Hotcosts.com is part of the network of internet properties owned by Indie Winemakers.  All internet properties follow the Indie Winemakers Privacy Policy as stated below:

At Indie Winemakers, we’re obsessed with privacy. We won’t share or sell your personal information. In general terms, we collect information so we can ensure the vendor ships your product, let you enjoy our community features, and improve our website, services, and products.

Indie Winemakers collects information (such as your name, shipping and billing address, credit card number, email address, etc.) from you when:

• You purchase a product
• You provide an eMail address (mailing list)
• For automatic collection of non-personal information

INFORMATION COLLECTION

1) When you purchase an item on HotCosts.com, Indie Winemakers will ask you to provide personally identifiable information necessary to fulfill an order. That may include name, billing and shipping addresses, telephone number, an eMail address, your birth date and credit card number. All credit card information provided with online orders will be temporarily stored on a secured server (see Security). We will forward the personally identifiable information provided with each order to the vendor of record (Vendor) for shipment purposes and to facilitate customer service. The Vendor will use the eMail address to communicate order and shipping confirmation and to communicate with you if they have difficulty processing an order.

2) When you provide us with an eMail address (mailing list). When you request to be on our mailing list, we use your e-mail address to send you timely announcements of new product arrivals. Each e-mail announcement will have unsubscribe information for those who do not wish to receive information by e-mail.

3) For automatic collection of non-personal information Indie Winemakers uses web beacons to automatically gather non-personal information in order to make our Web site more useful. We learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record personally identifying information about individuals and their visits in this manner. We may compile and report aggregate statistics (e.g. unique hits, page views, etc.) about our website traffic.

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION

Indie Winemakers will not share, rent, lease, or sell your personal information (e.g. your email address, your credit card information, your name, your address, etc.) to any third party for their independent use or benefit.

SECURITY

Indie Winemakers makes every reasonable effort to ensure that all of the transactions that occur on our Web site are secure. All credit card numbers submitted to or through the Web site are encrypted with an industry standard technology for protecting sensitive information as it is transmitted over the Internet.

LINKS

Indie Winemakers may provide links to third party Web sites, and other Web sites may provide links to the HotCosts.com Web site. Third party Web sites operate according to their own terms of use and privacy policies. Indie Winemakers has no control over such third party Web sites, and by using Indie Winemakers' HotCosts Web site you acknowledge and agree that Indie Winemakers is not responsible for the availability of such third party sites, or any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT

Future changes to this Privacy Policy may be made at any time by sending you an email or posting notice of the changes on the site, with the changes effective 30 days after Indie Winemaker’s dispatch of the email or posting of the notice. To ask questions about this policy or to remove your personal information from our database, write us at privacy@indiewinemakers.com.