1. Introduction

1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors, individual customers and customer personnel.1.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of such persons; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.1.3 Our website incorporates privacy controls which affect how we will process your personal data. You can access the privacy controls via www.resfortes.com/privacy.1.4 We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.1.5 In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" refer to Res Fortes. [ For more information about us, see Section 14.]

2. Credit

2.1 This document was created using a template from Docular (https://seqlegal.com/free-legal-documents/privacy-policy).

3. The personal data that we collect

3.1 In this Section 3 we have set out the general categories of personal data that we process.3.2 We may process data enabling us to get in touch with you ("contact data"). The contact data may include your name, email address, telephone number, postal address and/or social media account identifiers.3.3 We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods, that you make with us and/or through our website ("transaction data"). The transaction data may include your name, your contact details, your payment card details (or other payment details) and the transaction details. The source of the transaction data is you and/or our payment services provider.3.4 We may process data about your use of our website and services ("usage data"). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system.

 

4. Purposes of processing and legal bases

4.1 In this Section 4, we have set out the purposes for which we may process personal data and the legal bases of the processing.4.2 Operations - We may process your personal data for the purposes of operating our website, the processing and fulfilment of orders, generating invoices, and bills and other payment-related documentation. The legal basis for this processing is the proper administration of our website, services and business.4.3 Relationships and communications - We may process contact data, account data, transaction data and/or communication data for the purposes of managing our relationships, communicating with you (excluding communicating for the purposes of direct marketing) by email, SMS, post, fax and/or telephone, providing support services and complaint handling. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely communications with our website visitors, service users, individual customers and customer personnel, the maintenance of relationships, and the proper administration of our website, services and business.4.5 Direct marketing - We may process contact data, account data and/or transaction data for the purposes of creating, targeting and sending direct marketing communications by email, SMS, post and/or fax and making contact by telephone for marketing-related purposes. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely promoting our business and communicating marketing messages and offers to our website visitors and service users.4.6 Research and analysis - We may process usage data and/or transaction data for the purposes of researching and analysing the use of our website and services, as well as researching and analysing other interactions with our business. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring, supporting, improving and securing our website, services and business generally.4.7 Record keeping - We may process your personal data for the purposes of creating and maintaining our databases, back-up copies of our databases and our business records generally. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely ensuring that we have access to all the information we need to properly and efficiently run our business in accordance with this policy.4.8 Legal claims - We may process [your personal data] where necessary for [the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure]. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely [the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others].4.9 Legal compliance and vital interests - We may also process your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

5. Providing your personal data to others

5.1 We may disclose your personal data to our professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining professional advice.5.2 Your personal data held in our website database will be stored on the servers of our hosting services providers Squarespace.5.3 We may disclose your transaction data to our suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the fulfillment of orders.5.4 Financial transactions relating to our services are handled by our payment services providers, Stripe. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers' privacy policies and practices at https://stripe.com/gb/privacy.5.5 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 5, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

6. International transfers of your personal data

6.1 In this Section 6, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to countries outside the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area (EEA).6.2 Our hosting provider Squarespace is a global business. The competent data protection authorities have made an "adequacy decision" with respect to the data protection laws.

7. Retaining and deleting personal data

7.1 This Section 7 sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.7.2 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.7.3 We will retain your personal data as follows:(a) contact data will be retained for a minimum period of 2 years following the date of the most recent contact between you and us, and for a maximum period of 6 years following that date;(b) transaction data will be retained for a minimum period of 2 years following the date of the transaction, and for a maximum period of 6 years following that date;7.4 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

8. Your rights

8.1 In this Section 8, we have listed the rights that you have under data protection law.8.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:(a) the right to access - you can ask for copies of your personal data;(b) the right to rectification - you can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data and to complete incomplete personal data;(c) the right to erasure - you can ask us to erase your personal data;(d) the right to restrict processing - you can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data;(e) the right to object to processing - you can object to the processing of your personal data;(f) the right to data portability - you can ask that we transfer your personal data to another organisation or to you;(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority - you can complain about our processing of your personal data; and(h) the right to withdraw consent - to the extent that the legal basis of our processing of your personal data is consent, you can withdraw that consent.8.3 These rights are subject to certain limitations and exceptions. You can learn more about the rights of data subjects by visiting https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/.8.4 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data [by written notice to us, using the contact details set out below].

9. About cookies

9.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.9.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.9.3 Cookies may not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

10. Cookies that we use

10.1 We use cookies for the following purposes:(a) authentication and status - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website, and to help us determine if you are logged into our website;(b) shopping cart - we use cookies to maintain the state of your shopping cart as you navigate our website;(c) advertising - we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you;(d) analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services;10.2 Where personal data is involved, we have ensured that we process this data in line with the requirements of the UK GDPR.

11. Cookies used by our service providers

11.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.11.2 We use Google Analytics. Google Analytics gathers information about the use of our website by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. You can find out more about Google's use of information by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and you can review Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy11.3 We use Squarespace to host the website. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses. · These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. · These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

12. Managing cookies

12.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links: (a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 (Chrome); (b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox); (c) https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera); (d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer); (e) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari)(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).12.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

13. Amendments

13.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.13.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

14. Our details

14.1 This website is owned and operated by Bak Family Wines Ltd14.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 11472991, and our registered office is at Maple House, 11 Briar Road, Twickenham, TW2 6RB.14.3 Our principal place of business is at Maple House, 11 Briar Road, Twickenham, TW2 6RB.14.4 You can contact us:(a) by post, to the postal address given above;(b) using our website contact form;(c) by telephone, on the contact number published on our website; or(d) by email, using the email address published on our website.