Last Updated: July 3, 2026
Hillside Ventures, LLC (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the abarabove.com, learn.abarabove.com, courses.abarabove.com, shop.abarabove.com websites (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”).
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service, and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible farther down this page. (https://www.abarabove.com/disclaimers-privacy-policy/)
DEFINITIONS
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Service: Service is the abarabove.com, courses.abarabove.com, and shop.abarabove.com websites operated by Hillside Ventures, LLC.
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Personal Data: Data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
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Usage Data: Data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
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Cookies: Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
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Data Controller: The natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information is, or is to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.
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Data Processors (or Service Providers): Any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
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Data Subject (or User): Any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED
Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally-identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City, Country
- Cookies and Usage Data
We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any or all of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or the instructions provided in any email we send.
All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
Information We Collect From Other Sources
In addition to information you provide directly, we obtain certain business-contact information from third-party and publicly available sources. For our business-to-business marketing, we collect business identifiers — such as business name, “doing business as” name, business mailing and premises addresses, business phone numbers, and business email addresses — from:
- Government and public records, including state alcoholic-beverage and business-license registries (for example, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control public licensee data export); and
- Third-party business-contact data providers, including email-discovery and email-verification services.
We use this information to contact licensed businesses about A Bar Above products that may be relevant to them. You may opt out of these communications at any time using the unsubscribe link in any message; we maintain a suppression list and honor opt-out requests on an ongoing basis.
Usage Data
We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
Location Data
We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so (“Location Data”). We use this data to provide features of our Service, to improve and customize our Service.
You can enable or disable Location Services when you use our Service at any time by way of your device or browser settings.
Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service, and we hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous, unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies—such as beacons, tags, and scripts—are also used to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Examples of Cookies we use:
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Session Cookies: We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
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Preference Cookies: We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
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Security Cookies: We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
For a comprehensive list of cookies used on our website and detailed information on how they are utilized, please visit our Cookie Policy located here: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/45746386/cookie-policy
USE OF DATA
Hillside Ventures, LLC uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service
- To notify you about changes to our Service
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
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To provide customer support. To retain records of customer service communications (such as support emails) in our internal systems to maintain service history and continuity. We may use de-identified or aggregated information derived from these records — from which your identity has been removed and which we will not attempt to re-identify — to analyze and improve our products, services, and support tools, including training internal AI systems.
- To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
- To monitor the usage of our Service
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
- To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events we offer that are similar to those you have already purchased or inquired about, unless you have opted not to receive such information
LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA UNDER THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Hillside Ventures, LLC’s legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
Hillside Ventures, LLC may process your Personal Data for one or more of the following reasons:
- Performance of a Contract: We need to process your data to fulfill a contract with you, such as providing the services you have requested.
- Consent: You have given us explicit permission to process your data for specific purposes.
- Legitimate Interests: The processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as improving our services, and those interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.
- Legal Obligations: We need to process your data to comply with a legal obligation.
- Vital Interests: Processing is necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another person.
- Public Interest: Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us.
Where EEA or UK data protection law applies, we rely on our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)) to maintain customer service records and to de-identify data as described in this policy.
RETENTION OF DATA
Hillside Ventures, LLC will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Hillside Ventures, LLC will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security, to improve the functionality of our Service, or if we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.
TRANSFER OF DATA
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Hillside Ventures, LLC will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of your Data and other personal information.
