Last updated: April 19, 2026
Bark & Bottle is a curated guide to dog-friendly wineries. This policy explains what information we collect when you visit our site, how we use it, and the choices you have. We try to keep things simple and collect only what we need to run the site.
What we collect
When you browse Bark & Bottle, our servers record standard web access information: your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and the time of your visit. This is the same baseline data any website logs, and it helps us monitor performance and catch abuse.
If you fill out a form on our site — for example, a contact form or a “submit a winery” form — we collect whatever information you enter (name, email, message, and similar). We use that information only to respond to your request.
Cookies, analytics, and advertising
We use a small number of cookies to keep the site working (session cookies, preference cookies) and to understand how visitors use the site in aggregate (analytics).
We plan to introduce advertising on Bark & Bottle through Google AdSense and Google Ad Manager in the near future. When that happens, Google will set advertising cookies and may use information about your visit to show ads, including ads that are based on your browsing activity across other sites (interest-based advertising). We’ll describe exactly how this works in the “For California residents” section below, including how to opt out. Until advertising is live, no advertising cookies are set and no data is shared with advertising partners.
You can block or clear cookies in your browser settings at any time; doing so may affect some conveniences but will not prevent you from using the site.
Third-party services
We rely on a handful of third parties to run Bark & Bottle. Each of them handles only the data necessary for their part of the job:
- Cloudflare — caching, performance, and security. Cloudflare sees request metadata.
- Google Analytics (or a similar analytics tool) — aggregated visit statistics.
- Gravity Forms — form submissions, stored on our WordPress install.
- Google AdSense and Google Ad Manager (planned, not yet live) — will display ads and, once active, will receive request data (including cookies, IP address, approximate location, and page context) to select and measure ads.
If we add or swap providers, we’ll update this list.
How long we keep things
Access logs are rotated after 90 days. Form submissions are kept as long as they’re useful — typically until the conversation is resolved, and generally no longer than 24 months. Analytics data is retained in aggregate for as long as the analytics provider’s default policy allows.
Your rights
You have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to correct it, and to ask us to delete it. We’ll respond to reasonable requests within a reasonable time. To exercise any of these rights, email us at roger@northandvine.net. California residents have additional specific rights — see the section below.
For California residents (CCPA / CPRA)
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, gives you specific rights over your personal information. This section summarizes what we collect, why, how it is shared, and how you can exercise those rights.
Categories of personal information we collect
In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information, as defined by Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.140:
- Identifiers — IP address, device identifiers, and (if you submit a form) name and email.
- Internet or network activity — pages visited, referring URL, browser type, and interactions with site features.
- Geolocation — approximate location inferred from IP address (city/region, not precise GPS).
- Commercial or inference data — aggregated patterns about how visitors use the site, used to improve content. Once advertising is live, Google may also draw inferences from browsing activity to select ads.
We do not collect Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial account information, precise geolocation, biometric data, health data, or other categories of sensitive personal information as defined by the CPRA.
Sources and business purposes
We collect this information directly from you (form submissions), automatically from your browser (access logs and analytics), and from the third-party services listed above. We use it to operate and secure the site, respond to your messages, understand how the site is used in aggregate, and — once advertising is live — to show and measure ads.
Sale and sharing of personal information
We do not sell your personal information for money.
We plan to share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising once Google AdSense and Google Ad Manager are live on the site. Under the CPRA, letting Google use identifiers and browsing activity to show you ads based on your behavior on other sites is considered “sharing.” This planned sharing will involve the categories of personal information described above (identifiers, internet activity, approximate geolocation, and inferences), disclosed to Google and its advertising partners for the business purpose of advertising. Until advertising is live, we do not share any personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Your California privacy rights
As a California resident, you have the right to:
- Know what personal information we have collected about you, including categories, sources, purposes, and recipients.
- Delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
- Correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
- Opt out of the sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising (see “How to opt out” below).
- Limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information (not applicable here — we do not collect sensitive PI).
- Data portability — receive a copy of your personal information in a portable format.
- Non-discrimination — we will not deny you service, charge you different prices, or provide different quality of service because you exercised a privacy right.
How to opt out of sharing for advertising
You can opt out of sharing your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising in any of these ways:
- Global Privacy Control (GPC). If your browser or a browser extension sends a GPC signal, we honor it automatically as an opt-out. Supporting browsers and extensions include Brave, DuckDuckGo’s browser, Firefox with the Privacy Badger extension, and others.
- “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link. Use our Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information page (also linked in the site footer). Clicking the button there sets a first-party opt-out cookie and suppresses advertising personalization on this device. The control is in place now, even though advertising is not yet live, so your preference will be honored automatically the moment we introduce ads.
- Google Ad Settings. You can adjust the ads Google shows you, including turning off personalized advertising across Google’s network, at adssettings.google.com.
How to exercise other rights
For any other rights (know, delete, correct, portability), email roger@northandvine.net with the subject line “California Privacy Request” and describe what you want us to do. We will verify your request by matching the information you provide to what we already have on file (for example, an email address you’ve previously used to contact us). We will respond within 45 days. If we need more time, we may extend the response period by up to an additional 45 days and will let you know.
You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may require written proof of the agent’s authority and verification of your identity.
Shine the Light
California Civil Code § 1798.83 (“Shine the Light”) allows California residents to request information about personal information we have shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not share personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
Minors
Bark & Bottle is written entirely about wine, wineries, and alcohol, and is intended for adults 21 years of age or older (the U.S. legal drinking age). The site is not directed at minors, and we do not knowingly allow users under 21 to sign up for anything on the site.
Where the law still applies to minors who reach the site anyway: we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and we do not sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16. Once advertising is live, any user we identify as under 16 will be served only non-personalized ads, and their information will not be shared for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Changes to this policy
When we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top and, if the change is significant, mention it on the site. When Google AdSense and Google Ad Manager go live, we will update this policy to reflect the switch from “planned” to “active.”
Contact
Questions about this policy, or requests to exercise your rights? Email roger@northandvine.net.