Consent

By using this website https://carlsbergkazakhstan.kz (Website), you agree to use cookies according to this policy. Hereby you give your consent to the collection and processing of personal data, including their cross-border transmission.

By visiting the Website for the first time, you will see this popping-up information window. Although it does not usually pop up when you visit the Website again, you can withdraw your consent at any time by following the instructions below.

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing a small amount of information uploaded to your device while you visit a website. Cookies are later sent back to the outgoing web domain when you subsequently visit this domain. Most webpages contain elements from several web domains so when you visit the Website your browser can receive cookies from several sources.

Cookies are important as they permit websites to recognize a user’s device. Cookies make it possible to easily browse different pages of a website, save the settings and generally improve the interaction with the user. They can also be used to select an advertisement according to your likes by tracking the history of your visits of various websites.

Session cookies are deleted automatically when the browser is closed, but permanent cookies remain in your device even after the browser is closed (for example, in order to save your user’s settings after returning to the website).

Disabling cookies

If you do not want us to use cookies on the Website, you can disable them by following your browser’s instructions available on http://allaboutcookies.org. Please note that some regimes of using the Website and services offered on the Website will work with certain deviations, if cookies are disabled.

If an organization installing cookies provides a device for automatically disabling cookies, we indicate below the name of this organization, the categories of cookies it installs along with a link to its device automatically disabling cookies. In all other cases, we specify the names of cookies and their sources at the moment of validity of this Policy on the use of cookies so that you could easily identify them and, as an option, disable them by using the browser control elements.

Some browsers permit to notify of your desire to track your online activity. When the activity tracking tool is disabled, it can have a negative impact on the use of the Website and the services it offers.

After you visit the Website for the first time, we can change the cookies used. The aforementioned cookies policy will always enable you to find out who installs cookies and for what purposes and will also permit you to disable them. So we suggest you should check the policy status from time to time while using the Website.

What types of cookies are used by Carlsberg?

Below is a description of the types of cookies used by Carlsberg, its subsidiaries and contractors.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are important for moving across the Website and using its functions. Without cookies, the services requested by you (for example, navigation between pages, use of a shopping basket or an electronic billing service) are unavailable.

The Website currently uses the following strictly necessary cookies:

Operational cookies

We use analytical cookies to analyze the Website use by our visitors and to control the Website operation speed. This permits us to ensure the high quality of services by adjusting the range of our products and to promptly detect and fix any problems. For example, we can use cookies for tracking purposes to find out what pages are most popular, which method of linking pages is most efficient, and determine why error messages appear on some pages. We can also use cookies to highlight articles or services of the website, which we believe will be interesting for you based on your use of the Website. Neither we nor our contractors link information gathered by cookies to your personal data.

The Website currently uses the following analytical cookies:

Functional cookies of the Website

We use cookies to provide certain functions to you, for example, to remember the options chosen by you (such as the user’s name, language, or region you stay in) or recognize the platform you are given access to the Website from, and also to provide extended and other individual functions. Such cookies are not used to track your visits to other websites.

The Website uses the following functional cookies:

Advertising cookies

Advertising cookies (or target cookies) gather information on the specifics of browsing a website associated with your device and are used to make an advertisement more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used by the services provided by a third party on the Website such as buttons “Like” or “Share” in addition to the required functions. Third parties provide these services in exchange for acknowledgement that you (or, to be exact, your device) visited a certain website. These third parties place advertising cookies both while the Website is visited and while you are using their services and navigating the Website. Their confidentiality practice is provided below: 

• AddThis (the services controlling some of our exchange buttons in social networks): http://www.addthis.com/privacy#.T6j--usS0bw
• YouTube video player cookies policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=uk (Google standard terms).
• Data Usage Policy
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-onother
• Twitter confidentiality policy: https://twitter.com/privacy
• LinkedIn cookie policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy

You can give up advertising cookies installed by such third parties by going to http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

• Data Usage Policy
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-onother
• Twitter Confidentiality Policy: https://twitter.com/privacy

Local shared objects ("Flash cookies")

Apart from the aforesaid cookies, on our Website we use local shared objects that are also known as flash cookies. They are used to improve the interaction between the website and the user, for example, by saving your preferred items and user settings [for example, loudness parameters/mute parameters and in connection with the animated contents on the Website]. Local shared objects are similar to cookies, but they can save more sophisticated data than a simple text. They cannot do anything to a computer or data stored on it. Just as other cookies, they can obtain access only to personal data you provided on the Website and available for identifying the person, and which can be accessed by other websites. To find out more about flash cookies or how to disable them, click on http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html. 

E-mail web beacons in the HTML format

Our e-mails can contain the campaign’s unique pixel of the web beacon to determine whether our e-mails open and to check any clicks on the link to the e-mail. We can use this information within the limits, including finding out which of our messages you are most interested in and whether users that do not open our e-mails want to receive them in the future. A pixel will be deleted when an e-mail is deleted. If you do not want the pixel to be uploaded to your device, you should select the format of receiving our e-mails as “a usual text”, and not HTML. Some pages of the Website may contain web beacons as well and permit us to count visitors browsing our Website. They enable us to receive statistics on activities and functions our consumers are most interested in so as to provide a more personalized content. In general, they are not used to access personal data without your consent to it.

Pixel tags may be transferred to third parties, which directly contribute to our promotional campaigns and help develop websites. For example, in order to derive the efficiency ratio of our advertisements, third parties, including Facebook, can use cookies, web beacons, and other data gathering technology to collect or receive data from the Website and other online resources, and also use such data for providing services of counting and determining the target audiences for placing advertisements on their own platforms. You can find out how to reject collection and use of information used by third parties to send away target advertisements here (link to http://www.aboutads.info/choices and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/).

Use of IP addresses and web logs

We can also use your IP address and data on the browser type to help diagnose any defects in our server, administer the Website and improve the service offered to you. The IP address is a digit code identifying your computer in the Internet. Your IP address can also be used to gather generalized demographic data.

We can browse the IP address to find out the domain you visit the Website from (for example, google.com) and to determine our users’ demographic data more accurately.

The cookies policy does not encompass third-party websites

Please note that the above cookies policy does not extend to the confidentiality rules of third-party websites, which may be linked to the Website and we assume no liability or responsibility for them.

Changes in the cookies policy

The aforesaid cookies policy may be updated so we suggest you read it from time to time so as to be updated on how we use cookies. The cookies policy was last updated in January 2019.