Effective 03/19/23
Website Security
We are intensely committed to keeping your personal, financial, and credit card information safe and secure. Any credit card transaction that occurs on BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com takes place in a secure area of our site to protect you from any fraudulent use or gathering of your information.
BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com uses Secure Socket Layers (SSL), the industry standard for protecting information and safely processing orders. The SSL encrypts your order information into an encrypted code so that you are protected. To confirm this, look address bar of your browser window. If you see an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending upon your browser) you can be sure that your information is secure.
You can also ensure security by checking the URL line of your browser. When you enter the secure areas of our site, the first characters of the site address will be “https”. Once you begin any checkout process you will be in this secure area for the remainder of your transaction with us.
Our Commitment to Privacy
BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com is owned and operated by HammeredbyNine Media. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information may be collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and every page within our site.
The Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com website. On some pages, you may order products, make requests, or register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:
Name
Address
Email address
Phone number
Credit/Debit Card Information
(etc.)
On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you will need to submit the recipient’s address. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected are:
Name
Address
Phone Number
(etc.)
The Way We Use Information
We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order only to complete that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
We use the information you provide about someone else when placing an order only to ship the product and to confirm delivery. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
We may offer gift-cards/certificates by which you can personalize a product you order for another person. Information you provide to us to create a gift-card/certificate is only used for that purpose, and it is only disclosed to the person receiving the gift.
We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not shared with outside parties.
You may can register with our website if you would like to receive our publications as well as updates on our new products and services.
We may use electronically gathered, non-identifying, and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
We collect information to track website usage and statistics to make the website better, enhance the user experience, collect data for editorial purposes, build email/contact lists, support the services we offer, and for marketing purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, replying to emails, identifying referral sources, identifying search terms, creating new content based on data collected both automatically and voluntarily, and tracking comments on posts. In some cases, specific information you share may become public as it pertains to comments on posts or other voluntary information you provide to us.
We may share information with third parties in the following circumstances:
With organizations that are contractually engaged in providing us with services such as email management, prize or order fulfillment, payment processing, data analysis or tracking, and fraud protection.
With advertisers, as it pertains to general statistical information obtained and presented in aggregate form and personally identifiable information you provide voluntarily through your use of the website.
We may disclose your information in connection with the sale, merger, or reorganization of our organization.
If we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, valid legal process, and to protect the security and rights of other users or members of our organization.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
How Long We Keep Information:
We reserve the right to retain all information provided for as long as we deem necessary, subject to our sole discretion.
Our Commitment to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
The security of your information is important to us, and we will do our best to protect it. In most circumstances, sensitive information, including but not limited to credit card information and user credentials for account access (username and password, for example) will be collected via use of a third party. We will take reasonable measures to analyze and select those third parties based on their ability to fulfill the service we require and will rely upon the security measures they have in place.
Please note email is not considered a secure means of communication, so any information you provide to us using a web form or direct emailed to us is not considered a secure form of communication.
Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy and Internet Safety
Protecting the privacy of the young children is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.
Much of our content addresses alcohol and the consumption of alcohol. These parts of our website are only intended for individuals who are of legal drinking age in their state or country and should not be accessed by anyone under the age of 18. In the United States, use of our website is limited to only those persons 21 years of age or older.
How You Can Access or Correct Your Information
If this website supports account registration, you can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by logging into your account. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.
You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error.
To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
Ads and Advertisements on Our Website
Pages on our website may present automatically generated ad content from companies not owned by BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com. BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com may earn income from your clicking and/or access these ads. BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com is not responsible for the content of sites accessed via clicking ads and we strongly encourage you to review the security and privacy policies of those sites/companies.
Third Party Analytics
BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com may collect information automatically as you navigate the website or through our third-party analytics and other service providers. BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com may store information including but not limited to your time on the website, operating system, browser type, IP address, the pages you request or visit, links clicked, referring websites, device used to access the website, and your search terms.
Cookies
BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com may use cookies in order to collect certain information about or customize this website for visitors. These cookies are not required for website functionality. You are not required to accept any cookies to use this website. With respect to third parties, we do not have control over what the third parties collect or how they use the information they collect.
Google Analytics
BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com uses a tool called Google Analytics to collect information about use of this website. The Google Analytics features enabled includes Demographics features, Interests Features, and Advertising Features. Google Analytics collects information including, but not limited to, how often users visit this website, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other websites they used prior to coming to this website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to improve this website. We do not identify users or facilitate the merging of personally identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information collected through any Google advertising product or feature without prior opt-in consent from each user. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this website is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this website by disabling cookies on your browser. You can also install a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
For European Economic Area Residents
If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com, you can contact us at the address below.
For California Residents
California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of the sharing of your information for advertising information, contact us at the address below. You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided. To make such a request, please contact us at the address below. To be clear we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand side platforms.
Other Third-Party Tools
We may employ the use of other third-party tools from time to time in an effort to collect information or assist in our day-to-day operations.
Surveys and Contests
From time-to-time BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com may request information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as, but not limited to, name, email address, and shipping address), and demographic information (such as, but not limited to, zip code and age). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information may be used for, but not limited to, sharing findings and results with readers and followers, and monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this website. Third party tools may be used to collect this information, in which case you will become subject to the terms and policies of those third parties. While we make every attempt to protect your information, BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com has no control over third party terms and policies.
Changes
We reserve the right to make changes to this policy. Those changes will be posted here and noted with an effective date of the policy. Continued use of BeachesBourbonandBBQ.com after a change to this policy means you accept the new policy.
How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please email us at info@beachesbourbonandbbq.com.