WHO IS FONDATION RÉMY COINTREAU?

FONDATION REMY COINTREAU’s mission is to support, in France and abroad, initiatives that valorize and transmit exceptional savoir-faire. FONDATION REMY COINTREAU acts in favor of terroir in its cultural, environmental and human expression.

The Rémy Cointreau Group, already an active philanthropist, decided to launch its proper corporate foundation, LA FONDATION REMY COINTREAU’s, in 2017. The Group committed to terroir, people and time wished to take action for the preservation and development of cultural and human heritage with the establishment of FONDATION REMY COINTREAU. FONDATION REMY COINTREAU provides financial, technical or human resources to projects on all continents, with priority given to our terroir of reference.

Rémy Cointreau is a French, family-owned Group whose origins date back to 1724. It is the result of the 1990 merger of holding companies owned by the Hériard Dubreuil and Cointreau families, which controlled E. Rémy Martin & Cie SA and Cointreau & Cie SA, respectively. The Group is also the result of successive partnerships with other companies active in the same wines and spirits business lines. Rémy Cointreau has a portfolio of exceptional spirits, of which the brands include: LOUIS XIII and Rémy Martin cognacs, the liqueur Cointreau, the Greek spirit METAXA, the French brandy St-Rémy, the single malts Bruichladdich, Port Charlotte and Octomore, The Botanist gin, Westland Distillery American single malt, and Domaine des Hautes Glaces French organic single malt. Each of these brands embodies unique expertise and heritage, but all share the same culture of excellence.

Introduction

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and protect information in relation to FONDATION REMY COINTREAU website and digital services (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy applies to all visitors and users who access the Services.

This website is operated by CLS REMY COINTREAU SAS located at 21, rue Balzac, 75008 Paris.

CLS REMY COINTREAU SAS operates in its capacity of data controller for the purposes of applicable data protection laws and regulations, including the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 dated 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of Personal Data (“GDPR”). For the purposes of the website Privacy Policy, CLS REMY COINTREAU SAS is designated by its trademark LA FONDATION REMY COINTREAU.

1. Information we collect

Depending on the Services provided by the website and used by you, on your choices and configuration of your terminal (with respect in particular to cookies), personal data concerning you (your “Personal Data”) collected and processed by LA FONDATION REMY COINTREAU mainly includes: your name, surname, e-mail address, country, telephone number, your connection logins, areas of interest, as well as the information that you may disclose when you contact us. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may combine the information collected, including information about the organization for which you work, with other information in our possession or information that you provide to us.

The Personal Data that is mandatory for LA FONDATION REMY COINTREAU to fulfill the purposes that are described below is marked with an asterisk on the various pages of the website. Should you not fill in these mandatory fields, LA FONDATION REMY COINTREAU may not be able to take care of your demands and/or to provide you the requested services.  Other Personal Data is purely optional and allow us to know you better and to improve our communications and services accordingly.

When you visit the website, we may use cookies, tracers and similar tracking technologies to collect information about how you use our Services (pages consulted, links clicked), how you browse our site and provide features to you. Cookies are used to automatically collect your device identifiers and other information about you, such as the following: Internet Protocol (IP) address, logins, webpages clicked and other technical information. With your consent of cookies, our site can use information collected to complete our databases. You can modify the cookies settings at any moment on your device. We may also ask our partners to provide services, which may use cookies or similar technologies placed by us or the third party. For more information about our use of cookies, please visit our Cookie policy .

2. Purposes of processing

We collect and process your Personal Data with your consent and/or as necessary to meet our legal obligations or fulfill our legitimate interests (notably to prevent fraud or to protect the security of our IT systems).

We use and process Personal Data about you for purposes described below:

• to reply to your questions, complaints or orders of documents in relation to our savoir-faire, supported projects, artisans and values;
• to form analyses and make statistics;
• to prevent fraud and ensure compliance;
• to provide communication (e.g., newsletter) and to personalize future visits to the website;
• to manage and improve our website and provide technical support.

We will not process your Personal Data in a way that is incompatible with the purposes for which it has been collected or subsequently authorized by you or collect any Personal Data that is not required for the mentioned purposes. For any new purpose of processing we will ask your separate consent. To the extent necessary, we take all reasonable steps to ensure that Personal Data is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and current. We also undertake to collect only the categories of Personal Data that are strictly required for the purposes mentioned above.

3. Your rights

In accordance with applicable data protection laws and regulations, you have a right to request access to, rectification or erasure of your Personal Data, or restriction of processing, and to object to said processing, as well as the right to data portability to the extent applicable, subject to any overriding legitimate grounds that LA FONDATION REMY COINTREAU might invoke to retain your Personal Data.

You may request at any time that we stop sending you information about our offers, news and events by using the opt-out link inserted in each e-mail that we send you.

You may also give us specific instructions regarding your Personal Data after your death.

Moreover, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority about any of our activities that you deem are not compliant with the GDPR.

You can exercise your rights by using your account settings or by simply writing us at the following address: privacy@remy-cointreau.com. Please keep in mind that in case of a vague request we may engage a discussion to better understand the motivation for the request and require you to prove your identity (for example, by requesting an ID). This is made to ensure that no right of third parties are violated by your request.

4. Data recipients

Your Personal Data shall be processed by FONDATION REMY COINTREAU. It shall not be transferred or made accessible to any third party apart from:

• our service providers (such as providers of hosting and maintenance services or communication agencies);
• the other entities of the Rémy Cointreau Group;
• in case of a change of control, if we sell or otherwise transfer part or the whole of REMY COINTREAU or our assets to another company (e.g., in the course of a transaction like a merger, acquisition, liquidation) and;
• to third parties if such disclosure is required by law, by a regulatory provision or by a court ruling, or if this disclosure is necessary to ensure the protection and defense of rights or to prevent harm.

5. Transfer of personnal data & Security measures

FONDATION REMY COINTREAU, its affiliates, or service providers may transfer information that we collect about you, across borders. If you are located in the European Union, please note that we may transfer your Personal Data to a country that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction. Any transfer of your Personal Data outside the European Economic Area shall only take place subject to appropriate safeguards being in place, such as standard contractual clauses and other contractual safeguards. You can contact us to obtain a copy of the safeguards implemented to secure data transfers operated outside the European Economic Area.

We use reasonable and appropriate information security safeguards to help keep the information collected through the Services secure and take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. Among others, we utilize the following security measures:

• Pseudonymization of certain categories of your Personal Data;
• Encryption of your Personal Data in transit and in rest;
• Regular vulnerability scanning and penetration testing;
• Organizational measures (access control, restriction of access);
• Conducting periodical data protection impact assessments and privacy audit.

6. Data retention

We will retain your Personal Data as long as necessary in relation with purposes of processing identified in this Privacy Policy. Information we receive about you may be retained for an extended period of time when it is the subject of a legal obligation, an investigation or otherwise to prevent harm.

The Personal Data that is collected and processed under the “Contact us” and/or a similar section shall only be kept throughout the duration of the processing of your request. It shall be deleted thereafter.

Finally, the connection logs that are collected, subject to your consent, using the cookies, tracers and other similar tracking technologies implemented on our website, shall be kept in accordance with applicable laws and regulations for a period of time that does not exceed thirteen (13) months.

7. Children’s privacy

LA FONDATION REMY COINTREAU website is not directed to users under the legal age of drinking. If you are younger this legal age, depending of your country, you may not use our Services. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we may have collected information about a child, please contact us.

COOKIES POLICY

1. What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files that uniquely identify your browser or device. The cookie is stored on your browser or device by websites or apps that you visit. When you return to that website or app (or visit websites or apps that use the same cookies) these websites recognize the cookies and your device.

We also use pixels. Pixels are small portions of code which we use on our Website. We use pixels to learn whether you have clicked on certain web content and help us to optimize our ad campaigns. This helps us measure and improve our Services and personalize your experience.

2. Categories of cookies

Cookies do many different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently. Thus, cookies can tell us, for example, whether you have visited the Website before or whether you are a new visitor.

There are different categories of cookies, including:

• First-party cookies
  First-party cookies are small amounts of text which are served by us directly to your device.
• Third-party cookies
  Third-party cookies, which are served by a third party on our behalf.

3. What types of cookies do we use and how do we use them?

The types of cookies and similar technologies used by us and our partners in connection with the Website are described below:

• Cookies that are necessary for essential purposes
  These cookies are essential to provide you with the Website and Services and to use some of its features, such as to enable you to log into secure areas of the Website. Without these cookies, we would not be able, for instance, to provide you with a secure log in account or process your online requests.
• Performance and Analytics Cookies
  We use performance and analytics cookies to analyze how you use the Website, including which pages and videos you view most often, measure any errors that occur and test different design ideas. The information is used to report and evaluate your activities and patterns as a user of the Website to provide Services in accordance with these activities. These cookies do not collect information that individually identifies you and all information these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous.On our Website, we also use thirdparty analytics tools to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Services (e.g. with Google Analytics).
• Social Network Cookies
  These cookies allow you to share Website content on social networks, such as Facebook or Twitter. These cookies are not controlled by us. We invite you to consult the personal data policies of the social networks concerned to find out more about how their cookies work.

4. How to delete cookies

You can change your preferences by changing the settings in your browser. Most browsers will allow you to choose the level of privacy settings you want.

Deleting cookies or similar technologies means that any preference settings you have made on a website will be lost. Blocking all cookies or similar technology means functionality on our Website will be lost. If you choose to refuse cookies or pixels you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Website.

5. Retention period

Our cookies are stored for a limited period, which cannot exceed 13months.

6. Changes to our policies

We will occasionally update these policies to reflect changes in our practices, Website and Services. When we post changes to this policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the end of this policy. If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share information held in cookies, we will notify you by prominently posting notice of the changes on the Website. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this policy or any of our other policies.

7. Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy and if you wish to exercise your rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer through the email privacy@remy-cointreau.com or to our mailing address:

Rémy Cointreau DPO
21, rue Balzac,
75008 Paris – FRANCE
Phone: +33 (0) 1 44 13 44 13

Last update: July 2022.