THE COCA‑COLA COMPANY COOKIE POLICY

LAST UPDATED: 18 May 2021

This Coca‑Cola Company Cookie Policy describes the different types of cookies that may be used in connection with the website owned and controlled by us from which you are accessing this Cookie Policy (the “Site”), and how you can manage them. 

We may change this Cookie Policy at any time.  Please take a look at the “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this page to see when this Cookie Policy was last revised.  Any changes in this Cookie Policy will become effective when we make the revised Cookie Policy available on or through the Site.

WHAT & WHY

What are cookies and other similar technologies?

Cookies and web storage technologies allowing local and session storage (“cookies”) make it easier for you to interact with our website. They are typically small text files downloaded by your internet browser to your device when you visit our website.  We also place cookies on your device when you interact with website technologies from third-party providers, such as scripts, pixels, and tags, which we integrate on our website for advertising purposes. Pixel usage leads to collection of data that helps us track conversions from ads, optimize ads, build targeted audiences for future ads, and remarket to people who have already taken some kind of action on our site. It works by placing and triggering cookies to track users as they interact with our site and our ads.

We also use other technologies similar to cookies. We use these to pass information we have collected about you when you visit our website to other applications.

We provide information below on the use of these technologies as well as how you can change cookie settings depending on your preferences.

Why do we use cookies?

To optimize your online experience

Cookies perform different functions that help us make your online experience smoother and more interactive. Especially if you are using the same device and the same browser as you did when you visited our website previously. 

Some cookies are considered essential for running and maintaining the Coca‑Cola website and they enable us to provide you with:

• Access to services and functionalities;
• Consistent and updated information;
• A Seamless online experience.

To provide you content and offers tailored to your interests

Coca‑Cola uses advertising and targeting cookies. These cookies store information from your browsing history to record your interests and browsing activities on our website. This enables us or our partners to:

• Advertise Coca‑Cola products on other websites, based on your visits to our site; 
• Combine and optimize our information so that the Coca‑Cola online advertisements you see are relevant to you and your interests. 

To help us improve our websites

Cookies let us improve our websites by analyzing how visitors use them. We look at what content is popular and use that information to anticipate what else visitors may find interesting or useful. This helps us to:

• Understand how visitors use our websites so we can make them better and enhance visitors’ experience;
• Try out different ideas and display content that is most relevant to individual visitors.

Cookies also help us understand how you use and interact with us, so you don’t have to tell us each time you visit one of our websites. They can be used, for example, to remember your preferences and your user ID when you visit us. If we know your settings and what you like, we can:

• Provide you a more personalized Coca‑Cola experience by helping you navigate to the most relevant pages more efficiently;
• Remember certain personal preferences, such as your language setting and preferred configurations;
• Modify content based on your preferences and provide you with personalized content.

Types of cookies

Coca‑Cola and its partners use different types of cookies depending on their function and purpose. These cookies are further described in this Cookie Policy and can be managed here:

Cookie Settings

Cookie Settings: YOU ARE IN CONTROL!

To find out about which cookies you have activated/deactivated click here:

Cookie Settings

Necessary Cookies - Always on

We use these cookies to:

• Identify you and enable you to log into your user account;
• Remember your previous actions such your cookie consent choice.

Additional information on these cookies:

Necessary cookies let you use our website and use the features as we provide. You would not be able to use the website without these cookies, including showing you a version and presentation of the website corresponding to the Internet connection you are using. In addition, these cookies ensure that when you change pages, the function of changing from http to https takes place. Your consent is not required for the use of essential cookies.

These cookies cannot be deactivated/disabled by using any of the functions on this website. Our legal basis for the usage of these cookies is our legitimate interest to deliver the website to you.

You can find out more about the Cookies used in the preference center:

Cookie Settings

Analytics Cookies

We use these cookies to:

• See how you engage with our site;
• Find out more about your personal journey between pages;
• Improve our website and tailor it according to your preferences.

Additional information on these cookies:

Analytics cookies gather information about how visitors interact with our website and enable a website to save information that has already been entered (like usernames and language choices), so that it can offer you improved and more convenient functions. For example, a website can provide you with more relevant local information if it uses a cookie to remember your region. Analytics cookies are also used to enable features you request like playing videos, but are only deployed activated by the user. These cookies help us to provide a website designed to be used in the best way possible.

Our legal basis when we use these Cookies is that you have given your consent). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. 

You can deactivate these cookies at any time via the buttons below or via the settings in your browser.

You can find out more about the Cookies used in the preference center:

Cookie Settings

Advertising Cookies 

We use and allow third parties to deploy these cookies to:

• Provide online advertising that offers you relevant information;
• Prevent that the same advertising continuously re-appears.

Additional information on these cookies:

These cookies are used to deliver advertising and other marketing communications more relevant to you and your interests. They remember whether you have visited a website, and share this information with, for instance, advertising and media agencies. In addition, advertising cookies may be used by our partners to create profiles, so that they can show you relevant ads on other websites and create lookalike audiences. They also make it possible to limit the number of times an advertisement is shown to you, with a view to avoiding over-exposure and user annoyance.

Our legal basis when we use these Cookies is that you have given your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. 

You can find out more about the Cookies used in the preference center:

Cookie Settings

Personalization Cookies

We use and allow third parties to deploy these cookies to help us:

• Deliver multimedia content;
• Keep your details secure when you are logged in.
• Personalize your experience on our site by showing you content you might be interested based on previous online viewing
• Show you fewer, more relevant adverts based on your interests

Additional information on these cookies:

These cookies enable a website to save information that has already been entered (like usernames and language choices), so that it can offer you improved and more convenient functions. For example, a website can provide you with more relevant local information if it uses a cookie to remember your region. These cookies are also used to enable features you request like playing videos, but are only deployed activated by the user. These cookies help us to provide a website designed to be used in the best way possible. You can, deactivate these cookies at any time in the settings in this Cookie Policy or in your browser. These cookies do not track your movements on other websites.

These cookies help us personize your experience on our site. For example, if you are reading an article about low sugar then we might show you adverts for Coke Zero. This is called contextual advertising. The personalization of adverts may be based on information collected about your use of our services and other data that third parties may have about you, like your interests, age and gender inferred from your internet browsing that an advertiser has about you. We may also use your general location to show you ads relevant to where you are, so if you are in the UK you will see ads from UK advertisers. If you would like the site to be more tailored to you, please turn these cookies on.

Our legal basis when we use these Cookies is that you have given your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

You can find out more about the Cookies used in the preference center:

Cookie Settings

IN DETAIL

What do you need to know about cookies?

Cookies help to provide a better and faster online experience. Almost every website uses cookies or similar technologies.

The next time you visit the same website using the same device, the website that originally triggered the setting of the cookie will recognize that you have visited the website before, and in some cases, it adapts the content to take account of your most prior visits. In this way, the website experience can be tailored to your personal interests and preferences.

First-party cookies versus third-party cookies

First-party cookies are cookies that Coca‑Cola deploys on the website that you are currently visiting and with which you interact when you use our websites.

Our websites may also contain content from other websites which may deploy their own cookies. These cookies are set by someone other than Coca‑Cola.  These third-party providers can set cookies while you are visiting the Coca‑Cola website and receive information such as the fact that you have loaded a Coca‑Cola website. You will need to visit the websites of those third parties to find out more on how they use these cookies. You can find more information about the relevant third parties further in this Cookie Policy. 

If you have decided that you do not want to accept third-party cookies, you do not need to give consent or you can withdraw your consent by using the relevant function provided in the section “Cookie Settings”.  If you object to all third-party cookies, you will only be provided with those functionalities on our website which we can guarantee will work without these cookies.

What happens if I reject cookies?

If you decide to reject cookies that require your prior consent, we will not use such cookies. If you decide to withdraw consent that was given to us previously, we will no longer use the relevant cookies and will delete them (if they are first-party cookies). ). The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. This means, that in the case of personalization and advertising cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of all the features and functionality of our website.  Similarly, it is possible for you to reject analytics cookies. In that case we will be less able to learn what you like or do not like about our website, so that we can make it better. 

We cannot delete third-party cookies. If you wish to delete all third-party cookies, you need do this in your own browser settings. Also, if you reject or withdraw your consent to advertising cookies, you will not necessarily receive less advertising – but the advertising you see will not be customized to suit your needs.

Managing cookie settings via your browser

You can manage (enable/disable and delete) the cookie settings on our website via the functionalities above, but also by altering your browser settings.  Most browsers allow you to manage your cookies by either accepting or rejecting all cookies or accepting only certain types of cookies. The procedure for managing and deleting cookies usually can be found in your browser’s integrated help function.

Who’s legally responsible for Coca‑Cola’s cookie use?

The cookies described in this Cookie Policy are used in connection with a website that is owned and controlled by Coca‑Cola Africa (Pty) Ltd , with registered office at Building 1 Oxford and Glenhove, 116 Oxford Road, Houghton Estate, 2198 Johannesburg,  South Africa ("SA" or "us").  Where personal data is processed through the use of first-party cookies, SA determines the means and purposes of such processing and is the controller as defined in the Protection of Personal Information Act.

International Transfers

Your personal data may be stored or transferred to countries outside of South Africa for the purposes described in this Cookie Policy. When we store or transfer your personal data outside the country, we will do so in accordance with applicable law and we will ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing appropriate safeguards. Transfers of personal data are made:

• to a country recognised by the local authorities as providing an adequate level of protection; or

• to a country which may not offer adequate protection but we rely on contractual safeguards for the transfer or by implementing other appropriate cross-border transfer solutions to provide adequate protection.

Our online Privacy Notice applies in addition to this Cookie Policy. The Privacy Notice informs you about the ways we use, store and protect personal data collected online. It also informs you of your data protection rights and how to exercise them. We recommend that you read this Privacy Notice. If you have questions or concerns about the Cookie Policy or Privacy Notice, you can email us at dpo_africa@coca-cola.com or privacy@coca-cola.com.  Alternatively, you can write to us at: Coca‑Cola Africa (Pty) Ltd, Building 1 Oxford and Glenhove, 116 Oxford Road, Houghton Estate, 2198 Johannesburg, South Africa.