Welcome to our web Site (the "Site"). This Site is administered by Mendis International, Inc. (“MIInc”) in New York, USA. We are committed to protecting the privacy of Internet users who visit our Site. This Privacy Practices Policy ("Privacy Policy") is intended to inform you of the ways in which this Site collects information for the MIInc brand (the “Brand”) featured on the Site, the uses for that information, and the ways in which we will protect any personal information you choose to provide us.
EFFECTIVE DATE/UPDATES This Privacy Policy was last updated on March 29, 2008. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes in our Privacy Policy will be effective immediately. If you are a regular visitor to this Site, we recommend that you check this Privacy Policy on a regular basis. By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use and transfer of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use this Site.
LEGAL PURCHASE AGE You must not provide us with your 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 do not intend to collect personal information from any individuals under the legal purchase age or market alcoholic beverages to anyone under the legal purchase age. 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.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION This Personal Information will be held by MIInc and may be used by MIInc and its affiliated companies and their agents, partners, or licensees. We will not exchange or otherwise distribute your Personal Information to unaffiliated third parties without your consent, except to the extent required by law, or as set out below:
- Sale and Transfer. In the event of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, reorganization or liquidation, we may transfer, 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.
- Legal purposes. We may 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 our interests or the interests of our customers or users of our site.
The Personal Information we receive will be used in our marketing, promotion and advertising of the Brand. As a result of providing us with your contact information, we may contact you by sending you mailings or other communications (electronic or otherwise) regarding the Brand's products, services, promotions, or upcoming events that we believe may be of interest to you. We may also ask you (or have an affiliate, agent, partner or licensee ask on our behalf) to participate in a survey seeking information or opinions related to our products.
Your acceptance of the Terms and Conditions of use of this site, which include this Privacy Policy, constitute the granting of consent to the use and disclosure of your personal information for the purposes set out above.
ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION At your request, where the law requires us to do so, we will confirm what personal information we hold about you, update your information, remove your information and/or correct any inaccuracies in such personal information if you contact us at personalinformation@mendisbrandy.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request in a timely manner.
UNSUBSCRIBE INSTRUCTIONS You will have an opportunity to unsubscribe whenever we communicate with you. If you would like to unsubscribe from communications from MIInc please email your instructions to unsubscribe@mendisbrandy.com.
USE OF COOKIES Our Internet servers keep track of the number of visitors to our Site, the pages they visited and how long they stayed. None of this information includes any personal information about you.
We may obtain information about your general Internet usage by using a “cookie” file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. Some cookies load automatically unless otherwise disabled by the computer user, whilst others may require that you affirmatively accept them (such as a “remember me” option). Cookies help us to improve our Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service. They enable us:
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies, however, by doing so you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our Site.
SECURITY This Site and all information that you submit through this Site is collected, stored, and processed in the United States. We use reasonable physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized or inappropriate access. However, regardless of the effectiveness of our security measures, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.
LINKS This site may include links to other Web sites outside of our control. Please be aware that we have no control over these sites and their privacy policy. Our privacy policy does not apply to these sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policy and terms and conditions of linked sites you enter.
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