PRIVACY POLICY
(Global version)
World’s Best Bars, in its role as Data Controller, respects your right to privacy when you use the SIP website (global version).
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you how World’s Best Bars, a corporation duly organized under the laws of France, with its registered address at 5 cours Paul Ricard 75008 Paris, (hereafter “World’s Best Bars”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collect, store, use and process your Personal Data provided through the website www.join-sip.com (global version) operated by World’s Best Bars (the “Website”).
Topics
- What type of Personal Data do we collect?
- How and why do we use tracking technologies?
- For what purposes do we use your Personal Data and on what legal grounds?
- What happens if you refuse to provide your Personal Data?
- To whom do we disclose Your Personal Data and why?
- Is your Personal Data sent to recipients outside the European Union?
- How long do we keep your Personal Data?
- How do we secure your Personal Data?
- What are your rights regarding your Personal Data?
- How can you contact us or lodge a complaint with the relevant Supervisory Authority?
- Changes to our Privacy Policy
- What type of Personal Data do we collect?
We collect your Personal Data, namely your first name, last name, date of birth, email address, password, job title, venue name, picture, IP address, and centers of interest.
NB: An IP address is a sequence of numbers used by computers on the network to identify your computer or smartphone each time you connect to the internet
- How and why do we use tracking technologies?
Tracers can be deposited or read, for example, when consulting a website, a mobile application, or when installing or using a software.
Cookies are small text files or information that are stored on your computer or mobile device (such as a smartphone or tablet) when you visit our Platform. A cookie will typically contain the name of the website/application from which the cookie originated, the duration of the cookie (i.e. how long the cookie will remain on your device) and a value, which is usually in the form of a randomly generated unique number.
You will find below a list of the different types of cookies we use on the Website.
- Essential cookies
Essential cookies are first party cookies which are strictly necessary for the Website to work and to use its services and features. Without these cookies, the Website will not perform as smoothly for you as we would like it to and we may not be able to provide the Website or certain services or features thereof you request. We also use technical cookies which allow the Website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) for customization and personalization purposes. These cookies do not gather any information about you that will be used for advertising purposes or to remember your browsing history on the internet.
Essential/ technical cookies
Cookie name: _SSESS (1st party)
Purpose: Identify logged-in user
Data retention period: 23 days
Cookie name: cache-sprite-plyr (1st party, video player)
Purpose: Stores image data related to the video player in use all through the website. Cached to optimise the response time between the visitor and the website
Data retention period: User session
Cookie name: _evidon_consent_cookie
Purpose: Evidon (Cookie) Consent Status
Data retention period: User session
- Additional features cookies
Provided you opt-in, we also use additional features cookies in order to offer you an enhanced user experience on the Website by adding content from third-party services to enrich the Website with multimedia content while maintaining an optimal loading speed. Please note that rejecting these cookies is likely to mean that the Website will not operate properly and accordingly you will not be able to take full advantage of the Website.
Additional functionalities cookies
Cookie name: GPS (3rd party, Youtube)
Purpose: Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographic GPS location.
Data retention period: 1 day
Cookie name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (3rd party, Youtube)
Purpose: cookie that YouTube sets to calculate the user’s bandwidth.
Data retention period: 6 months
Cookie name: ysc (3rd party, Youtube)
Purpose: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of the videos from YouTube that the user has watched.
Data retention period: User session
To opt-in or opt-out of being tracked only on the Webiste, use the “Cookies management” button located at the bottom of the page.
- Analytics cookies
We use an analytics cookie as part of the service which allows us to compile traffic statistics in order to improve the use and content of the Website.
Analytical cookie
Cookie name: Matomo Cookie
Purpose: Audience measurement: the cookie provides information to World’s Best Bars on the number of visits to the website
Data retention period: 13 months
- For what purposes do we use your Personal Data and on what legal grounds?
World’s Best Bars processes your Personal Data for the below purposes based on the performance of a contract, the terms and conditions of the Website between World’s Best Bars and you, to:
- Enable you to have access to the Website and to create your user profile
- Enable you to have access to the functionalities of the Website (in order to access to the online content, attend trainings, register to events etc.)
- Send you administrative communications (e.g. confirmation email when you sign up for, or unsubscribe from, the Website or any of its activity), as well as certain service-related announcements (e.g., notices about updates to our privacy notices, changes to our online services or technical support policies, or other related changes)
Because it is also World’s Best Bars’ legitimate interest to better serve you:
- We may adapt our content based on the interests you indicate in your profile to improve your experience on SIP website.
- We may perform audience measurement to improve the use and content of the Website.
- We may process your personal data to answer your requests sent through the contact form.
Provided that you give your consent, World’s Best Bars may also process your Personal Data to send you marketing communications.
- What happens if you refuse to provide your Personal Data?
If you choose not to submit any Personal Data when requested, you will not be able to access the Website or benefit from certain features of the Website. For example, if you refuse to share your email address, you will not be able to register on the Website. In any event, we will always inform you of the Personal Data that is necessary in order to benefit from a service.
- To whom do we disclose Your Personal Data and why?
- Within the Pernod Ricard Group
World’s Best Bars is an affiliate of the Pernod Ricard Group. World’s Best Bars may share for the purposes mentioned in Section 3 your Personal Data within the Pernod Ricard Group, including its affiliates worldwide.
- With third parties
We may also share your Personal Data with third parties, but only in the following circumstances:
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- For support purposes: We may use service providers, agents or contractors to provide support for the operation of the Website and to assist us with administering it or its various functionalities available on it. Any such third party shall at all times provide the same levels of security for your Personal Data as World’s Best Bars and, where required, are bound by a legal agreement to keep your Personal Data private, secure and to process it only on the specific instructions of World’s Best Bars;
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- To third parties involved in event management and training management.
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- For litigation and safety purposes: We may also disclose your Personal Data if we are required to do so by law, or if in our good faith judgment, such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal processes, to respond to any claims, or to protect the safety or rights of World’s Best Bars, its customers, or the public;
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- In the event of a merger or acquisition of all or part of World’s Best Bars or the Pernod Ricard Group by another company, or in the event that World’s Best Bars or the Pernod Ricard Group were to sell or dispose of all or a part of the World’s Best Bars business, the acquirer would have access to the information maintained by World’s Best Bars, which could include Personal Data, subject to applicable law. Similarly, Personal Data may be transferred as part of a corporate reorganization, insolvency proceeding, or other similar event, if permitted by and done in accordance with applicable law.
- Is your Personal Data sent to recipients outside the European Union?
World’s Best Bars belongs to the Pernod Ricard Group and your Personal Data may be transferred across international borders. It may be transferred to countries that have a different level of data protection laws than the one existing in the country from where you submitted your Personal Data. Your Personal Data may also be transferred between different companies of the Pernod Ricard Group located in different countries. World’s Best Bars takes the appropriate measures to maintain security of the Personal Data both during transit and at the receiving location by implementing standard contractual clauses as set out by the European Commission, in accordance with applicable law.
The transfer of personal data to service providers are implemented in accordance with applicable laws and rely for instance on standard contractual clauses as set out by the European Commission or, where applicable, on Binding Corporate Rules. Such service providers are also bound by a contract that ensures a high standard of privacy protection and requires (amongst other provisions) that they act only on World’s Best Bars instructions and implements all technical measures necessary on an ongoing basis to keep your Personal Data secure.
- How long do we keep your Personal Data?
We will store the Personal Data that we collected via the Website in our databases as long as your account is active, or as needed to provide you the functionalities of the Website or to answer queries or resolve problems.
We may retain your Personal Data in accordance with our internal retention procedure as necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
We may thus retain your Personal Data after you stop using the Website according to the statute of limitations.
- How do we secure your Personal Data?
World’s Best Bars takes all necessary technical and organizational measures to protect the confidentiality and security of your Personal Data collected via our Website. These efforts include but are not necessarily limited to: (i) storing your Personal Data in secure operating environments to which the public does not have access, but only authorized World’s Best Bars employees, and our agents and contractors; and, (ii) verifying the identities of registered users before they can access the Personal Data we maintain about them.
- What are your rights regarding your Personal Data?
- If your Personal Data has been processed on the basis of your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time, without impact on lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
- You can request access to your Personal Data
- You can request the rectification of your Personal Data if it is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date
- You can request the erasure of your Personal Data (i) if your Personal Data is no longer necessary for the purpose of the data processing, (ii) you have withdrawn your consent on the data processing based exclusively on such consent, (iii) you objected to the data processing, (iv) the Personal Data processing is unlawful, (v) the Personal Data must be erased to comply with a legal obligation applicable to World’s Best Bars. World’s Best Bars will take reasonable steps to inform the other entities of the Pernod Ricard Group of such erasure.
- You can request the restriction of the processing (i) in the event the accuracy of your Personal Data is contested to allow World’s Best Bars to check such accuracy, (ii) if you wish to restrict your Personal Data rather than deleting it despite the fact that the processing is unlawful, (iii) if you wish World’s Best Bars to keep your Personal Data because you need it for your defense in the context of legal claims (iv) if you have objected to the processing but World’s Best Bars conducts verification to check whether it has legitimate grounds for such processing which may override your own rights if the data processing is based on the legitimate interest of World’s Best Bars.
- You can request the portability of the Personal Data you provided to us, if the Personal Data processing is based on your consent or the performance of a contract and is carried out by automated means (i.e. excluding paper files).
- You always have the option not to share any of your Personal Data with us. If you choose this option, you may be limited in the activities and features we can provide you.
- You have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data by us, at any time, for direct marketing purpose, or if the data processing is based on the legitimate interest of World’s Best Bars (except if we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing).
- According to French law, you also have the right to give general or specific directives regarding your personal data after your death.
- How can you contact us or lodge a complaint with the relevant Supervisory Authority ?
If you have any questions, complaints, or comments regarding this Privacy Policy or our information collection practices, please contact us by writing to:
World’s Best Bars
5 cours Paul Ricard
75008
Paris
or sending an email to: groupdpo@pernod-ricard.com
You are informed that you can also lodge a complaint with the Supervisory Authority of the country where you are located if you have any concern about the conditions of processing of your Personal Data by World’s Best Bars.
In France, you can contact the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) via their website at: https://www.cnil.fr/.
- Changes to our Privacy Policy
We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page.
This Privacy Policy was last updated in November 2022.
