OUR PRIVACY POLICY

The Wine Country Welcome Centre is committed to maintaining a web site that protects the individual’s right to privacy. We do not require personal information from our visitors, nor do we collect any personally identifying information (name, email address, or other unique identifier) unless you knowingly provide it. Likewise, we do not give, sell, or transfer any personal information to a third party except as might be required by law.

Data Collection for Statistics
To aid in web site management, certain information is collected for statistical purposes. The Wine Country Welcome Centre uses specialized software to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest to our customers, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

We collect only the following information about your visit:

• The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example "telus.net" if you are connecting from a Telus account and domain etc.);
• The web site from which you linked directly to our web site, if you have used another web site to reach our site;
• The operating system and web browser you use to view pages;
• The date and time you access our web site.

We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our web site, allowing us to make our web site more useful and accessible to visitors. We do not store any personal identifiers.

Information Collected from E-mails and Forms
You may decide to send us personally identifying information through e-mail messages or through on-line forms. Electronic communication allows us to collect information that will improve our web site for you, and we encourage it. We use personally-identifying information from consumers in various ways to further our customer's protection and to provide better service. This may be to correct broken links that you have identified or provide additional information that you have requested.

Security Checks
For web site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, we employ software programs to monitor network traffic, identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload or change information on this web site are strictly prohibited and may be punishable.

Cookies
When you visit some Web sites, their web servers generate pieces of information known as cookies. Some cookies collect personal information to recognize your computer in the future. This is not the case at www.winecountry-canada.com, where we only use non-persistent cookies or "per-session cookies." These cookies do not collect personal information on users and they are erased as soon as you leave our Web site.

Per-session cookies serve technical purposes like providing seamless navigation through www.winecountry-canada.com. These cookies do not permanently record data and they are not stored on your computer's hard drive.  www.winecountry-canada.com cookies are stored in memory and are only available during an active browser session. Again, once you close your browser, the cookie disappears.

For Kids!
Please don't send us e-mail. Instead, have an adult send the message. Have your parents, teachers and school librarian contact us if you need further assistance.

STANDARD DISCLAIMER

We will link to external sites that help us perform our mission - "To provide visitors to BC wine country with a one-stop comprehensive wine, food, and cultural experience in a manner that is informative, friendly and entertaining."

Links to external servers do not imply any official Wine Country Welcome Centre endorsement of the opinions or ideas expressed therein, or guarantee the validity of the information provided. Links to commercial sites are in no way an endorsement of any vendor's products or services.

• Links will be provided to external servers that are managed in a professional manner (i.e., it is fully operational, is available most of the time, does not serve inaccurate information or obscene graphics, etc.).
• This server will not link to external servers if such a link would appear to provide an official endorsement of fundraising efforts or lobbying for a political agenda.

COPYRIGHT STATEMENT

Please note:

1. You are welcome to make a link to any of the web pages the Wine Country Welcome Centre has published on the Internet. There is no need to request permission.
2. Not all the information on our site is in the public domain. Some images/graphics are proprietary to this organization including all of our logos and facility images & graphics.