Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.drinkwithrick.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

Contact forms

Our contact forms collect information and data necessary to receive, analyze and respond to your request. We retain this information for these purposes, and we will remove it at your request. If you do not want us to have this information, or do not want to be contacted, do not use our contact forms.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

If you who do not want to have cookies placed on your computer or device, you should set your browser to refuse cookies before using Drink With Rick, with the drawback that certain features of the site may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Embedded content from other websites

Some articles, images, media and other items link to third party sites, which we do not own and do not control. Use them at your own risk.

Some items may be paid listings or sponsored by third party companies. These listings are vetted and manually approved to protect our users and our site, and to improve the overall user experience. These paid or sponsored listings do not constitute endorsement and should not be construed as such. 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. Use them at your own risk.

Some items may contain affiliate links to help offset the costs of maintaining this site. They don’t make us rich, they merely help pay the bills. Support for the Saturday Night Winestream™, Drink With Rick Podcast and web site is greatly appreciated. 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. Use them at your own risk.

Articles 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. Use them at your own risk.

Ads

Drink With Rick is also supported by advertising to help defray the costs of operation. Ads appearing on our site may be delivered to users by Google and other advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to deliver targeted advertisements. Our Privacy Policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers or other third parties, of which we have no control.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

Visitor comments, usernames, email addresses and IP addresses may be checked through an automated spam detection service and for security reasons. We don’t sell your data to any third parties. We use Google Analytics to monitor and measure traffic, usage and overall site performance. Google may collect additional data that is outside our knowledge or capability to control.

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. We don’t sell your data to any third parties.

Your contact information

Your contact information is not used for sales or marketing purposes.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, administer our products, or protect our rights. We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Should we experience a data breach, we will attempt to inform you within 72 hours of our discovery of the breach. Of course, if we don’t have sufficient information with which to contact you, we will be unable to do so.

What third parties we receive data from

We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic and overall site performance. Google may collect additional data that is outside our knowledge or capability to control.

Contact Us

Our contact information:

webmaster@drinkwithrick.com