Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for bestpinotnoir.net

The privacy of the visitors to bestpinotnoir.net is important.

At bestpinotnoir.net, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you visit bestpinotnoir.net, and how we safeguard your information. We will never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Comcast Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited my site and which pages you visited throughout my site.

Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit the site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of the features, such as forums, for example.

We also use third party advertisements on bestpinotnoir.net to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on bestpinotnoir.net, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing PA real estate ads to someone in PA, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Update to Policy for 2011: Google Advertising Cookie and DoubleClick DART Cookie:

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on bestpinotnoir.net.
Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to bestpinotnoir.net users based on their visit to bestpinotnoir.net and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy .

Thank you for taking the time to read this and as always, thank you for visiting Best Pinot Noir.