Policies
Futo Wines has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the website: www.futowines.com.
Personal Information and Data Gathering
Futo Wines uses third-party development partners to assist in online development and deployment as well as in data and information collection. These companies are strictly bound by our privacy policy covered below, as well as, by all other conventions and business practices of Futo Wines concerning user information and data from online sources. For the purposes of this document, the terms "We," "Us" and "Futo Wines" also represent these third-party developers.
We collect anonymous information from visits to our site to help us understand the usage patterns of our site, and to provide better customer service. Information collected in this manner is provided automatically by your system and the systems that you use to connect to our site. For example, we keep track of what time people enter our site, how long they stay on the site, and what sections they visit on the site. This information is kept in aggregate, anonymous format. We use this information to better tailor our site for our visitors and their usage patterns, as well as to gauge performance and other measures of the site, again in anonymous and aggregate format.
Cookies are sometimes used to further track usage patterns of the site by users in aggregate and anonymous format. Cookies left on your system by our site are sometimes used for the purpose of allowing users the convenience of not having to re-enter usernames and passwords on our site, however, no username or password information is kept on your local machine. Only a unique identifier is kept on your system that will allow you to access the records stored on our secure, password-protected server(s). No financial or personal information will ever be left on your system in the form of a cookie.
Registration for our mailing list is required to use the e-commerce section of our site. We will collect general contact information, such as name, address and e-mail for anyone who is interested in signing up for our mailing list. This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Data collected from online user-completed forms is stored in secure, password-protected server locations.
From time to time, Futo Wines will contact our registered users with promotional information that is applicable to our mailing list. At any time a user wishes to opt-out of these e-mails, they may do so by contacting info@futowines.com. Once opted-out, the user will not receive any further communication from us, aside from any system messages that are necessary to that user in specific transactions, such as e-commerce order summaries.
Further use of personal information and data gathered by Futo Wines
Futo Wines will occasionally utilize partners and vendors to assist it in analysis of the data and information collected by our sites. This information is used in aggregate and anonymous format for the purpose of better tailoring our website, promotions or other company endeavors to better suit our user base. This information is shared with our partners and vendors only on an as-needed basis. Financial information will never be shared with any organization other than those necessary for completing the financial transaction required.
Information and data gathered solely by Futo Wines will never be sold, traded or shared with third-parties for any other reason than assisting Futo Wines in its analysis, research and promotional needs.