Pernod Ricard Privacy Policy

This Site is made available to residents of the UK by Pernod Ricard UK Limited, the data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the ‘Act’), and referred to in this statement as “we” or “us”.

We are committed to protecting your privacy and this statement summarises what personal details we may collect from you before, during or after you use our Site and what we will do with them. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.  We recommend that you regularly check the privacy policy and the Terms of use of the Site to ensure compliance with their terms. 

Personal Information

Before you enter our site you will be required to verify that you are of legal age to consume alcoholic beverages in the country from which you are accessing the site.  We use this information to prevent minors from accessing our Site.

During your visit to our Site, we will only collect personal information that you choose to provide, if for example you: contact us with an enquiry; register on the Site; enter a competition; request us to provide you with further information; post information to a public area of the site or take advantage of a promotion. You can choose to have further information sent to you about products we think may interest you by opting-in on the page where you submit your personal information.

We may also use your information to enhance your visit to our Site and to create a general demographic profile of visitors. 

Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of, advertisers and affiliates.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will endeavour to ensure that the personal information you submit to us is kept private and secure. 

If you would like to exercise the right to change your preferences about how we use your personal information or if you wish us to remove your personal details from our marketing database at any time, please email us by clickinggeneral@pernod-ricard-uk.com with Unsubscribe in the subject heading.

Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006. We may also occasionally transfer the information you supply to our affiliates outside the European Economic Area. Any such transfer of personal information will be in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties: in the event of a sale, transfer, merger, change of control, consolidation, reorganisation or liquidation of Pernod Ricard UK Ltd or its parent company, we may sell, transfer or assign to third parties information you have provided to us, including but not limited to personally identifiable information and other information concerning your relationship with us; and/or if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation.

No data collected from children

Our Site is not directed at those under the age of 18 and cannot be accessed by persons who do not verify that they are of legal drinking age.  We will not knowingly collect information from minors with or without their parent’s or guardian’s consent.

Public areas

Any information you post on the public areas of the Site (e.g. chat rooms, bulletin boards) are accessible to and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages or other contact from others. You are advised to use caution when posting personal information about yourself in any public areas of this Site.

Cookies

We may use “cookies” to help us recognise you on any return visits you make to our Site and to make any registration or other procedures easier for you. Cookies are small pieces of information, which will be stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. The cookies used by us will not give us any personal details about you. 

If you register with us or continue to use our Site, you agree to our use of cookies.  If you do not wish cookies to be stored on your browser follow these instructions:

Internet Explorer: Open the Tools menu and click Internet Options. Choose the Privacy tab and move the slider to high level of privacy. Click on the Default button if you do not see the slider.

Netscape: Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences. In the Advanced category, choose Cookies. Click the radio button Disable all cookies.

Other browsers: Refer to the relevant help menu looking under cookies, privacy or security.

For more information on cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

Review and correction of information

If you would like to exercise your right of access in accordance with the Act or if you are concerned that the personal information we keep about you is incorrect, please contact us at general@pernod-ricard-uk.com and we will respond, update or remove it accordingly.