Cookie notificaiton

Consent

By using this website www.carlsbergmarstons.co.uk (the ‘Website’) you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this Cookie Notification by Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company Limited, company reg. no. 00078439, Marston's House, Brewery Road, Wolverhampton, England, WV1 4JT (‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’) and our partners. 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 under ‘Disabling and managing cookies’.

We are part of a global group of companies. In that connection 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 shareholders, Marston’s Trading Limited) and any entity which replaces it as our shareholder (in whole or in part) from time to time;
2. our other 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 company of the Carlsberg Shareholder's group and its subsidiaries (‘Carlsberg Group Entities’ ); and
4. any other member of the Carlsberg Marston's Group (which includes Carlsberg Marston's Limited, CMBC Supply Limited and any other Carlsberg Marston's Group trading division or group company from time to time),

for the purposes stated in this Cookie Notification. Each of those companies may also process and use your Personal Data for the purposes stated in this Cookie Notification, but they do it independently on their own behalf only.

Disabling and managing cookies

If you do not agree to our use of cookies on the Website, please manage your cookie preferences by pressing the button ‘Manage Cookies’. Please note that the functionality of the Website and the services provided may be affected 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 Cookie Notification, so that you can easily identify and disable them 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 Cookie Notification will always allow you to know who is placing cookies and for what purposes, and give you the means to disable them, so you should check it from time to time.

We describe the categories of cookies that we, our affiliates and our contractors use in this Cookie Notification.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Performance and Analytic Cookies

We make use of performance and 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 use 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 performance and analytic cookies:

Website Functionality Cookies

We use functionality 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 functionality cookies:

Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Marketing and 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:

• AddThis (the service that runs some of our social sharing buttons): http://www.addthis.com/privacy#.T6j--usS0bw
• 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

In addition to the cookies set by third parties detailed above, the following other advertising cookies are also used:

Local Shared Objects (‘Flash cookies’)

In addition to the above cookies, we use Local Shared Objects, also referred to as ‘Flash cookies’, on the Website. These are used to enhance your user experience, for example, by storing your user preferences and settings, such as your volume/mute settings, and in connection with animated content on the Website. Local Shared Objects are similar to browser cookies but can store more complex data than simple text. By themselves, they cannot do anything to, or with, the data on your computer. Like other cookies, they can only access personally identifiable information that you have provided on the Website and cannot be accessed by other websites. To find out more about Flash cookies or how to disable them, please click here http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html.

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 to determine 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 which 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: 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.

This Cookie Notification does not cover third party websites

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