The Wine Report Companies including Winesouth LLC, and our internet partners and providers offer security combined with a safe shopping guarantee that allows visitors to this web site protection while shopping and ordering products or festival tickets via credit cards through our remote server software. We also respect your privacy and guarantee the following:

The Wine Report Companies guarantee that credit card transactions made while visiting winesimple.com will be safe*. This guarantee will stand behind you if unauthorized charges are made to your card as a result of ordering items through winesimple.com *See guarantee requirements below.

Thousands of customers have ordered tickets and products from us without any incidents of credit card fraud. Our technology used from our web host and software ordering program has been proven for over three years and is in full compliance with industry standards for secure online commerce transactions**.

Various contest and promotions may be offered on our web site, some of which will require you to share information about yourself, your lifestyle, how you read our magazine and web site, and more. Our intentions are to gather more specific demographic information about our readers and visitors to this web site. This information will not be shared specifically, with anyone. Your name and address, email address and other information as it pertains to you as an individual will not be sold or shared with any company for marketing or other purposes.

All information that is entered on winesimple.com or winesouth.com secure checkout credit card forms is encrypted**--so that all of your personal information, including credit card number, name, and address cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet. Customers that do not want to use their credit card over the internet can contact our Atlanta office at (678) 985-9494 to charge by telephone.

Guarantee Requirements:
Under the Fair Credit Billing Act, your bank cannot hold you liable for more than $50 of fraudulent charges. If your bank does hold you liable for the first amount (or portion of) this $50, winesimple.com will cover the entire liability for you, up to the full $50. Winesimple.com will cover this liability only if the unauthorized use of your credit card resulted through no fault of your own from purchases made at winesimple.com while using the secure server. In the event of unauthorized use of your credit card, you must notify your credit card provider in accordance with its reporting rules and procedures.

    *Secure Ordering Disclaimer
    Only transactions that are initiated by clicking the "Secure Checkout" button are completely encrypted through software and firewall technology. Other ordering methods such as "Regular Checkout" and simply putting your credit card and other personal information in the body of an email are not secure, and could possibly be captured or used by third parties for illegal purposes. For total security, always click the "Secure Checkout" button on the winesimple.com order form before transmitting your credit card information.

The Wine Report Companies also respect your privacy:

Winesimple.com collects and uses your personal information in several ways:

First, when you visit our website at winesimple.com our webmaster is able to capture your internet provider's domain name and country that you came from (e.g., 'aol.com') and the paths taken as you move from page to page (i.e., your "click through" activity). We use this information to enhance our layout and your use of this web site so that we may become more user friendly. This may or may not include future browser customization based on captured information.

Winesimple.com may communicate special offers or information about our festivals or product activities to you from time to time. This will be done traditionally, though individual email. The Wine Report Companies will never include your email address in "bulk" fashion or in any way allow other visitors to this site to know your email address.

Cookies and the technologies to examine such are never associated with you as an individual. They may be used for aggregate measurement that allows us to trace your activity (i.e., the paths taken by you during your visitation to our site as you move from page to page.) Cookies do not capture your individual email address or any private information about you.

Secondly, we use log files to help us count visitors and evaluate our web site's technical requirements and capacity. We use this information to find out how many people visit winesimple.com, and we may record information on site traffic but not information on individual visitors to our site. If you would like to browse without cookies, you can configure your browser to reject all cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is set.

Winesimple.com, as an entity may contact you once you become a customer for relevant information that you will enjoy, but we will never record or report any response you give us or connect it to your name or address. We will never sell or rent such information to any third parties.

Lastly, when you send us an email, we use your email address to correspond back to you or reply to your question, and we will store your communication and our reply in case we correspond further. Beyond our initial reply, we will rarely use your email address to send you any unsolicited messages or information. In terms of your email address(es)--Winesimple.com will never share it with or sell it to anyone else for any purpose or similar use. When you request information or other services, we use your email address and any other information you give us to provide you with the information or other services you request.

Important Policy Updates/Notes:

If you link to other sites from winesimple.com, this Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other web site, including any site that has a link on winesimple.com, is subject to the rules and policies of that site. We encourage you to read the rules and policies of the sites you visit to further understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information.

This Privacy Policy was posted on January 1, 2004. Winesimple.com (Atlanta Wine Report, Inc, d/b/a The Wine Report® Magazine) and its subsidiaries (Winesouth LLC and future companies) reserves the right to change, modify or amend this policy at any time. Please also read over the Security information at the Top of this Page . Winesimple.com will occasionally update its privacy policy and will post those updates on this page. You are responsible for revisiting this page to review our privacy policy updates.

If you have any questions, comments, criticisms, or complaints about winesimple.com's privacy policy please feel free to email us at thewinereport@aol.com