The Coca-Cola Company
U.S. Website Privacy Policy
General
The Coca-Cola Company and its majority-owned
U.S. companies (referred to collectively
in this Privacy Policy as the “Company”) respect the privacy of every
individual who visits our websites. The Company
is comprised of U.S. companies. This
Privacy Policy (“Policy”) outlines the information the Company may collect from
visitors to our websites hosted in the United States and how we may use and disclose that information.
We encourage you to read this
Policy before using any of our websites.
Your use of a website of the Company signifies that you agree with all
terms of this Policy, so please do not use our websites if you disagree with
any part of this Policy.
What personal information do we collect and
why do we collect it
The Company may collect
personal information about you (such as your name, postal address, telephone
number and email address) that you provide voluntarily. You ordinarily are not required to register
or provide personal information in order to
access our websites, although certain websites and sections of
our websites may require registration. In addition, if you choose to contact us to
ask a question we will collect your personal information so that we can respond
to your question.
The Company may collect
personal information online for all legal purposes, which include, but are not
limited to:
Games, Contests and Promotions. The
Company offers games, contests and other promotional activities that may
require online registration. Persons
wishing to participate in those activities are asked to provide certain
personal information. Some of the information requested for this purpose is
optional, but other information, such as email address, is mandatory because it
will be needed to notify and identify winners. Also, some activities may
require the selection of a user ID and password by the participating
individual.
“Contact Us” and Comment Features.
The Company encourages visitors to its websites to contact us with questions
and comments. Email addresses and other
information of persons using these features may be collected in order to
facilitate our responses to those inquiries.
Purchases of Company Merchandise. The
coca-colastore.com and other Company websites may offer individuals the
opportunity to purchase branded merchandise online. In connection with those purchases, customers
may be asked to submit personal information, such as shipping addresses and
credit card information, that is required to complete
the transaction. The Company also may
offer a membership program, through which purchasers of its products may
receive discounts on their online purchases.
Membership registration may involve the submission of personal
information to the Company and assignment of a user ID and password. Credit card data and registration information
will be protected by Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) or other encryption
mechanisms.
Special Promotions and Product Information.
The Company also may offer you the opportunity to provide you with email
updates and announcements concerning our products and special promotions. Personal information
you have provided to the Company may be used to facilitate those
communications.
When
do we disclose the personal information we collect
Except as provided herein, the
Company will not sell or rent personal information about you to unaffiliated third
parties.
We may disclose personal
information you have provided through our websites to persons or companies that
we retain or otherwise work with to carry out promotions and other activities for
which you have registered or in which you have otherwise asked to participate. We also will disclose personal information if
required by law, including compliance with warrants,
subpoenas or other legal process.
The Company requires persons
and companies to which it discloses personal information to restrict their use
of such information to the purposes for which it has been provided by the
Company and not to disclose that information to others. The Company cannot be responsible, however,
for any damages caused by the failure of unaffiliated third parties to honor their
privacy obligations to the Company. Similarly,
the Company is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other
websites that are linked to our websites.
In addition to these limited
disclosures of personal information, the Company may provide its affiliates or unaffiliated
third parties with aggregate information about visitors to our sites. For example, we might disclose the median ages
of visitors to our websites, or the numbers of visitors to our websites that
come from different geographic areas.
Such aggregate information will not include information of any
individual visitors to our websites.
The Company may provide personal
and other information to a purchaser or successor entity in connection with the
sale of the Company, a subsidiary or line of business associated with the
Company, or substantially all of the assets of the Company or one of its
subsidiaries, affiliates or lines of business.
Special Note for Parents
The Company takes seriously its
obligations under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act concerning the
collection of personal information from children under the age of 13. Where appropriate, the Company will
specifically instruct children not to submit personal information to our
websites and/or will take reasonable steps to ensure that we obtain parental
consent to such submission.
Parents should be aware that
information that is voluntarily given by children ‑‑ or
others ‑‑ in chat sessions, email exchanges, bulletin boards
or the like may be used by other parties to generate unsolicited email or other
contacts. The Company encourages all
parents to instruct their children in the safe and responsible use of the
Internet.
How do we protect your personal
information
The Company takes measures to
prevent unauthorized intrusion to its websites and the alteration, acquisition
or misuse of personal information by unauthorized persons. Notably, user IDs, passwords and credit card
information submitted by users of our websites are encrypted using Secure
Sockets Layer (“SSL”) or other encryption mechanisms. However, the Company cautions visitors to its
websites that no network, including the Internet, is entirely secure. Accordingly, we cannot be responsible for loss,
corruption or unauthorized acquisition of personal information provided to our
websites, or for any damages resulting from such loss, corruption or
unauthorized acquisition.
How do we maintain the integrity of your
personal information
The Company has procedures in
place to keep your personal information accurate, complete and current for the
purposes for which it is collected and used.
You may review the information that you have provided to us and where
appropriate you may request that it be corrected. If you wish to review your personal
information please call 1-800-438-2653 or send
a request to:
Attn: Website Privacy Policy
Industry and Consumer Affairs
The Coca-Cola Company
1 Coca-Cola Plaza
Atlanta, GA 30313
You also may obtain a copy of your personal information by
contacting us at the email address below. (See
“How can you ask questions about our Privacy Policy and access your personal
information”)
What other information do we collect
When you access and interact
with one of our websites, we may collect certain information ‑‑
often referred to as “clickstream data.”
Such data may include the type of Internet browser and operating system
you are using, the pages and information you accessed on our site, the total
time spent on our site, and the domain name of the website from which you
linked to our site. Also, where you have
previously identified yourself in the registration process as affiliated with a
particular business or organization, we may record the fact that a
representative of your business or organization visited the site, along with
other clickstream data concerning that visit.
Clickstream data will not be used to identify you personally and will
not be associated or correlated with any site visitor in a
personally-identifiable manner.
Information placed automatically on your
computer -- Cookies
When you view one of our
websites, we may store certain information on your computer. This information may be in the form of a small
text file called a “cookie” and can help us improve your experience with our
websites in many ways. For example,
cookies allow us to tailor a website to better match your interests and
preferences. Notably, our websites use
cookies to help understand which parts of our websites are most popular, where
our visitors are going and how much time they spend there. Cookies are read only by the server that
placed them, and are unable to execute any code or virus.
Also, where specific programs
associated with our websites require a user ID and password, you have the
option of requesting that we save your user ID and password so that you will
not have to re-enter that information the next time you access the
website. This function is accomplished by
the placement of a cookie.
With most Internet browsers,
you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies or
receive a warning before a cookie is stored.
Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more
about these functions. Please be aware,
however, that some features and programs of our websites may be unavailable to
you if cookies are erased or blocked.
Some uses of cookies in
connection with our websites may be under the control of unaffiliated entities that
the Company retains for the management of certain programs and fulfillment of
specific visitor/customer requests. The
Company requires these entities to confine their use of cookies to the uses
permitted by this Policy, but the Company cannot be responsible for third party
uses of cookies.
Offline v. Online Practices
This Policy applies solely to the
Company’s information-gathering and dissemination practices in connection with
its websites in the United States, and does not apply to any of our practices
conducted offline or outside of the United States.
How can you ask questions about our Privacy
Policy and access your personal information
If you have questions or
concerns about this Privacy Policy, wish to access your personal information or
request that we not use your personal information for a particular purpose,
please follow the instructions posted at:
https://secure.www2.coca-cola.com/ssldocs/mail/eQuery_other.shtml
Changes to this Policy
This Policy is the sole
authorized statement of the Company’s practices with respect to the collection
of personal information through the Company’s websites and the subsequent use
and disclosure of such information. Any
summaries of this Policy generated by third party software or otherwise (for
example, in connection with the “Platform for Privacy Preferences” or “P3P”) shall
have no legal effect, are in no way binding upon the Company, shall not be
relied upon in substitute for this Policy, and neither supersede nor modify
this Policy.
The Company may revise this
Policy from time to time. You should
bookmark and periodically review this page to ensure that you are familiar with
the most current version of this Policy.
You can determine when this Policy was last revised by checking the
“Last Revised” legend at the top of the Policy.
Terms of Use
1.You Agree to These Terms
by Using this Site
Your access to, and use of, the Site is subject to the following Terms of Use
and all applicable laws and regulations. By accessing and using the Site, you
accept, without limitation or qualification, these Terms of Use, and
acknowledge that any other agreements between you and The Coca-Cola Company are
superseded with respect to this subject matter. If you do not agree and accept,
without limitation or qualification, these Terms of Use, please exit the Site.
2. Ownership of Content
The Site and all of its contents including, but not limited to, all text and
images ("Content") are owned and copyrighted by The Coca-Cola Company
or others with all rights reserved unless otherwise noted. Any Content that is a trademark, logo, or service mark is also a
registered and unregistered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company or others. Your use of any Content, except as provided in these Terms of Use,
without the written permission of the Content owner is strictly prohibited.
You are also advised that The Coca-Cola Company will aggressively enforce its
intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including the
seeking of criminal prosecution.
3.
Your Use of the Site
The Coca-Cola Company grants you permission to use the Site as follows:
· with the exception of images of people or places that are located on the
Site, you may download Content provided that you also retain all copyright and
other proprietary notices contained on the Content;
· you may not use images of people or places that are located on the Site
without The Coca-Cola Company's written permission; · you may not distribute,
modify, copy (except as set forth above), transmit, display, reuse, reproduce,
publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, sell or otherwise use
Content without The Coca-Cola Company's written permission;
· you are prohibited from using the Site to post or transmit any infringing,
threatening, false, misleading, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory,
vulgar, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or
any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be
considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate
any law - The Coca-Cola Company will fully cooperate with any law enforcement
authorities or any court order requesting or directing The Coca-Cola Company to
disclose the identity of anyone posting or transmitting any such information or
materials; and
· you are prohibited from using the Site to advertise or perform any commercial
solicitation.
4. Privacy
Any personal data (for example, your name, address, telephone number or e-mail
address) you transmit to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise will be used
by The Coca-Cola Company in accordance with the Site's Privacy Policy. Any other
communication or material you transmit to the Site, such as questions,
comments, suggestions or the like, will be treated as non-confidential and
nonproprietary.
5. Disclaimer of Warranties
ALL CONTENT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS"
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Please note that some jurisdictions
may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above
exclusions may not apply to you. Without limiting the foregoing, The Coca-Cola
Company neither warrants nor represents that your use of any Content will not
infringe the rights of any third parties nor that the Content will be accurate,
complete or up-to-date. Additionally, with reference to any discussions, chats,
postings, transmissions, bulletin boards, and the like that may be on the Site,
The Coca-Cola Company assumes no responsibility or liability arising from any
infringing, threatening, false, misleading, abusive, harassing, libelous,
defamatory, vulgar, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane
material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would
be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise
violate any law, contained in any such locations on the Site.
6. Exclusion of Liability
YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. NEITHER THE COCA-COLA COMPANY, NOR
ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS OR DIRECTORS, NOR ANY OF ITS
AGENTS OR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DELIVERING THE
SITE, ARE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE
USE OF THIS SITE OR CONTENT WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR
OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES. Please note
that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of certain damages, so some
of the above exclusions may not apply to you.
7. Links to Third Party Sites
The Site may contain links to sites owned or operated by parties other than The
Coca-Cola Company. Such links are provided for your convenience only. The
Coca-Cola Company does not control, and is not responsible for, the content or
privacy policies on, or the security of, such sites. Without limiting the
foregoing, The Coca-Cola Company specifically disclaims any responsibility if
such sites:
· infringe any third
party's intellectual property rights;
· are inaccurate, incomplete or misleading;
· are not merchantable or fit for a particular purpose;
· do not provide adequate security;
· contain viruses or other items of a destructive nature; or
· are libelous or defamatory.
Neither does The Coca-Cola Company endorse the
content, or any products or services available, on such sites. If you establish
a link to such sites or the Site, you do so at your own risk and without the
permission of The Coca-Cola Company.
8. Export Control
Software and other materials from this Site may be subject to United States
Export Control. The United States Export Control laws prohibit the export of
certain technical data and software to certain territories. No software from
this Site may be downloaded or exported:
· into (or to a
national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Syria, or
any other country to which the United States has embargoed goods; or anyone on
the United States Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals
or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders.
The Coca-Cola Company does not authorize the
downloading or exportation of any software or technical data from this Site to
any jurisdiction prohibited by the United States Export Laws.
9. Cautionary Language Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This Site may contain statements, estimates or projections that constitute
"forward-looking statements" as defined under U.S. federal securities
laws. Generally, the words "believe," "expect,"
"intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "project,"
"will" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements,
which generally are not historical in nature. Forward-looking statements are
subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from The Coca-Cola Company's historical experience and our
present expectations or projections. These risks include, but are not limited
to, our ability to finance expansion plans, share repurchase programs and
general operating activities; changes in the non-alcoholic beverages business
environment, including actions of competitors and changes in consumer
preferences; regulatory and legal changes; fluctuations in the cost and
availability of raw materials; interest rate and currency fluctuations; changes
in economic and political conditions; our ability to penetrate developing and
emerging markets; the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing programs;
litigation uncertainties; adverse weather conditions; and other risks discussed
in our Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC"), including our Annual Report on Form 10-K, which filings are
available from the SEC. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking
statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. The Coca-Cola
Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements.
10. Revisions to the Terms
The Coca-Cola Company may at any time, and without notice, revise these Terms
of Use by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should
therefore periodically visit this page to review the current Terms of Use.
11. Law and
Jurisdiction
These Terms of Use and your use of the Site are governed by the laws of the
State of Georgia, USA, without regard to its choice of law provisions. The
courts of general jurisdiction located within Fulton County, Georgia, USA, will
have exclusive jurisdiction over any and all disputes arising out of, relating
to or concerning these Terms of Use and/or the Site or in which these Terms of
Use and/or the Site are a material fact.
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