Privacy Notice

Beer Club Hub wants to assure that visitors to and users of Beer Club Hub sites, including the wired sites, the mobile sites, and applications whether using or not using the http://www.BeerClubHub.com/ sites (jointly and severally referred as the Beer Club Hub Sites), are provided with appropriate information and choice mechanisms to make and implement informed decisions on using the Beer Club Hub Sites, including but not limited to providing Personally Identifiable Information ('PII').

Your use of the Beer Club Hub sites indicates your consent and acknowledgment to the practices described in this Privacy Statement.

We want you to know that Beer Club Hub is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. As Beer Club Hub expands its offerings and as technology evolves, we may, from time to time, update our privacy practices to address these. Please check this page on a regular basis for updates to this Privacy Statement. THE Beer Club Hub SITES, AND THE PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND ADVERTISING MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THESE SITES, MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR USE BY CHILDREN.

What We Collect About You

We collect information on the Beer Club Hub Sites during the registration process and through your use of the Beer Club Hub Sites for business purposes that will allow us to better and more efficiently serve you. Our personalization, interactive communications, online commerce and other types of services, allow us to deliver better service and content that is relevant to our user base. Some uses Beer Club Hub makes of this information are processing and verifying subscriptions, billing, and providing you with up-to -date information on the newest Beer Club Hub products. Third parties, providers, advertisers and vendors (hereinafter "Providers") may be utilized by Beer Club Hub in conjunction with the operation of the Beer Club Hub Sites and the products, services, and advertising related to them. These Providers may also collect information.

- You may be asked to provide information that personally identifies you or allows Beer Club Hub and/or its Providers to contact you. Generally this information is requested when you are asked to register for services. You may be asked to provide personally identifiable information such as your name, address, date of birth, and email address (collectively 'Personally Identifiable Information' or 'PII'), as well as select a username and password (if one is not selected for you by Beer Club Hub). You may be asked for information which is no considered PII, such as a zip/postal code and/or country of origin. As a registered subscriber or user, you may be able to download software, enter contests, order e-mail newsletters or participate in additional services. In addition to the PII obtained at registration, you may be asked for information at other times, such as when you make a purchase or register for a service on or through the Beer Club Hub Sites, when you submit a listing for a web site, or when you report a problem with one of our sites or services. However, whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on message boards, through email, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and used by others.

- Any information you proactively provide or voluntarily disclose may be shared with other users of BeerClubHub.com, such as other club members and business staff. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email, ratings, Beer Club Hub usage patterns, and preferences.

In addition to the information that you may proactively provide or voluntarily disclose, your mere use of the Beer Club Hub Sites may result in the assignment of unique identifying numbers and/or codes which may be used to allow Beer Club Hub and its Providers and others who assist Beer Club Hub in the support of the Beer Club Hub Sites and the products and services offered on the Beer Club Hub Sites, including advertisers, to track a user's web browsing movements across the internet and not just on the Beer Club Hub sites. This type of information is consider User Data (as defined below). By using the Beer Club Hub Sites, you acknowledge and consent to such activity.

To provide location-based services, Beer Club Hub and its partners and licensees utilize certain geographic tracking technologies that may collect, use, and/or share precise location data (such as GPS signals sent by a mobile device) or information that can be used to approximate a location (such as a cell ID), including the real-time geographic location of your computer or mobile device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by Beer Club Hub and its partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services. By accepting Beer Club Hub's Privacy Statement and/or by using Beer Club Hub's products and/or services, you consent to use by Beer Club Hub and its Providers, partners and licensees of such geographic tracking technologies.

- If you contact Beer Club Hub we may keep a record of that correspondence, and may further prompt you for further information, depending on the nature of the contact. We may also occasionally ask that you voluntarily participate in certain promotions, surveys or contests ('Special Programs'), or enable automatic entry into such Special Programs via log-on entries. At such times, Beer Club Hub may disclose your PII to sponsors of the Special Program, and we may or may not describe this to you prior to transferring the data. Special Programs may also be subject to additional or different terms, or may be shared or used in a slightly different way. If different terms do apply, details of the specific terms and conditions or rules for these Special Programs may or may not be provided by posting to the Beer Club Hub Sites or upon registration for the Special Program, on a case-by-case basis, subject to Beer Club Hub's terms For Sharing PII.

- To the extent unique information, which is not in itself PII, such as personal profile, anonymous identifier(s), demographic information, behavioral information, browser identifiers, session information, device type, carrier provider, unique device ID, UUID/UDID, carrier user ID, web sites visited, IP address and traffic data, is associated with PII, then such unique information shall NOT be considered PII, but shall be considered User Data. Additionally, PII does NOT include information that is collected anonymously (i.e. without identification of the individual user) or demographic or behavioral information that is not connected to or correlated with an identified individual.

Why We Want to Know

It's important for us to know our users. We deliver valuable products and services, We are able to accomplish this through the use of Providers, such as advertisers, to produce the income we need to operate the free areas of the Beer Club Hub Sites. Providers are like most businesses in that they want something in return for the money they spend advertising on the Beer Club Hub Sites. They may want to know how many people will see their ad, and how often. The advertising companies may use information (including or not including PII) about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These companies may also employ, among other things, Cookies, Web Beacons and FlashCookies/HTML5/local storage/mini databases in furtherance of their services to Beer Club Hub.

-Vendors and Third Party Providers. To make the Beer Club Hub Sites more valuable to our customers and our visitors, we may offer some products, services or features in conjunction with Providers. Many wireless products, for example, may be made available through cooperative arrangements with Providers who offer specialized products, information or services that work well with Beer Club Hub Sites, products and services. In some instances, our Providers may have the same access to your PII as we do. Their use of the information will be subject to the terms of their respective privacy policies or statements, which you may find on their websites.

-We may use third-party companies to serve ads when you visit the Beer Club Hub Site(s). These companies may use information about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here: (http://www.aboutads.info/choices). You may also go to the sites and policies of our Providers to find out more about technologies utilized by them in the course of providing services to the Beer Club Hub Sites.

-Links to Provider Sites. Occasionally, you may seek access to certain products and/or services on the Beer Club Hub Sites that are only available through third parties, either through their own web sites or on web sites hosted by or linked to the Beer Club Hub Sties. When ordering, registering for or purchasing products or services from these Providers, you may at times be entering into an agreement with that Provider, and not with Beer Club Hub, and supplemental Provider Terms may apply. You should read and understand the Providers' terms of use and policies before using their site or entering into agreements with them, since they may differ substantially from this Privacy Statement and other applicable Beer Club Hub Terms and Conditions. Beer Club Hub is not responsible for and does not endorse or accept any responsibility over the contents or use of the Provider sites, products and/or services and is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any linked or hosted site. You should contact our Providers directly should you have any questions or concerns relating to the terms of use and privacy policies of our Providers' web sites. We may provide information and contact information about our Providers in this policy or on the Beer Club Hub Sites, but we take no responsibility to have a complete list of these nor to ensure that the contact information is correct or accurate. The information is provided for convenience only, but it is your responsibility to seek out and contact such entities.

-Online Behavioral Advertising. The Beer Club Hub Sites may be designed to utilize Online Behavioral Advertising, data collection and use practices(OBA). This means that certain information regarding your internet viewing behaviors or practices, over periods of time and perhaps involving websites or applications which are not the Beer Club Hub Sites, may be used for the purpose of choosing advertising to display to you. If you desire to "opt-out" of this OBA process, you can use the link at http://www.aboutads.info/choices to do so. This hyperlink and process is the recommended tool for such "opt-out" provisions of the Digital Advertising Alliance Self-Regulatory Principles of Online Behavioral Advertising, to which Beer Club Hub endeavors to adhere to, as a member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

-Cookies. The Beer Club Hub Sites may be designed to utilize cookies for optimal user performance. Cookies and other types of identifiers may also be included for purposes of collecting anonymous traffic data (e.g. how may people come to the Beer Club Hub Site(s), how often, etc.) Such cookies or identifiers may be placed by us or by third parties who perform services for us. Generally speaking, you may modify browser preferences to accept all cookies, be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies, you may be unable to use many of Beer Club Hub's products and services. Some sections of the Beer Club Hub Sites may require that you log on in order to continue to use specific goods or services offered through our network, because we do not want cookies to replace security measures that you would otherwise take for yourself, your PII and your data. Some of these services include certain software applications and fee-based services, and some Internet activities that require more than an IP Address to continue.

- Businesses. Beer Club Hub provides services to businesses, such as bars and restaurants, in order to provide you with an improved experience. We achieve this by sharing your personal information, website usage patterns, ratings, purchases, comments, and other information so the business may better serve you. By voluntarily joining a club or business on Beer Club Hub, you are agreeing to share your personal information with the business. Beer Club Hub is not responsible for the misuse of your personal information by clubs, businesses, or third-party organizations.

FlashCookies/HTML5 Software/Local Storage/Mini databases

The Beer Club Hub Sites may utilize flashcookies/HTML5 software and/or local storage and/or mini databases in conjunction with the use of the sites and the targeting of advertising to the users of the Beer Club Hub sites. Many hand held mobile devices use these technologies in conjunction with the mobile browsers on the devices. Many mobile devices use these technologies which allow for the storage of information on the mobile devices and, in effect, allow the enhancement of internet browsing as well as other uses including but not limited to targeting advertisements. The flashcookies/HTML5/local storage/mini databases technologies also allow the device to track a user's web browsing movements across the internet and not just on one particular website. Beer Club Hub and its providers may utilize one or more of these technologies and others on the Beer Club Hub Sites(s).

-Security. Anytime a credit card is requested for processing orders through the Beer Club Hub Sites, the user transaction containing the credit card information may encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. SSL provides strong encryption to all digital information as it crosses the Internet. While on a secure page, such as on order forms, the lock button on the bottom of Web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to unlocked or open when you are just surfing or in other areas of the Site.

-Age / Use by Minor. Beer Club Hub does not intend to collect any personally identifiable information from children through our websites. Please do not allow children under the age of 18 to provide any personally identifiable information, ask questions or participate in chat rooms related to our websites. If we are notified that a child under 18 has provided personal information, we will delete that information as soon as reasonably possible.

-Password Security Access to certain portions of the Beer Club Hub Sites are password-protected so that you and only you will have access to the Site as a subscriber. It may be necessary for Beer Club Hub, its employees, contractors or Providers working on behalf of Beer Club Hub to access the Site using your subscriber information to provide you with support or to perform certain maintenance tasks. This access happens on an as-needed basis only.

-Electronic Registration. When you access or install a new product or service, you may be asked to register electronically. Your registration information will be merged with any information you have already provided ('Profile'). If you have not previously registered within the Beer Club Hub Sites, a Profile may be created for you from your product registration information. If you have not already registered by giving us your PII, you will be asked to do so to ensure that only you can access the product or services. Upon satisfactory completion of your registration information, Beer Club Hub authorizes users to access and use the Beer Club Hub Sites and its products and services subject to the Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Statement. User shall maintain the confidentiality of any user name and password. If there is a breach of the confidentiality of a password or user name assigned to user, or any breach of security through user's account, then user shall so notify Beer Club Hub's customer assistance center immediately.

-TERMS FOR SHARING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION -In special circumstances, Beer Club Hub may opt to access or disclose PII when there is reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating Beer Club Hub's Terms and Conditions, this Privacy Statement, any applicable End User License Agreement, Provider or Subscription Terms, or when there is reason to believe an individual may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Beer Club Hub's rights or property, other Beer Club Hub Site users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Beer Club Hub may then opt to disclose or access PII in good faith in circumstances where the law requires it, and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve the Beer Club Hub Sites and our products and services. Beer Club Hub may also be requested to disclose PII to law enforcement authorities or as may be required by court-ordered subpoena.

-From time to time, we may share data regarding the users of the Beer Club Hub Sites and the use of our services (for example, 10% of our users are within a certain specialty industry, or users who choose one type of service request a related or similar service 38% of the time, etc.), and we may also combine a user's use and purchasing habits through the Beer Club Hub Sites and our providers' sites to create a personalized user profile so we can tailor the Beer Club Hub Sites to our users' preferences and enhance the site's offerings (hereinafter 'User Data'). There may also be other instances where Beer Club Hub has determined that sharing User Data with third parties would maximize Beer Club Hub's ability to better serve users. Should this occur, no PII will be included in these types of statistics.

-Since we use Providers to ship products or perform customized products and/or services offered or accessed through the Beer Club Hub Sites or our Providers' sites, and a credit card processing company to bill some users for goods and services, we may need to disclose PII to complete certain business transactions. Users may also require that we bill for services via invoicing, purchase order, or through Providers, such as mobile/wireless carriers or internet storefronts. Under these circumstances, we may be required to share the user's PII to obtain a credit report with a reporting agency or to complete the order processing to serve the user. We may request that these Providers do not retain, share, store or use PII for any secondary purposes.

-Beer Club Hub is in the business of providing and hosting information products, services, and other related products and services as a service to our users. As such, User Data is also considered, a 'customer list', and as such, is a valuable asset to any company subject to legal protection and regulation under federal and state laws as a property interest. Accordingly, User Data will be subject to all customary rights and protections afforded to property owners under these laws. Such rights customarily include the right to transfer the information during the sale of assets to or merger with third parties, and to routinely share such information with affiliates of Beer Club Hub.

-Excepting PII collected during the purchasing or registration process, User Data may be used by Beer Club Hub or Providers to, among other things, retrieve or create the product or service that you have requested or for such business purposes as Beer Club Hub and/or its providers may determine in their sole discretion, without resort to a reasonableness standard. Please be advised that this User Data may be stored by Beer Club Hub or its Providers as 'preferences' or otherwise and used without restriction. Further, all information submitted is and becomes the exclusive property of Beer Club Hub and by submitting material to Beer Club Hub, you accept responsibility for its accuracy, appropriateness and legality. Other than as set out above, you may receive notice when PII might go to third parties, and within such notice you may find the information about your opportunity to choose not to share the PII.

-If for some reason you believe that Beer Club Hub has not adhered to these stated principles, please notify the Beer Club Hub customer service center, and we will work to determine the issue and correct the problem . Your concerns should be detailed in a communication including enough identifying information to permit someone to contact you, in case further information is required to troubleshoot your concerns. Be certain the words 'Beer Club Hub Privacy Statement' are included in the Subject line. Further resolution of your concerns will be governed by the Terms and Conditions applicable to the Beer Club Hub Sites.

Version date: July 18, 2023