The Coca-Cola Company U.S. Website Privacy Policy

General

The Coca-Cola Company and its majority-owned U.S. companies (referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "Company") respect the privacy of every individual who visits our website. The Company is comprised of U.S. companies. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") outlines the information the Company may collect from visitors to our website hosted in the United States and how we may use and disclose that information.

We encourage you to read this Policy before using any of our website. Your use of a website of the Company signifies that you agree with all terms of this Policy, so please do not use our website if you disagree with any part of this Policy.

What personal information do we collect and why do we collect it?

The Company may collect personal information about you (such as your name, telephone number and email address) that you provide voluntarily. websiteIn addition, if you choose to contact us to ask a question we will collect your personal information so that we can respond to your question.

The Company may collect personal information online for all legal purposes, which include, but are not limited to:

"Contact Us" and Comment Features
The Company encourages visitors to its website to contact us with questions and comments. Email addresses and other information of persons using these features may be collected in order to facilitate our responses to those inquiries.

Purchases of Company Merchandise
The website offers individuals the opportunity to purchase merchandise online. In connection with those purchases, customers may be asked to submit personal information, such as shipping addresses that is required to complete the transaction. Registration involves the submission of personal information to the Company and assignment of a user ID and password. Registration information will be protected by Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") or other encryption mechanisms.

Special Promotions and Product Information
The Company also may offer you the opportunity to provide you with email updates and announcements concerning our products and special promotions. Personal information you have provided to the Company may be used to facilitate those communications.

When do we disclose the personal information we collect?

Except as provided herein, the Company will not sell or rent personal information about you to unaffiliated third parties.

We also will disclose personal information if required by law, including compliance with warrants, subpoenas or other legal process.

The Company requires persons and companies to which it discloses personal information to restrict their use of such information to the purposes for which it has been provided by the Company and not to disclose that information to others. The Company cannot be responsible, however, for any damages caused by the failure of unaffiliated third parties to honor their privacy obligations to the Company. Similarly, the Company is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other website that are linked to our website.

The Company may provide personal and other information to a purchaser or successor entity in connection with the sale of the Company, a subsidiary or line of business associated with the Company, or substantially all of the assets of the Company or one of its subsidiaries, affiliates or lines of business.

How do we protect your personal information?

The Company takes measures to prevent unauthorized intrusion to this website and the alteration, acquisition or misuse of personal information by unauthorized persons. Notably, user IDs, and passwords submitted by users of our website are encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") or other encryption mechanisms. However, the Company cautions visitors to its website that no network, including the Internet, is entirely secure. Accordingly, we cannot be responsible for loss, corruption or unauthorized acquisition of personal information provided to our website, or for any damages resulting from such loss, corruption or unauthorized acquisition.

What other information do we collect?

When you access and interact with our website, we may collect certain information often referred to as "site reports." Such data may include the pages and information you accessed on our site, and the domain name of the website from which you linked to our site.

Information placed automatically on your computer -- Cookies
When you view one of our website, we may store certain information on your computer. This information may be in the form of a small text file called a "cookie" and can help us improve your experience with our website in many ways. For example, cookies allow us to tailor a website to better match your interests and preferences. Notably, our website use cookies to help understand which parts of our website are most popular, where our visitors are going and how much time they spend there. Cookies are read only by the server that placed them, and are unable to execute any code or virus.

With most Internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions. Please be aware, however, that some features and programs of our website may be unavailable to you if cookies are erased or blocked.

Some uses of cookies in connection with our website may be under the control of unaffiliated entities that the Company retains for the management of certain programs and fulfillment of specific visitor/customer requests. The Company requires these entities to confine their use of cookies to the uses permitted by this Policy, but the Company cannot be responsible for third party uses of cookies.

Offline v. Online Practices

This Policy applies solely to the Companys information-gathering and dissemination practices in connection with this website in the United States, and does not apply to any of our practices conducted offline or outside of the United States.

How can you ask questions about our Privacy Policy and access your personal information?

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, wish to access your personal information or request that we not use your personal information for a particular purpose, please follow the instructions posted at http://www2.coca-cola.com/mail/eQuery_other.html.

Changes to this Policy

This Policy is the sole authorized statement of the Companys practices with respect to the collection of personal information through the Companys website and the subsequent use and disclosure of such information. Any summaries of this Policy generated by third party software or otherwise (for example, in connection with the "Platform for Privacy Preferences" or "P3P") shall have no legal effect, are in no way binding upon the Company, shall not be relied upon in substitute for this Policy, and neither supersede nor modify this Policy.

The Company may revise this Policy from time to time. You should bookmark and periodically review this page to ensure that you are familiar with the most current version of this Policy. You can determine when this Policy was last revised by checking the "Last Revised" legend at the top of the Policy.


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