Who we are
Our website address is: https://wondersofwhisky.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Contact forms
Please note that if you contact us through our contact form, we will keep your details for the purposes of replying to your query or request. We will only keep your details for promotional purposes if you agree to join our mailing list. Otherwise, we will delete your details and never share them with any third parties.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device. What are cookies used for?
Cookies allow a site or services to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.
There are several types of cookies:
Strictly Necessary cookies – These are cookies that allow you to use different parts of our site. Without them different features that you have requested cannot be provided. These are usually set in response to an action performed by the user like clicking on a job advert or failing to enter the correct password to their account.
Functional cookies – These help us to make your experience within our site more personal. For instance, knowing if you have been on the site before so that messages for new visitors are not displayed to you.
First party cookies – These are cookies that are set by our website. And only we can read them.
Session cookies – These are stored while you browse our site and then deleted once you leave.
Persistent cookies – These are saved on your computer and won’t be deleted when you close the web page. We use these to provide functionality like keeping you logged in when you come back to the site.
Performance cookies – These help us to track how people are using our site. They help us to know what pages people are using most and how users navigate around the site, we use this information to make informed decision about how we can improve the user experience of our site.
The information we get using these cookies is completely anonymous and we will make no attempt to identify you or influence your experience of our site while you are on it. If you use the “Do Not Track” browser setting, we currently don’t respond to DNT requests.
Third party cookies – These can be things like Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter and other embedded content.
Cookies on our site
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga eventbrite | third party | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _ga Wordpress | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | |
| _gat eventbrite | statistics | 1 day | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
| _gat Wordpress | statistics | 1 day | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
| _gid eventbrite | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | ||
| AMP_TOKEN | third party | 1 day | Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor. |
| CookieConsent | third party | 1 year | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
| cookies.js | session | Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry. | |
| csrftoken | third party | 1 year | Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. |
| debug | persistent | ||
| ebGAClientId | third party | 1 year | Necessary for the eventbrite booking functionality. |
| SERVERID | session | session | This cookie is used to assign the visitor to a specific server - this function is necessary for the functionality of the website. |
How long will cookies stay on my device?
The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.
Embedded content from other websites
Content on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to measure the performance of our site, and to ensure we provide the best possible experience for users like you. There may also be cookies relating to analytics and traffic analysis plugins on the site.
Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Smush image plugin
Smush sends images to the WPMU DEV servers to optimize them for web use. This includes the transfer of EXIF data. The EXIF data will either be stripped or returned as it is. It is not stored on the WPMU DEV servers.
Smush uses the Stackpath Content Delivery Network (CDN). Stackpath may store web log information of site visitors, including IPs, UA, referrer, Location and ISP info of site visitors for 7 days. Files and images served by the CDN may be stored and served from countries other than your own. Stackpath’s privacy policy can be found here.
Smush uses a third-party email service (Drip) to send informational emails to the site administrator. The administrator’s email address is sent to Drip and a cookie is set by the service. Only administrator information is collected by Drip.
Who we share your data with
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact information
If you have any concerns or questions about any of our policies, please contact enquiries@wondersofwhisky.com
Additional information
How we protect your data
What third parties we receive data from
We use Google, Facebook and Twitter services, and may use data we receive from any of these sources.