PRIVACY & COOKIES POLICY

PepsiCo International Ltd is a company organized under the laws of England and Wales with its registered office at Building 4, Chiswick Business Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 5YE (“PepsiCo”, “we” or “us”).

Reference in this notice to “personal data” means any information that identifies, or could reasonably be used to identify a living individual, either on its own or together with other information.

  1. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA.

The personal data that we collect and process include:

Personal data that you give us, including:

  • Pre-registration / Registration. We collect the mandatory information required to register for the PepsiCo Dare To Do More Challenge (the “Challenge”), meaning:

Pre-registration/registration:

  • First name
  • Last name;
  • Email address;
  • Password;
  • Phone Number;
  • Confirmation regarding your profile (student or young professional);
  • Profile photo (optional).

After the Dare to Do More Challenge official launch date (March 15th, 2022), in order to participate, you will be asked to accept the Dare to Do More Challenge Terms and Conditions and complete the participation form. This applies for both pre-registered or newly registered users.

  • Messages, postings and uploads. We collect personal data from you when you provide, post or upload it to the website, such as when you register for the Dare To Do More Challenge, when you upload deliverables (e.g., documents, presentations, audio/video files) submitted as part of your participation in the Challenge, when you chat or message with other members of the community, post announcements, or use public message boards. This is only visible to the Dare to Do More Challenge community.
  • Technical information. We keep a record of any correspondence between you and us, such as information that you send when you report a problem with our website or service.

Information that we collect automatically from a third-party source, including:

Technical Information. When you visit our website we collect information relating to the devices you use and the networks to which you are connected.  This technical information, includes your IP address, log-in information, bandwidth used, time of visit, browser type and version, browser plug-ins types and versions, operating system, information about your visit including the URL clickstream, download/upload errors, pages visited, page interactions, and other connection data held in our logs. We collect this information using cookies (see Cookies section in this Policy).

  1. HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA.

If you close your profile, your personal data will be immediately deleted. Alternatively, we will retain your personal data until March 2023, when all your personal information will be deleted.

Information you have shared with others (e.g., through messages, chats or on message boards/walls) will remain visible after you close your account, but will be anonymized. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g., search engine results) until the user refreshes their cache.

  1. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA.

We use your personal data to perform a contract to which you are or will be a party. For example:

  • Allow you to take part in the Dare To Do More Challenge;
  • Enable you to personalize your user profile/account;
  • Send you service-related information (e.g., confirmation of your registration in the Dare To Do More Challenge) by email and/or other communication means;
  • Enable you to communicate and interact with us as organizer of the Dare To Do More Challenge, and with other community members in the Challenge, such as other participants, team members, mentors, and/or jury members;
  • Publish an announcement that you are a finalist or winner of the Dare To Do More Challenge;
  • Give you access to our platform support services through our sub-contractor Agorize to enable you to communicate any technical issues you may experience;
  • Keep the Dare To Do More Challenge website secure and safe;
  • Notify you about changes in the Challenge website;
  • Administer the Challenge website, including for troubleshooting, access, data analysis, testing, research, analytic and survey purposes;
  • Improve the Challenge website to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner;

Where appropriate, we will ask for your consent to process the personal data; for example:

  • To measure or understand the effectiveness of the Dare To Do More Challenge advertising and to deliver relevant messages related to Challenge to you;
  • To target you for Dare to Do More Challenge ads on social media platforms (like Facebook);
  • You can withdraw your consent to prevent your personal data being used this way at any time using the manage cookies banner or directly on your web browser.
  • Comply with our legal obligations, including court orders and other legal or regulatory requirements.

Profile. Once registered as a participant, your profile is fully visible to all members of our community, such as us, the Challenge participants, mentors, and jury members.

Wall posts, messages and deliverables.  When you post on a message board/wall, it can be viewed by all participants in the Challenge. You can send messages to team members, individual participants, Challenge administrators or mentors. Deliverables pertaining to the Challenge can be viewed by other members of your team (if applicable), Challenge administrators, jury members and team mentors. 

We only share your personal data with third parties in the following cases:

  • where it is necessary to perform the Challenge (e.g., providing your personal data to the online platform sub-contractor which gives us support to run the Challenge );
  • to assist us in the improvement and optimization of the Challenge by using analytics and search engines;
  • it is based on your consent and/or our legitimate interest if we are required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to claims against us, to comply with legal proceedings, in the framework of an investigation, or protect the rights, property or safety of PepsiCo or its members.
  1. TRANSFERING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.

We process and store your personal data in the European Economic Area. 

  1. HOW WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA SECURE.

We will take appropriate technical and organizational measures against unauthorized or unlawful processing of your personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, your personal data in accordance with our internal security procedures covering its storage, access and destruction.

  1. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING PERSONAL DATA.

To the extent required by applicable law, you have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files. You can also correct or delete your profile on the website. Please review paragraph 2 on “How long we retain your personal data”.

You also have the right to request that the processing of your personal information is rectified or restricted, or that the personal information we hold about you is provided to you in a portable format.   

If you would like to discuss or exercise any of these rights, please send us your request via our Data Subject Rights portal.

  1. COOKIES POLICY

A cookie is a file that records information relating to your navigation on our website daretodomoreeurope.pepsico.com (e.g. date and time the pages were loaded; browser used and language; pages viewed, frequency and duration of visits to the site, number of visits, sources of the visit, location) and can facilitate your visits to the site.

At any time, you can delete cookies, refuse installation of new cookies or be notified before a new cookie is installed by configuring your browser following the instructions below.

By continuing to use our site you accept this cookies policy and agree to the use of cookies on your computer.

Please note that if you uninstall a cookie or refuse the installation of cookies, you may not be able to use some of our services on our website.

Types of cookies

We use the following types of cookies:

  1. Session cookies for site management: when you access the site, a cookie “token” with a unique encrypted session id code is passed to your computer. This token then controls your access to the site for that session, and is deleted once you close your browser or log off from the site. These cookies also allow us to identify your device and preferences when you return to our website, such as customized features, language and regional preferences. These cookies are an essential part of the site delivery system, and you will not be able to fully use our site without these cookies enabled. The information gathered by these cookies is anonymous, and is used only to improve your experience on our website.
  2. Persistent cookies for site management: if you pre-register or register on the site and select the "Remember me" option, a persistent cookie is passed to your computer. This cookie is not deleted when you leave the site or close your browser, but is saved on your computer. This cookie contains an encrypted user id code that identifies your computer upon future visits and automatically logs you into the site. This cookie is functional, and is designed to remember your preferences, to make your experience on our site better. It does not contain any personal information that could be used to identify you.
  3. Analytics cookies. We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic on our site. When you visit our site, these programs set certain cookies that record statistical information about your visits to the site. We measure the number of visits, the number of pages viewed as well as visitors' activity on the site and their frequency of return. This helps us improve our website and its functionality, for example, by ensuring that users can navigate it intuitively. These cookies do not store any personal information that could be used to identify you.
  4. Which cookies are installed?

Cookies installed by data processor Agorize (necessary for the operation of the Challenge website):

Cookie

Description

Opting out

Duration

_agorize_session

 

Contains information about the navigation session and allows the user to access the site

 

Expires at the end of the session.

cookies_policy_accepted

Saves a user's choice regarding cookies

 

15 months from pre-registration or 12 months from full registration

hide_profile_incomplete

Helps users filling their information on the website

 

15 months from pre-registration or 12 months from full registration

Third-party cookies:

Cookie

Description

Opting out

Duration

Google analytics:

 

 

 

_gid

 

Used to distinguish users.

Google Analytics

 

24 hours

_gat

 

Used to throttle request rate.

Google Analytics

1 minute

 

_ga

Used to distinguish users.

Google Analytics

15 months from pre-registration or 12 months from full registration 

Click here to change your cookie preferences

How to delete, be notified when cookies are installed or configure your browser?

Clearing cookies already installed on your computer.

You can clear the cookies already installed on your computer by clearing your browser’s cache. For instructions on how to remove cookies on the Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer browsers, click here.

Configuring your browser to refuse cookies, or to be notified when cookies are installed.

All web browsers enable you to set your cookies preferences before you navigate the internet. For instructions on how to configure your web browser to refuse cookies or to notify you when cookies are installed, click here.  

If you have questions about the Dare To Do More Challenge Privacy & Cookies Policy, please email us at europe.privacy@pepsico.com.