Privacy policy
Three Choirs Vineyards does not capture and store any personal information about individuals who access this web site except where you voluntarily choose to give us your personal details via e-mail, or by using an electronic form, or enquiring about any of our services.
Personal data supplied for enquiry purposes will be used exclusively for providing you with the information requested, and will not be passed on to any outside organisation and/or individuals without your express consent.
Personal data provided via e-mail or electronic forms in connection with the provision of Council services is subject to a specific confidentiality policy under the Data Protection Act 1998. This policy applies to all personal data supplied, whether verbally, in writing or electronically.
As a business, we rely on a few third parties services to make sure we are efficient and effective we use WeddingDates (SaaS) for example. Data protection compliance is a prerequisite in our vendor selection process.
Three Choirs Vineyards does not use “cookies” for collecting user information from the site, and will not collect any information from you except that required for system administration of the web server. Three Choirs Vineyards only monitors the IP addresses of visitors to assess the popularity of pages. These addresses are not linked to any personal data so all visitors to the site remain anonymous
This Privacy Policy covers the website of Three Choirs Vineyards only.
Links from this web site to other web sites are not covered by this policy.
Cookies
Our website stores a number of different cookies on the computer or device that you use to access our website. Cookies are small text files used by browsers to store small bits of information about a device or computer, such as preferred settings or preferred languages.
Cookies do not take up much space (unless you have thousands of them) and cannot contain viruses or other harmful code.
The ICO has categorised all cookies into to 4 classes:
Category 1: strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
Category 2: performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
Category 3: functionality cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Category 4: targeting cookies or advertising cookies
These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.
On our website we never use category 4 cookies, which are the only cookies that are likely to track your behaviour across multiple websites. The majority of our cookies are category 2 cookies, although other websites/services that we use, such as Facebook or Twitter, may store category 3 cookies on your computer when you visit our website or share content.
Using our site may result in the following cookies being stored on your computer:
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These cookies are set by our analytics software (Google analytics) and are used to monitor how many people visit our site, which search engine they used to find our site, and how they navigated around the site (i.e. which pages were viewed). These cookies do not store any information that is able to identify you personally and are immensely useful to us as business owners or service providers.
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These cookies are set by the social sharing service we use to add Facebook like, Tweet, Google+ and other social sharing buttons to our site. Which cookies are set will vary depending on which social networks you use and are signed into when viewing our site.
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We use these cookies to determine whether to show you the warning bar at the top of the page and whether you have opted in order out of using cookies. At present it isn’t possible to remember your choices if you don’t want to store cookies on your computer without using cookies.
How we use your data
Facebook Custom Audiences
If you have opted in to receive marketing communications from Three Choirs Vineyards we may also display interest-based ads to you when using Facebook through a tool offered by Facebook called the Custom Audience Tool. This tool allows us to personalise our ads based on your previous booking experience with us. We do not share any personalised information with Facebook, your email address is converted to a unique number that Facebook uses to match against its own user profiles. You can review which advertisers are showing you ad based on your contact information and opt out of these ads at any time here:https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/