Terms of Use
General
Please read this carefully.
Access to and use of www.pepsi.co.uk (the "Site") is provided by Britvic Soft
Drinks Limited ("Britvic") subject to the following terms and conditions ("Terms
"). By accessing the Site you are agreeing to these Terms that appear below,
whether or not you register as a user.
1. Use of Content and Linking to the Site
1.1 This Site is intended for use by residents of the United Kingdom only.
1.2 You acknowledge and agree that the entire content, design and the
selection and arrangement of the content and material contained in this Site,
including but not limited to text, software, music, sound, photographs,
graphics, video, (collectively, the "Content") is protected by copyrights, trade
marks, service marks, patents, or other proprietary rights and laws. You
acknowledge and agree that you are permitted to use the Content only on the
bases expressly set out below and any use such as but not limited to: copying,
reproducing, transmitting, distributing, or creating derivative works of the
Content is prohibited without the prior express written authorisation of /
Britvic.
1.3 All Content on the Site remains the property of Britvic, Pepsi Beverages
International Limited ("Pepsi"), or its licensors.
1.4 You may retrieve and display Content on a computer screen, PDA or mobile
telephone, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store
such pages in electronic form on disk or on your mobile telephone (but not on
any server or other storage device connected to a network) for your personal,
non-commercial use.
1.5 Except as expressly set out above, you may not reproduce, modify, store,
archive or in any way commercially exploit any of the Content. In particular,
but without limiting the general application of the restrictions contained in
the preceding sentence, you may not do any of the following without the prior
written permission from Britvic (and neither may you allow a third party to do
any of the same): - redistribute any of the Content (including by using it as
part of any library, archive or similar service); - remove the copyright or
trade mark notice from any copies of Content made under these Terms; - create a
database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading
and storing all or any of the Content.
2. Information on the Site
Information in the Site is subject to change without notice. Information
regarding Britvic's products and services is and is applicable only in the
United Kingdom unless otherwise noted. Some products and services may not be
available in certain areas. Britvic makes no representations that the Content in
this Site are appropriate or available for use in other countries outside the
United Kingdom. Those who do access this Site from other countries are solely
responsible for compliance with local laws of that country.
3. Exclusion of Liability
3.1 While Britvic and Pepsi use reasonable efforts to include accurate and up
to date information in the Site, Britvic and Pepsi make no warranties or
representations as to the accuracy, correctness, reliability or otherwise with
respect to such information, and assumes no liability or responsibility for any
omissions or errors (including without limitation typographical errors and
technical errors) in the Content.
3.2 Use of and browsing in the Site is done at user's own risk. Neither
Britvic, Pepsi nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or
delivering the Site shall be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential,
indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, or
browsing the Site, or downloading of any materials, data, text images, video, or
audio from the Site, including without limitation damage to, or viruses that may
infect, your computer equipment or other property as a result thereof. Without
limiting the foregoing, everything on the Site is provided to you "AS IS"
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
4. Communication
From time to time, Britvic (and its associated companies) may ask that you
transmit to the Site by electronic mail your feedback on Pepsi products and/or
services. Any communication or material you transmit or post will be (a) treated
as non-confidential and non-proprietary by Britvic, (b) become the property of
Britvic and Britvic shall exclusively now and hereinafter own all rights, title
and interest therein, and (c) used without restriction by Britvic or its
bottlers, licensees and affiliates at its sole discretion without any
obligation, compensation or other liability to you. Such use may be for any
purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure,
transmission, publication, broadcast and posting whole or in part, in any medium
and in any manner on this Site or otherwise. However, Britvic shall be under no
obligation to respond to any such communication.
5. Privacy Policy / Data Protection Statement
Britvic takes the privacy of its users seriously.
A special note to Children
YOU MUST BE 16 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO REGISTER WITH PEPSI AND/OR ITS
CLEARINGHOUSES. AT THE PRESENT TIME WE MUST ASK YOU NOT TO REGISTER WITH PEPSI
AND/OR ITS CLEARINGHOUSES IF YOU ARE UNDER 16 YEARS OF AGE.
A SPECIAL NOTE TO PARENTS
While Pepsi prohibits registration by children under the age of 16, parents
should supervise their children's online activities and consider using parental
control tools available from online services and software manufacturers that
help provide a kid-friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent
children from disclosing online their name, address, and other personal
information without parental permission. For additional information about
parental control tools, please consult the "Consumer Assistance" page of the
Direct Marketing Association home page (http://www.dma.org.uk).
PRIVACY PRACTICES AND POLICIES & OUR USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your e-mail address and other personally identifying data will be known to
Pepsi only when you voluntarily submit such information to our websites. We may
use this personal information to contact you if we change our services or terms
or if we need to give you notice under those terms.
The information about your acquisition of our content and your preferences
may be used to send you information that we believe may be of interest to you,
such as information about music or products or services offered by Pepsi.
However, no one will send that information to you unless you opt-in to receive
it at the time you register.
If you decide at any time in the future that you wish to cease receiving such
information, you may change your preferences at any time by visiting our
unsubscribe page at http://www.pepsi.co.uk/register/unsubscribe.asp
WITH WHOM WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
As a general rule, we will not disclose any personal information we collect
from you without your consent. However, we may disclose personal information in
special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is
necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be
causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally)
our rights or property. We may disclose user information when we believe in good
faith that the law requires it.
If you have opted-in to receive marketing information from us, we may share
your information with our affiliated companies and/or with our stars. We will
not share your personal information with other third parties for marketing
purposes without your consent.
We may share with others, at our discretion, certain aggregate statistical
data about purchases and the use of our content, which data may include
demographic data such as the age range and/or geographic location of groups of
users. No personal information (such as names or email addresses) will be
identifiable from such statistics.
We may transfer, sell or assign any of the information described above,
including personally identifiable information, to third parties, as a result of
the sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial
assets, reorganization or liquidation of Britvic or Pepsi.
SECURITY
Pepsi strictly protects the security of your personal information and your
choices for its intended use. We use current industry standard technology to
maintain the confidentiality and accuracy of the information you provide to us.
To protect your personal information, we use "secure servers" with industry
standard SSL 128 bit key encryption. However, we cannot guarantee that any
information you submit to us will be free from unauthorized third party
intrusion.
6. Availability of Site
Whilst Britvic endeavours to ensure that the Site is normally available 24
hours a day, Britvic will not be liable if for any reason the Site is
unavailable at any time or for any period. Britvic does not guarantee the
functions contained in the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that
defects will be corrected even if Britvic is aware of them. Additionally,
Britvic makes no warranty that the Site services or its server are free from
infection by viruses or anything else that has contaminating or destructive
properties.
7. Registration
7.1 On registration, you must provide Britvic with accurate, complete
registration information and it is your responsibility to inform Britvic of any
changes to that information (including in particular your e-mail address) by
e-mailing [ ]
7.2 Each registration is for a single user only. On registration, you will
choose a user name and password. Britvic does not permit any of the following:
- any other person sharing your user name and password;
- access through a single name and password being made available to multiple
users on a network.
7.3 You are responsible for all use of the Site made by you or anyone else
using your user name and password (collectively, "ID") and for preventing
unauthorised use of your ID. If you believe there has been any breach of
security such as the disclosure, theft or unauthorised use of your ID or any
payment information, you must notify Britvic immediately by e-mailing [ ].
7.4 If on registration (or on amendment of your registration details) you
provide Britvic with an email address that will result in any emails Britvic may
send you being sent to you via a computer network operated by or on behalf of
your employer or college (or similar) then you are warranting that you are
entitled to receive emails at that address. You also agree that Britvic may
refrain from sending you any emails to such address without notifying you, even
if you have subscribed to receive them, if we receive a request from your
employer or college to stop sending emails to that address.
8. Trademarks
The trademarks displayed on the Site are registered and unregistered
trademarks of PepsiCo, Inc., its subsidiaries, affiliates and associated
companies. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting, by
implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark
displayed on the Site. In the event that you misuse any trademark in violation
of these Terms, PepsiCo Inc. and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates and/or
associated companies will aggressively enforce its intellectual property rights
to the fullest extent of the law, including the seeking of criminal prosecution.
9. Links to Other Sites
9.1 This Site may link to other sites not maintained by or related to
Britvic. Such hyperlinks are provided as a service to users and are not
sponsored by, endorsed or otherwise affiliated with this Site or with the
products and services of Britvic. Britvic has not reviewed all of the sites
linked to the Site and is not responsible for the content of any off-site pages
or links to any other sites. Viewing all other sites is at your own risk.
9.2 In the event that Britvic may, from time to time, allow for discussions,
chats, postings, transmissions, bulleting board, and the like on the Site,
Britvic is under no obligation to monitor or review such transmitted information
and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such
transmitted information nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission,
falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy of any such
information. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful,
threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory,
pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or
encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to
civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. Britvic will fully cooperate with
any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing Britvic
to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials.
10. Changes to these Terms
Britvic reserves the right, at its discretion, to make changes to any part of
the Site and its related services. Due to its policy of updating and improving
the Site, Britvic may wish to change these Terms. When Terms are changed,
Britvic will notify you by publishing details of those changes by including them
at the end of these Terms (see "Details of Changes"). If you use the Site or
related services after Britvic has published or notified you of the changes, you
are agreeing now to be bound by those changes. If you do not agree to be bound
by those changes, you should not use the Site (and should cancel your
subscription to any related services).
11. Competitions and Prizes
From time to time Britvic will run competitions, free prize draws and
promotions on the Site. These are subject to additional terms that will be made
available at the time they are run.
12. Choice of Law and Jurisdiction
12.1 These Terms shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with,
English law.
12.2 The courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any
dispute which may arise out of, under, or in connection with these Terms or the
legal relationship established by them.
13. General
13.1 You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any of your rights
under these Terms.
13.2 If any portion of these Terms is deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable,
then that part shall be deemed severable and will not effect the validity and
enforceability of any remaining provisions.
13.3 Failure by either party to exercise any right or remedy under these
Terms does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy.
13.4 These Terms set out the entire understanding and agreement between you,
Britvic and Pepsi with respect to the Site. You acknowledge that any other
agreements between you, Britvic and Pepsi with respect to the Site are
superseded and of no force or effect.
14. Creative Ideas, Suggestions and Materials
PepsiCo maintains a long standing policy of not accepting or considering any
creative ideas, suggestions or materials from the public ("Submissions"), and
therefore, you should not make any Submissions to PepsiCo through this Site or
otherwise. Nonetheless, if you do send us a Submission, despite our request not
to do so, then such Submission shall immediately become the property of PepsiCo
and PepsiCo shall exclusively now and hereinafter own all rights, title and
interest therein. Furthermore, PepsiCo shall be free to use any Submissions for
any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing
and marketing products. PepsiCo shall not be liable for such use or disclosure
of such Submission or for any similarities in the Submission and any future
PepsiCo uses or activities.
Britvic Soft Drinks Limited (company number 517211), is a company registered
in England and Wales with their registered offices at Britvic House, Broomfield
Road, Chelmsford, CM1 1TU.
BRITVIC'S DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY POLICY
Britvic complies with the Data Protection Act 1988. We follow strict security
procedures in the storage and disclosure of information you have supplied to us.
Personal information is collected by Britvic online to create your member
profile and administrate your activities on the site as well [as for the
purposes of running competitions, conducting market research surveys and
providing you with information about the products and services we offer]. We
collect personal information from you through the use of entry forms and every
time you e-mail us your details.
We also collect information automatically about your visit to our site. The
information obtained in this way, which includes demographic data and browsing
patterns, is only used in aggregate form.
Use and Disclosure of personal information
We process personal information collected via the Site for the purposes of:
- running competitions
- conducting market research surveys and
- providing you with information about products and services we offer.
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others outside
Britvic Soft Drinks Limited or its associated companies. We do not share our
mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers or partners, except
where you have provided permission to do so.
If you wish to receive information about our products or services, or
information from other carefully selected organisations, please tick the
appropriate box on the registration form.
Like most organisations, we also use information in aggregate form (so that
no individual user is identified) to share with business partners and other
third parties for the purposes of :
- building up marketing profiles
- assisting strategic development and
- auditing usage of the site.
This information shows user activity as a whole rather than on an individual
basis and cannot be used to individually identify you.
Promoter: Britvic Soft Drinks Ltd, Chelmsford CM1 1TU