Privacy Policy

- updated on February 22, 2013 –

Russian Standard Vodka LLC (“we” “us”) is committed to protecting the privacy of the users of the russianstandardvodka.com website (“Website”).

Users should read this Privacy statement in parallel with our Terms of Use.

If you have questions regarding this statement, please contact us on rsvi@russianstandard.com

Legal Purchase Age

You must not provide us with any personal information if you are not of legal age to purchase alcohol in the jurisdiction in which you reside and (if different) in the jurisdiction in which you are accessing the site. We have taken reasonable measures to avoid collecting personal information from individuals under the legal age to purchase alcohol or marketing alcoholic beverages to anyone under the legal age to purchase alcohol. If we receive notice or believe that someone under the legal purchase age has provided us with personal information we will make every reasonable effort to remove such personal information from our files.

Collection of Personal Information

We do not require any personal information for using the Website. In some instances, however, you may choose to provide us with your personal information. Situations in which you may choose to provide us with personal information include contacting us with an inquiry or request for information or requesting to be included in our, and partners and affiliates, marketing promotions. Where possible, we will allow you to decide how we will use your personal information, for example, you can decide whether to receive marketing materials. Personal information that we may collect includes a contact email address, date of birth and location where you live and from which you access the website.

By providing us with your personal information, you understand and agree that your personal information will be stored by us until such time that you specifically request that it be removed. You may request that we delete all personal information provided to us at any time by contacting us at rsvi@russianstandard.com. Upon receipt of such a request, we will remove all personal information within a reasonable time. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you understand and agree that your personal information may remain in backup or archive files.

Disclosure and Use of Collected Personal Information

We may use the collected personal information from you in the following ways:

We may use your personal information in order to respond to inquiries or requests for information, or to follow-up on such requests at a later date.
We may use your personal information in order to communicate with you about our products and services, or the products and services of our subsidiaries or affiliates. We will only use your personal information for this purpose if you have requested that we do so and you may opt out of these communications at any time.
We may use your personal information for internal market analysis in order to offer better products and services tailored to our customers. We will only share your personal information with third parties for marketing analysis if the third parties will agree to be bound by confidentiality obligations and restrictions on use consistent with this privacy statement.
We may arrange for carefully selected organizations to send you marketing and promotional information that may be of interest to you. In such circumstances your personal information may be disclosed to these organizations that will agree to be bound by confidentiality obligations and restrictions on use consistent with this privacy statement. We will only use your personal information for this purpose if you have requested that we do so and you may opt out of these communications at any time.
In the event of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, reorganization or liquidation, we may transfer, sell, or assign to third parties information concerning your relationship with us, including without limitation, personally identifiable information that you provide and other information concerning your relationship with us.
We may transfer your personal information to third parties under confidentiality obligations when the performance of any service in relation to the activities above is sub-contracted (e.g. the administration of a marketing campaign).
We may use or disclose your personal information if permitted by law or required to do so by law or where we believe such action is necessary in order to protect or defend us or other third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract, theft, fraud and other illegal or harmful activity, to comply with our audit and security requirements, and to audit compliance with or corporate policies, procedures, legal and contractual obligations.

Your use of the Website, consent to the associated Terms of Use and submission of personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy constitute your express consent to the use and disclosure of your personal information as set forth above.

Other Disclose and Use of Personal Information

Accept in connection with the foregoing uses of your personal information, we will not sell, rent, loan or give away your personally identifiable information to third parties without your prior written permission, unless required to do so by law or where we believe such action is necessary in order to protect or defend us or other third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract, theft, fraud and other illegal or harmful activity, to comply with our audit and security requirements, and to audit compliance with or corporate policies, procedures, legal and contractual obligations.

Collection of Other Information

When you visit our site, we gather certain anonymous information that is aggregated with anonymous information from other users to provide summary reports of the site usage.

This information includes:

browser type and operating system
IP Address of the machine (browser/ proxy)
requested pages
date and time of the page requests.

In order to provide our users with a more relevant web service, we also collect user identified usage activity data to better understand the interests and needs of our user community. This information cannot be used to identify or contact you.

Cookies

We use “cookies” in connection with the Website to help us recognize repeat visitors and enable certain aspects of the Website, including for example certain auto-login functions. Cookies give users a special, random identifier that is a small text file, which is stored on the hard drive of a user’s computer; this random identifier does not contain any information that can be used to identify or contact you. Cookies can be deleted or disabled at any time; however, deleting or disabling cookies may prevent or impede your access to the Website.

How We Provide A Secure Environment For Your Data

We take security seriously and we take all reasonable precautions to keep your personal information secure. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect. However, due to the open communication nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and us, or information stored on our servers, will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. WHILE WE HAVE UNDERTAKEN ALL REASONABLE EFFORTS TO PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION, WE CANNOT AND DO NOT WARRANT THAT NO LOSS, MISUSE, ALTERATION OR THE LIKE WILL OCCUR WHEN YOU ARE USING THE WEBSITE NOR CAN WE ACCEPT ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY IN CASE OF ANY SUCH LOSS, MISUSE, ALTERATION OR THE LIKE.

Correcting and Updating Your Information

You may contact us at any time to request that we update or remove any information that we have collected from you.
Please direct all such inquiries to rsvi@russianstandard.com

Conclusion

We strongly believe in respecting the privacy of all our users. To ensure that we meet the highest standards in protecting your Privacy, we will update this statement if and when it is necessary. Please check back often to read our updated statement. If you have any questions regarding this statement, please contact us by sending an email at rsvi@russianstandard.com