COOKIE POLICY

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user’s device.

Cookies can be either session cookies (which are deleted when you close your browser) or persistent cookies (which remain on your device when you go offline). 

We use both session and persistent cookies as follows:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session cookies

Administered by: us

Purpose: These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent cookies

Administered by: us

Purpose: These cookies identify if you have accepted the use of cookies on the website and have therefore agreed that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent cookies

Administered by: us

Purpose: These cookies allow us to remember choices visitors make on the website, such as language preference. The purpose is to provide visitors with a more personal experience and to avoid them having to re-enter their preferences every time they use the website. The information these cookies collect cannot identify you and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Tracking and Performance Cookies

Type: Persistent cookies

Administered by: third parties

Purpose: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website – for instance, which pages they visit and how much time they spend – to help us maximize the performance of the site and improve the visitor experience. None of the information collected by these cookies can identify you. 

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google Analytics cookies are used to track visits to our website and to individual web pages and monitor the use of the website. This information is stored by Google and may be used by other Google services, but it is all anonymous and used for general analytical purposes only. 

Disabling cookies

You can disable cookies by instructing your browser to refuse all cookies.  However, cookies are used throughout our website, so disabling them will result in a less than optimum experience in using the site.

Data Protection

In accordance with the relevant provisions of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to have your information gathered by cookies on our website deleted.  If you wish to do this, please send your request to hongkong@winesoverland.com.

 

PRIVACY POLICY

No information which can identify you personally (such as name, email address or phone number) is gathered on this website or stored by us.

The only information gathered by us on visitors to the website is through cookies, all of which is anonymous (see Cookie Policy above for more details).

If you choose to contact us using the information on the Contacts page, any personal details we receive from you via email or other electronic means, telephone or letter 

- will be used only by Wines Overland,

- will not be communicated to any third parties,

- will be modified or deleted from our records in conformity with French Law no.78-17 on data privacy if you send a request to hongkong@winesoverland.com.

If you have any queries about our privacy policy, please contact us at hongkong@winesoverland.com.