Security and Respect of Personal Information

Concerned about the protection of your private information, SoDivin treats all information about you with the strictest confidentiality. In order to demonstrate our commitment to users’ complete security and privacy, SoDivin has a policy of complete transparency regarding how we use your personal information and how we insure that your personal information remains secure. It is our utmost concern that the personal information that users communicate to SoDivin is used for appropriate means and not diffused to outside parties. The following is SoDivin’s security and privacy policy.
SoDivin will explain the following in detail:
- How we adhere to the law regarding personal liberty on the internet.
- What personally identifiable information SoDivin collects and how SoDivin uses the information
- How we insure totally secure payment transactions
- What Secure shipping methods we use
- How users can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
We also encourage you to read our Sales Conditions before placing an order.
1. Law concerning technology and liberties
According to the law in France 78-17 dated January 6th, 1978, you have the right to access, modify, rectify and to suppress any personal information about you. You can exercise this right by directly accessing your personal account on line by using your pseudonym and your password.
You can also contact us at contact@sodivin.com or SoDivin S.A.,21, chemin de Horts, 30670 Aigues-Vives, France.
By inscribing yourself on our website you may be informed of our new features, services and special offers we think you'll find valuable by email. If you wish to not receive these offers please contact us.
2. Personal information
- No sharing information with 3rd parties
SoDivin is the sole owner of the information collected on this site.
We value your privacy at SoDivin, and will never release any private information nor account information to any party outside of SoDivin. SoDivin does not sell, rent, or give email or physical addresses nor personal information about its clients.
SoDivin takes measures to secure physically and electronically all personal information about our clients and we have strict procedures about the collection, conservation and the communication of this information to insure that this information remains secure and never communicated outside of SoDivin.
- Gift Recipients
We collect contact information, such as name, shipping address and phone number, for gift recipients to ensure correct gift delivery. We do not sell, share or rent any contact information for gift recipients with third parties. We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information that you provide to us regarding gift recipients, but they may receive offers from us highlighting new features, new products and services and special offers we think they will find of interest. Also we may send marketing offers to gift recipients. In connection with such offers, we allow gift recipients to opt out of receiving future marketing-related mailings from us.
- Cookies
A cookie is data stored on the end-user's hard drive with information that relates directly to the end-user's visit to our web site. Any information placed in the cookie is accessible only to SoDivin, and will not be sold or shared with anyone else under any circumstances. We use a cookie to store a unique session identifier, which allows us to maintain shopping cart and state selections from one page request to the next, and maintain session information from one visit to the next. By setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in more than once, thereby saving time while visiting our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still browse our site. However, the user experience will be greatly curtailed. In addition, the user will be unable to log in or make a purchase. Cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance users' experience and display products that relate directly to individual user preferences. Cookies are tied to personal information but the information collected through cookies is never shared with third parties.
- Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement and gather demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable sites.
- Registration
No registration is required in order to use this website, though a user must create an account prior to completing any purchase. Users are required to provide their name, email address, zip code, and a password. This information is necessary in order for us to contact users about services on our site for which they have expressed interest.
- Tell a Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. SoDivin does not store this information.
3. Secure payments
SoDivin adheres to the highest level of security for all methods of payment. We ask you only for the necessary information to process your order and the information that you submit to us is never shared with a third party.
SoDivin order forms request data from users including: contact information such as name and shipping address; financial information such as credit card number, expiration date, billing address, and billing phone number. This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customers' orders. If we encounter difficulty when processing an order, this contact information is used to contact the user. This information is harvested from a secure area and encrypted for our customers' protection. It is not sold or shared with anyone else under any circumstances.
You may pay for your order with SoDivin in 3 ways :
- Payment by credit card
A credit or debit card issued from a bank located outside of France must be an international card in an international format. SoDivin accepts only MasterCard and Visa.
When our order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted before being sent with the best encryption software in the industry: 3D Secure. 3D Secure was created to ensure the highest level of security for payment by credit card.
SoDivin’s secure payment is a service of BNP Paribas, an international bank that uses the most up-to-date technology to encrypt private information being transferred to the SoDivin website. BNP’s secure payment technology is called Mercanet. To learn more about Mercanet please visit their website:
Mercanet : https://www.secure.bnpparibas.net/paiement_securise.html
In case of payment by card, your articles are shipped at moment your payment is received.
- Automatic Bank Transfer
The transfer of funds from your bank account directly to our bank account is a very sound and secure method of payment. You simply give the account information of SoDivin and the amount to be transferred to your bank and the funds are directly deposited into SoDivin’s bank account in just a few business days. Your account information is not shared with the end recipient (in this case SoDivin) nor transferred over the internet, therefore this is a very secure method of payment.
You will need the following information to route the transfer to SoDivin’s account. Give your bank the following information and the amount to transfer.
SoDivin
21 Chemin des Horts
30670 Aigues-Vives - France
Bank : BNP PARIBAS LUNEL
86 Place de la Republique
34400 Lunel
France
IBAN : FR76 3000 4024 0100 0100 1088 914
BIC : BNPAFRPPMPL
RIB : 30004 02401 00010010889
Your bank may charge a fee to execute an automatic bank transfer independent of SoDivin. Please ask your bank directly if you have questions about the fees they may apply.
SoDivin ships the order immediately after funds have been received in our account.
- Bank Check or Money Order
SoDivin only accepts payment by bank check or money order from a bank located in France or Monaco drawn in euros. In case of payment by check or money order, it is immediately deposited. Son Divin will ship your order once your check once payment has been received which may take several business days.
The check should be made out to: SoDivin, and sent to the following address:
21 chemin de Horts, 30670 Aigues-Vives, France
4. Secure shipping methods
SoDivin ships all over the world. Shipment of wine is limited only by local laws of individual countries or states. SoDivin does its best to stay updated on importation laws of individual countries but as laws may change abruptly we cannot insure
SoDivin uses the following established transporters and others to ship all over the world:
Colissimo for standard shipments throughout the world (except the United States) |
Chronopost for urgent shipments throughout the world |
Please see detailed information about shipping costs and delays on our “
shipping” page located on the right-hand side of the SoDivin homepage.
5. Security of the merchandise
SoDivin does everything possible to insure that you receive your merchandise undamaged, in exactly the state as it was when it left our cellar. SoDivin ships all of its merchandise in packaging especially designed to ship wine and uses shippers that are used to shipping such delicate merchandise.
6. Miscellaneous privacy information
- Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
- Links
This web site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that SoDivin is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
- Emails
If a user wishes to subscribe to our emails we ask for contact information such as name and email address. We may use your personal information for purposes other than sending you promotional materials. For example, we may use your information to complete transactions requested by you, or to send you administrative communications about any account you may have with us or about future changes to this Privacy Policy.
If at any time you should wish to unsubscribe, please email us at contact@sodivin.com.