Cookies Policy
1. Introduction
This Cookies Policy explains how Swire Coca Cola (“SCC”, “we”, “our” or “us”) use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies (together “cookies”) on our websites.
This cookies policy applies to your use of our website and should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Notice.
By using our website, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this Cookies Policy. We may not place cookies in advance before obtaining your explicit consent.
Consent
We must obtain your explicit consent prior to the use of non-essential cookies. Your continued access to the website does not constituted a valid consent. We may not obtain your consent for non-essential cookies by checking the consent box in advance or enabling it by default. If the cookies collected by the website change regularly, your consent shall be sought again after the change.
We are entitled to collect the essential cookies without your explicit consent，but we should still clearly inform you regarding the cookie information we collected:
- Cookies only applied to communication transmissions operated in electronic communication networks;
- Cookies strictly necessary to satisfy users' access to information society services. (e.g: Session cookies for security protection collected during online shopping to meet data protection requirements)
Withdraw of the consent
You may have seen a pop up on your first visit to our website. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, you may withdraw your consent at any time.
2. What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded and may be stored on any of your web browsers or internet enabled devices when you visit a website if you agree.
Cookie are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and hence we could further distinguish you from others. Cookies allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, remember your preferences and provide you with better experience. They could also be used to tailor advertising to suit your interests through tracking your browsing across websites and provide you with promotional materials or direct marketing based on your usage patterns where permitted by you.
By using cookies, we could automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:
- the internet domain and IP address from where you access the website;
- the type of browser software and configuration and operating system used to access the website;
- the date and time you access the website;
- if you linked to the website from another website, the address of that website; and
- the pages you enter, visit and exit the website from, content viewed and duration of visits.
3. What types of cookies does SCC use?
We describe the categories of cookies SCC use as below:
a) Strictly Necessary Cookies
These are the cookies that are necessary and essential for the proper operation of our website. They could enable you to navigate around our website and use it features or they are the cookies required by law. For example, these cookies could make sure your basket is saved during all steps of the checkout process and help to support security and basic functionality of our website. Without these cookies, we may not be able to guarantee your use or the security when you visit our website.
b) Functionality Cookies
These are the cookies used to provide you with better user experience. These cookies could help us to recognise you when you return to our website and enable us to personalise our content to you by remembering your preferences such as your user name, choice of language, region you are in, browsing font size, etc. These cookies are not used to track your browsing on other sites.
c) Performance Cookies
These are the cookies that help us to understand our visitors’ behaviour and corresponding usage on our website. These cookies are used for web enhancement and optimization purposes, and to aggregate statistics on how our visitors reach and browse our website. It allows us to continuously improve our website and provide you the best user experience by ensuring that users are finding what they would like to see and measure how effective our advertising is.
d) Advertising Cookies (Targeting Cookies)
These are the cookies that collect information about your browsing habits associated with your device and are used to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. These cookies could help to select interest-based advertisement for you, or prevent or limit the number of times you see the same advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of advertisements.
e) Use of IP addresses and web logs
Your IP address and browser type may be used for helping us to diagnose problems with our server, to administer our website and to improve the service we offer to you. An IP address is a numeric code that identifies your computer on the internet. We may use your IP address to gather broad demographic information like performing IP lookups to determine which domain you are coming from (e.g. google.com).
Please note that some cookies on our website are managed by third parties, including, for example, advertising networks, features such as videos, maps and social media, and providers of external website like web traffic analysis services. You should refer to such third parties’ cookies and privacy policies for privacy related information about how they may use and process your information.
4. Disabling Cookies
If you do not want your information collected through our use of cookies, you have to block the cookies by activating the setting within your bowser that allows you to deny or accept the cookies feature. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
You may only withdraw consent to be placed by the website for non-essential cookies. We would promptly expire the non-essential cookies that have been placed on your side when you revoke your consent.
If you wish to you withdraw your agreement at any time, you firstly need to delete the cookies on your browsers that you have used to visit our website before. Then you need to contact us at dpo@swirecocacola.com and ask us to stop processing your personal information held by us.
5.Use, Process and retention
We shall process all cookie data mentioned above based on your explicit consent and within clear purposes. We shall not continue to collect or process your data after you revoke your consent.
We may clarify whether each cookie is a session cookie that needs short-term storage or a persistent cookie that needs long-term storage. We have the applicable mechanisms to prevent deleted cookies from being restored due to browser settings, such as Flash cookies.
We have a reasonable retention period of cookies which is comply with SCC's internal policy and the applicable data protection laws and regulations. We may expire cookies placed on the client side when the cookie retention period expires.
6. Disclosure to third parties
We may notify you and obtain your consent when we set a third-party cookie. We may certify third party based on risk to ensure the security measure could be applied to the cookie collected by third party. We may sign DPA with those third party to ensure the disclosed cookie data could be seen by third parties.
We would disclose the identity of the data controller, joint data controller or data processor. If there is any further disclose of the cookie data by our cooperated third party, the foregoing provisions shall be complied with.
7. Cross border transfer
We may not transfer your cookie data outside the territory of your country without your prior written consent. We may only transfer your cookie data cross borders (transfer data outside of your country, including remote access from other countries) after we have a legal data transfer mechanism.
8. Deletion
If you request the deletion of the collected data after the cookie expires or after the consent is withdrawn, we shall respond those requirements within 14 working days from the day we received your request.
