Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 18, 2026

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy describes how MeadTasting.com ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you use our website and blog (the "Service"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as it will help you understand what we do with the information we collect.

2. Definitions

Cookie: a small file placed on your device to enable certain features and functionality.
Company: when this policy mentions "Company," "we," "us," or "our," it refers to MeadTasting.com.
Country: where MeadTasting.com or the owners/founders of MeadTasting.com are based, in this case United States.
Customer: refers to the company, organization, or person that signs up to use the MeadTasting.com Service.
Device: any internet-connected device such as a phone, tablet, computer, or any other device that can be used to visit MeadTasting.com and use the services.
Personal Data: any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information allows for the identification of a natural person.
Service: refers to the website and blog provided by MeadTasting.com as described in the relative terms and on this platform.
Third-party service: refers to advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you.
Website: MeadTasting.com's site, which can be accessed via https://meadtasting.com.
You: a person or entity that is registered with MeadTasting.com to use the Services.

3. Information We Collect

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

3.1 Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This may include:

Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Cookies and Usage Data

3.3 Usage Data

We may also collect information about how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

3.5 Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

Session Cookies: We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
Preference Cookies: We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
Security Cookies: We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Advertising Cookies: Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.

4. How We Use Your Information

MeadTasting.com uses the collected data for various purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service
To notify you about changes to our Service
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
To provide customer support
To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
To monitor the usage of our Service
To detect, prevent and address technical issues
To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

6. Retention of Your Personal Data

MeadTasting.com will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

MeadTasting.com will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

6.1 Data Retention for Physical Goods

For orders involving physical goods, we retain your shipping and billing information, including your name, address, and contact details, as necessary to fulfill your order, process returns, manage warranty claims, and comply with tax, legal, and regulatory obligations.

7. Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

8. Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If MeadTasting.com is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, MeadTasting.com may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements

MeadTasting.com may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of MeadTasting.com, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service, protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public, or protect against legal liability.

9. Third-Party Disclosure

9.1 Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, including Google Analytics. Google may use the collected data to track and monitor the use of our Service. You can opt-out of having your activity available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page.

10. Security of Your Personal Data

The security of your Personal Data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

11. Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

12. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location and applicable laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict use of your information. We honor these rights regardless of your location.

12.1 General Data Access & Deletion Rights

Access Your Data: You can request a copy of the personal information we have about you. We will provide this information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
Delete Your Data: You can request that we delete your personal information from our systems. We will comply with this request unless there is a legal requirement for us to keep certain information.

To submit a data access or deletion request, please contact us using the contact information provided below. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

12.3 CCPA Privacy Rights (California Residents)

If you are a California resident, you are entitled to learn what data we collect about you, ask to delete your data and not to sell (share) it. We don't sell or rent your personal information to any third parties for any purpose. To exercise your California data protection rights, please send your request(s) by email: meadtasting@gmail.com. We will respond to verified requests within 45 days as required by the CCPA.

13. Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

14. Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "effective date" at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

16. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: meadtasting@gmail.com