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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.
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:
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.
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-
- To customise or personalise your experience of the site; for example, so that we
can greet you on the site by name.
- For transactional purposes, such as credit card sales.
- 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.
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:
- 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;
- 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";
- 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
- 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.
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