Privacy & Cookie Policy

Wine Barrel NI operates the website thewinebarrelni.com ("the Site"). Our registered business address is 103-107 Bloomfield Road South, Bangor, BT19 7HR.

For any privacy-related enquiries, please contact us at [email protected] or by phone on 07808 516 388.

We may collect the following personal information:

• Contact form data — your name, email address, phone number, and message when you submit an enquiry via our contact form.
• Age verification — we record in your browser's local storage that you have confirmed you are 18 or over. We do not store this on our servers.
• Cookie preferences — your choice to accept or decline non-essential cookies is stored in your browser's local storage.
• Analytics data — anonymised data about how visitors use our Site, collected via analytics cookies (if accepted).

We use the information we collect to:

• Respond to your enquiries and provide customer service.
• Comply with our legal obligation to verify customers are aged 18 or over before selling alcohol.
• Improve our website and understand how visitors use it.
• Send you information you have requested (we will never send unsolicited marketing without your consent).

Our lawful basis for processing contact form data is legitimate interests (responding to your enquiry). Age verification is processed on the basis of legal obligation under the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. We use the following types of cookies:

You can withdraw your consent to non-essential cookies at any time by clearing your browser's local storage or cookies. You can also manage cookies through your browser settings — see allaboutcookies.org for guidance.

We use the following third-party services that may process your data:

• EmailJS — used to transmit contact form submissions to our email inbox. Your name, email, and message are processed by EmailJS to deliver your enquiry. See their privacy policy.
• Google Maps — embedded on our Contact page to show our store location. Google may set cookies. See Google's privacy policy.
• WhatsApp — if you click our WhatsApp button, you will be directed to WhatsApp's platform, which is subject to WhatsApp's privacy policy.

We retain contact form enquiries in our email inbox for as long as necessary to respond to and resolve your enquiry, and for a reasonable period thereafter for record-keeping purposes. We do not retain personal data beyond what is necessary.

Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights:

• Right of access — you can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification — you can ask us to correct inaccurate data.
• Right to erasure — you can ask us to delete your personal data in certain circumstances.
• Right to object — you can object to our processing of your data based on legitimate interests.
• Right to withdraw consent — where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, loss, or misuse. Our Site is served over HTTPS. Contact form data is transmitted securely via EmailJS.

We may update this policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated date at the top. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

If you have any questions about this policy or how we handle your data, please get in touch: