As an
important reminder, GF Brands is not a licensed beverage alcohol retailer and
is not involved with the sale or delivery of alcohol products. All alcohol
orders are processed and fulfilled by licensed third-party retailers on the
Bottle Nexus network. The checkout functionality is provided solely for the
convenience of our consumers.
For Alcohol
order inquiries, please contact the retailer’s customer service directly.
You’ll find their contact information in your Order Confirmation email.
GF Brands
does sell non-alcoholic items directly to consumers.
Below is
the Privacy Policy as it relates to GF Brands:
Website
Privacy Policy
Last modified: 9/13/2024
Introduction
This policy
(“Privacy Policy”) describes the types of information GF Brands may
collect from you (“you” or “your”) or that you may provide when
you visit our website https://GoodFuckingBrands.com
and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and
disclosing that information.
Please
read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding
your information and how we will treat it.
If you
do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our
website.
By
accessing or using our website, you agree to this Privacy
Policy and Website
Terms of Use, incorporated herein by reference.
This
Privacy Policy may change from time to time.
Your
continued use of our website after we make changes to the Privacy Policy (as
indicated by the “Last Modified” date at the top of this page) is deemed to be
acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy when using this
Website for updates.
Children
Under the Age of 21
Our website
is not intended for anyone under 21 years of age (the “Minimum Age”).
Our website and the services, content, information and programs provided or
made available on and/or through our website may not be accessed or used by any
individuals who are not at least the Minimum Age. No one under the
Minimum Age may provide any information to our website. We do not
knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the Minimum Age.
If you are under the Minimum Age, you are strictly prohibited from the
following:
1.
using or providing any information on our website.
2.
registering for an account with our website.
3.
making any purchases through our website; and/or
4.
providing any information about yourself to us, including but not limited
to your
- name,
- address,
- telephone number,
- email address, or
- any username you may use.
If
you are under the Minimum Age, your parent and/or your legal guardian has the
right to ask for the information we have collected about you. We will ask
that person making the request to verify that they are in fact your parent or
legal guardian before we provide them with your information. We will also
collect the contact information for the person requesting this information so
we can respond to the request.
If we learn
we have collected or received personal information from a person under the
Minimum Age without verification of parental consent, we will delete such
personal information. If you believe we might have any information from
or about anyone under the Minimum Age, please contact us through the contact
information below.
For more
information about children’s online privacy, please visit (for Children in the
U.S.), the Federal Trade Commission’s Resource Page: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0031-protecting-your-childs-privacy-online.
United
States Operations
We are
based in the United States, and the information we collect is governed by U.S.
law. By accessing or using our website, or otherwise providing
information to use, you consent to the collection, processing, transfer and
storage of information about you in the United States and other applicable
territories.
Information
We Collect About You
This
Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:
- on our website.
- in email and other
electronic messages between you and us.
- when you purchase
products through our website.
- when you interact with
our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if
those applications or advertising include links to this Privacy Policy.
- when you interact with
our social media pages and/or accounts (which use is also subject to the
privacy policies of the service provider upon which such page or account
is hosted);
- when you register for an
account; and
- when you sign up for one
of our newsletters or mailing lists.
This
Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by:
- the Company offline or
through any other means, including on any other website operated by
Company or any third party; or
- any third party,
including through any application or content (including advertising), that
may link to or be accessible from or on our website. We encourage you to
seek out and read the privacy policy of any linked site that you visit to
understand how such site will manage your data.
We collect several categories of
information from and about users of our website (“Personally Identifiable
Information”). By way of example but not limitation, this includes
information such as
- name.
- postal address.
- email address.
- telephone phone number.
- billing address and
limited payment card information (collectively, “Payment Information”)
(see Payment Information Collection, Processing, and Storage below);
and/or
- any other identifier by which
you may be contacted online or offline.
We may also
collect information about you but individually does not identify you
(“Non-Identifiable Information”). By way of example but not limitation,
this includes information such as
- internet connection.
- the equipment you use to
access our website.
- usage details;
- device information and
settings.
- unique device
identifiers.
- operating system information.
- application IDs; and/or
- crash data.
How
We Collect Information About You
We may
collect both Personally Identifiable Information and/or Non-Identifiable
Information on or through our website about you. By way of example but not
limitation, this includes information we collect
- directly when you provide it to
us (see Information You Provide to Us below);
- through your use of our website
and links you interact with;
- from third parties (for
example, our business partners or if someone purchases you a gift from our
website)
- [when you interact with our
social media pages and/or accounts (which use is also subject to the
privacy policies of the service provider upon which such page or account
is hosted)];
- [when you register for an
account]; and/or
- automatically as you navigate
through our website (see Information We Collect Through Automatic Data
Collection Technologies below).
Information
You Provide to Us
We collect
Personally Identifiable Information and/or Non-Identifiable Information that
you provide us. By way of example but not limitation, this includes
- information that you provide by
filling in forms on our website, including, but not limited to,
information provided at the time of
- registering for account with
our website,
- signing up for one of our
newsletters or mailing lists,
- entering a giveaway or
promotion sponsored by us, and/or
- reporting a problem with our
website.
- records and copies of your
correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us;
- information provided
through email, text message, and postal mailing list sign ups;
- your responses to surveys
that we might ask you to complete for research purposes; and/or
- your search queries on
our website.
You
also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter “posted”)
on the Company’s social media accounts.
Payment
Information Collection, Processing, and Storage
We do not
store any payment card information entered through our Website.
If you use
a service provider to disperse funds (for example, ApplePay or PayPal) when
making a purchase through our website, the service provider’s use of your
information is subject to the privacy policy and terms published by the
respective service provider. We kindly encourage you to review the terms
of use and privacy policies of your service provider.
Sweepstakes,
Surveys, Contests and Promotions
From time
to time, we may request information from users via sweepstakes, surveys,
contests and other promotions. Participation in these sweepstakes, surveys,
contests or promotions is completely voluntary and you have a choice whether to
disclose the requested information.
If you
choose to participate, we may ask you for additional information, which may
include contact information and/or demographic information to provide better
services and options to you. We use the information you provide to administer
our sweepstakes, surveys, contests and other promotions, in addition to the
purposes set forth herein.
If the
information you provide pursuant to a sweepstake, survey, contest or promotion
will be used in a manner different from that described in this Privacy Policy,
such use will be detailed in the instructions for such sweepstakes, survey,
contest or promotion and you will be asked to first consent to such use.
If you
choose not to consent, we will not use your information other than for that
sweepstakes, survey, contest or promotion.
Gifts
Please note
that if you are purchasing a gift for someone, and you give us that person’s
information for shipping, we are relying on you to make sure you have the right
(and consent, if needed) to provide us the recipient’s information. We do
not add your gift recipient to our database for any purpose unless you
expressly direct us to do so.
Information
We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you
navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data
collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment,
browsing actions, and patterns. By way of example but not limitation, this
includes:
- details of your visits to our
website, including
- traffic data,
- location data,
- logs, and
- other communication data and
the resources that you access and use on our website; and/or
- information about your computer
and internet connection, including
- your IP address,
- operating system, and
- browser type.
Some web
browsers may transmit “do not track” signals to the websites and other online
services with which the browser communicates. There is no standard that governs
what, if anything, websites and online services should do when they receive
these signals. We currently do not act in response to these signals. When a
standard for responding is established, we may revisit our policy on responding
to these signals.
The
information we collect automatically may be Personally Identifiable Information
and/or Non-Identifiable Information. It helps us to improve our website and to
deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- estimate our audience size and
usage patterns.
- store information about
your preferences, allowing us to customize our website according to your
individual interests;
- speed up your searches;
and/or
- recognize you when you
return to our website.
By
way of example but not limitation, the technologies we use for this automatic
data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file
placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept
browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser.
However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain
parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so
that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct
your browser to our website.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our
website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and
store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on
our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as
are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy
and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and
Disclose Your Information.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and
our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also
referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit
the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or
opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example,
recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system
and server integrity).
For information about how you can
opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, please see Choices
About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.
Third-Party
Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some
content or applications on the Website are served by third-parties, including
application providers, including, without limitation the following:
These third
parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other
tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our
website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personally
Identifiable Information or your online activities over time and across
different websites and other online services. They may use this information to
provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted
content.
We do not
control third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you
have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should
contact the responsible provider directly.
For
information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from
many providers, please see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your
Information below.
How We
Use Your Information
We use
information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including
Personally Identifiable Information and/or Non-Identifiable Information. By way
of example but not limitation, we use information for the following purposes:
- to fulfill or meet the reason
you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and
contact information to ask a question about our products or services, we
will use such information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide such
information to purchase a product or service, we will use such information
to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save such
information to facilitate new product orders or process returns.
- to provide, support,
personalize, and develop our website, products, and services.
- to create, maintain, customize,
and secure your account with us.
- to process your requests,
purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
- to provide you with support and
to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your
concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
- to personalize your website
experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings
relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our
Website, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required
by law);
- to help maintain the safety,
security, and integrity of our website, products and services, databases
and other technology assets, and business;
- for testing, research,
analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our
website, products, and services;
- to respond to law enforcement
requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental
regulations.
- to evaluate or conduct a
merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other
sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern
or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which
personal information about our website users is among the assets
transferred;
- in any other way we may
describe when you provide the information; and/or
- for any other purpose with your
consent.
We may also
use your information to contact you about our own and third parties' goods and
services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your
information in this way, you may opt-out by emailing your request to Support@GoodFuckingWines.com.
For more information, please see Choices About How We Use and Disclose
Your Information below.
We may use
the information we have collected from you to enable us to display
advertisements. Even though we do not disclose your information for these
purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an
advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure
of Your Information
We may
disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not
identify any individual, without restriction.
We may
disclose Personally Identifiable Information and/or Non-Identifiable
Information that we collect or that you provide as described in this Privacy
Policy, by way of example but not limitation:
- to our subsidiaries and
affiliates.
- to contractors, service
providers, and other third parties we use to support our business, which
case such parties’ respective privacy policies govern their use of your
Personally Identifiable Information and/or Non-Identifiable Information.
- to a buyer or other successor
in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization,
dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s
assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation,
or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company
about our Website users is among the assets transferred (a “Business
Transfer”).
- to fulfill the purpose for
which you provide it.
- for any other purpose disclosed
by us when you provide the information; and/or
- With your consent.
We may also
disclose your information:
- to comply with any court order,
law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or
regulatory request.
- to enforce or apply our Terms
of Use and other agreements you may enter into with us pursuant to your
use and interaction with our website; and/or
- if we believe disclosure is
necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the
Company, our customers, or others.
We do not
currently rent or sell your information to any third parties; however, your
information may be sold in the event of a Business Transfer, as discussed
above.
Choices
About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive
to provide you with choices regarding the Personally Identifiable Information
you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following
control over your information
- Tracking Technologies and
Advertising. You
can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert
you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash
cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's website.
If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site
may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
- Usage Data. We use (or may use) tools in
collaboration with third parties to collect information about the use of
our website. By way of example but not limitation, Google Analytics™
collects information such as how often users visit our Website, what pages
they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming
to our website For more information, please visit google.com/privacypolicy.html and
www.google.com/analytics/tos.html.
- Disclosure of Your Information
for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your Personally Identifiable
Information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional
purposes, you can opt-out by emailing your request to Support@GoodFuckingWine.com
- Promotional Offers from the
Company. If
you do not wish to have your email address or contact information used by
the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you
can opt-out by emailing your request to Support@GoodFuckingWines.com.
If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email
asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt-out does
not apply to information provided to the Company because of a product
purchase, product service experience or other transactions.
- Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to
use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver
advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences,
you can opt-out by emailing your request to Support@GoodFuckingWines.com.
For this opt-out function, you must have your browser set to accept all
browser cookies.
We do not
control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve
interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with
ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You
can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising
Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.
Data
Access, Correction, Retention and Destruction
We strive
to provide you with choices and control regarding your Personally Identifiable
Information. You have the right to access and change your Personally
Identifiable Information. We will retain Personally Identifiable Information
for as long as necessary to accomplish our purposes for such data.
We will,
upon receiving your request, make reasonable efforts to correct, delete, and/or
block your Personally Identifiable Information from further use to the extent
that it remains in our possession. Please contact us at the address provided at
the bottom of this Privacy Policy to find out how.
However, in
certain circumstances, we may not be able to delete your information except by
also deleting your user account. When your information is deleted, we will
destroy your Personally Identifiable Information using reasonable
data-destruction practices.
Further, we
may not accommodate a request to access, correct, or delete information if
- we believe such action
would violate any law or legal requirement.
- cause the information to
be incorrect.
- such action would be
unreasonably burdensome or expensive under the circumstances.
- such action would violate
the rights of someone other than the individual requesting access; and/or
- if we need to retain such
information to establish, exercise or defend against legal claims.
Data
Security
We have
implemented reasonable measures designed with the intent to secure your
personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use,
alteration, and disclosure.
Unfortunately,
the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.
Although we endeavor to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee
the security of your personal information transmitted to our website. Any
transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not
responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures
contained on our website.
The safety
and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you
(or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our
website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Do not use
the same password that you may use for other accounts or websites—either for
personal or business use. Do not share your password with anyone. We urge you
to be careful about giving out information in public areas of our website, such
as message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by
any user of our website. If your password is compromised, please notify
us immediately at the address provided at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.
Accessibility
We are
committed to ensuring that our communications are accessible to people with
disabilities.
Changes
to Our Privacy Policy
We may
revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to change this
Privacy Policy, we will post the revised policy here. The date this Privacy
Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.
If changes
are significant and materially affect your rights under this Privacy Policy, we
may provide a more prominent notice on our Website.
In certain
cases, we may also provide email notification of the revised Privacy Policy.
However, as
we may make changes at any time without notifying you, we suggest that you
periodically consult this Privacy Policy. You are responsible for ensuring we
have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for
periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any
changes.
Please note
that our rights to use any information collected will be based on our Website
Terms of Use and Privacy Policy in effect at the time the information is used.
Contact
Information
To ask
questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices,
contact us at:
GF Brands
901 North
Market Street, Suite 100
Wilmington,
Delaware 19801