Welcome to the ASEV website. ASEV has created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy for our website Users. The following paragraphs disclose our information gathering and dissemination practices. The Privacy Policy may change at any time; any changes will be posted on this page. Should you have additional questions, comments or concerns please contact us:

• Our postal address is: P.O. Box 1855, Davis, CA 95617-1855 USA
• We can be reached via e-mail at: info@asev.org
• You can reach us by telephone at (530) 753-3142

User privacy is of utmost concern to ASEV, and as such, the following policies governing your usage of this website:

What Information Does ASEV Collect?

Most data ASEV collects are used only to help us better serve our members. It is our general policy to collect and store only personal information that our members and visitors knowingly provide.

Information Collected from General Users:

ASEV does not collect any personal information from Users browsing its website. Only aggregate data — such as the number of hits per page — are collected. Aggregate data are only used for internal and marketing purposes and do not provide any personally identifying information.

General Contact Form:

http://www.asev.org/ has a function that allows you to provide inquiries and feedback to ASEV by e-mail. You can locate this form by clicking on the menu bar labeled “Contact,” or by click here. This form requests address, phone, and e-mail information and includes a segment for your questions and comments. This information will be utilized by ASEV employees, members, officers, and directors to the extent necessary to respond to your inquiry. ASEV is authorized to provide the information collected by the General Contact Form to any party, as necessary to assist with your inquiry. The choice of how much personal information you choose to disclose on the General Contact Form to is left completely up to you.

Demographic or Personal Preference Questions:

ASEV may, from time to time, ask demographic or personal preference questions. This data may be used for analyzing overall Website demographics, User preferences, and to further develop our member services. We may disclose this data to third parties, including service providers, for services to our members and other users.

The conference Directory of Registrants for ASEV events is offered for sale.  If you choose to register for any ASEV hosted conference, your information will be added to the ASEV registration database and ultimately the conference Directory of Registrants. This is a condition of registering for an ASEV conference.

Use of Session and IP addresses: 

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. Our website uses Session to keep track of various functions within the website.

• In telecommunication, a “Session” is a series of interactions between two communication end points that occur during the span of a single connection. Typically, one end point requests a connection with another specified end point and if that end point replies agreeing to the connection, the end points take turns exchanging commands and data (“talking to each other”). The Session begins when the connection is established at both ends and terminates when the connection is ended.
• A unique number called an IP address identifies every computer on the Internet. Each time you connect to the Internet your machine is assigned an IP address. An IP address is a number that identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent in packets across the Internet.

Credit Card Account Information

ASEV does not disclose credit card account information provided by its members and customers. When members and customers choose to pay using their credit cards, ASEV submits the information needed to obtain payment to the appropriate clearinghouse. See below for information about credit card information obtained by AJEV and the Catalyst.

How Does ASEV Use Cookies?

Websites will commonly write small data files (cookies) to your hard drive during your visits to the website. A cookie file is used in order to track your traffic patterns on a particular website and contains information that can anonymously identify you. This information is encrypted for security purposes. ASEV reserves the right to measures the activity of the website by using cookies. Cookies help us make improvements to the website so you can have a pleasant and productive experience. Cookies are created to identify your computer when visiting our website and are never used to identify you personally. Cookies can’t read data off your hard disk, do damage to your hard disk or memory, or read cookie files created by other websites. You can set your browser to send a warning message before accepting cookies or to refuse cookies. Check with your browser for instructions on how to handle cookies. If the User declines the attachment of any cookie, the User may not have access to the full benefits of the website. Registration enables the website to better determine members’ interest areas and provide the most relevant information.

What Privacy Issues Arise with Links to Other websites?

This website contains links to other websites. ASEV has no control over and is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of such websites. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to this website, you do this entirely at your own risk. You may create links to this website from other websites, but only in accordance with the terms of ASEV’s Web Link & Logo License Agreement. ASEV has a Linking Policy. Please visit ASEV’s Web Link & Logo License Agreement to read more.

What Privacy Issues Arise with Links to www.AJEVonline.org and ASEVCatalyst.org?

The American Journal of Enology and Viticulture (AJEV) and the Catalyst, published quarterly, are the official journals of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture (ASEV). AJEV and Catalyst publishes full-length research papers, literature reviews, research notes, and technical briefs on various aspects of enology and viticulture, including wine chemistry, sensory science, process engineering, wine quality assessments, microbiology, methods development, plant pathogenesis, diseases and pests of grape, rootstock and clonal evaluation, effect of field practices, and grape genetics and breeding. All papers are peer reviewed, and authorship of papers is not limited to members of ASEV. The science editor and a group of associate editors, drawn from academic and research institutions worldwide, guide the content of the journals. http://www.ajevonline.org/ and http://www.asevcatalyst.org/ makes ASEV publications available to ASEV members online and sells individual articles to the general public. Both journals are hosted by Stanford University Libraries’ HighWire Press®. Please see http://www.ajevonline.org/ and http://www.asevcatalyst.org/ for more information, including Terms of Use, Frequently Asked Questions, and Subscriber Help & Services. Credit Card information to purchase journal articles is obtained by using a secured encryption under a security certificate issued by Equifax Secure Global ebusiness CA-1 to Secure.Highwire.org.

What Means of Redress Are Available?

If any User suspects ASEV has handled its personal information in a manner that does not comply with this Privacy Policy, please contact us by e-mailing to info@asev.org or by calling (530) 753-3142.