Privacy Policy

Vino Pairings respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit or interact with this website, how that information may be used, and what choices you have.

Information We Collect

Visitors may browse most of Vino Pairings without creating an account or directly providing personal information. However, limited technical information may be collected automatically through analytics, hosting services, cookies, and standard web technologies.

Depending on the services in use, this information may include browser type, device type, operating system, pages viewed, approximate geographic region, referring website, interaction data, and general usage information.

If you choose to contact Vino Pairings, purchase a digital product, or use certain interactive features, additional information may be processed as necessary to provide that service.

Cookies & Analytics

Vino Pairings may use cookies and analytics technologies to better understand how visitors use the website and to improve content, performance, navigation, and user experience.

The site may use services such as Google Analytics and Vercel Analytics. Depending on their configuration, these services may process information such as pages viewed, referring sources, device and browser information, interactions with the site, and approximate location.

Vino Pairings uses analytics primarily to understand overall website usage and improve the site rather than to identify individual visitors.

How Information Is Used

Information collected through Vino Pairings may be used to:

• understand how visitors use the website
• improve content, navigation, and usability
• measure the performance of articles and features
• operate interactive features
• process purchases and deliver digital products
• maintain website reliability and security
• diagnose technical problems
• respond to messages or questions

Pairing Finder & Interactive Features

Vino Pairings includes interactive features designed to help visitors explore food and wine pairings.

The Pairing Finder may process the dish or wine terms you enter in order to return pairing suggestions. Some searches may be handled directly within the website without requiring you to provide personally identifying information.

Viv, the Virtual Sommelier

Vino Pairings provides an interactive virtual sommelier called Viv. When you use Viv, the questions and conversation history needed to provide a response are sent to OpenAI through its API for processing.

OpenAI states that data submitted through its API is not used to train or improve its models by default unless the API account holder specifically opts in to data sharing.

Please do not submit passwords, payment information, health information, or other sensitive or confidential personal information through Viv.

Digital Products & Payments

Vino Pairings may offer original printable guides and other digital products for purchase.

Payments may be processed through Stripe or another third-party payment processor. When you make a purchase, payment information is provided directly to the payment processor rather than being entered into Vino Pairings' own payment storage system.

The payment provider may collect information necessary to complete the transaction, such as payment details, billing information, contact information, and transaction data, in accordance with its own privacy policy.

External Links

Vino Pairings may include links to wineries, wine brands, educational resources, payment services, or other third-party websites.

When you follow a link to another website, that website may collect information according to its own privacy practices. Vino Pairings does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites.

Third-Party Services

Vino Pairings relies on third-party technology providers to operate certain parts of the website. These may include services for website hosting, analytics, payment processing, security, and interactive features.

These providers may process limited information as necessary to provide their services and may have their own privacy policies governing how they handle information.

Sharing of Information

Vino Pairings does not sell personal information in the ordinary sense of exchanging personal information for money.

Information may be shared with service providers when reasonably necessary to operate the website, process transactions, provide interactive features, maintain security, or comply with applicable legal obligations.

Data Security

Reasonable efforts are made to use reputable service providers and appropriate technical practices to protect the website and information processed through it.

However, no website, online service, or method of electronic transmission can guarantee absolute security.

Your Choices

You may control or limit certain cookies through your browser settings. Your browser may also provide options for deleting previously stored cookies or restricting certain tracking technologies.

If a cookie or privacy preference tool is provided on Vino Pairings, you may also use that tool to manage available preferences.

Blocking certain technologies may affect how some website features function.

Children's Privacy

Vino Pairings is a wine-focused website intended for adults and is not directed toward children.

Vino Pairings does not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children through the website.

Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in website functionality, technology providers, business practices, or applicable requirements.

Updates will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy may be sent to hello@vinopairings.com.