Privacy policy

The Carlsberg group understands that the security of your personal data is extremely important and it is committed to respecting your privacy and safeguarding your personal data.

This privacy policy sets out how Carlsberg Breweries A/S (Carlsberg, we, us, our) uses your personal data and the measures it has put in place to protect your information and keep it secure.

This privacy policy applies to you if you purchase goods from us, receive services from us, participate in our events or promotions or otherwise interact with us, including by using any of our websites or by interacting with us via social media.

Please take a moment to review this policy in detail (together with our cookies policy  and terms of use, and any other documents referred to in them, if you are using one of our websites). If you are an existing customer of ours, further details about how we use your personal data may be set out in your contract with us. Further notices highlighting certain uses we wish to make of your personal data together with the ability to opt in or out of selected uses may also be provided when we collect personal data from you.

This privacy policy explains our privacy practices and covers the following areas:

1. What personal data we collect
2. What we do with your personal data
3. How we use cookies
4. Your use of chat rooms, message boards or other interactive forums
5. How we protect your personal data
6. Your rights and contacting us
7. Updates to this policy

What personal data we collect

We will collect and process some or all of the following personal data about you:

Information about you your name, address, email address, phone number, social media handle, gender, date of birth or photograph, or details of your employer and your position.

• Information we collect about your participation in our promotions and competitions or attendance at our events - information provided in your application forms, recordings you or we have made, details of your guests in connection with any promotions and competitions you have entered or won, or other information related to your attendance at events, including any dietary and access assistance requirements you may have
• Information about your interests - details of any hobbies or activities you undertake or details of your personal interests
• Marketing preference information - details of your marketing and communication preferences and information we collect to help us determine what products and services may be of interest to you
• Information about your use of our chat rooms, message boards, social media pages or other interactive forums including any comments, photos, videos or other information that you post online
• Survey information - your responses to market surveys that we conduct
• Our correspondence with you including any feedback, complaints and comments from you via telephone, email or social media, or records of any online, paper or in-person correspondence and interactions between us. If you have communicated with us by phone, we will collect details of the phone number used to call us, and any information collected via a call recording
• Technical information including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, or your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug in types and versions, operating system and platform
• Information about your visit to our websites including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our websites (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, pages you accessed, page response times, download errors, lengths of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page

What we do with your personal data

Under European data protection laws (European Data Protection Laws) we must establish and inform you of a legal basis or “ground” for our use of your personal data. For each use mentioned below we note the purpose for which we use and disclose it, and the ground we rely on as the basis for our use. An explanation of each of the grounds can be found further in this document.

Depending on how you interact with Carlsberg, we will use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To provide and manage products and services you have requested To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including to arrange delivery, to action or cancel orders, to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us, and to notify you about changes to our products and services.
  • Legal bases: contract performance, legitimate interests (to enable us to perform our obligations and provide products and services to you or to notify you about changes to our products and services)
• To communicate effectively with you To respond to your questions, comments, complaints or other communications, including any queries relating to our products.
  • Legal bases: legitimate interests (to allow us to correspond with you and provide products and services to you), legal claims
• To monitor activities and record our correspondence with you To monitor our communications with you, including to ensure service quality, compliance with procedures and for training purposes.
  • Legal bases: legitimate interests (to ensure the quality of our products and services)
• To provide you with marketing materials To provide you with information by post, email, phone, SMS, or online or social media advertisement about products and services that we offer where such products or services are similar to those you have already purchased or enquired about, or where you have consented to being contacted for those purposes. We may also use your information for marketing selected business partners’ products and services. Where required by law, we will ask for your consent at the time we collect your data to conduct any of these types of marketing. We will provide an option to unsubscribe or opt-out of further communication on any electronic marketing sent to you or you may opt out at any time by contacting us using the details set out in the “Contact” section below.
  • Legal bases: consent, legitimate interests (to keep you updated with news in relation to our products and services)
• To understand our customers, and to develop and tailor our products and services We may analyse the personal data that we hold in order to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you. We may report aggregate information to our advertisers, and make suggestions and recommendations to you, our customers and users of our websites about products or services that may interest you or them.
  • Legal bases: legitimate interests (to ensure the quality of our products and services, allow us to improve our products and services, and provide you with the content and services on our websites)
• To run our promotions and competitions Where you are participating in promotions and competitions, to run such promotions and competitions, including to notify you if you have won. If you win a prize, in accordance with local law, we may make your personal data and your guests’ personal data available on our websites and social media pages and in press releases. We may also make these details available to third parties who may need this information for prize fulfilment purposes.
  • Legal bases: legal obligations, contract performance, legitimate interests (in order to successfully run our promotions and events)
• To run our events If you attend an event organised or otherwise supported by us, we may use your personal data, including specific dietary requirements, health information and access assistance, in connection with the running of the event.
  • Legal bases: legitimate interests (to allow us to run our events, and to cater for and accommodate your specific preferences and requirements during our events), explicit consent (if required)
• In relation to fraud prevention We and other organisations may access and use certain information to prevent fraud as may be required by applicable law and regulation, and best practice, at any given time. If false or inaccurate information is provided and fraud is identified or suspected, details may be passed to fraud prevention agencies and other organisations, and may be recorded by us or them.
  
  • Legal bases: legal obligations, legitimate interests (to ensure that you fall within our acceptable risk profile and to assist with the prevention of crime and fraud), substantial public interest
• To conduct certain checks on you, such as KYC and credit checks If you are a customer or prospective customer, we may use your personal data to conduct certain checks in relation to you (and or your business). In connection with this purpose, we may disclose your details to the relevant authorities including credit reference agencies, government agencies and fraud prevention agencies. Law enforcement agencies may access and use this information. We, and other organisations that access and use information recorded by such agencies, may do so from countries other than the country in which you are based.
  
  • Legal bases: legal obligation, legal claims, substantial public interests, legitimate interests (to assist with the prevention of crime and fraud)
• To improve and administer our websites, and to ensure that content is relevant To ensure that only adults of legal drinking age view and interact with our websites; to improve our websites and ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer; to administer our websites and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis (including traffic data analysis), testing, and research, statistical and survey purposes; to allow you to participate in / register for interactive features of our service; as part of our efforts to keep our websites safe and secure; to ensure that content from our websites is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device, which may include passing your data to business partners, service providers, and analytics and search engine providers.
  
  • Legal bases: legitimate interests (to allow us to administer our websites and to provide you with the content and services on our websites), legal obligation
• To reorganise or make changes to our business In the event that we: (i) are subject to negotiations for the sale of our business or part thereof to a third party; (ii) are sold to a third party; or (iii) undergo a re-organisation, we may need to transfer some or all of your personal data to the relevant third party (or its advisors) as part of any due diligence process for the purpose of analysing any proposed sale or re-organisation. We may also need to transfer your personal data to that re-organised entity or third party after the sale or reorganisation for them to use for the same purposes as set out in this privacy policy
  
  • Legal bases: legitimate interests (in order to allow us to change our business), legal obligation
• To comply with legal and regulatory obligations We may process your personal data to comply with our legal and regulatory requirements, which may include disclosing your personal data to third parties, including insurers, the court service and/or regulators or law enforcement agencies in connection with enquiries, proceedings or investigations by such parties anywhere in the world or where compelled to do so.
  
  • Legal bases: legal obligations, legal claims, legitimate interests (to cooperate with law enforcement and regulatory authorities)

If you have any questions about the legal bases we rely on, please contact us using the details set out in the “Contact” section below.

Disclosure of your information

In addition to the third parties mentioned above, we may also disclose your personal data to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, who may use it in connection with any of the purposes set out above. We will also share your personal data with third party service providers (such as providers of marketing, IT or administrative services) who may process it on our behalf for any of the purposes set out above.
We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in a particular location). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.

How we use "cookies"

Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users. They help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our websites and ensure that the content is relevant to you.  To find out more about how we use cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy.

Your use of chat rooms, message boards or other interactive forums

We offer chat rooms, message or bulletin boards, or interactive areas where visitors may post comments or information for our visitors' enjoyment. If you participate in a chat room, bulletin or message board, or other interactive area where personal data may be posted on our websites, in addition to reading this privacy policy be sure to check our chat room rules before entering, as you will be bound by them. As you know, anything you post online is available for the world to see. We make no representations and undertake no obligations as to information you voluntarily post.

How we protect your personal data

Where is your personal data stored?

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination in Europe. It may also be processed by staff operating inside Europe who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details or the provision of support services. 

How long is your personal data stored for?

The personal data that we hold about you will not be kept for longer than is permitted by law and will only be kept for as long as necessary to provide you with any requested products, services or information, or for any other purpose set out under the heading “What do we do with the information” above.

For example, we may retain certain transaction details and correspondence until the time limit for claims arising from the transaction has expired, or to comply with regulatory requirements regarding the retention of such data.

Disclosure of your information outside the EEA

Where we transfer personal data from inside the European Economic Area (the EEA) to outside the EEA, we may be required to take specific additional measures to safeguard the relevant personal data. Certain countries outside the EEA have been approved by the European Commission as providing essentially equivalent protections to EEA data protection laws and, therefore, no additional safeguards are required to export personal data to these jurisdictions. In countries that have not had these approvals, we will use appropriate safeguards to protect any personal data from being transferred, such as EU Commission-approved model contractual clauses or binding corporate rules permitted by applicable legal requirements.

Please contact us using the details set out in the “Contact” section below if you would like to see a copy of the specific safeguards applied to the export of your personal data.

What do we do to safeguard personal data?

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to our websites - any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

What about links to other sites?

Our websites and social media fan pages may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, affiliates and other third parties.  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.

Your rights and contacting us

Updating information

We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that your personal data is accurate. In order to assist us with this, you should notify us of any changes to the personal data that you have provided to us by contacting us using the details set out in the “Contact” section below.

Your rights

If you are based in the EEA during your interactions with us, under certain conditions, you may have the right to require us to:

• provide you with further details on how we use and process your personal data;
• provide you with a copy of the personal data that we hold about you;
• rectify inaccuracies in the personal data and complete any incomplete personal data that we process about you;
• delete personal data we no longer have grounds to process; and
• restrict how we process your personal data whilst we consider an inquiry you have raised.

In addition, under certain conditions, you have the right to:

• where processing is based on consent, withdraw the consent;
• ask us to transmit the personal data you have provided to us and that we still hold about you to a third party electronically;
• object to any processing of personal data that we process on the “legitimate interests” or “public interests” grounds, unless our reasons for the underlying processing outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms; and
• object to direct marketing (including any profiling for such purposes) at any time.

These rights are subject to certain exemptions to safeguard the public interest (e.g. the prevention or detection of crime) and our interests (e.g. the maintenance of legal privilege), and may not all be available in the country in which you are based.

If you have the right to do so, you can exercise these rights by submitting the form found on this page.

If you are not satisfied with our use of your personal information or our response to any exercise of these rights you have the right to complain to the Danish Data Protection Agency.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to privacy@carlsberg.com.

Updates to this policy

Any changes we may make to this privacy policy will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this privacy policy.

This privacy policy was last updated in May 2018.