links This Web site may contain links to other Web sites. SW14 Group LLC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. Opt-Out, Delete/Deactivate You may elect not to receive future communications from SW14 Group LLC, to not receive non-SW14 Group LLC promotional messages, or to discontinue your subscription to Swirl Wine News. If you are not a subscriber but are a recipient of a Swirl Wine News promotional message, you may delete your information from our records. To do any of the above, please send a request to info@SwirlWineNews.com, specifying the information you wish for us to delete and which communication(s) you no longer wish to receive. Security The importance of security for your Data is of utmost concern to us. We have systems in place to assist us in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers. SW14 Group LLC sites use industry standard security measures to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control and we make good faith efforts to store the information collected by SW14 Group LLC in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, but we cannot guarantee complete security. Only certain authorized Swirl Wine News employees can access this information if it is relevant to their job duties. Swirl Wine News has staff dedicated to maintaining this Privacy Policy and other privacy initiatives, periodically reviewing Web security and making sure that Swirl Wine News employees are aware of our security and privacy practices. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Swirl Wine News cannot and does not ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you transmit information at your own risk. Swirl Wine News’s Privacy Policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond Swirl Wine News’s control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation. International Users If you reside outside of the United States, by subscribing to Swirl Wine News or otherwise providing information to us via this site, you agree that Swirl Wine News may collect, use, and transfer your Data as described in this Privacy Policy. Changes to this Policy SW14 Group LLC periodically reviews and updates this Privacy Policy as necessary. This policy may change from time to time as SW14 Group LLC updates and expands its services. If we make any substantive changes to the policy in the future with regard to how we use your Data, we will notify subscribers or registered users via email. We will also post prominent notice on our sites about any such change and leave that notice posted for at least 30 days prior to implementing the new practice(s). Both the email to registered users and the notice on our Site(s) will explain how to notify us if a user objects to the new practice(s) and wishes to prevent such use. We may offer new sites, services or technologies in the future that collect or use information in different ways. We will notify you of those new data collection practices either by revising this privacy policy when the new service launches, or through a separate privacy statement available upon registration for the new site, service or technology. Contacting the Site Please feel free to share any comments and concerns with us. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:
SW14 Group LLC 2934˝ Beverly Glen Circle #428 Los Angeles, CA 90077 info (at) sw14group.com Copyright Policy SW14 Group LLC respects the copyright and intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that your copyright in any material has been infringed on a SW14 Group LLC site, please notify SW14 Group LLC’s Agent for Notice of Claims of copyright infringement, Tom Wszalek, who can be reached at SW14 Group LLC, 2934˝ Beverly Glen Circle #428, Los Angeles, CA 90077 and (818) 474-8680. You must provide our Agent with the following information:
Last updated: May 5, 2003  
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