Privacy Policy

The Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company Group understands that the security of your personal data is extremely important and it is committed to respecting your privacy and safeguarding your personal data.
This privacy policy sets out how Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company Limited, Carlsberg UK Limited, Carlsberg Supply Company UK Limited, Marston’s Beer Company Limited and / or any company or division in our group (‘CMBC’, ‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’) uses your personal data and the measures it has put in place to protect your information and keep it secure. The data controller of your personal data will depend on the specific situation / activity carried out (see “What we do with your personal data” below for further details).

This privacy policy applies to you if you purchase goods from us, receive services from us, participate in our events or promotions or otherwise interact with us, including by using any of our websites or by interacting with us via social media. 

Please take a moment to review this policy and in detail (together with our terms of use , and any other documents referred to in them, if you are using one of our websites).  If you are an existing customer of ours, further details about how we use your personal data may be set out in your contract with us.  Further notices highlighting certain uses we wish to make of your personal data together with the ability to opt in or out of selected uses may also be provided when we collect personal data from you.

This privacy policy explains our privacy practices and covers the following areas:

1. 1. 1. What personal data we collect
      2. What we do with your personal data
      3. How we use cookies
      4. Your use of chat rooms, message boards or other interactive forums
      5. How we protect your personal data
      6. Your rights and contacting us
      7. Updates to this policy
2. What personal data we collect

We will collect and process some or all of the following personal data about you:

• Information about you ⧫  your name, address, email address, phone number, social media handle, gender, date of birth or photograph, or details of your employer and your position
• Your transaction details and purchase history ⧫ details of purchases and other transactions you have made, including through our websites or through other channels, including the delivery address and details of the products purchased
• Payment details ⧫  payment details used to purchase our products and services, such as credit/debit card number and expiry date
• Information we collect about your participation in our promotions and competitions or attendance at our events ⧫  information provided in your application forms, recordings you or we have made, details of your guests in connection with any promotions and competitions you have entered or won, or other information related to your attendance at events, including any dietary and access assistance requirements you may have
• Information about your interests ⧫ details of any hobbies or activities you undertake or details of your personal interests
• Marketing preference information ⧫  details of your marketing and communication preferences and information we collect to help us determine what products and services may be of interest to you
• Information about your use of our chat rooms, message boards, social media pages or other interactive forums ⧫ including any comments, photos, videos or other information that you post online
• Survey information ⧫  your responses to market surveys that we conduct
• Our correspondence with you ⧫ including any feedback, complaints and comments from you via telephone, email or social media, or records of any online, paper or in-person correspondence and interactions between us. If you have communicated with us by phone, we will collect details of the phone number used to call us, and any information collected via a call recording
• Credit and anti-fraud information ⧫  information relating to your financial situation, your creditworthiness or any criminal or fraudulent activities provided to us by you or third parties
• Technical information ⧫  including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, or your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug in types and versions, operating system and platform
• Information about your visit to our websites ⧫  including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our websites (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, pages you accessed, page response times, download errors, lengths of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page

Sources of personal data

We collect much of the personal data that we hold about you directly from you or your interactions with us, our websites or social media sites.  We may also receive your personal data from other sources, including business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies, anti-fraud databases and other third party databases, including sanctions lists, and business information and research tools.

Sensitive personal data

Under data protection law, certain categories of personal data are considered particularly sensitive and, therefore, as needing additional protection. These categories include information about health, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union membership or your sexual orientation, and genetic and biometric data. Information concerning criminal convictions and offences is also viewed as sensitive under European data protection law.

In limited circumstances, we will collect and handle such sensitive personal data, for example, when we handle requests for special medical or access assistance or your specific dietary requirements in connection with your attendance at an event, which may indicate your religious beliefs, e.g. halal or kosher meal selections, or where we undertake certain background checks on you, which may disclose information about previous criminal convictions.  We handle this sensitive personal data in compliance with applicable data protection laws, including as described further in the “What we do with your personal data” section below.

1. What we do with your personal data

Under European data protection laws (European Data Protection Laws) we must establish and inform you of a legal basis or “ground” for our use of your personal data.  For each use mentioned below we note the purpose for which we use and disclose it, and the ground we rely on as the basis for our use.

Depending on how you interact with Carlsberg, we will use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To provide and manage products and services you have requested ⧫ To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including to arrange delivery, to action or cancel orders, to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us, and to notify you about changes to our products and services ⧫

Legal bases: contract performance, legitimate interests (to enable us to perform our obligations and provide products and services to you or to notify you about changes to our products and services)

• To communicate effectively with you ⧫ To respond to your questions, comments, complaints or other communications, including any queries relating to our products ⧫

Legal bases: legitimate interests (to allow us to correspond with you and provide products and services to you), legal claims

• To monitor activities and record our correspondence with you ⧫ To monitor our communications with you, including to ensure service quality, compliance with procedures and for training purposes ⧫

Legal bases: legitimate interests (to ensure the quality of our products and services)

• To provide you with marketing materials ⧫ To provide you with information by post, email, phone, SMS, or online or social media advertisement about products and services that we offer where such products or services are similar to those you have already purchased or enquired about, or where you have consented to being contacted for those purposes.  We may also use your information for marketing selected business partners’ products and services.  Where required by law, we will ask for your consent at the time we collect your data to conduct any of these types of marketing.  We will provide an option to unsubscribe or opt-out of further communication on any electronic marketing sent to you or you may opt out at any time by contacting us using the details set out in the “Contact” section below ⧫

Legal bases: consent, legitimate interests (to keep you updated with news in relation to our products and services)

• To understand our customers, and to develop and tailor our products and services ⧫ We may analyse the personal data that we hold in order to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you. We may report aggregate information to our advertisers, and make suggestions and recommendations to you, our customers and users of our websites about products or services that may interest you or them ⧫

Legal bases: legitimate interests (to ensure the quality of our products and services, allow us to improve our products and services, and provide you with the content and services on our websites)

• To run our promotions and competitions ⧫ Where you are participating in promotions and competitions, to run such promotions and competitions, including to notify you if you have won. If you win a prize, in accordance with local law, we may make your personal data and your guests’ personal data available on our websites and social media pages and in press releases.  We may also make these details available to third parties who may need this information for prize fulfilment purposes ⧫

Legal bases: legal obligations, contract performance, legitimate interests (in order to successfully run our promotions and events)

• To run our events ⧫ If you attend an event organised or otherwise supported by  us, we may use your personal data, including specific dietary requirements, health information and access assistance, in connection with the running of the event ⧫

Legal bases: legitimate interests (to allow us to run our events, and to cater for and accommodate your specific preferences and requirements during our events), explicit consent (if required)

• In relation to fraud prevention ⧫ We and other organisations may access and use certain information to prevent fraud as may be required by applicable law and regulation, and best practice, at any given time. If false or inaccurate information is provided and fraud is identified or suspected, details may be passed to fraud prevention agencies and other organisations, and may be recorded by us or them ⧫ 

Legal bases: legal obligations, legitimate interests (to ensure that you fall within our acceptable risk profile and to assist with the prevention of crime and fraud), substantial public interest

• To conduct certain checks on you, such as KYC and credit checks ⧫ If you are a customer or prospective customer, we may use your personal data to conduct certain checks in relation to you (and or your business). In connection with this purpose, we may disclose your details to the relevant authorities including credit reference agencies, government agencies and fraud prevention agencies. Law enforcement agencies may access and use this information. We, and other organisations that access and use information recorded by such agencies, may do so from countries other than the country in which you are based ⧫

Legal bases: legal obligation, legal claims, substantial public interests, legitimate interests (to assist with the prevention of crime and fraud)

• To improve and administer our websites, and to ensure that content is relevant ⧫  To ensure that only adults of legal drinking age view and interact with our websites; to improve our websites and ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer; to administer our websites and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, and research, statistical and survey purposes; to allow you to participate in / register for interactive features of our service; as part of our efforts to keep our websites safe and secure; to ensure that content from our websites is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device, which may include passing your data to business partners, service providers, and analytics and search engine providers ⧫

Legal bases: legitimate interests (to allow us to administer our websites and to provide you with the content and services on our websites), legal obligation

• To reorganise or make changes to our business ⧫ In the event that we: (i) are subject to negotiations for the sale of our business or part thereof to a third party; (ii) are sold to a third party; or (iii) undergo a re-organisation, we may need to transfer some or all of your personal data to the relevant third party (or its advisors) as part of any due diligence process for the purpose of analysing any proposed sale or re-organisation. We may also need to transfer your personal data to that re-organised entity or third party after the sale or reorganisation for them to use for the same purposes as set out in this privacy policy. The Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company Group was formed on 31 October 2020 and personal data collected before that date by us and Marston’s PLC was transferred into this Group. We may process personal data provided prior to 31 October 2020 to Marston’s PLC (and any of its group companies) or to any company that forms part of the Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company Group (e.g. to Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company Limited, Carlsberg UK Limited, Carlsberg Supply Company UK Limited, Marston’s Beer Company Limited and / or any company or division in our group) as a result of such transfer in connection with each use mentioned above (where relevant) but only where the law permits us to do so. Our legal bases for such transfer are legitimate interests (in order to allow us to develop our business) and legal obligation. ⧫

Legal bases: legitimate interests (in order to allow us to change our business), legal obligation

• To comply with legal and regulatory obligations ⧫ We may process your personal data to comply with our legal and regulatory requirements, which may include disclosing your personal data to third parties, including insurers, the court service and/or regulators or law enforcement agencies in connection with enquiries, proceedings or investigations by such parties anywhere in the world or where compelled to do so ⧫

Legal bases: legal obligations, legal claims, legitimate interests (to cooperate with law enforcement and regulatory authorities)

If you have any questions about the legal bases we rely on, please contact us using the details set out in the “Contact” section below.

Disclosure of your information

We are part of a global group of companies. In addition to the third parties mentioned above, we may share your personal data with the following group companies (known as the “CMBC Group Entities”):
1. Marston’s PLC (the ultimate parent company of our shareholder, Marston’s Trading Limited);
2. our shareholder Carlsberg UK Holdings Limited and any entity which replaces it as a shareholder (in whole or in part) from time to time (“Carlsberg Shareholder”);
3. any member of the Carlsberg Shareholder’s group, which means its other subsidiaries, its shareholders, the ultimate holding companies of its shareholders and their subsidiaries (“Carlsberg Group Entities”); and
4. any of our subsidiaries,
for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. Each of those companies may also process and use your personal data for the purposes stated in this privacy policy, but they do it independently on their own behalf only.
We will also share your personal data with third party service providers (such as providers of marketing, IT or administrative services) who may process it on our behalf for any of the purposes set out above.

We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in a particular location). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.

1. How we use “cookies”?

Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users. They help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our websites and ensure that the content is relevant to you.

1. Your use of chat rooms, message boards or other interactive forums

We offer chat rooms, message or bulletin boards, or interactive areas where visitors may post comments or information for our visitors’ enjoyment. If you participate in a chat room, bulletin or message board, or other interactive area where personal data may be posted on our websites, in addition to reading this privacy policy be sure to check our chat room rules before entering, as you will be bound by them. As you know, anything you post online is available for the world to see. We make no representations and undertake no obligations as to information you voluntarily post.

1. How we protect your personal data

Where is your personal data stored?

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (the EEA).  It may also be processed by staff operating outside [the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details or the provision of support services.

How long is your personal data stored for?

The personal data that we hold about you will not be kept for longer than is permitted by law and will only be kept for as long as necessary to provide you with any requested products, services or information, or for any other purpose set out under the heading “What do we do with the information” above.

For example, we may retain certain transaction details and correspondence until the time limit for claims arising from the transaction has expired, or to comply with regulatory requirements regarding the retention of such data.

Disclosure of your information outside the EEA

Where we transfer personal data from inside the EEA to outside the EEA, we may be required to take specific additional measures to safeguard the relevant personal data.  Certain countries outside the EEA have been approved by the European Commission as providing essentially equivalent protections to EEA data protection laws and, therefore, no additional safeguards are required to export personal data to these jurisdictions. In countries that have not had these approvals, we will use appropriate safeguards to protect any personal data from being transferred, such as EU Commission-approved model contractual clauses or binding corporate rules permitted by applicable legal requirements.

Please contact us using the details set out in the “Contact” section below if you would like to see a copy of the specific safeguards applied to the export of your personal data.

What do we do to safeguard personal data?

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

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 personal data transmitted to our websites – any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

What about links to other sites?

Our websites and social media fan pages may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, affiliates and other third parties.  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.

1. Your rights and contacting us

Marketing

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you or collect your consent (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data or clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of the emails we send to you for marketing purposes.  You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at promotions@carlsberg.co.uk.

Updating information

We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that your personal data is accurate.  In order to assist us with this, you should notify us of any changes to the personal data that you have provided to us by contacting us using the details set out in the “Contact” section below. 

Your rights

If you are based in the EEA during your interactions with us, under certain conditions, you may have the right to require us to:

• provide you with further details on how we use and process your personal data;
• provide you with a copy of the personal data that we hold about you;
• rectify inaccuracies in the personal data and complete any incomplete personal data that we process about you;
• delete personal data we no longer have grounds to process; and
• restrict how we process your personal data whilst we consider an inquiry you have raised.

In addition, under certain conditions, you have the right to:

• where processing is based on consent, withdraw the consent;
• ask us to transmit the personal data you have provided to us and that we still hold about you to a third party electronically;
• object to any processing of personal data that we process on the “legitimate interests” or “public interests” grounds, unless our reasons for the underlying processing outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms; and
• object to direct marketing (including any profiling for such purposes) at any time.

These rights are subject to certain exemptions to safeguard the public interest (e.g. the prevention or detection of crime) and our interests (e.g. the maintenance of legal privilege), and may not all be available in the country in which you are based.

If you have the right to do so, you can exercise these rights by contacting us using the detail set out below:

If you are not satisfied with our use of your personal information or our response to any exercise of these rights you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Online.Support@carlsberggroup.com
You may also contact us at:

Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company Limited, Marston’s House, Brewery Road, Wolverhampton, England, WV1 4JT.

1. Updates to this policy

Any changes we may make to this privacy policy will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this privacy policy.

This privacy policy was last updated in November 2020.

 

Cookies Policy

Consent

By using this http://distilleduk.com (the Website) you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this cookies policy.  You will have seen a pop up to this effect on your first visit to the Website.  Although it will not usually appear on subsequent visits, you may withdraw your consent at any time by following the instructions below.

Disabling cookies

If you do not agree to our use of cookies on the Website please disable them by following the instructions for your browser set out [http://allaboutcookies.org]. Please note that some of the uses of the Website and the services provided on the Website will not function so well if cookies are disabled.

Where the organisation setting the cookie provides an automated disabling tool in respect of its cookie(s) we list below the name of that organisation, the category of cookies it sets together with a link to its automated disabling tool. In all other cases, we list the names of the cookies themselves and their source at the date of this cookies policy so that you can easily identify and disable them if you want through your browser controls.

Some browsers make it possible for you to signal that you do not want your internet browsing activity to be tracked. Disabling tracking may interfere with some uses of the Website and the services provided on the Website.

After your initial visit to the Website we may change the cookies we use. This cookies policy will always allow you to know who is placing cookies and for what purpose, and give you the means to disable them, so you should check it from time to time.

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating web domain on your subsequent visits to that domain. Most web pages contain elements from multiple web domains, so when you visit the Website your browser may receive cookies from several sources.

Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. Cookies allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, remember preferences and generally improve the user experience. They can also be used to tailor advertising to your interests through tracking your browsing across websites.

Session cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser and persistent cookies remain on your device after the browser is closed (for example to remember your user preferences when you return to a website).

What types of cookies does Carlsberg use?

We describe the categories of cookies Carlsberg, its affiliates and its contractors use below.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for (such as navigating between pages, using a shopping cart or e-billing services) cannot be provided. 

The Website currently uses the following, strictly necessary cookies:

Cookie Name	Source	Purpose	Further Information
WordPress CMS session cookie	Carlsberg	This cookie is used for the same purposes as the preceding cookie, through a technology provided by WordPress CMS.

 

Performance Cookies

We make use of analytic cookies to analyse how our visitors use the Website and to monitor the Website’s performance. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by customising our offering, and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. We might also use these cookies to highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage of the Website. The information collected by these cookies is not associated with your personal information by us or by our contractors.

The Website currently uses the following analytic cookies:

Cookie	Name	Purpose	More Information
Google Analytics	_ga	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.	Click here for Google’s privacy policy in respect of Google Analytics http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html You may opt out of tracking by Google Analytics by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB. Persistent cookies.
	_utma	Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	Expires 2 years from set/update
	_utmb	Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	Expires 30 mins from set/update
	_utmc	Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the__utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.	Expires End of browser session
	_utmz	Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached theyour site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	Expires 6 months from set/update
	_utmv	Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the_setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated_setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	Expires 2 years from set/update

 

Website Functionality Cookies

We make use of cookies to provide you with certain functionality – for example, to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in), or to recognise the platform from which you access the Website, and to provide enhanced and more personal features. These cookies are not used to track your browsing on other sites.

The Website uses the following functional cookies:

Cookie Name	Source	Duration	Purpose	Further Information
has-js	[Carlsberg]		This cookie enables us to tell if your browser runs Javascript. This cookie expires when you leave the Website	Session cookie

Advertising Cookies

Advertising cookies (or targeting cookies) collect information about the browsing habits associated with your device and are used to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used by services provided by third parties on the Website, such as ‘Like’ or ‘Share’ buttons, in addition to providing the requested functionality. Third parties provide these services in return for recognising that you (or more accurately your device has) have visited a certain website. These third parties put down advertising cookies both when you visit the Website, and when you use their services and navigate away from the Website. Their privacy practices are set out below:

• YouTube video player cookie policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en (Google’s standard terms).
• Facebook’s data use policy: http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other
• Twitter’s privacy policy: https://twitter.com/privacy
• LinkedIn’s cookie policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy

You can opt out of the advertising cookies set by these third parties at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

• Facebook’s data use policy: http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other
• Twitter’s privacy policy: https://twitter.com/privacy

HTML email web beacons

Our emails may contain a single, campaign-unique “web beacon pixel” to tell us whether our emails are opened and verify any clicks through to links within the email. We may use this information for purposes including determining which of our emails are more interesting to you and to query whether users who do not open our emails wish to continue receiving them. The pixel will be deleted when you delete the email. If you do not wish the pixel to be downloaded to your device, you should select to receive emails from us in plain text rather than HTML.  Some of the pages on the Website may also contain web beacons and allow us to count visitors who have viewed our pages. They allow us to develop statistical information about the activities and features that most interest our consumers for the purpose of providing more personalised content. In general, they are not used to access personally identifiable information without your consent.

Pixel tags may be shared with third parties that directly support our promotional activities and website development. For example, in order to measure the effectiveness of our ads, third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from the Website and elsewhere on the internet, and use that information to provide measurement services to and target ads on their own platforms. You can find out how to opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting by third parties here (links to http://www.aboutads.info/choices and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/).

Use of IP addresses and web logs

We may also use your IP address and browser type to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer the Website and to improve the service we offer to you. An IP address is a numeric code that identifies your computer on the internet. Your IP address might also be used to gather broad demographic information.

We may perform IP lookups to determine which domain you are coming from (e.g. google.com) to more accurately gauge our users’ demographics.

Cookies policy does not cover third party websites

Please note that this cookies policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices of third party websites that may be linked to the Website.

Changes to the cookies policy

We may update this cookies policy and we would encourage you to review the policy from time to time to stay informed of how we are using cookies. This cookies policy was last updated in May 2018.