privacy policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Wine Guide Madrid we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site. It is Wine Guide Madrid's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Wine Guide Madrid collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Wine Guide Madrid's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Wine Guide Madrid's visitors use its website.

Wine Guide Madrid also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Wine Guide Madrid only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Wine Guide Madrid's website choose to interact with Wine Guide Madrid in ways that require Wine Guide Madrid to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Wine Guide Madrid gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Wine Guide Madrid updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Wine Guide Madrid collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Wine Guide Madrid. Wine Guide Madrid does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Wine Guide Madrid discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Wine Guide Madrid's behalf or to provide services available at Wine Guide Madrid’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Wine Guide Madrid’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Wine Guide Madrid will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Wine Guide Madrid discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Wine Guide Madrid believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Wine Guide Madrid, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of Wine Guide Madrid’s website and have supplied your email address, Wine Guide Madrid may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Wine Guide Madrid and our services. Wine Guide Madrid takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Wine Guide Madrid uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of Wine Guide Madrid website, and their website access preferences. Wine Guide Madrid visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Wine Guide Madrid's website, with the drawback that certain features of Wine Guide Madrid's website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Wine Guide Madrid may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Wine Guide Madrid's sole discretion. Wine Guide Madrid encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.

Cookie Policy
This cookie policy (“Policy”) describes what cookies are and how and they’re being used by the wineguidemadrid.com website (“Website” or “Service”) and any of its related products and services (collectively, “Services”). This Policy is a legally binding agreement between you (“User”, “you” or “your”) and this Website operator (“Operator”, “we”, “us” or “our”). If you are entering into this agreement on behalf of a business or other legal entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind such entity to this agreement, in which case the terms “User”, “you” or “your” shall refer to such entity. If you do not have such authority, or if you do not agree with the terms of this agreement, you must not accept this agreement and may not access and use the Website and Services. You should read this Policy so you can understand the types of cookies we use, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used. It also describes the choices available to you regarding accepting or declining the use of cookies.

What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data stored in text files that are saved on your computer or other devices when websites are loaded in a browser. They are widely used to remember you and your preferences, either for a single visit (through a “session cookie”) or for multiple repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”).
Session cookies are temporary cookies that are used during the course of your visit to the Website, and they expire when you close the web browser.
Persistent cookies are used to remember your preferences within our Website and remain on your desktop or mobile device even after you close your browser or restart your computer. They ensure a consistent and efficient experience for you while visiting the Website and Services.
Cookies may be set by the Website (“first-party cookies”), or by third parties, such as those who serve content or provide advertising or analytics services on the Website (“third party cookies”). These third parties can recognize you when you visit our website and also when you visit certain other websites.

What type of cookies do we use?
- Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies allow us to offer you the best possible experience when accessing and navigating through our Website and using its features. For example, these cookies let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access the content.
- Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies let us operate the Website and Services in accordance with the choices you make. For example, we will recognize your username and remember how you customized the Website and Services during future visits.
- Analytical cookies
These cookies enable us and third party services to collect aggregated data for statistical purposes on how our visitors use the Website. These cookies do not contain personal information such as names and email addresses and are used to help us improve your user experience of the Website.
- Social media cookies
Third party cookies from social media sites (such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc) let us track social network users when they visit or use the Website and Services, or share content, by using a tagging mechanism provided by those social networks.

These cookies are also used for event tracking and remarketing purposes. Any data collected with these tags will be used in accordance with our and social networks’ privacy policies. We will not collect or share any personally identifiable information from the user.

What are your cookie options?
If you don’t like the idea of cookies or certain types of cookies, you can change your browser’s settings to delete cookies that have already been set and to not accept new cookies. Visit internetcookies.com to learn more about how to do this.

Changes and amendments
We reserve the right to modify this Policy or its terms related to the Website and Services at any time at our discretion. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We may also provide notice to you in other ways at our discretion, such as through the contact information you have provided.
An updated version of this Policy will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Policy unless otherwise specified. Your continued use of the Website and Services after the effective date of the revised Policy (or such other act specified at that time) will constitute your consent to those changes.

Acceptance of this policy
You acknowledge that you have read this Policy and agree to all its terms and conditions. By accessing and using the Website and Services you agree to be bound by this Policy. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Policy, you are not authorized to access or use the Website and Services. This cookie policy was created with the help of WebsitePolicies.com

Contacting us
If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints regarding this Policy or the use of cookies, we encourage you to contact us using the details below:
wineguidemadrid@gmail.com

This document was last updated on November 16, 2024.