Protecting your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy describes how outwardwines.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and safeguards your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.

What information do we collect?

When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases, create a customer account on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support.

In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information about an identifiable individual as “Personal Information”. 

How do we use the information we collect?

We use the personal information you provide us for the following purposes:

• To process purchases and/or place orders
• To create a customer account on our website
• To send emails through our newsletter or other marketing communications
• To improve the functionality of our website
  
• To provide and imrpove customer service
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
  
• To collect necessary processing information for those that join as wine club members
• The email address you provide for order processing, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, etc.
  Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can opt-out at the bottom of each email

How do we protect your personal information?

All the information you give us is kept private. If you give us permission to send you marketing emails then we use your email for that purpose but we do not sell or distribute that information to any other website or list. 

We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Your rights

In compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act, we do not and will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

If you have any questions about your privacy or want to make changes to your customer account, simply send us an email. If you would like to opt into our newsletter or marketing emails, we have a simple unsubscribe button at the bottom of our emails that will take you off our email list. We will gladly help you with any other questions or concerns about your privacy.

Cookies

Our website, which is powered by Shopify uses the following cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to provide our services: https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies. You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as: www.allaboutcookies.org.

Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. 

Contact

After reviewing this policy, if you have additional questions, want more information about our privacy practices, or would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at hello@outwardwines.com.

Updated January 2023