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THE COCA-COLA COMPANY PRIVACY STATEMENT FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN 13 AND OVER PRIVACY STATEMENT LAST UPDATED: 6-2-2003 The Coca-Cola Company has created this privacy statement for its U.S. originating company websites, such as barqs.com and barqshasbite.com (the "U.S. Sites") in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses The Coca-Cola Company's information gathering and dissemination practices for the information collected through the U.S. Sites from adults and children 13 and over. Please consult The Coca-Cola Company Privacy Statement for Children Under 13 for information about our collection, use and dissemination of information from children under 13. From time to time, certain U.S. Sites or certain activities on U.S. Sites might be governed by different privacy practices from those set forth below. We encourage you to check the privacy practices of each U.S. Site that you visit. PRIVACY STATEMENT I. The Coca-Cola Company's Collection and Use of Information A. Personal Information We will only collect personally identifiable information about you, such as your name, address and email address, when you provide it to us while on a U.S. Site such as when you set up a My Thirst ID, create an account, enter a sweepstakes, sign up for newsletters, participate in a survey, contact customer service, or otherwise interact with a U.S. Site. Your personal information is used by us to respond to your requests, to process your transactions, for administrative purposes, to process prizes, and to send you information about The Coca-Cola Company's programs and, occasionally, advertising/promotional material from some of its advertising and strategic partners. We may also use your personal information for internal business purposes, such as analyzing and managing our businesses. You may opt-out of receiving certain future information or communications (see the Opt-Out/Choice section below). The personal information you provide to a U.S. Site may be combined with information you provide to The Coca-Cola Company on other U.S. Sites, with demographic and other information that is publicly available, or with other information about you that The Coca-Cola Company may otherwise obtain online or offline. B. Financial Information We will only collect financial information, such as account or credit card numbers, from you when you provide it to us when making purchases on a U.S. Site or using certain features on a U.S. Site. We will use your financial information to process your transactions. By making a purchase on a U.S. Site, you consent to our providing your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine is necessary to process your transactions. These third parties may include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process the transaction. C. Demographic Information We may also collect demographic data, such as your date of birth, gender and zip code. Demographic data may be used to tailor your experience at a U.S. Site, such as showing you content including special events and advertising that you might be interested in, and displaying the content according to your zip code. On occasion, aggregate information that does not identify any particular user may be compiled and shared with strategic partners, merchants and advertisers. D. Passive Collection of Non-Personal Information. The U.S. Sites often require the use of encrypted or non-encrypted cookies, pieces of information that a web site places in a file on your computer associated with your browser that may be used to deliver content specific to your interests and for other purposes, such as security and other account administrative functions, and which may track personal identifying information. This information is processed passively by your browser as you surf through the U.S. Sites. The Coca-Cola Company also collects "referrers" information, IP addresses and various environmental variables. II. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties A. Strategic Partners From time to time, we may enter into a special relationship with another company that is not owned by or affiliated with The Coca-Cola Company to provide additional features on a U.S. Site. These special relationships may include business partners, sponsors, and co-branded sites (referred to here as "co-branded pages"). Any information, including personal information, which you provide on one of these co-branded pages will be shared with these third party partners. By participating in activities or providing your information on these co-branded pages, you also consent to our providing your personal information to those third parties. Since these third parties will use your information in accordance with their own privacy practices, you should check their Web sites for information regarding their privacy policies. B. Service Providers We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the U.S. Sites or administer activities on our behalf, such as authorization of credit card transactions, order fulfillment and sweepstakes administration. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes. For instance, if you participate in a sweepstakes, game, or loyalty program resulting in a prize or award, we will share personally identifiable information about you to our games and merchandise fulfillment and management agencies. C. Other Disclosures Unless specified in this Privacy Statement or a U.S. Site specific or activity specific privacy statement, personally identifiable information of any individual user is never shared with other companies outside The Coca-Cola Company, except as follows: (i) as permitted by law, (ii) in the event of a transfer of ownership, assets or a bankruptcy of The Coca-Cola Company, (iii) where we determine that disclosure of specific information is necessary to comply with the request of a law enforcement or regulatory agency, or (iv) to protect the interests or safety of The Coca-Cola Company or other visitors to the U.S. Sites. D. Community Functions The U.S. Sites may make available chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups at various times. Please remember that any information you disclose in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal, financial or other information in any of these forums. The Coca-Cola Company cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Privacy Statement, the law, or your personal privacy and safety and is not responsible for the results of such postings. III. LINKS AND THIRD PARTIES' PRIVACY PRACTICES A U.S. Site may contain links to other sites that are not operated by The Coca-Cola Company. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRIVACY PRACTICES OR THE CONTENT OF SUCH OTHER WEB SITES. The Coca-Cola Company recommends that you review the privacy policy of third party Web sites arrived at from links on the U.S. Sites. IV. SECURITY The U.S. Sites have security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under its control. The Coca-Cola Company employs security measures consistent with standard industry practice to help protect against public access to personal and account activity information collected on and used by The Coca-Cola Company at its U.S. Sites. For instance, all access to our databases wherein personal information is kept is logged for security purposes and access is limited to key personnel. Certain specific activities are protected using a secure communications encryption technology called SSL, i.e., during registration, while editing your demographic profile, and when requesting password help. SSL (stands for Secure Sockets Layer) is a method for hiding information to prevent others from intercepting and reading the data sent between the client (your computer) and the server (the U.S. Site). All personal information and account activity are also protected through the use of user names and passwords. In order to help maintain the security of your information, you should protect the confidentiality of your user name and password. V. OPT-OUT/CHOICE The U.S. Sites provide you the opportunity to opt-out to receive marketing communications from The Coca-Cola Company. If you opt-out, The Coca-Cola Company will not use personal identifying information (e.g., email address, name) to inform you of its promotional offers, except as follows. Regardless of your opt-out preferences, The Coca-Cola Company will still at times send you program emails for administrative reasons, such as for your My Thirst ID and/or your CokeSports account. Your opt-out preference may not be retroactive in certain instances where you agreed to receive brand-specific communications. The Coca-Cola Company also gives you convenient methods for removing your information from our database so as not to receive future communications or to close your account: The Coca-Cola Company Website Customer Care P.O. Box 1734 Atlanta, GA 30301 VI. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT The Coca-Cola Company reserves the right to make changes in this Privacy Statement. In the event that The Coca-Cola Company makes a material change to this Privacy Statement, it will be posted here. We encourage you to check this page regularly since your continued use of a U.S. Site following any changes to this Privacy Statement will be deemed to constitute your acceptance of such change. VII. REVIEWING/CORRECTING/UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION The U.S. Sites give you several options for reviewing, correcting, updating or otherwise modifying information you have previously provided: The Coca-Cola Company Website Customer Care P.O. Box 1734 Atlanta, GA, USA 30301 Please note; changes may not be effective immediately. VIII. CONTACTING THE COCA-COLA COMPANY If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the practices of the U.S. Sites, you may contact: The Coca-Cola Company Website Customer Care P.O. Box 1734 Atlanta, GA 30301 Telephone # 800-438-2653 |