Irish Distillers International Ltd., in its role as Data Controller, respects your right to privacy when you use our digital media (such as our websites, our mobile applications, our pages on the social network, any online forms to register for our events “Digital Media”) and communicate electronically with us.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you how Irish Distillers International Ltd, a company registered in Ireland with company number 15558 and having its registered office at Simmonscourt House, Simmonscourt Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 and its affiliated companies within the Pernod Ricard Group (“Irish Distillers”, “we,” or “our”) collect, store, use and process your Personal Data provided through any Digital Media operated by Irish Distillers.
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Personal Data is collected only for the purposes set out in Section 3 below and each time you use any of the features or services offered by our Digital Media. The types and amount of information collected when using the above-mentioned features and services may be updated and vary depending on the activities of Irish Distillers.
Most of the Personal Data we process is directly collected from you, in particular whenever you fill out a form on our Digital Media, at one of our Brand Homes or contact us. We also collect, with your consent, Personal Data concerning you whenever you browse on our Digital Media through the use of tracking technologies (in this respect see section 2 below as well as our Cookie Policy).
We collect and process personal data relating to you in connection with your use of our Digital Media. This personal data may include:
Subject to applicable law requirements, we may use a variety of technologies that collect and provide information about how our Digital Media is accessed and used by you – which we may use to determine your preferences for the purposes of the offering you content more tailored to you. We may also use demographic and online activity information about the users of our Digital Media, which we may obtain from third parties such as Google or social media that you use (“Usage Information”). Usage Information may consist of the pages you viewed, the time you viewed them, which beverage information or other content you accessed or provide, in what language, including demographic information about you (such as your age, gender and interest areas, where available) and what pages you looked at before viewing the current page, etc. We may also use your shopping history on our Digital Media, your email engagement with us, records of your attendance at our events and entries into competitions.
Subject to applicable law requirements, we may also use various tools that allow us to target the ads we display on social media. Your identity, contact and social media information (i.e., your profile data, social demographics, behavioural data, and interests) are processed in this context.
Irish Distillers uses tracking technologies such as cookies, IP Addresses or Log files. Tracking technologies help us tailor our Digital Media to your personal needs and offer you content adapted to your interests.
We collect information about you to:
Display targeted ads about Irish Distillers products and services on the social media you are registered on and measuring ad performance. If you do not object to the use of your Personal Data for targeted advertising purposes, we will pass on your identification data (hashed) to the social media whose marketing tools we use (see section 5 below), that is to say your surname, first name, contact details and date of birth. Subject to your consent, social media can also identify you through the cookies placed on our Digital Media. Once your data is shared on social media, it is used to enable such media, at your initiative, to find you among other users, and (i) to 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 Distillers ads. Social media also provide us with reports on the results of our advertising campaigns (click -through rate, conversion rate, audience profile, etc.) to enable us to improve our future campaigns. In the context of these activities, we act as a joint controller together with each social media. We do not, however, collect or access at any time the Personal Data concerning you held by the social media concerned and relating in particular to your profile or your behaviour on such social media. This type of Personal Data processing is based on our legitimate economic interest in offering relevant advertising content on social media, tailored to a specific audience.
We will ensure that your Personal Data remains accurate and up-to-date and avoid duplication in our database, by verifying each of your interactions with us and/or one of our affiliates to ensure your Personal Data is still accurate or needs to be completed or updated with the additional information you will have provided.
Profiling and Automated Decision Making
You are invited to express your point of view through the right of access described above. You can also object the result of the automated decision by sending an email to the contact details in Section 12 below.
If you choose not to submit any Personal Data when requested, you may not be able to participate in certain activities and personalised features, or the Digital Media services and special offered to you may be limited. For example, if you refuse to share your email address, you will not be able to receive our newsletters or otherwise register on our Digital Media. However, to simply browse our Digital Media and learn more about Irish Distillers and our products, you do not need to give us any Personal Data. In any event, we will always inform you of the Personal Data that is necessary in order to benefit from a service.
Irish Distillers may share for the purposes mentioned in Section 3 your Personal Data within the Pernod Ricard Group, including its affiliates worldwide.
Irish Distillers may also share your Personal Data with third parties, but only in the following circumstances:
In the event of a merger or acquisition of all or part of Irish Distillers by another company, or in the event that Irish Distillers were to sell or dispose of all or a part of the Irish Distillers business, the acquirer would have access to the information maintained by that Irish Distillers business, which could include Personal Data, subject to applicable law. Similarly, Personal Data may be transferred as part of a corporate reorganisation, insolvency proceeding, or other similar event, if permitted by and done in accordance with applicable law.
Irish Distillers is a global company, and your Personal Data may be transferred across international borders to countries with a different level of data protection than the country from where you submitted your Personal Data. Your Personal Data may also be transferred between different companies of the Pernod Ricard Group located in different countries. Irish Distillers takes the appropriate measures to maintain security of the Personal Data both during transit and at the receiving location by implementing contractual clauses as set out by the European Commission, in accordance with applicable law.
Our main service providers for the operation of our Digital Media are based in the United States, as are our partners. Transfers of personal data to these service providers and partners are implemented in accordance with applicable laws and rely on standard contractual clauses as set out by the European Commission. Such service providers and partners, when acting as processors, are also bound by a contract that ensures a high standard of privacy protection and requires (amongst other provisions)
that they act only on Irish Distillers instructions and implement all technical measures necessary on an ongoing basis to keep your Personal Data secure.
We will store the Personal Data that you sent us via our Digital Media in our databases as long as your account is active, for the duration of the contract with you or as needed to provide you the services you requested or to answer queries or resolve problems, provide improved and new services. We may also retain your Personal Data in accordance with our internal retention procedure as necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
We may thus retain your Personal Data after you stop using Irish Distillers services or our Digital Media according to the statute of limitations.
Irish Distillers takes all necessary technical and organisational measures to protect the confidentiality and security of your Personal Data collected via our Digital Media. These efforts include but are not necessarily limited to: (i) storing your Personal Data in secure operating environments to which the public does not have access, but only authorised Irish Distillers employees, and our agents and contractors; and (ii) verifying the identities of registered users before they can access the Personal Data, we maintain about them.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
Our Digital Media is not intended for children under the legal drinking age (“Minor”), so we do not knowingly collect personal data from Minors. You must be at least eighteen years old to create an account and engage in activities and transactions on our Digital Media. If we are notified or learn that a Minor has submitted Personal Data to us through our Digital Media, we will delete such Personal Data.
Our Digital Services may contain links that will direct you to other websites or services that are operated and controlled by third parties. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors and partners that may use our brands or logo(s) as part of a co-branding agreement.
The operators of other sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their own data protection policy or privacy policy. We have no control over these third parties, and your use of their websites and features are subject to the privacy policies posted on those websites. We are not responsible or liable for the privacy practices or business practices of any third-party website. Therefore, you should exercise caution and review the privacy policies applicable to those external websites you visit before you provide your Personal Data.
If you have any questions, complaints, or comments regarding this Privacy Policy or our information collection practices, please contact us by writing to:
Irish Distillers
Simmonscourt House
Simmonscourt Road
Ballsbridge
Dublin 4
Ireland
or sending an email to: [email protected]
You are informed that you can also lodge a complaint with the Supervisory Authority of the country where you are located if you have any concern about the conditions of processing of your Personal Data by Irish Distillers.
We keep our privacy policy under regular review, and we will place any updates on this web page.
This privacy policy was last updated in September 2023.
