Privacy Policy

www.swig.co.uk (the “Website”) is owned and operated by Swig Wines Limited registered in England and Wales under company number 05982489 and with its registered office at 9 Bonhill St, London EC2A 4DJ (VAT number is 778 0589 76).

The terms “we”, “our” and “us” when used in this Privacy Policy means Swig Wines Limited ("Swig"). The terms “you” and “your” when used in this Privacy Policy means you as a user of the Website.

Please read our Privacy Policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data. This explains what information we gather and helps us ensure that you understand and consent to our uses of such information. Swig is committed to safeguarding and respecting your privacy in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

We occasionally modify our Privacy Policy and will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. Please check our Privacy Policy frequently to ensure that you are aware of any changes.

This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be used by us.

1. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT

1.1 Swig collects the following information about you when you use this Website:

• 1.1.1 information that you provide by filling in the forms on our Website. We may collect personal information (for example your name, email address and postal address) when you register for an account with us, purchase goods from our Website, subscribe for our newsletter or contact us through our Website; and
• 1.1.2 information collected by us as you use the Website. Swig collects and stores information transmitted by your computer when you use the Website. This may include your IP address, browser data and information we receive from cookies (please see section 5 below).

1.2 We may use this information in the following ways:

• 1.2.1 to provide our service(s) to you as a user of the Website, including enhancing your user experience;
• 1.2.2 to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
• 1.2.3 to ensure that content from the Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer;
• 1.2.4 to identify you when you visit the Website including to assist with logging you in;
• 1.2.5 to notify you about changes to our products and/or the Website;
• 1.2.6 to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the Website;
• 1.2.7 to provide you with newsletters and other information about features of the Website which we think may be of interest to you and for related marketing purposes, if you have submitted your contact details to us for these purposes or otherwise provided your consent for us to do so; and
• 1.2.8 for marketing third party products and services to you, if you have provided your consent for this.
  
  (together the “Purposes”).

2. YOUR CONSENT

2.1 By using the Website and submitting information, you consent to:

• 2.1.1 the collection and use of your personal information by us as described in section 1 above; and
• 2.1.2 us sharing data with third parties in accordance with section 3 below;

3. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES

3.1 We may disclose your personal information to third parties in the following circumstances:

• 3.1.1 in order to assist us with processing your order(s) and completing your transaction (ie sending email order updates, taking and processing payments, delivering goods you have ordered etc);
• 3.1.2 for marketing purposes provided always that you consent to us sharing such data with third parties by notifying us via the Website or in other communications (e.g. by ticking the relevant box(es) on the Website at the point of registration);
• 3.1.3 with service providers who manage aspects of our operations (for example people who provide technical services to the Website) in connection with the Purposes;
• 3.1.4 if Swig or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets; or
• 3.1.5 if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and other agreements.

4. YOUR RIGHTS - MARKETING

4.1 You will only receive marketing communications from us and/or third parties if you have consented to this when you provided your contact details to us (or if you have otherwise given consent to us for these purposes).

4.2 You have the right to ask us not to use your personal data for marketing purposes. You can request that you stop receiving information from us at any time by emailing wine@swig.co.uk.

5. IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES

5.1 'Cookies' are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent that. We only use cookies to keep track of the pages you and other visitors have been to on our Website and to tell us whether you have visited the Website previously in order to deliver a better service for example to store information about your preferences and to recognise you when you return to our Website.

5.2 We may also collect information about your computer including your IP address, operating system and browser type for system administration and to report aggregated information. This is statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and does not identify you individually.

5.3 You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you login to our Website.

6. DATA STORAGE

6.1 All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password or other data which enables you to access certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password and any other log in details confidential and we recommend that you do not share your password or other log in details with anyone. You will be responsible for all transactions under your user name/ log in details.

6.2 The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

6.3 Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

7. ADVERTISERS

In the event that we use third party advertisers or sponsors on our Website, we do not disclose identifiable information about individuals but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users. We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, men in London). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' and sponsors’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.

8. LINKS

Please note that the Website may from time to time contain links to and from other websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites and the information practices of those websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Please check the individual privacy policy of any website before you submit any personal data to them.

9. INFORMATION ACCESS

You have certain rights to access information held about you and you can do this by emailing wine@swig.co.uk. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you. You can also request us to correct any factual inaccuracies in information we hold or delete any of that information from our records.

10. CONTACT

If have any questions, comment or requests regarding our Privacy Policy please email wine@swig.co.uk.