We may need to update this Privacy Statement from time to time. We recommend that you regularly check this page to ensure that you have read the most recent version.
Introduction
All
references to 'our', 'us', 'we' or 'company' within this policy and within
the opt-in notice are deemed to refer to Diageo plc , its subsidiaries,
affiliates and associates. We endeavor to protect your personal privacy.
We provide this privacy statement to help you to understand what we may do
with any personal information that we obtain from you. By providing your
personal information to us, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy
Statement and agree that we may collect, use and disclose your personal
information as described in this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to
this statement, please do not provide your personal details to us. This
Privacy Statement is incorporated into, and part of, the Terms and
Conditions, which govern your use of the site in general. We will use your
information only for the purposes set out below.
Legal purchase
age
You must not provide us with your personal information if
you are not of legal age to purchase alcohol in the jurisdiction in which
you reside and (if different) in the jurisdiction in which you are
accessing the site. We do not intend to collect personal information from
any individuals under the legal purchase age or market alcoholic beverages
to anyone under the legal purchase age. If we receive notice or believe
that someone under the legal purchase age has provided us with personal
information we will make every reasonable effort to remove such personal
information from our files or flag such personal information and retain it
for the sole purpose of ensuring that it is not used any further.
What is personal information
Personal information is
information about an identifiable individual, as defined by applicable
law. It does not include aggregated information that does not allow you to
be identified, nor does it include business contact information such as
your name, title, business address and business phone
number.
Collecting personal information
You can
decide what personal information you provide to us. We will only collect
personal information that you choose to provide. Where possible, we will
enable you to select how we will use this information (for example, by
choosing to opt-in or opt-out of receiving special promotional offers).
You may choose to provide us with personal information if, for example,
you: contact us with an enquiry; register on the site, fill out a survey
or other form with your personal information included; request us to
provide you with information; enter a competition; post information to
public areas of the site or take advantage of a promotion.
Use
of cookies on our websites
In common with many websites, we use
"cookies" to help us gather and store information about visitors to our
websites. A cookie is a small data file that our server sends to your
browser when you visit the site. The use of cookies helps us to assist
your use of certain aspects of the site. You can delete cookies at any
time or you can set your browser to reject or disable cookies.
You
can obtain information about how to manage cookies at
www.aboutcookies.org.
We may use information from cookies for the
following purposes:
1. Traffic monitoring, E.g. the IP address from
which you access the site, the type of browser and operating system used
to access the site, the date and time of your access to the site, the
pages you visit, the internet address of the website from which you
accessed the site.
2. To recognise repeat visitors for statistical
/ analytical purposes.
We may connect the information that we
collect through cookies with other personally identifiable information
that you provide to us. Such purposes are- 1. To customise or
personalise your experience of the site; for example, so that we can greet
you on the site by name. 2. For transactional purposes, such as credit
card sales. 3. To monitor your use of our website(s) in order to make
our communications to you as relevant as possible; for example, by sending
you email communications relevant to the
Use of personal
information
We may use and/or disclose personal information
collected from you in one or more the following ways:
Marketing
Communications
We may use your personal information in order to
communicate with you about our products and services and those of our
subsidiaries, affiliates, and parent companies and any of their related
businesses. However, you will be able to choose whether or not to receive
such communications when you first provide personal information to us. You
will also have an opportunity to unsubscribe whenever we communicate with
you. You may also unsubscribe from such communications at any time (see
"Unsubscribe, access, questions and further information"
below).
Marketing analysis
We may use information for
internal marketing analysis, for example, to assess trends amongst our
consumers or to measure the amount of traffic to our websites. We may also
share non-personal information with others, such as advertisers, in
aggregate anonymous form, which means that the information will not
contain any personally identifiable information about you. We will only
share identifiable personal information with third parties for marketing
analysis with your consent.
Transactional purposes
We
may use your personal information in order to respond to your queries and
requests and to manage transactions such as credit card payments for any
goods that you order from us or any of our agents, or for the fulfillment
of such transactions (e.g. delivery). The personal information you provide
may be used by an authorised vendor to fulfill that order.
Third
party offers
We may arrange for carefully selected
organisations to send marketing and promotional information that may be of
interest to you. In such circumstances your personal information may be
disclosed to these organisations that will be bound by confidentiality
obligations and restrictions on use of personal information. We will
obtain your permission before we allow a third party to send you any such
communications.
Public (or Interactive) areas of our
websites
Information that you post on or through the public
areas of the site (e.g., chat rooms, bulletin boards and discussion
groups) are generally accessible to, and may be collected and used by,
others and may result in unsolicited messages or other contact from
others. Users of our websites are encouraged to exercise caution when
providing personal information about themselves in public (or interactive)
areas of this site.
Sale or Transfer
In the event of
a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial
assets, financing, reorganisation or liquidation, we may transfer, sell,
or assign to third parties information concerning your relationship with
us, including without limitation, personally identifiable information that
you provide and other information concerning your relationship with
us.
Legal purposes
We may collect, use and/or
disclose your personal information if permitted by law or required to do
so by law or where we believe such action is necessary in order to detect,
protect or defend us and/or other third parties against error, negligence,
breach of contract, theft, fraud and other illegal or harmful activity, to
comply with our audit and security requirements, and to audit compliance
with or corporate policies, procedures, legal and contractual
obligations.
Disclosure of personal information
In
addition to disclosures identified in the purposes above, from time to
time we may disclose personal information to:
(a) our service
providers and subcontractors, including our affiliates, retained to
perform functions on our behalf or to provide services to us, such as
warehousing and delivery; marketing and advertising; data processing;
software development; website hosting and management; information
technology and office services; legal, accounting, audit and other
professional service providers; and further provided such service provider
does not collect, use or disclose the personal information for any purpose
other than to perform such functions or to provide services to us or as
otherwise required by law; (b) a person or entity, including our
affiliates, to whom disclosure is required in order to fulfill one or more
of the purposes described above under "Purposes for Collecting
Information"; (c) a person who, in our reasonable judgment, is
providing or seeking the information as the authorized or appointed legal
agent of the subject individual; or (d) any third party with your
consent or where disclosure is required or permitted by law.
Your
acceptance of the Terms and Conditions of use of this site, which include
this Privacy Statement, constitute the granting of consent to the use and
disclosure of your personal information for the purposes set out
above.
Security
We take security seriously and we
take precautions to keep your personal information secure. We have put in
place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to
safeguard the information we collect. We have no control over the privacy
of any e-mail communications while in transit to us. We recommend that you
may not include confidential, proprietary or sensitive information in
e-mails.
