Privacy notice
A clear explanation of what each feature processes, why it is needed and how long it is retained.
1. Privacy contact
Privacy questions and data-subject requests can be sent to: ugyfel@hungarianwine.hu.
2. Contact messages
Data processed: name, email address, optional organisation, message topic and message text. Purpose: answering the enquiry, handling a correction or preparing a partnership. Depending on the enquiry, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR (steps taken at the data subject’s request before entering a contract) or Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interests in editorial communication and handling legal claims).
Messages are retained for no longer than 365 days unless an ongoing matter or legal obligation justifies a longer period. No IP address, user agent, cookie identifier or browser profile is stored with the message.
3. Hungarian Wine Letter
Data processed: email address, preferred language, time of consent and the privacy-notice version. Legal basis: consent. A sign-up is stored as pending confirmation and automatically deleted after 7 days if it is not confirmed; actual mail delivery may begin only after a double opt-in confirmation process is in place. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.
4. Anonymous usage data
To improve the service, the server stores only predefined events that cannot be linked to an individual: Wine Finder answer and result codes, use of regional and pairing filters, the selected region code, and the item code involved in a Wine Passport save/remove action. For search, the query itself is not stored—only its length and the number of results.
No IP address, user agent, referrer, cookie, persistent identifier or session identifier is recorded, and no visitor profile is created. Anonymous events are retained for no longer than 180 days. For abuse prevention, an IP address may exist for up to 15 minutes solely as a rate-limit key in volatile server memory; it is never written to the database.
5. Wine Passport and local storage
Wine Passport content remains in the browser’s local storage without registration. The full list is not transmitted to the server. On save or removal, only the item type, public content identifier and action code enter anonymous statistics. The local list can be deleted at any time on the Wine Passport page.
6. Recipients and security
Contact and subscription data can be accessed only by authorised personnel who need it for their role and by the processor involved in operating the hosting service. The site uses no external analytics, advertising or third-party form service; fonts and images are served from the site’s own server.
7. Your rights
You may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction and—where applicable—data portability; you may object to processing based on legitimate interests and withdraw consent at any time. Proportionate identity verification may be required before a request is fulfilled.
A complaint may be lodged with the Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (NAIH): 1055 Budapest, Falk Miksa utca 9–11; postal address: 1363 Budapest, PO Box 9; telephone: +36 1 391 1400; ugyfelszolgalat@naih.hu.
Effective from 10 November 2026.