Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 14, 2026
WORLD WINES & LIQUOR respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide when visiting, creating an account, or making a purchase through this website.
WORLD WINES & LIQUOR is the retailer and seller responsible for orders placed through this website and is the Exclusive Ohio Retailer of Wine of the Sea.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, when it may be shared, and the choices available to you.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect personal information that you provide directly to us when you:
- Place an order
- Create or manage an account
- Contact us
- Subscribe to our newsletter or marketing communications
- Complete forms on our website
- Request customer support
This information may include:
- First and last name
- Billing and shipping address
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Order and purchase history
- Account information
- Information you provide in communications with us
We may also automatically collect certain technical information when you use our website, including your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, referring website, and other website usage information.
2. Payment Information
Payments made through our website may be processed by third-party payment service providers.
Your payment provider may collect information necessary to process your transaction, such as payment card or account information.
WORLD WINES & LIQUOR does not necessarily receive or store your complete credit or debit card information.
Payment providers process your information according to their own terms and privacy policies.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use your personal information to:
- Process and fulfill your orders
- Process or facilitate payments
- Arrange shipping and delivery
- Communicate with you regarding your order
- Provide customer service and respond to inquiries
- Create and maintain your customer account
- Verify or facilitate compliance with legal age requirements for alcohol purchases
- Prevent fraud, unauthorized transactions, and misuse of our website
- Maintain transaction and business records
- Improve our website, products, and customer experience
- Send newsletters, offers, or other marketing communications when you have chosen to receive them
- Comply with applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, and licensing requirements
4. Age Verification and Alcohol Purchases
Our products are intended only for customers who are legally permitted to purchase alcoholic beverages.
You must be 21 years of age or older to purchase alcohol through this website.
We may process information necessary to verify or facilitate compliance with age restrictions applicable to the purchase and delivery of alcoholic beverages.
Shipping carriers or other service providers involved in delivering an order may also request identification or proof of age where required by law or delivery policy.
5. How We Share Information
We may share personal information with trusted third parties when reasonably necessary to operate our business and provide our services.
These may include:
- Payment processors
- Shipping and delivery carriers
- Website hosting and technical service providers
- E-commerce service providers
- Email and communication providers
- Analytics and security providers
- Professional advisers where necessary
We may also disclose information when required by applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, or when reasonably necessary to protect our rights, customers, business, or the public.
We do not share personal information with third parties except as necessary to operate our business, provide requested services, comply with applicable law, or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to provide essential website functionality, maintain your shopping cart, remember preferences, understand how visitors use the website, improve performance, and help protect the website from fraud or misuse.
Some third-party services used by our website may also place or access cookies according to their own privacy policies.
You may be able to manage cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the website.
7. Marketing Communications
If you subscribe to our newsletter or otherwise choose to receive marketing communications from us, we may send you information about products, news, promotions, and special offers.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in our emails.
Unsubscribing from marketing communications does not prevent us from sending transactional or service-related communications when necessary, such as order confirmations, shipping information, or customer-service messages.
8. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
9. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including processing transactions, maintaining business records, resolving disputes, preventing fraud, and complying with applicable legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations.
10. Your Privacy Choices
Depending on applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.
You may contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information we hold about you.
Some information may need to be retained where required for legitimate business, transaction, tax, regulatory, or legal purposes.
To submit a privacy-related request, contact us at info@shopwineofthesea.com.
11. Third-Party Websites
Our website may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.
WORLD WINES & LIQUOR is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, availability, or content of third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.
12. Children’s Privacy
This website and the alcoholic beverages offered through it are not intended for individuals under the age of 21.
We do not knowingly sell alcoholic beverages to anyone under 21 years of age.
If we become aware that information has been provided in connection with an attempted alcohol purchase by an individual who does not meet the applicable age requirement, we may take appropriate steps to prevent or cancel the transaction.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, website functionality, services, or applicable legal requirements.
When changes are made, the updated policy will be posted on this page and the “Last updated” date will be revised.
14. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle personal information, please contact us:
WORLD WINES & LIQUOR
Exclusive Ohio Retailer of Wine of the Sea
8760 Mentor Ave
Mentor, OH 44060, USA
Phone:
+1 440-413-5685