Privacy Policy
Effective Date: June 12, 2026
At www.drinkeste.com, we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our visitors. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal data when you visit our website, make a purchase, or subscribe to our services.
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://www.drinkeste.com
What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It
Checkout and Order Processing
When you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the site, we collect certain information from you to process your transaction and fulfill your order.
What is Collected: Name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, and payment information (including credit card numbers or alternative payment identifiers).
Why it is Collected: To fulfill any orders placed through the site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations); to communicate with you; and to screen our orders for potential risk or fraud.
Retention Period: We retain this transaction data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, comply with our legal, accounting, or tax obligations, or resolve disputes.
Comments and Media
Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Comments: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies last for one year.
Login & Accounts: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we set up several cookies to save your login information (lasts two days) and screen choices (lasts one year). If you select “Remember Me”, your login persists for two weeks.
Third-Party Service Providers and Data Sharing
We share your personal data with trusted third-party service providers to help us operate our business, process payments, fulfill orders, and communicate with you. Below is an enumeration of our primary service providers along with links to their respective privacy policies:
Payment Processing: We use secure payment gateways to process transactions. Your credit card data is encrypted and handled directly by our processors; we do not store raw credit card numbers on our servers.
Stripe: Stripe Privacy Policy
PayPal: PayPal Privacy Policy
Subscriptions & Autoship: For recurring product subscriptions, we utilize Autoship mechanisms to manage and automate your orders.
Autoship (QLPilot): Autoship/QLPilot Privacy Policy
Order Fulfillment & Shipping: To deliver your purchases, we share your shipping details with fulfillment services and carriers.
ShipStation: ShipStation Privacy Policy
Email and SMS Marketing: If you opt-in to receive our newsletters or text promotions, your contact information is processed through our marketing platforms.
Klaviyo: Klaviyo Privacy Policy
Analytics: We use analytics tools to help us understand how our customers use the site.
Google Analytics: Google Privacy Policy
California-Specific Privacy Disclosures (CCPA/CPRA)
This section applies solely to residents of the State of California. It supplements the information contained above and addresses the specific requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, “CCPA”).
1. Categories of Personal Information Collected and Disclosed
In the preceding 12 months, we have collected (and disclosed to the service providers listed above for business purposes) the following categories of personal information:
Identifiers: Name, shipping/billing address, email address, phone number, unique personal identifier, and IP address.
Commercial Information: Records of products purchased, obtained, or considered, and purchase histories.
Financial Data: Payment information provided at checkout (processed securely via third-party gateways).
Internet/Electronic Network Activity: Browsing history, search history, and interactions with our website.
Geolocation Data: General location derived from your IP address.
2. Your California Consumer Rights
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights regarding your data:
Right to Know / Access: The right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell/share about you.
Right to Delete: The right to request the deletion of your personal information collected or maintained by us, subject to certain legal exceptions (such as fulfilling an ongoing transaction).
Right to Correct: The right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: The right to direct a business that sells or shares personal information to stop doing so.
Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you (e.g., deny goods, charge different prices, or provide a different level of quality) for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
3. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
We do not sell your personal information for monetary consideration. However, like many online businesses, we may “share” identifiers and network activity with advertising or analytics networks to deliver personalized marketing.
To exercise your right to opt-out of the selling or sharing of your personal information, please submit a request by:
Emailing us at: hello@drinkeste.com with the subject line “CCPA Opt-Out Request”.
Using a Universal Opt-Out Signal: Our website recognizes Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals. If your browser transmits a GPC signal, we will automatically process it as a request to opt-out of data sharing for that browser.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your data rights, or need to request a modification to your subscription details, please contact us at: hello@drinkeste.com
