Privacy Policy

Updated October 22, 2023

This privacy policy applies to www.fingerlakeswineshop.com, owned and operated by FLX GROUP LLC (collectively, “We”, “Us”, “Our”, “Vinifera” or “fingerlakeswineshop.com”). Fingerlakeswineshop.com has agreed to notify users of:

  1. What personally identifiable information fingerlakeswineshop.com collects.
  2. What personally identifiable information third parties collect through the Web site.
  3. What organization collects the information.
  4. How fingerlakeswineshop.com uses the information.
  5. With whom fingerlakeswineshop.com may share user information.
  6. What choices are available to users regarding collection, use and distribution of the information.
  7. What measures fingerlakeswineshop.com takes to protect the information under its control.
  8. How users can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

If you feel that our company is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, please contact the Finger Lakes Wineshop by email at jim@flxgoods.com or by mail at Vinifera New York, 44 Linden Street, Geneva, NY 14456. If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at  https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

FLX Group LLC doing business as Finger Lakes Wine Shop is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in any way that varies from what is disclosed in this statement. FLX Group LLC collects information from our users to our family of businesses and at several different areas on our site.

You may receive information regarding new features, services and special offers we think you'll find valuable. We only share information with the businesses operated by FLX Group LLC.  If you'd like to opt out of future mailings from Finger Lakes Wine Shop, follow the procedure outlined in the Choice/Opt-out section below. 

You may also access the personally identifiable information you have submitted to Finger Lakes Wine Shop by selecting “Your Account” and editing the information as it exists in our system currently. You are also able to access your information in order to update or delete it by sending us an email at jim@flxgoods.com. We will respond to your request within a reasonable time frame. For users of the Community section of Verve Wine, please see "Writing Reviews/Community" section below.

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

REGISTRATION

No registration is required in order to use this website, though a user must create an account prior to completing any purchase. Users are required to provide their name, email address, zip code, phone number, and a password. This information is necessary in order for us to contact users about services on our site for which they have expressed interest.

TELL A FRIEND

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Finger Lakes Wine Shop does not store this information. Your friend may contact us at jim@flxgoods.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

ORDERING

Finger Lakes Wine Shop order forms request data from users including: Contact information such as name and shipping address; financial information such as credit card number, expiration date, billing address, and billing phone number. This information is used for billing purposes to verify that the customer is of legal age, and to fill customers' orders. If we encounter difficulty when processing an order, this contact information is used to contact the user. This information is harvested from a secure area and encrypted for our customers' protection. It is not sold or shared with anyone else under any circumstances.

GIFT RECIPIENTS

We collect contact information, such as name, shipping address and phone number, for gift recipients to ensure correct gift delivery. We do not sell, share or rent any contact information for gift recipients with third parties. We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information that you provide to us regarding gift recipients, but they may receive offers from us highlighting new features, new products and services and special offers we think they will find of interest. Also we may send marketing offers to gift recipients on behalf of ourselves and our other businesses. In connection with such offers, we allow gift recipients to opt out of receiving future marketing-related mailings from us. Gift recipients may contact us at jim@flxgoods.com to request that we remove their email from our database.

TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

We and our partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis. We use cookies for our shopping cart, to remember users’ settings (e.g. language preference) and for authentication. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.

BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING

We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our web site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.

LOG FILES

As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.

We do not link this automatically collected data to other information we collect about you. Or We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you, to improve marketing, analytics, or site functionality.

SHARING

We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in any way that varies from what is disclosed in this statement.

FLX Group LLC and Finger Lake Wine shop will share aggregated demographic information with its other businesses. This is not linked to any personally identifiable that can identify any individual person.

We may also share your physical address with our other business lines. These businesses may use the information we share to mail you valuable opportunities and offers. You can opt out of future postal mailings from our business partners by sending an email to jim@flxgoods.com.

We use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

We value your privacy at Finger Lakes Wine Shop, and will never release any account information to anyone outside of the necessary core groups that help our business function unless our customers give us the authority to do so.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial or bankruptcy proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our web site. When we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request and to any other third party with your prior consent to do so.

LINKS

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that FLX Group LLC and Finger Lakes Wine Shop is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

SOCIAL MEDIA WIDGETS

Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button [and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site]. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

SINGLE SIGN ON

You can log in to our site using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personally identifiable information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form. Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities on this Web site to your profile page to share with others within your network.

PUBLIC PROFILE

The profile you create on our site will be publicly accessible unless otherwise indicated. You may change the privacy settings of your profile through your account portal.

EMAILS

If a user wishes to subscribe to our emails we ask for contact information such as name and email address. We may use your personally identifiable for purposes other than sending you promotional materials. For example, we may use your information to complete transactions requested by you, or to send you administrative communications about any account you may have with us or about future changes to this Privacy Policy. You may also unsubscribe from promotional Emails by emailing us at jim@flxgoods.com.

SURVEYS & CONTESTS

When our order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) provided by Let's Encrypt, a leading encryption certificate provider. On a secure page such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers' switches to locked, as opposed to unlocked mode, and back to open mode when you are just browsing.

We also do everything in our power to protect user data offline. All sensitive information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, a Customer Care representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information, and are required to lock their station when they leave their station.

All employees are kept up to date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter and whenever new policies are implemented, our employees are reminded about the importance of keeping customer data secure and safe at all times. The servers with personally identifiable information are stored in a locked and secure environment.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to: jim@flxgoods.com

SALE OF OUR COMPANY

As a natural consequence of the development of our company, we could be sold to another company. In the event that another company acquires us or a significant portion of our assets is sold to another company, all customer data including financial records and consumer information collected on FLX Group LLC and Finger Lakes Wine Shop may be transferred to the new company. You will be notified via of any such change in ownership or control of your personally identifiable information.

CHANGES IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.