Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 4, 2026
Sipmeisters Fine Wine and Liquor (“Sipmeisters,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide when you visit our website, create an account, place an order, make a purchase, contact us, or otherwise interact with our business.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use and protect it, when we may share it, and the choices you may have regarding your personal information.
By using our website or services, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Depending on how you interact with Sipmeisters, we may collect the following categories of information:
Information You Provide Directly
When you place an order, create an account, contact us, sign up for communications, or otherwise interact with us, we may collect:
- Name
- Billing and shipping address
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Account login information
- Order and purchase history
- Products purchased or viewed
- Customer service communications
- Information you voluntarily provide through forms or other communications
Payment Information
When you make a purchase, payment information may be collected and processed by our payment-processing providers.
Sipmeisters generally does not need to store your complete credit or debit card number. Payment information may be transmitted directly to a third-party payment processor for authorization and processing.
We may retain limited payment-related information, such as the type of payment method used, transaction status, and portions of a payment card number where provided by the payment processor.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages visited
- Date and time of visits
- Referring website
- Website interactions
- General location information derived from your IP address
- Cookies and similar technologies
We use this information to operate, secure, maintain, analyze, and improve our website and services.
2. AGE REQUIREMENT
Sipmeisters sells alcoholic beverages and does not knowingly sell alcohol to individuals who are under the legal drinking age.
Our website and ordering systems may use age-verification or age-confirmation technologies. Information provided for age verification may be processed by Sipmeisters or by a third-party service provider acting on our behalf.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through our website for purposes unrelated to legally permitted transactions.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can evaluate and, where appropriate, delete the information.
3. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use personal information for legitimate business purposes, including to:
- Process and fulfill orders
- Process payments
- Arrange delivery or pickup
- Verify age where required
- Communicate with customers about orders
- Provide customer service
- Create and manage customer accounts
- Send order confirmations and transactional communications
- Respond to questions, requests, or complaints
- Provide information about products, promotions, and special offers where permitted
- Improve our website, products, and services
- Understand website usage and customer preferences
- Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud or unauthorized transactions
- Maintain website and information security
- Comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, and legal processes
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
- Perform other purposes disclosed to you at the time information is collected
4. MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
If you choose to subscribe to our email or text-message marketing, we may use your contact information to send you information about products, promotions, events, new arrivals, special offers, and other Sipmeisters updates.
You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link contained in the applicable email.
For text-message marketing, you may opt out by following the instructions provided in the applicable message.
Opting out of promotional communications does not prevent us from sending transactional or service-related communications necessary to complete or manage your orders.
5. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, analytics tools, and similar technologies.
These technologies may be used to:
- Keep items in your shopping cart
- Maintain login sessions
- Remember preferences
- Improve website functionality
- Understand website traffic and usage
- Measure the effectiveness of advertising and marketing
- Help detect security issues and fraudulent activity
Some cookies may be placed by third-party service providers that perform services on our behalf.
You can generally control cookies through your web browser. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of portions of our website.
6. THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS
We may use third-party companies and service providers to help operate our business and website.
These providers may process personal information as necessary to provide services such as:
- Website hosting
- E-commerce and shopping-cart functionality
- Payment processing
- Age verification
- Shipping and delivery
- Order fulfillment
- Customer relationship management
- Email and text-message communications
- Website analytics
- Advertising and marketing
- Fraud prevention and security
- Information technology and technical support
These companies are authorized to use personal information only as reasonably necessary to provide services to Sipmeisters or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.
7. WOOCOMMERCE AND WEBSITE SERVICES
Our online store may use WooCommerce, WordPress, hosting providers, payment processors, shipping providers, analytics services, and other third-party technologies.
Information collected through our online store may be processed by these providers as necessary to operate the website, process orders, facilitate payments, provide customer services, and perform related business functions.
The privacy practices of third-party services are governed by their respective privacy policies.
8. INFORMATION SHARING
Sipmeisters does not sell your personal information for money.
We may disclose personal information to third parties when reasonably necessary to operate our business, including:
- Payment processors
- Shipping and delivery providers
- Age-verification providers
- Website and technology providers
- Marketing and communication providers
- Analytics providers
- Fraud-prevention and security providers
- Professional advisors
- Government authorities or law-enforcement agencies when legally required
- Other parties when necessary to protect our rights, property, customers, or business
We may also disclose information in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, reorganization, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction.
9. DATA SECURITY
We take reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
However, no website, electronic transmission, database, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and should notify us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.
10. DATA RETENTION
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Provide our products and services
- Complete transactions
- Maintain business and transaction records
- Comply with legal and regulatory obligations
- Resolve disputes
- Prevent fraud
- Enforce agreements
- Protect our legitimate business interests
When personal information is no longer reasonably necessary for these purposes, we may securely delete, destroy, or deidentify it, subject to applicable legal and business recordkeeping requirements.
11. TEXAS PRIVACY RIGHTS
Certain Texas residents may have rights under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”), depending on whether the law applies to Sipmeisters and the particular circumstances of the request.
Where applicable, Texas residents may have rights that include:
- The right to confirm whether personal data is being processed
- The right to access personal data
- The right to correct inaccuracies in personal data
- The right to delete personal data provided by or obtained about the consumer
- The right to obtain a copy of personal data in a portable format
- The right to opt out of certain processing for targeted advertising
- The right to opt out of the sale of personal data
- The right to opt out of certain profiling activities
Texas law provides certain exemptions and exceptions, and these rights may not apply in every circumstance.
The Texas Attorney General explains that the TDPSA generally provides these consumer rights while also exempting certain businesses, information, and activities.
12. HOW TO SUBMIT A PRIVACY REQUEST
To submit a privacy-related request, please contact us using the information below.
Email: info@sipmeisters.com
Mailing Address:
Sipmeisters Fine Wine and Liquor
13831 Huffmeister Rd., Suite D
Cypress, TX 77429
Please include enough information for us to reasonably identify you and understand your request.
For security purposes, we may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests. We will not ask you to provide unnecessary sensitive information solely for the purpose of verifying a privacy request.
We will review and respond to requests as required by applicable law.
13. APPEALS
If applicable law provides you with a right to appeal our decision regarding a privacy request, you may submit an appeal by contacting us at:
Email: info@sipmeisters.com
Please identify the original request and explain why you believe our decision should be reconsidered.
If applicable law requires additional information concerning the appeal process, we will provide it in our response.
14. DO NOT TRACK
Some web browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that sends a signal to websites regarding a user’s preference concerning online tracking.
Because there is currently no universally accepted standard for responding to all Do Not Track signals, our website may not respond to such signals in every circumstance.
15. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those websites before providing personal information.
16. DATA BREACHES
If Sipmeisters experiences a security incident involving personal information, we will investigate the incident and provide any notices required by applicable Texas or federal law.
Texas law includes requirements concerning the protection of sensitive personal information and notification following certain data breaches.
17. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our business, website, technology, legal requirements, or privacy practices.
When we make changes, we will update the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we handle personal information.
18. CONTACT US
If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us:
SIPMEISTER WINE & LIQUOR
13831 Huffmeister Rd., Suite D
Cypress, TX 77429
Email: info@sipmeisters.com
Phone: (832) 334-5379
Last Updated: September 4, 2026