Privacy Policy
Last updated: 7 October 2026
Palus respects your privacy. This policy explains what information may be processed when you visit this website, how that information is used, and your rights in relation to it.
1. Who we are
This website is operated by:
Georg Nordahl
trading as Palus
For privacy-related enquiries, please contact:
Email: info@paluswine.com
For the purposes of applicable data-protection law, the person or business identified above is the data controller.
2. Information we collect
At present, this website does not contain account registration, ecommerce, newsletter signup forms or other facilities through which visitors directly submit personal information.
When you visit the website, certain technical information may nevertheless be processed automatically by Squarespace and the infrastructure used to provide the site. This may include information such as your IP address, browser and device information, the date and time of your visit, pages requested and information necessary to maintain the security and operation of the website.
If you contact Palus directly using the contact details provided on this website, we will also receive the information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address and the contents of your correspondence.
We do not intentionally collect special-category personal data through this website.
3. How we use your information
Technical information is processed where necessary to operate, maintain and secure the website and to protect it against misuse or malicious activity.
Where this processing involves personal data, we rely on our legitimate interests in providing and protecting a functional website.
If you contact us directly, we use the information you provide to respond to your enquiry and, where appropriate, to maintain a record of our correspondence. Depending on the circumstances, this processing is based on our legitimate interests in communicating with visitors or on taking steps at your request before entering into an agreement.
We may also process information where necessary to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
The information required in a privacy notice includes the identity of the controller, the purposes for which personal data is used, the relevant lawful basis, recipients and information about retention and individual rights.
4. Squarespace
This website is built and hosted using Squarespace.
Squarespace may process technical information on our behalf in order to host, deliver, maintain and secure the website.
Its processing of information is also subject to Squarespace’s own privacy and data-protection arrangements.
We do not sell personal information obtained through this website.
5. Cookies and similar technologies
This website may use cookies and similar technologies that are necessary for it to operate correctly and securely.
At the time this policy was last updated, Palus has configured the website to restrict non-essential cookies and does not use third-party advertising technologies such as Meta Pixel or Google Analytics.
Strictly necessary technologies may be used without prior consent where they are genuinely required to provide the website or service requested by the visitor. Non-essential cookies and similar technologies generally require appropriate consent before they are used.
If the way we use cookies changes in future, we will update this policy and introduce appropriate consent controls where required.
You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings.
6. Links to other websites
This website contains links to third-party services, including Instagram and Substack.
These are ordinary external links. When you choose to follow one, you leave the Palus website and the privacy practices of the destination service apply.
Palus is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party websites.
7. International processing
Squarespace and other technical service providers may process information in countries outside the country in which you are located.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, we rely on the safeguards and transfer mechanisms required by applicable data-protection law and implemented by the relevant service provider.
8. How long we keep information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was obtained.
Technical information relating to website operation and security is retained in accordance with the relevant Squarespace systems and settings.
If you contact Palus directly, correspondence will normally be retained only for as long as it remains useful or necessary for dealing with the matter concerned, unless a longer period is required for legal, accounting or other legitimate purposes.
9. Security
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse or disclosure.
The website is hosted through Squarespace and benefits from the security measures applied to the Squarespace platform.
No method of transmitting or storing information online can, however, be guaranteed to be completely secure.
10. Your rights
Depending on the law applicable to you and the circumstances of the processing, you may have rights including the right to access personal information held about you, request correction or deletion, restrict or object to certain processing, and receive certain information in a portable format.
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.
To exercise any applicable rights, contact us using the details given above.
11. Complaints
If you have concerns about the way Palus handles personal information, please contact us in the first instance.
If UK data-protection law applies, you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Where the data-protection law of another jurisdiction applies, you may also have the right to complain to the relevant supervisory authority in that jurisdiction.
12. Age and alcohol
Palus is a vineyard and this website may contain information relating to wine and alcoholic beverages.
This website is intended for persons of legal drinking age in their country or region.
Palus does not currently sell alcohol through this website and does not collect or verify visitors’ ages.
Content relating to wine is not intended to be directed at persons below the legal drinking age applicable to them.
13. Changes to this policy
We may update this privacy policy if the website, the services we use or the ways in which we process personal information change.
The current version will always be published on this page, together with the date on which it was most recently updated.