MySake:Privacy policy

Effective Date: April 24, 2020

Sake Sommelier Association (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the mysake.org website (the “Service”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this privacy policy, terms used in this privacy policy have the same meanings as in our terms and conditions, accessible from [INSERT WEBSITE TERMS OF SERVICE LINK HERE]

Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

   • Email address
   • First and last name
   • Phone number
   • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City 

Usage Data

We may also collect information about how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Use of Data

MySake complies with its obligations under current data protection legislation, the Data Protection Act 2018. MySake will only use your personal information for the purposes which we clearly state at the point at which you provide it to us such as:

   • To provide and maintain the Service
   • To notify you about changes to our Service
   • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
   • To provide customer care and support
   • To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
   • To monitor the usage of the Service
   • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United Kingdom and process it there.

Your consent to this privacy policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

MySake will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy, and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Data

Legal Requirements

MySake may disclose your Personal Data in good faith and the belief that such action is necessary to:

   • Comply with a legal obligation
   • Protect and defend the rights or property of MySake
   • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
   • Protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
   • Protect against legal liability

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Service Providers We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this privacy policy.

You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us by email: [INSERT EMAIL LINK HERE]