Privacy Statement

The internet offers the chance to collect information about site users. This information can be personally identifiable information or aggregated information.

Batchelar Fine and Rare Wine (Australia) PTY LTD respects your privacy and seeks to protect your personal data. The following information describes how we gather and use data. The amount of information we hold on you and how we use it depends on your relationship with us and on what service you use, so some of the sections below may not be relevant to you. This Privacy Statement tells you what information we collect, what we do with it and your rights to view, correct or change it.

Information that we Collect

As part of our operations we may gather certain types of information about the users of our sites:

1.Personally Identifiable Information. This is provided by you when you register for services that we may offer. Examples of these services could include email newsletters or competitions). Providing this information will always be optional for you. However, some services may not be available to you if you chose not to provide it.

2.Aggregated Data. This information is generated by our systems as they track traffic through our sites. This information does not identify you personally and is not linked to the personally identifiable information that you may have provided.

Who we Share this Information With

We will not share the information that we collect with any third parties apart from in the following circumstances:

1.The information may be hosted with a service provider. Our agreements with them protect the information that we collect from any use by them that we have not authorised.

2.We do employ third party service providers to perform various functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders and delivering your wine. These service providers have access to the personal information they need to perform the service, but may not use it for other purposes.

3.Your personally identifiable information may be shared with third parties when we believe in good faith that we are required to do so by law.

4.If we have asked your prior permission (which we would usually do at the time of collection), we may share the information with specified third parties.

Except where the law permits or unless you specifically agree, Batchelar Fine and Rare Wine (Australia) PTY LTD does not sell or rent your personal data to others outside Batchelar Fine and Rare Wine (Australia) PTY LTD. We do not share or sell our customer list to any third party.

What we do with the Personally Identifiable Information

Batchelar Fine and Rare Wine (Australia) PTY LTD collects and uses your information to administer, support, improve and obtain feedback on our services and to detect and prevent faults, breaches of our network security, the law or our contract terms.. If you are registered to use a service we may contact you to obtain feedback on that service and any improvements we could make to it.

We have collected this information in order to provide the best possible service to you while you are visiting our sites. To this end we may use the information that you provide for the following purposes:

1.To verify your identity if you need help with a forgotten password or you are having login problems with one of our site services.

2.To process any credit card transactions that you might make on our site.

3.To help provide any other services that you have requested.

4.To offer the most relevant information and/or advertising suitable to your and your interests.

5.For any marketing, promotional, publicity, direct marketing or market research that we might undertake.

6.For any other purposes for which you have given permission.

What About Cookies?

A cookie is a small file that resides on your computer and is recognised by our server when you visit our sites. A cookie does not provide us with any personally identifiable information. It does provide details of your IP address, the computer platform that you use (eg Mac or Windows), the browser that you use (eg Microsoft Explorer or Netscape) and what domain you are accessing our sites from. With this information we can do the following:

1.Track traffic patterns to our site.

2.Ensure that the most relevant advertising and content can be shown.

3.Allow you to enter certain site member services without having to log in each time you visit.

If you would rather we did not use cookies with you, you can refuse them by turning them off in your browser and/or deleting them from your hard drive. You will still be able to visit our site.

E-mail alerts, notices and newsletters

Batchelar Fine and Rare Wine (Australia) PTY LTD offers the opportunity for you to receive an e-mail newsletter or other notifications in relation to products being advertised on our website or new services being offered. You can at any time choose to stop receiving e-mail alerts or newsletters by following the instructions on the alert, notification or e-newsletter or by emailing us.
To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from Batchelar Fine and Rare Wine (Australia) PTY LTD if your computer supports such capabilities.