PRIVACY POLICY

Gippsland Distilling Company is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Gippsland Distilling Company website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Gippsland Distilling Company website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

 

Collection of your Personal Information

Gippsland Distilling Company collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Gippsland Distilling Company also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your postcode, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Gippsland Distilling Company. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, website address, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Gippsland Distilling Company for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Gippsland Distilling Company website.

 

Use of your Personal Information

Gippsland Distilling Company collects and uses your personal information to operate the Westernport Single Malt Whisky website and deliver the services you have requested. Gippsland Distilling Company also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Gippsland Distilling Company and its affiliates. Gippsland Distilling Company may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Gippsland Distilling Company does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Gippsland Distilling Company may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (email, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Gippsland Distilling Company may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Gippsland Distilling Company, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Gippsland Distilling Company does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Gippsland Distilling Company keeps track of the pages our customers visit within www.westernport.au, in order to determine what Gippsland Distilling Company services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customised content and advertising within Gippsland Distilling Company to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Gippsland Distilling Company websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Gippsland Distilling Company or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Gippsland Distilling Company ; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of www.westernport.au, or the public.

 

Use of Cookies

The Gippsland Distilling Company website uses “cookies” to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise www.westernport.au pages, or register with www.westernport.au site or services, a cookie helps www.westernport.au to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the www.westernport.au/features that you customised.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of www.westernport.au.

 

Security of your Personal Information

Gippsland Distilling Company secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. Gippsland Distilling Company secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol (256 bit).

 

Changes to this Statement

Gippsland Distilling Company will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback and the law. Gippsland Distilling Company encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Gippsland Distilling Company is protecting your information.

 

Contact Information

Gippsland Distilling Company welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Gippsland Distilling Company has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Gippsland Distilling Company at info@westernport.au . We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

 

Conditions of Use

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