Last Updated: January 12, 2024

Introduction

GCV Enterprises LLC, a Texas limited liability company and our subsidiaries (collectively, “Company” or “we”) recognizes your privacy is extremely important and we are committed to protecting it through compliance with this Website Privacy Policy (this “Policy”).

This Policy covers the usage of https://www.heathfamilybrands.com, https://inventionvineyards.com, https://www.grapecreek.com, https://www.heathsparkling.com, https://www.jenblossomcellars.com and https://www.visit.kuhlmancellars.com (collectively, our “Websites”) and other company products and services, accessed via the Websites. In addition, this Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Websites and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On the Websites.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Websites.
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
• Our Company websites that directly link to this Policy when you click on “Privacy” in each Website footer.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by any third party; or
• Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Websites.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Websites. By accessing or using any Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of any Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Users Under the Age of 21

Our Websites are not intended for users under 21 years of age. No one under age 21 may provide any personal information to or on the Websites. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 21. If you are under 21, do not use or provide any information on any Website, register on any Website, make any purchases through any Website, use any of the interactive features of any Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a user under 21, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about any user under the age of 21, please Contact us.

California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection of their personal information. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.
We make no claims that any Website or any of its content is accessible or appropriate outside of the United States. Access to the Websites may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access any Website from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws and regulations.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Websites, including information:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information“);
• That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Websites, and usage details.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through each Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Websites may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Websites. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Websites, subscribing to our blogs or newsletters, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Websites.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our Websites and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through any of our Websites.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with any Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to a Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on such Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information. It helps us to improve our Websites and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Websites according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to any Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate settings on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Websites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Websites.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Websites may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Websites. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Websites and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Websites and their contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To provide the functionality of the services we provide to you, such as arranging access to your account and providing you with related user support services.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To provide you with notices about your account or subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to a Website or any products or services we offer or provide through such Website.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Websites.
• To develop new products and services.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Websites’ users is among the assets transferred.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “email a friend” feature of our Websites, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our terms of sale and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of GCV Enterprises LLC, our affiliates and subsidiaries, our customers, or others.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

How do I disable cookies?
If you want to disable cookies, you can change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use. Further details on how to disable cookies for the most popular browsers are set out below:
How do I disable cookies?
If you want to disable cookies, you can change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use. Further details on how to disable cookies for the most popular browsers are set out below:

• For Microsoft Internet Explorer:
  – Choose the menu “tools” then “Internet Options”
  – Click on the “privacy” tab
  – Select the setting the appropriate setting
• For Google Chrome:
  – Choose Settings> Advanced
  – Under “Privacy and security,” click “Content settings”.
  – Click “Cookies”
• For Safari:
  – Choose Preferences > Privacy
  – Click on “Remove all Website Data”
• For Mozilla firefox:
  – Choose the menu “tools” then “Options”
  – Click on the icon “privacy”
  – Find the menu “cookie” and select the relevant options

• Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by unsubscribing. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI“) on the NAI’s website.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.

Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A may submit a request to us at the submission link on our Contact us page. Please indicate you are a Nevada resident making a “Nevada Opt-Out” request, and include your name, telephone number and the email address you used to access our Websites. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into a Website and visiting your account profile page.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of any Website. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Websites.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Websites. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Websites.

Retention and Deletion

We retain personal information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

• The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide our services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using our Websites);
• Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
• Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Websites and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, please Contact us.