We take online privacy and security concerns seriously. At the same time, we are continually working to make your personal experience when visiting or using our site as exciting and pleasant as possible. To help us accomplish that goal, we will need to collect and use some information from you when you use our site. All of the Web sites under the everwines.com domain may collect information from you - personal as well as non-personal - for internal use within EVERWINES Any information collected may be shared among companies that are part of EVERWINES. To see the names and addresses of the entities within the EVERWINES, click here. In some instances, we may need to disclose personal information about you to companies that we hire so that we may provide you with the best possible service - for example this might be a company that we have employed to ship products that you have purchased through EVERWINES website or a reputable research company hired by us to conduct a survey of our consumers. However, such companies will be under an obligation to keep your personal information confidential. We may disclose personal information collected from you as required by law and regulations of the PRC, for example in response to a court order or subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a specific request from a law enforcement agency. From time to time, we make our mailing list available to carefully screened companies whose products we believe will be of interest to you. If you prefer that we do not share your contact info with these companies, please call our customer service number. Except as set out above, we will not sell, rent or otherwise disclose any personal information to any company or person outside EVERWINES. without obtaining appropriate permission prior to such disclosure. We may collect information about you through active as well as passive means. We may collect information about you and your interests on our site for our own purposes, through active as well as passive means. We may collect personal information directly from you through our sites when: 1) you sign up as a member; 2) you sign up to receive newsletters and other information; 3) in some instances, when you participate in various activities featured on everwines.com; 4) when you enroll for an EVERWINES wine course; and 5) when you purchase products online through everwines.com. We also use passive means to collect some information, such as tracking what pages you go to on the site. This information is then provided to our consumer data department in order for them to determine how to make your experience at our sites more enjoyable. We will not use personal information we collect from you for purposes other than those for which the information was collected, without asking for appropriate permission prior to such use. We may use your name and address information to send you catalogs and other product and service information that we believe you may find of interest if, permitted by law. You may opt out of receiving such catalogs and other product and service information (including, but not limited to, marketing research and/or being contacted by a researcher) at any time by calling our consumer service number or by sending an e-mail to our customer service personnel.