What personal data is collected here (and why)
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Contact forms may also capture these data. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. This site also employs contact and sign-up forms, and security software that may utilize website cookies (otherwise, some of their functions just wouldn’t work).
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Demographics and other information is provided to potential advertisers only in the aggregate (e.g., “X% of readers live in the U.S.”), and no specific individual information is ever used for that purpose. Advertisers may be placing and reading cookies on users browsers, or using web beacons or similar technology to collect information in the course of Advertising being served on 1WineDude.com (if you aren’t down with that, there are plenty of browser add-ons out there that, once installed, can help mitigate/prevent that from happening for your browser).
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.