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Who we are

Bordeaux Reviews is published by Claret 33131 LLC. Write to us at antonio@bordeauxreviews.com.

Reading the site

Nothing is asked of you. Our host keeps ordinary server logs for delivery and security, and counts visits from those logs without setting anything in your browser.

We also use 2 Google services from your first page on this site: Google Analytics, which tells us how many people read a page and how they arrived, and Google Ads, which tells us whether a visit that began with a click on one of our ads ended in a signup to the Daily Briefing. The banner, and the cookie page, let you refuse both, and a refusal tells Google to store nothing on your device. We never send Google your name, your email address or your payment details. We do not profile anyone and we take no decision about you by automated means.

What stays on your device

A cookie recording which edition you read, a cookie carrying a Private code if you have one, a cookie recording your answer to the banner, and your study progress in local storage. The study progress never reaches us. Where your visit came from (a campaign tag or an ad click identifier in the address, the first page you landed on and the site that sent you) is kept in local storage for 90 days and reaches us only if you sign up to the Daily Briefing, with the signup. Google Analytics and Google Ads cookies join them unless you refuse them. The cookie policy names all of them and lets you change your answer.

What you give us

The contact form takes a name, an email address and a message, so we can answer. The Daily Briefing takes an email address. If you choose, it also takes your name, city, state and country, so we know who reads it and where, and a WhatsApp number, used only for what you tick: an invitation to the WhatsApp group, and ClaretBot. We never sell it, or share it with anyone for their own use. Every email carries an unsubscribe link, and you can ask us at any time to delete what you gave. Private takes an email address and an invitation code; payment goes through Stripe and card details never reach us.

Premier Cru Supérieur, the Case Files examination, takes a name, an email address, an Instagram handle if you offer one, and your 20 answers, so that the author can write to you about your examination; it also keeps a hash of your address for the day, to count attempts, and the country the address resolves to, and never the address itself. The email address is erased 12 months after the examination and the score kept without it.

Who else handles it

Our host, our database, our email service and our payment processor, each acting on our instructions and bound to confidentiality. Google receives measurement data, and learns when a visit from one of our ads ends in a signup, without cookies if you refuse them. They are United States services, so information may be processed there; for readers in Europe that transfer rests on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses and, for Google, on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. We do not sell personal information.

Maps on the Terroir pages

The palus lens on the Terroir page shows maps and aerial photos that your browser loads straight from IGN, France's national mapping institute (data.geopf.fr), and only as you scroll near it. Like any website your browser contacts, IGN then receives your network address. We send IGN nothing else.

Your rights

Ask us what we hold, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, or ask for a copy. Write to antonio@bordeauxreviews.com. We do not charge and we will not treat you differently for asking. You can refuse the measurement and advertising cookies at any moment, on the cookie page, with one button, and refusing does not undo what was lawful before. In the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom you may also complain to your supervisory authority, and in Brazil to the ANPD.

Children

This site is about wine and is meant for adults of legal drinking age. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes

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