Privacy & Cookies
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This Site
This Site (our “Site“) is operated by Wolfies Drinks Ltd (“we“, “our“, “us“). We are a company registered in Scotland with company number SC755526 whose registered office is at 1 Glenfield Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow, Scotland, G75 0RA. Our VAT registration number is 434 4772 86.
1. Cookies
- A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer by the user’s web browser while the user is browsing. Cookies are designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember important information (such as items added in the shopping cart in an online store) or to record the user’s browsing activity (including clicking particular buttons, logging in, or recording which pages were visited in the past). They can also be used to remember arbitrary pieces of information that the user previously enters into form fields such as names, addresses, passwords, and credit card numbers. For more information on cookies see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.
- Our Site uses cookies. We ask that you read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on our use of cookies and similar technologies on our Site.
- This policy should be read together with our privacy policy (our “Privacy Policy“) which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal data, as well as your rights in relation to your personal data, and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
- This policy relates to your use of our Site only. Our site includes the websites linked to the following domain names and all associated webpages: www.wolfieswhisky.com
- Throughout our Site we may link to other websites or social media platforms owned or operated by third parties. These other third party websites and platforms may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate cookie polices. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their cookie policies.
- We use cookies and other similar tracking technologies on our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
- You can set your browser not to accept cookies and you can remove cookies from your browser. Please check the help pages on the website of your browser provider to ascertain how to do this. Also, for further information about cookies and how to disable them please see https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/. If you do disable or delete cookies please note that some of our Site features may not function properly as a result.
4. Cookies and Our Site
We use cookies and other similar tracking technologies on this Site to:
- recognise you whenever you visit our Site (this speeds up your access to our Site as you do not have to log in each time);
- obtain information about your preferences and use of our Site;
- keep track of the items stored in your shopping basket and take you through the checkout process in relation to the purchase of products through our Site;
- carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services and to help us better understand our users’ requirements;
- target our marketing and advertising campaigns and those of our partners more effectively by providing interest-based advertisements that are personalised to your interests;
- make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable; and
- process your orders.
- The cookies we place fall into the following categories:
- Session cookies — these allow our Site to link your actions during a particular browser session. These expire each time you close your browser and do not remain afterwards.
- Persistent cookies — these are stored on your device in between browser sessions. These allow your preferences or actions across our Site to be remembered. These will remain on your device until they expire, or you delete them.
- Strictly necessary cookies — these cookies are essential for you to be able to navigate our Site and use its features. Without these cookies, you could not use our Site properly.
- Performance cookies — these cookies collect information about how you use our Site, for example which pages you go to most often. These cookies do not collect personally identifiable information about you. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous, and is only used to improve how our Site works.
- Functionality cookies — these cookies allow our Site to remember the choices you make (such as your user name, language, last action and search preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information collected by these cookies is anonymous and we cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Targeting cookies — also known as advertising cookies, these cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement on our Site and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.
6. The cookies we use
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
The cookies we use | Duration | What they do | Logged-in Users Only? |
woocommerce_cart_hash | session | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. | No |
woocommerce_items_in_cart | session | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. | No |
wp_woocommerce_session_ | 2 days | Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. | No |
woocommerce_recently_viewed | session | Powers the Recent Viewed Products widget. | No |
store_notice[notice id] | session | Allows customers to dismiss the Store Notice. | No |
country | session | Helps WooCommerce determine which country specific products to show to customers. | No |
wordpress_logged_in_{hash} | session | Remember User session. WordPress sets the after login wordpress_logged_in_{hash} cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use. | Yes |
wordpress_test_cookie | session | Test if cookie can be set. WordPress also sets wordpress_test_cookie cookie to check if the cookies are enabled on the browser to provide appropriate user experience to the users. This cookie is used on the front-end, even if you are not logged in. | No |
wp-settings-{user_id} | 1 year | 1 year Customization cookie. Used to persist a user’s wp-admin configuration. The ID is the user’s ID. This is used to customize the view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. |
Yes |
wp-settings-time-{user} | 1 year | Time at which wp-settings-{user} was set | Yes |
wp-postpass_{hash} | 1 day | Auto-saving cookie: wp-saving-post is a WordPress cookie created when auto-saving a post in the editor. Used to track if there is saved post exists for a post currently being edited. If exists then let user restore the data. | Yes |
sp_t | 1 year | Required to ensure the functionality of the integrated Spotify plugin. This does not result in any cross-site functionality. | No |
sp_landing | 1 year | Required to ensure the functionality of the integrated Spotify plugin. This does not result in any cross-site functionality. | No |
__stripe_mid | 1 year | Required to ensure the functionality of the payment gateway | No |
__stripe_sid | 30 mins | Required to ensure the functionality of the payment gateway | No |
m | 1 year 1 month |
Required to ensure the functionality of the payment gateway | No |
mailchimp_landing_site | 28 days | No |
We will ask for your permission (consent) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where these are essential for us to provide you with access to and use of our Site (for example to enable you to put items in your shopping basket and use our check-out process when buying products).
8. Contacting Us- If you have any questions about our Site or this policy, including if you don’t understand any part of this policy, please contact us:
- by e-mail at hello@wolfieswhisky.com;
- by post at:
1 Glenfield Road
East Kilbride
Glasgow
Scotland
G75 0RA
United Kingdom
- We will endeavor to respond to you promptly. Please note that our email facilities are monitored only during the hours of 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday (excluding public and bank holidays in Scotland).
- Please also note that we may keep a record of correspondence to enable us to properly manage our Site, to deal with your query, and for quality and training purposes.
9. Changes to this policy
Please note that we may update this policy from time to time, so if you revisit our Site at a later date you should check this policy again at that time to make sure you have seen the current version. This policy was last updated on 15.06.23.
PRIVACY
1 This Site
This Site (our “Site“) is operated by Wolfies Drinks Ltd (“we“, “our“, “us“). We are a company registered in Scotland with company number SC755526whose registered office is at 1 Glenfield Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow, Scotland, G75 0RA. Our VAT registration number is 434 4772 86.
2 This Privacy Policy
2.1 This privacy policy (our “Privacy Policy“) sets out the personal information we collect about you or from you and you give to us (your “personal data“), why we collect it, how we use it and when we may share or disclose it. It also sets out how to contact us and supervisory authorities for further information, and/or in the event you have a complaint that we cannot resolve with you.
2.2 We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal data concerning you. When we do so we are regulated under (i) the Data Protection Act 2018, which applies across the UK, (ii) the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union.
3 Contacting us
3.1 If you have any questions about our Site or this Privacy Policy, including if you don’t understand any part of this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
3.1.1 by e-mail at hello@wolfieswhisky.com;
3.1.2 by post at
1 Glenfield Road
East Kilbride
Glasgow
Scotland
G75 0RA
United Kingdom
We will endeavour to respond to you promptly. Please note that our email facilities are monitored only during the hours of 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday (excluding public and bank holidays in Scotland).
3.2 Please also note that we may record calls and keep a record of correspondence to enable us to properly manage our Site, to deal with your query, and for quality and training purposes.
4.1 This Privacy Policy relates to your use of our Site. The Site include the websites linked to the following domain names and all associated webpages:
4.2 Please note that this Privacy Policy applies also to our social media accounts at:
Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/wolfieswhisky/
Twitter, https://twitter.com/wolfieswhisky
Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/wolfiesofficial
5 Third Party Sites
Throughout our Site we may link to other websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites may also gather information about you. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, and for information as to how they collect and use your personal data, please consult their privacy policies.
6 How We Collect Personal Data
6.1 We collect personal data about you when you access our Site, register with us, contact us, send us feedback, purchase goods via our Site, telephone or write to us, post material to our Site, sign up to receive marketing information from us, compete customer surveys, visit our social media accounts, or participate in competitions via our Site.
6.2 We collect this personal data from you either directly, such as when you register with us, contact us or purchase goods via our Site or indirectly, when you are browsing our Site or via the providers of the facilities to us and to you, for example social media providers.
6.3 Our collection of your personal data is aided by the use of cookies. For more information upon how we use cookies, please see our cookie policy above.
7 Personal Data Collected
7.1 The personal data we collect depends on the particular activities carried out through our Site or our social media profiles. Personal data may include:
7.1.1 your name, address and contact details;
7.1.2 the location and/or device from which you are visiting our Site;
7.1.3 your date of birth;
7.1.4 your social media profile information;
7.1.5 your bank account and payment details;
7.1.6 if you are a business, the employee details of persons responsible for ordering goods from our Site;
7.1.7 details of any feedback you give us by phone, email, post or via social media;
7.1.8 your account details, such as username, login details; and/or
7.1.9 information concerning the elements of our Site that you visit, read, interact with, and information concerning the manner of that interaction.
8 Uses of your Personal Data
8.1 We use your personal data to:
8.1.1 create and manage your account with us;
8.1.2 verify your identity;
8.1.3 provide goods and services to you;
8.1.4 customise our Site and its content to your particular preferences
8.1.5 notify you of any changes to our Site or to our services that may affect you
8.1.6 improve our business, for example through product feedback, or via training our staff;
8.1.7 to protect the rights, property or safety of others; and
8.1.8 to operate our Site and our business.
8.2 This Site is not intended for use by children and we do not knowingly collect or use personal data relating to children.
9 Our legal basis for processing your personal data
9.1 When we use personal data we are required to have a legal basis for doing so. There are various different legal bases upon which we may rely, depending on what personal data we process and why.
9.2 The legal bases we may rely on include:
9.2.1 consent – where you have given us clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose;
9.2.2 contract – where our use of your personal data is necessary for a contract we have with you, for example to supply you with our goods, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract;
9.2.3 legal obligation – where our use of your personal data is necessary for us to comply with the law; and
9.2.4 legitimate interests – where our use of your personal data is necessary for our legitimate interests, your legitimate interests, or the legitimate interests of a third party, for example to prevent fraud (unless there is a good reason to protect your personal data which overrides our legitimate interests).
For further details on when we collect personal data, what we collect as well as how we use it, please read the following sections:
When information is collected | What information we collect | How and why we use your information |
When you register to receive information from us on our products and business including our newsletters and updates on goods we supply from time to time. | Your name and email address. | We collect this personal data directly from you.We will use this personal data to provide you with information on our products and business, including information on the availability of new products. We may do this by post, email, telephone, text message (SMS) or automated call.Our basis for processing this personal data is consent, which you give to us when you input your details into our Site.We will retain this personal data until you withdraw it. Please note unsubscribe links are included at the bottom of all of our marketing emails, or you can ask us to cease processing your personal data for these purposes by using the contact means set out in this Privacy Policy. |
When you purchase goods from us. | Your name, address, email address, details of the business you represent (if applicable). Please note that your name, address and payment details are collected by our third partypayment services and fulfillment service providers:In respect of the UK, EU and Switzerland:Stripe, whose privacy policy can be found at https://stripe.com/gb/privacy.Paypal, whose privacy policy can be found athttps://www.paypal.com/myaccount/privacy/privacyhub | We collect this personal data directly from you.We will use this personal data to supply goods to you. We may also use this personal data, in conjunction with our third party payment services and fulfillment services providers, to prevent fraud and to protect the rights, property and safety of others.Our basis for processing this personal data is to perform our contract with you for the supply of goods.We will retain this personal data to allow us to deal with any returns. Please note that your rights to return any goods are set out in our Product Supply Terms, located here. |
When you visit our social medial profiles. | Our social media providers collect analytical information about the elements of our profiles that you visit and interact with. Also collected are any postings you make upon those profiles, and details of your sharing activities. | Our social media profile providers and us collect this information. The basis for collecting and using this information is consent, which is given to these social media profile providers when using their services. If you do not wish your information to be used in this manner please contact the relevant social media provider, or alter your data sharing settings within upon their website.We retain only anonymized information. We do not retain any information from which we can identify you. The provider of the social media platform may retain such information, for example posting, sharing and profile information, and make it available to us to view. Please check their privacy policy for more information. |
11.1 If you submit someone else’s personal data you must have consent from them to do this.
11.2 We routinely share personal data as follows.
11.2.1 your name and address details (including where applicable your company name details) with our payment services, fulfilment anddelivery partners, to enable the delivery of goods to you;
11.2.2 with our IT service providers, who assist with enabling the operation of our Site, for example hosting providers, and email service providers;
11.2.3 we will share personal data with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law. Where we know you have breached, or where we suspect you may be breaching any obligations owed to us, for example the terms relating to the use of our Site, we may share your personal data with third parties to the enable us to help protect their rights, property or safety. This is includes sharing to prevent the risk of fraud.
Where we share information with third party service providers we will use reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal data is protected to an extent equivalent to the protections afforded to data subjects under UK law.
12.1 From time to time, we may also like to share your personal data with selected third parties so that they may send you information about their products and/or services. We will only ever do this having obtained your consent first.
12.2 If you have previously agreed to being contacted in this way, you can unsubscribe at any time by contacting us using the means set out in this Privacy Policy, or by clicking upon the unsubscribe links any emails or marketing material you receive.
13 Cookies and Similar Technologies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device when you use our Site. We use cookies and other similar technologies. For further information on our use of cookies, please see our cookie policy located here.
14.1 In relation to your personal data processed by us, you have a number ofimportant rights. In summary, these rights are to:
14.1.1 fair processing of your personal data and transparency over how we use your use personal data;
14.1.2 access to your personal data;
14.1.3 require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data which we hold;
14.1.4 require the erasure of personal data concerning you in certain situations;
14.1.5 receive the personal data concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to have us transmit that personal data to a third party in certain situations;
14.1.6 object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for direct marketing;
14.1.7 object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you; and
14.1.8 object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal data.
14.2 For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see:
14.2.1 In relation to the UK, https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/individual-rights/
14.2.2 In relation to the EU, https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/subjects/rights-individual
14.3 If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please email, call or write to us using the contact means set out in this Privacy Policy, and remember to let us have enough information to identify you, and the matter to which your correspondence relates. Please note we may require you to provide proof of your identity and address.
15 Keeping your Personal Data Secure
15.1 We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your personal data will do so only in an authorisedmanner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
15.2 We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
15.3 We do not have access to your payment information. Our payment services providers are compliant with PCI standards (see http://www.pcisecuritystandards.org).
15.4 If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org.
16.1 We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your personal data.
16.2 The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/.
Please note that we may update this policy from time to time, so if you revisit our Site at a later date you should check this policy again at that time to make sure you have seen the current version. This policy was last updated on 15th July 2023.