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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 and
associates.
We endeavour 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 details to us, you signify your
acceptance of our 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 for
the purposes set out below. You will have an opportunity to unsubscribe
whenever we communicate with you.
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.
Changes to the privacy statement are noted here:
Date last revised:April 2005
Description of revision:
- Reference to Diageo plc added to Section 1
- Sections 3 and 7 added
- Minor revisions to sections 4,5,6 and 9
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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.
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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.
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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.
You have the opportunity to decide whether or not to receive communications from
us at any point where we request information about you.
By providing any personal information to us, you fully understand and clearly
consent to the transfer of such personal information to, and the collection and
processing of such information in, other countries or territories. Any such
transfer and processing by us will be in accordance with this privacy
statement.
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Use of Cookies
In common with many websites, we use ’cookies’ to help us gather the following
information from visitors to our site.
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. If you do disable cookies some functions on the site may not
work correctly.
We may use information from cookies for the following purposes:
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Traffic monitoring e.g:
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the IP address from which you access the site
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the type of browser and operating system used to access the site
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the date and time of your access to the site
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the pages you visit
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the Internet address of the website from which you accessed the site
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To recognise repeat visitors for statistical / analytical purposes.
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Anonymous tracking of interaction with online advertising. e.g. to monitor the
number of times that a banner ad is displayed and the number of times it is
clicked.
We may connect the information that we collect through cookies with other
personally identifiable information that you provide to us. Such purposes are:
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To customise or personalise your experience of the site; for example, so that
we can greet you on the site by name.
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For transactional purposes, such as credit card sales.
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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 parts of the site that you visit most often or by letting you
know about features of the site that you have not accessed previously.
We may compile and report to third parties (such as advertisers) aggregate
statistics about our users in terms of numbers, traffic patterns and related
site information.
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Use of Information
We will use information collected from you in 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
shared 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 fulfilment of such
transactions (e.g. delivery). The personal information you provide may be used
by an authorised vendor to fulfil that order.
Third Party Offers.
We may arrange for carefully selected organisations to send you 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
agree to be bound by confidentiality obligations and restrictions on use
consistent with this privacy statement. We will obtain your permission before
we send you any such communications.
Public (or Interactive) Areas of the Site.
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 the site are encouraged to exercise caution
when providing personal information about themselves in public (or interactive)
areas of this site.
Sale and Transfer.
In the event of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of
substantial assets, 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.
Administration and Data Management.
We may transfer your personal information to third parties under confidentiality
obligations when the performance of any service in relation to the activities
above is sub-contracted (e.g. the administration of a marketing campaign).
Legal Purposes.
We may collect, use 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 protect or defend us 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.
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Disclosure of Personal Information
In addition to disclosures identified in the purposes above, from time to time
we may disclose personal information to:
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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;
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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";
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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
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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.
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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. However, due to
the open communication nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that
communications between you and us, or information stored on our servers, will
be free from unauthorised access by third parties.
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Unsubscribe, access, questions and further information
At your request, where the law requires us to do so, we will confirm what
personal information we hold about you, update your information, remove your
information and/or correct any inaccuracies in such personal information if you
contact us using the details provided below.
If you would like to unsubscribe from GUINNESS communications or from all
communications about Diageo brands, or if you have any privacy-related
questions, concerns or complaints, please contact :
UK: www.diageobrandsunsubscribe.co.uk
Ireland: www.diageobrandsunsubscribe.ie
US: guinness@consumer-care.net
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Links
This site may contain links or references to other Web sites outside of our
control. Please be aware that we have no control over these sites and our
privacy statement does not apply to these sites. We encourage you to read the
privacy statements and terms and conditions of linked or referenced sites you
enter.
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