STOLICHNAYA - Privacy Policy

The Stolichnaya Brand Organisation Limited of 40 Conduit Street, London, W1S 2YQ ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms of use [INSERT AS LINK TO WEBSITE TERMS OF USE] and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is:

Mistral

2 Triton Centre
Premier Way
Romsey
Hampshire
SO51 9DJ

LEGAL DRINKING AGE: 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 and will not knowingly collect any personal information from individuals under the legal purchase age. Should we be notified that, someone under the legal purchase age has provided us with information, we will make all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our records and will retain it solely for the purposes of ensuring that it is not used again.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:
Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, web logs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.stoli.com . This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by The Stolichnaya Brand Organisation Limited and when you report a problem with our site.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence
You can also 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

IP addresses and cookies

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests (eg by emailing you to inform you about areas of the Site that you have not accessed on prior visits).
To speed up your searches.
To recognise you when you return to our site for statistical/analytical purposes.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

You can obtain information about how to manage cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org

Where we store your personal data

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the provision of support services, the development of content of our Site, or the processing of applications in a competition or promotion. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Mistral will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

We take security of information seriously. We provide for the secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers by using encryption software. However due to the open communication of the internet, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and us and us and you will be free from unauthorised access by third parties.

Uses made of the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

Use of site: To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer. We may also use information for internal marketing analysis (such as to measure traffic to particular areas of the Site).
Marketing information: To provide you with information, products or services about our products and services and those of our subsidiaries, affiliates and parent companies and any of their related businesses that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes. You will be able to confirm whether you want to receive such information the first time you provide us with personal information, and you will be able to unsubscribe from such communications at any time (see Unsubscribe information below)
Transactional purposes: To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
Interactive features: To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
Changes to service: To notify you about changes to our service.

We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which we believe may be of interest to you (but you will be able to confirm whether you want to receive such information when you first register with us and can unsubscribe at any time – see Unsubscribe information below).

If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data.

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 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
If The Stolichnaya Brand Company or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use [INSERT AS LINK TO WEBSITE'S TERMS OF USE] and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of The Stolichnaya Brand Company Limited, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of improving internet security by the prosecution of hackers or others attempting to use websites that do not belong to them for illegal or improper purposes, for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your rights - Unsubscribing

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (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. You can also exercise the right to change your preferences about how we use your personal information at any time by contacting us at Customercare@stoli.com

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, 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.

Access to information

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to our privacy policy

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.

JURISDICTION

This Privacy Policy will be governed by English law but supplemented as appropriate by additional legal requirements in jurisdictions where we conduct business. Nothing in this Policy should be regarded as extending any rights of any party using the Site or imposing any additional obligations on The Stolichnaya Brand Organisation Limited, its parent, subsidiaries and affiliates which are not already imposed upon them by applicable law.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Website Manager Stolichnaya Brand Organisation, 40 Contuit Street, London W1S2YQ. Louise.mcguane@stoli.com