Last updated June 25, 2025
Your privacy is critically important to us. SweetCarolinesWineBags.com is built on the WooCommerce platform which believes in powering the open internet with code that is open source. The vast majority of their platform is available under the General Public License (“GPL”). Unlike most other services, because GPL code is public, you can actually download and take a look at that code to see how it works.
The WooCommerce Privacy Policy states these fundamental guiding principles:
- We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
- We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
- We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information is shared publicly (or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.
- We help protect you from overreaching government demands for your personal information.
- We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.
SweetCarolinesWineBags.com uses third party service providers to help process the information you provide us. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you choose to make purchases, such as your payment instrument number, and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is handled and stored by Stripe and WooCommerce. You may find their privacy notice link(s) here: https://stripe.com/privacy and https://woocommerce.com/document/marketplace-privacy/.
To minimize your exposure to tracking and advertising cookies, SweetCarolinesWineBags.com does not link its website to social sharing services or media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter.
This Privacy Notice for SweetCarolinesWineBags.com (“we,” “us,” or “our“), describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share (“process“) your personal information when you visit our website at https://www.sweetcarolineswinebags.com. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, or those of our third-party service providers, please do not use our Services.
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
- names
- phone numbers
- email addresses
- mailing addresses
- contact preferences
- billing addresses
Sensitive Information: When necessary, with your consent or as otherwise permitted by applicable law, we process the following categories of sensitive information:
- debit/credit card numbers
All payment data is handled and stored by Stripe and WooCommerce. You may find their privacy notice link(s) here: https://stripe.com/privacy and https://woocommerce.com/document/marketplace-privacy/. SweetCarolinesWineBags.com does not store sensitive financial data.
Information automatically collected: We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, we also collect information that includes: Log and Usage Data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services and which we record in log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type, and settings and information about your activity in the Services (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches, and other actions you take such as which features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes called “crash dumps” ), and hardware settings).
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
We process your personal information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. Depending on how you interact with our Services, we may also process your information for other purposes with your consent, including:
- To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may process your information to provide you with the requested service.
- To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.
- To fulfill and manage your orders. We may process your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Services.
- To request feedback. We may process your information when necessary to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Services.
- To post testimonials. With your permission, you may post testimonials on our Services that may contain your name.
- To protect our Services. We may process your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure, including fraud monitoring and prevention.
3. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We may share your data with vendors, consultants, and other third-party service providers, contractors, or agents (“third parties”) who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. We have contracts in place with our third parties, which are designed to help safeguard your personal information.
The categories of third parties we may share personal information with are as follows:
- Website Hosting Service Providers
- Payment Processors
- Order Fulfillment Service Providers
4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
Our third-party service providers may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to gather information when you interact with our Services. Some online tracking technologies help us maintain the security of our Services, prevent crashes, fix bugs, save your preferences, and assist with basic site functions.
As part of our service agreement with Stripe, we permit third parties and service providers to use online tracking technologies on our Services for analytics and advertising, or to send abandoned shopping cart reminders (depending on your communication preferences). You may opt out of Stripe advertising cookies here: https://stripe.com/cookie-settings#advertising
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information.
6. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
SweetCarolinesWineBags.com does not accommodate customer accounts and does not retain your information except as required by our third party service providers.
Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Cookies and similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Services.
Sensitive Personal Information: We only collect sensitive personal information, as defined by applicable privacy laws or the purposes allowed by law or with your consent. Sensitive personal information may be used, or disclosed to a service provider or contractor, for additional, specified purposes. We do not collect or process sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.
We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by telephone or postal mail in the context of:
- Receiving help through our customer support channels;
- Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.
We will use and retain the collected personal information as needed to provide the Services or for less than 1 day.
We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. We have not sold or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months.
7. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at caroline@sweetcarolineswinebags.com or contact us by postal mail at:
Sweet Caroline’s Wine Bags
1 Spring Hollow Rd
Wantage, NJ 07461-3067 United States