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Cookie Policy

Subject to your consent when required by applicable law, our website uses cookies and similar technologies (“cookies”).

This Cookies Policy (the “Policy”) describes how Irish Distillers, a corporation duly organised under the laws of Ireland, with registered address at Simmonscourt House, Simmonscourt Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Irish Distillers” or “we”), is committed to respecting your privacy regarding its use of cookies on its websites, applications, pages on social media, etc. (the “Digital Media”).

Before using our Digital Media, please carefully read this Cookie Policy (including the Irish Distillers Online Privacy Policy). If you do not agree to this Cookies Policy or the Irish Distillers Privacy Policy, do not use our Digital Media.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Cookies Policy or the Irish Distillers Privacy Policy at any time. Such change should occur in the near future to take into account the e-Privacy Regulation provisions which is currently debated at the EU Parliament level and the recommendations of the data protection authorities.

We will notify you, by appropriate means, of any material / substantive change in this Cookies Policy or in the Irish Distillers Privacy Policy. You are also invited to regularly read this Cookies Policy or the Irish Distillers Privacy Policy to make sure you are aware of any change and how your Personal Data may be used.

Cookie Information

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files or pieces of information that are stored on your computer or mobile device (such as a smartphone or tablet) when you visit our Digital Media. A cookie will usually contain the name of the website/application from which the cookie has come from, the duration of the cookie (i.e., how long the cookie will remain on your device), and a value, which is usually a randomly generated unique number.

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies to make our Digital Media easier to use and to better tailor our Digital Media, our communications and our products to your interests and needs.
Cookies can do this because our Digital Media can read and write these files, enabling them to recognise you and remember important information that will make your use of our Digital Media more convenient (for example by remembering preference settings).

Cookies may also be used to help speed up your future activities and experience on our Digital Media. We also use cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our Digital Media and to help us improve the structure and content of our Digital Media.

What are the different types of cookies we use?

The types of cookies that we may use can be either session or persistent, or first party or third-party cookies.
• Persistent cookies are used to save your login information and remember your settings for future logins to our Digital Media. A persistent cookie is a cookie stored as a file on your computer, and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the Digital Media that created it when you visit it again.

• Session ID cookies are used to enable certain features of our Digital Media and services, to better understand how you interact with our Digital Media and to monitor aggregate usage and web traffic routing. Unlike persistent cookies, session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser. They usually store an anonymous session identifier on your computer allowing you to browse a website / application (for example) without having to log in to each page.

• First party cookies are our own cookies, which we use to improve your experience. No third party has access to the information we collect through our own cookies.

• Third party cookies are cookies placed on our Digital Media by third parties to provide their services, including advertising cookies. They set cookies (third party cookies) on your device on our behalf when you visit our Digital Media to allow them to deliver the services they are providing. You will find more information about these cookies in their privacy policies.

You will find below a list of the different types of cookies we use on our Digital Media. To the extent information collected through cookies constitutes Personal Data, the provisions in the Irish Distillers Online Privacy Policy apply in addition to this Cookie Policy.

a. Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are first party cookies which are strictly necessary for our Digital Media to work and to use its services and features. Without these cookies, our Digital Media will not perform as smoothly for you as we would like it to, and we may not be able to provide the Digital Media or certain services or features thereof you request.

We also use technical cookies which allow our Digital Media to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) for customisation and personalisation purposes. These cookies do not gather any information about you that will be used for advertising purposes or to remember your browsing history on the internet.

Who is placing the cookie?       Type Description/purpose
Irish Distillers Session cookie Sleeknote: This cookie is set on the first page a visitor sees, to make sure that one-time operations only run once. For example, if the geo-targeting option is used, we only want to geo-locate the visitor once, and not on every page.
Irish Distillers Persistent cookie Sleeknote: This is the necessary cookie set by Sleeknote, as it contains technical information so that the campaigns can show properly and tracking works properly. Note that session tracking is not general visitor analytics as that information is found in the sleeknote analytics cookie.
Irish Distillers Persistent cookie User Local Cookie: Irish Distillers installs a cookie which is used to remember local specific
Irish Distillers Session cookie AWS: Provide load balancing functionality.
Irish Distillers Session cookie AWS: The cookie is used to map the session to the target.
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Persistent cookie Evidon: This cookie tracks if consent has been given for advertising.
Irish Distillers Persistent cookie Evidon: This cookie tracks if consent has been given for analytics.
Irish Distillers Persistent cookie Evidon: This cookie tracks if consent has been given for data aggregation.
Irish Distillers Persistent cookie Evidon: This cookie tracks if consent has been given for advertising, analytics or data aggregation.

b. Analytics Cookies

Our Digital Media may also use Google Analytics cookies. These third-party cookies collect information about how you use and move around our Digital Media. For example, these will keep track of what pages are most visited, Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information to analyse trends, to administer the Digital Media, to track users’ movements around our Digital Media and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

Our Digital Media use the following analytical cookies:

Who is placing the cookie Type Description/purpose
Sleeknote Persistent cookie Sleeknote: This is the cookie used for visitor analytics tracking. It sets a visitor ID so that the visitor can be identified across sessions. This enables all visitor related analytics data to be shown on the analytics pages in your Dashboard. Note that if a visitor is opted out of this cookie, you will still be able to see how many views and conversions your campaigns had, just not any visitor-related data like referrer, location, and so on.
Sleeknote Persistent cookie Sleeknote: This cookie contains information used for marketing related targeting options. Targeting options like the referrer, UTM, or geo-location. Note that if this cookie is opted out, the marketing targeting options will not work, and the campaign will default to not show.
Google Analytics Persistent cookie Google Analytics: To store and count pageviews
Google Analytics Persistent cookie Google Analytics: To store and count pageviews
Google Analytics Session Google Analytics: to store number of service requests.

c. Marketing and profiling cookies

We work with third-party advertising companies to serve ads while you are visiting our Digital Media and permit these companies to place and access their own cookies on your device in the course of serving advertisements on our Digital Media. These companies may use information obtained through their cookie (which does not include your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to our and other websites/applications, in combination with non-personally identifiable information about your purchases and interests from other online sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Our Digital Media uses the following advertising cookies:

Who is placing the cookie Type Description/purpose
Sleeknote Persistent cookies This cookie contains information used for marketing related targeting options. Targeting options like the referrer, UTM, or geo-location. Note that if this cookie is opted out, the marketing targeting options will not work, and the campaign will default to not show.
Google Persistent cookies Advertising Cookie.
Facebook Persistent cookies Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. The main purpose of this cookie is: Targeting/Advertising

We also use cookies to enable sharing of data with social media. These social media may place a third-party cookie on your device (via a pixel or a plug-in button), which could gather usage information. These cookies are used in particular to identify you whenever you browse on our Digital Media and then to find you among the users of the relevant social media if you are a member in order to (i) show you ads about our products and services when you browse the relevant social media, and (ii) to identify, based on your profile on the relevant social media (where you live, age, gender, language, socio-demographic characteristics, interests and behaviour), lookalikes who may also be interested by Irish Distiller’s ads. In the context of these activities, we act as a joint controller together with each social media (for more information see Irish Distillers Online Privacy Policy).

Our Digital Media uses the following social media cookies:

Who is placing the cookie Type Description
Facebook Persistent cookie Facebook: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. The main purpose of this cookie is: Targeting/Advertising
Google Adsense Persistent cookie Google Adsense: Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.

To opt out of being tracked by Google advertising cookies on all the websites you visit, go to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

To opt out of being tracked by Facebook on all the websites you visit, go to the General Account Settings of your Facebook and Twitter accounts, locate, and click the opt-out link.

For more information on how social media process your personal data, please consult their data protection policy:

– For Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

To opt-in or opt-out of being tracked only on our Digital Media, use the Cookie Set Up Tool.

d. Additional features cookies

We also use additional features cookies in order to offer you an enhanced user experience on our Digital Media by adding content from third-party services in our Digital Media. For instance, by enriching our Digital Media with multimedia content while maintaining an optimal loading speed.

Please note that rejecting these cookies is likely to mean that our Digital Media will not operate properly and accordingly you will not be able to take full advantage of the Digital Media.

To opt-in or opt-out of being tracked only on our Digital Media, use the Cookie Set Up Tool.

How long are cookies stored?

Cookies will have a maximum retention period after being placed on the user’s terminal as required by applicable law.

How to control cookies on our Digital Media?

Except for cookies which qualify as essential, the cookies described above will be installed on your computer only if you expressly consent to them. In order to make your own choice, please use the link to the Cookie Set Up Tool which is also accessible from the Banner to consent/turn on or off non-essential cookies on our Digital Media, by clicking the relevant button as it will appear on the menu as follows:

You can also control how your browser uses cookies and your browser’s ‘Help’ function should be able to tell you how to do this.

Please note that depending on the cookies you turn on or disable, you may not be able to login to your account, view content or use other features of our Digital Media and may find that parts of our Digital Media either do not function at all or behave unexpectedly.

If you use different devices to view and access our Digital Media (e.g., your computer, smartphone, tablet etc.) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.

How to contact us?

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about our use of cookies please contact idpr-privacy@pernod-ricard.com

Last Update: January 2023