At barleycornawards.com, we respect our customers and understand that you are concerned about privacy, so we have instituted policies intended to ensure that your personal information is handled safely and responsibly. We also have posted this Privacy Policy to let you know what kind of information we collect, how it is handled, with whom it may be shared, what choices you have regarding our use of your information and how you may access some of the data you provide to us. If you have any questions about this policy, you can contact us by using the info@barleycornawards.com link at the footer of our site.
Personally identifiable information.
Barleycornawards.com collects and stores personal information in several ways at different parts of our site. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, age, gender, address, telephone number, user ID, user password, interests and other self-identifying information. This allows us to keep a user profile so that we may customize preferences for each specific user, as well as provide a faster method for users to submit information to Barleycornawards.com and receive back either the information, service or products desired.
Barleycornawards.com may also monitor, on an anonymous aggregate basis, patterns of use in connection with emails that it sends out, including which links are clicked in our email communications, so that we may use such information to better personalize the content of our site and our mailings for our users. All such information will be protected in accordance with our Privacy Policy. We may also automatically collect your Internet Protocol address to help diagnose problems and for system administration. Barleycornawards.com reserves the right to request any additional information necessary to establish and maintain your account for use of our site.
Use of information by Barleycornawards.com.
Barleycornawards.com will not sell, rent or barter your personal information other than to its business partners as set forth in this Privacy Policy. However, we may from time to time aggregate statistical information regarding our customers, traffic patterns and site usage, or sell our research, which may contain aggregate information. In addition, we may report aggregate information to our advertisers. Such aggregate information will not individually identify any user. Barleycornawards.com uses the information collected from you in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Information we collect is used to customize your experience at our site.
Barleycornawards.com may use your information to send you promotional materials about Barleycornawards.com and its partners. We may also use your information to contact you, if necessary. We reserve the right to disclose any information if such action is necessary (a) to conform to the requirements of the law or to comply with legal process or a subpoena served on Barleycornawards.com, (b) to protect and defend the legal rights or property of Barleycornawards.com, our site or its users, or (c) in an emergency, to protect the health and safety of its users or the general public.
Choices you have regarding the collection, use and distribution of your information.
Upon registering on the site, you will be given an opportunity to “opt out” of the Barleycornawards.com mailing list by “checking” a box in the registration form. If you submit the registration form without the box checked, you thereby consent to being placed on this mailing list. You may subsequently contact us to request to be removed from this list. In every update that we send, we will include an option to discontinue receipt of future updates. Barleycornawards.com reserves the right to limit any registrations on our site to those who will accept our information and to those who will provide the requested information.
“Cookies,” and how Barleycornawards.com uses them.
“Cookies” are bits of electronic information that a website can transfer to a visitor’s hard drive to help tailor and keep records of his or her visit to the site. Cookies allow website operators to better customize visits to the site to the visitor’s individual preferences. We only use cookies to remember your membership log-in information. The use of cookies is standard on the Internet and many major websites use them. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, you can usually change your browser to prevent or notify you whenever you are sent a cookie. This gives you the chance to decide whether to accept it. Even without accepting a cookie, you can still access all of the features on our site.
Protection of your personal privacy by Barleycornawards.com.
For all our transactions, we employ reasonable and current Internet security methods and technologies. Where appropriate, we password protect, use encryption techniques and install firewalls. We strive to protect your privacy. We encourage our participating service providers to adopt and honor their own consumer privacy policies. For all our efforts to safeguard your privacy, however, no system can be guaranteed. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us or that we transmit to you, or guarantee that it will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. Once we receive your information, we use reasonable efforts to ensure its security on our systems. At Barleycornawards.com, we take great care and use the latest technologies to ensure the security and safety of all your transactions with Barleycornawards.com.
What else you should know about your online privacy.
Barleycornawards.com may also contain links to other websites and advertising. The privacy policies of those websites and advertisers may significantly differ from that of our site, and Barleycornawards.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites or for the privacy policies and practices of other third parties. It is your responsibility to contact such website operator or advertiser directly to determine their privacy policy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy.
Barleycornawards.com reserves the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy in its discretion at any time without notice to the users of our site, except that Barleycornawards.com will post the changed or modified Privacy Policy on our site as soon as practicable as such changes or modifications are implemented.