Privacy Policy

Lao Brewery Co. Ltd. understands that the security of your personal data is extremely important and it is committed to respecting your privacy and safeguarding your personal data.

This privacy policy sets out how LBC ( we, us, our) uses your personal data and the measures it has put in place to protect your information and keep it secure.

This privacy policy applies to you if you purchase goods from us, receive services from us, participate in our events or promotions or otherwise interact with us, including by using any of our websites or by interacting with us via social media.

Please take a moment to review this policy in detail (together with our Cookie Policy and Terms and Conditions, and any other documents referred to in them, if you are using one of our websites).  If you are an existing customer of ours, further details about how we use your personal data may be set out in your contract with us.  Further notices highlighting certain uses we wish to make of your personal data together with the ability to opt in or out of selected uses may also be provided when we collect personal data from you.

This privacy policy explains our privacy practices and covers the following areas :

1. What personal data we collect
2. What we do with your personal data
3. How we use cookies
4. Your use of chat rooms, message boards or other interactive forums
5. How we protect your personal data
6. Your rights and contacting us
7. Updates to this policy

 

1. What personal data we collect

We will collect and process some or all of the following personal data about you:

• Information about you your name, address, email address, phone number, photograph.
• Your transaction details and purchase history details of purchases and other transactions you have made, including through our websites or through other channels, including the delivery address and details of the products purchased
• Information we collect about your participation in our promotions and competitions or attendance at our events information provided in your application forms, recordings you or we have made, details of your guests in connection with any promotions and competitions you have entered or won, or other information related to your attendance at events, including any dietary and access assistance requirements you may have
• Information about your use of our chat rooms, message boards, social media pages or other interactive forums including any comments, photos, videos or other information that you post online
• Survey information t your responses to market surveys that we conduct
• Our correspondence with you including any feedback, complaints and comments from you via telephone, email or social media, or records of any online, paper or in-person correspondence and interactions between us. If you have communicated with us by phone, we will collect details of the phone number used to call us, and any information collected via a call recording
• Technical informationt including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, or your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug in types and versions, operating system and platform
• Information about your visit to our websites including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our websites (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, pages you accessed, page response times, download errors, lengths of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page

 Sources of personal data

We collect much of the personal data that we hold about you directly from you or your interactions with us, our websites or social media sites.  We may also receive your personal data from other sources, including business partners, analytics providers, search information providers, anti-fraud databases and other third party databases, including sanctions lists, and business information and research tools.

Sensitive personal data

Under data protection law, certain categories of personal data are considered particularly sensitive and, therefore, as needing additional protection. These categories include information about health, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union membership or your sexual orientation, and genetic and biometric data.

In limited circumstances, we will collect and handle such sensitive personal data, for example, when we handle requests for special medical or access assistance or your specific dietary requirements in connection with your attendance at an event, which may indicate your religious beliefs, e.g. halal or kosher meal selections, or where we undertake certain background checks on you, which may disclose information about previous criminal convictions.  We handle this sensitive personal data in compliance with applicable data protection laws, including as described further in the “What we do with your personal data” section below.

1. What we do with your personal data

Depending on how you interact with us, we will use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To provide and manage products and services you have requested To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including to arrange delivery, to action or cancel orders, to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us, and to notify you about changes to our products and services
• To communicate effectively with you To respond to your questions, comments, complaints or other communications, including any queries relating to our products
• To monitor activities and record our correspondence with you To monitor our communications with you, including to ensure service quality, compliance with procedures and for training purposes
• To provide you with marketing materials To provide you with information by post, email, phone, SMS, or online or social media advertisement about products and services that we offer where such products or services are similar to those you have already purchased or enquired about, or where you have consented to being contacted for those purposes.  We may also use your information for marketing selected business partners’ products and services.  Where required by law, we will ask for your consent at the time we collect your data to conduct any of these types of marketing.  We will provide an option to unsubscribe or opt-out of further communication on any electronic marketing sent to you or you may opt out at any time by contacting us using the details set out in the “Contact” section below
• To understand our customers, and to develop and tailor our products and services We may analyse the personal data that we hold in order to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you. We may report aggregate information to our advertisers, and make suggestions and recommendations to you, our customers and users of our websites about products or services that may interest you or them t
• To run our promotions and contests Where you are participating in promotions and competitions, to run such promotions and contests, including to notify you if you have won. If you win a prize, in accordance with local law, we may make your personal data and your guests’ personal data available on our websites and social media pages and in press releases.  We may also make these details available to third parties who may need this information for prize fulfilment purposes t
• In relation to fraud prevention We and other organisations may access and use certain information to prevent fraud as may be required by applicable law and regulation, and best practice, at any given time. If false or inaccurate information is provided and fraud is identified or suspected, details may be passed to fraud prevention agencies and other organisations, and may be recorded by us or them
• To improve and administer our websites, and to ensure that content is relevant To ensure that only adults of legal drinking age view and interact with our websites; to improve our websites and ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer; to administer our websites and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, and research, statistical and survey purposes; to allow you to participate in / register for interactive features of our service; as part of our efforts to keep our websites safe and secure; to ensure that content from our websites is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device
• To comply with legal and regulatory obligations We may process your personal data to comply with our legal and regulatory requirements, which may include disclosing your personal data to third parties, including insurers, the court service and/or regulators or law enforcement agencies in connection with enquiries, proceedings or investigations by such parties anywhere in the world or where compelled to do so

If you have any questions about the legal bases we rely on, please contact us using the details set out in the “Contact” section below.

Disclosure of your information

In addition to the third parties mentioned above, we may also disclose your personal data to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, who may use it in connection with any of the purposes set out above. We will also share your personal data with third party service providers (such as providers of marketing, IT or administrative services) who may process it on our behalf for any of the purposes set out above. 

We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in a particular location). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.

1. How we use "cookies"?

Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users. They help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our websites and ensure that the content is relevant to you.  To find out more about how we use cookies, please visit our Cookie Policy.

1. Your use of chat rooms, message boards or other interactive forums

We offer chat rooms, message or bulletin boards, or interactive areas where visitors may post comments or information for our visitors' enjoyment. If you participate in a chat room, bulletin or message board, or other interactive area where personal data may be posted on our websites, in addition to reading this privacy policy be sure to check our chat room rules before entering, as you will be bound by them. As you know, anything you post online is available for the world to see. We make no representations and undertake no obligations as to information you voluntarily post.

1. How we protect your personal data

Where is your personal data stored?

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, Microsoft Azure cloud hosted in Europe in Amsterdam. It may also be processed by staff operating globally who work for us or through the Carlsberg Group. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details or the provision of support services

How long is your personal data stored for?

The personal data that we hold about you will not be kept for longer than is permitted by law and will only be kept for as long as necessary to provide you with any requested products, services or information, or for any other purpose set out under the heading “What do we do with the information” above.

For example, we may retain certain transaction details and correspondence until the time limit for claims arising from the transaction has expired, or to comply with regulatory requirements regarding the retention of such data.

What do we do to safeguard personal data?

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to our websites - any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

What about links to other sites?

Our websites and social media fan pages may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, affiliates and other third parties.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

1. Your rights and contacting us

Marketing

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you or collect your consent (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data or clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of the emails we send to you for marketing purposes.  You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at onlinesupport@beerlao.la.

Updating information

We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that your personal data is accurate.  In order to assist us with this, you should notify us of any changes to the personal data that you have provided to us by contacting us using the details set out in the “Contact” section below.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to onlinesupport@beerlao.la

1. Updates to this policy

Any changes we may make to this privacy policy will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this privacy policy.

This privacy policy was last updated in 30th. June 2020.