Rave Wines Policies

Rave Wines LLC ("Rave Wines") is committed to protecting your privacy.

This Privacy Policy will provide information to you regarding how we collect and use your personal information, and about choices you have concerning our use of such information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. From time to time, we may revise this Privacy Policy to address new issues or changes to our Web site ("Web Site(s)" or "Rave Wines Web Site(s)") or practices. These changes will be posted on this page so that you will always know our position on privacy. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically to see if there have been any revisions.

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policies, please send us an email at info@ravewines.com or mail us at the following address:

Information Collected by Rave Wines

Personal information ("Personal Information") may include the following:

We may request Personal Information from you in connection with your use of, or participation in, the Web Sites, including registrations, content submissions, suggestions, or requests for additional information, or in connection with other services or resources provided on or through the Web Sites. Information is collected on servers owned and maintained by a third party. A confidentiality agreement exists between Rave Wines and such third party.

If you do provide us with Personal Information, we may use it to send information about, advertising and promotional material from Rave Wines. On occasion, for example, we may send you email to introduce products or services that might be of interest to you. We may also use your Personal Information to keep in touch with you when necessary, for example, to send to you confirmation or reminder email messages. If you identify yourself to us by sending us an email with questions or comments, we may use your Personal Information to respond to your questions or comments. (We may also file your comments for future reference.) You may opt out of receiving mailings at the time the request for your Personal Information is made. In addition, email will include instructions on how to unsubscribe.

We reserve the right to provide or use your Personal Information in the following circumstances. We will release specific information about you or your account to comply with any valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute or court order. We will also release specific information in special cases, such as if there is an attempted breach of the security of the Web Site, or a physical threat to you or others.

The password protected portions of the Web Sites are intended to be for your benefit, however, please be aware that you, our customers, are responsible for taking all reasonable steps to ensure that no unauthorized person shall have access to your password or account. It is your sole responsibility to (1) control the dissemination and use of your account and password; (2) authorize, monitor, and control access to and use of your account and password; (3) promptly inform us of any need to deactivate a password. You grant to us and all other persons or entities involved in the operation of the Rave Wines Web Sites the right to receive, transmit, monitor, retrieve, store and use your Personal Information, including information which may be privileged and confidential under applicable state and federal laws, in connection with the operation of the password protected area of the Web Sites. We cannot and do not assume any responsibility or liability for your or third parties' use or misuse of information transmitted or received using such area of the Web Sites.

Passively Collected Information and the Use of Cookie Technology

Rave Wines may passively collect certain information without your prior consent. Such information (collected in standard Web server logs) may include your IP address, browser type, and Web access times. Such passively collected information is used in standard Web traffic analysis, in conjunction with demographic/aggregate analysis of collected user records.

We may also collect information through the use of "cookies" which are small computer files that are transferred to a computer's hard drive and which permit us to know about site visits. (For more information on cookies, visit Standford Universities' description.) We may use cookies to improve your experience on the Web Sites by making it easier for you to navigate through the Web Sites or to make a Web Site feature work better. Information collected from a "cookie" might include information regarding your browser, type of computer, operating system, Internet service provider and other similar information. Cookie technology may also gather information about the areas you visit on our Web Sites and about the links you may select from within our Web Sites to other areas of the Internet.

We do not extract Personal Information during this process. Currently, only session cookies are used to maintain tracking of a user through an application. (There are two types of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies expire at the end of a Web page visit. Persistent cookies do not expire at the end of the session. Persistent cookies are stored on your hard drive and read by your browser each time you visit the Web site that sent the persistent cookie.) Such session cookies contain only a numeric session identifier. We use such information in the aggregate to understand which services and resources our visitors prefer and how those services and resources are used.

Most browsers are set to accept cookies, however, you can set your browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, please note that some parts of the Web Sites may not be accessible or function properly.

Privacy of Minors

We are committed to protecting the privacy of minors. Neither the Rave Wines Web Sites nor Rave Wines’ activities are intended or designed to attract children under the age of 21. We do not collect Personal Information from any person we actually know is a minor under the age of 21.

Links to Other Web Sites

Our Web Sites contain links to other Web sites operated by third parties that may be of interest to you. However, we do not and cannot control the information and content or links contained on these sites. We do not and cannot control the way in which these Web sites collect and/or use your Personal Information. Therefore, Rave Wines disclaims any liability for any third party's use of your Personal Information obtained through using the third party Web site.

Security

We believe that protecting the security of your Personal Information is very important. Therefore, we have put strong security measures in place to attempt to protect your Personal Information. Access to Personal Information is limited to Rave Wines employees or other authorized individuals, and identities are verified by internal network access rules and application username/password pairs. Data is physically stored through a third party data system at private facilities on leased servers. Data fields that identify individuals are separated from non-sensitive data fields. Data identifying Personal Information is encrypted through use of industry standard AES encryption methods and practices. Data decryption keys are kept physically separate from encryption keys and encrypted data. Records are marked with tamper-proof authentication digests.

Access to Personal Information

At your request, we will use reasonable efforts to provide you with access to your Personal Information and to revise, update or replace Personal Information that you inform us is in error. Please send us an email message to request access to any Personal Information that we have retained about you in our user database or to request a change in your Personal Information.

Personal Information and demographic/statistical information may be stored indefinitely.

Opt-Out

Rave Wines provides you with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at the point where information is requested of you. You also have the following options for removing your Personal Information from our database and to prevent future communications from Rave Wines.

1. You can send email to info@ravewines.com.
2. You can select "UNSUBSCRIBE" upon receiving email communication.
3. You can send mail to the following postal address: Rave Wines, 1114 Chicago Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois, 60302.