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Our Commitment to Privacy

Pepsi-Cola Canada Ltd. its parent company PepsiCo, Inc., and The Pepsi Bottling Group (Canada), Co., collectively ("Pepsi") are committed to protecting your personal privacy. We provide this Privacy Policy to explain the type of information we collect on the "PEPSI STUFF" contest link on the pepsistuff.ca website (the "Site") and how we use this information. This Privacy Policy also explains the choices that you can make about the way your information is collected and used. This Privacy Policy is available for you to review on the Site and at every site where we have requested personally identifiable information.

The Information We Collect:

This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected on the Site. You will be asked to provide personal information so that you can enter the "PEPSI STUFF" contest (the "Contest") Your participation is voluntary and we will not require you to provide more information than is necessary to register for the Contest. The types of personal information collected on this website include: 1) name 2) e-mail address 3) full postal address 4) telephone number and 5) date of birth.

If you are a winner of a prize in one of our contests, you will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone in order to facilitate prize redemption.

The Way We Use Information:

Pepsi provides you with the opportunity to register on the Site through the Registration section. Registration is required to be eligible to enter any of the Site's online contests or sweepstakes. Pepsi may use the information you provide in order to facilitate prize redemption.

We may use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail that we receive, and we may use return e-mail to send you other information. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose.

When you register on the Site, you can also elect to receive information from our partners and to receive special offers and information from Pepsi/QTG Canada. Information will not be used for this purpose unless you request to receive such communications.

Unsubscribe/Delete:

Pepsi gives users the following options for updating or deleting or removing their information from our database:
1. Send us an e-mail: Send an e-mail to pepsistuff@wattsgroup.com. Be sure to include your name, e-mail address and clear instructions on what you would like us to do.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are files or pieces of information that may be stored in your computer's hard drive when you visit a website. We use cookies to better tailor our Site and our products to your interests and needs. Cookies may also be used to help speed up your future activities or to improve your user experience by remembering the information that you have already provided to us. We do not use cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not voluntarily provided by you (i.e., during membership registration or a contest). The use of cookies is an industry standard and you will find them at most websites. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you would prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent so that you can flush them from your browser if you object to their presence.

Our Privacy Practices with Third Parties

We share aggregate, non-personally identifiable information about our users with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties. We do not provide any identifiable personal information to any third party for any purpose whatsoever. For example, we may tell a business partner the number of men and the number of women that entered a contest, but we do not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals. Access by our employees and agents to your Personal Information is only on a need to know basis on the understanding that this is confidential business information.

Our intention is never to use or share personally identifiable information provided to us in ways that are different than the ways described above without also providing you with an opportunity to "unsubscribe" or prohibit such unrelated uses.

Links to Other Sites

Users should be aware that when you are on this Site you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There may be links to other sites that take you outside our service. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors, and partners that may use the Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew or 7UP logos. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, or otherwise collect data or solicit personal information. Always be aware of where you end up. Check the linked site to locate its privacy policy which may be different from our own. If this Site links you to any third party website, Pepsi makes no representation as to the existence, sufficiency, accuracy or completeness of their privacy policy.

Our Commitment to Data Security:

We take reasonable precautions to keep your personal information secure. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect. We cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online, and you do so at your own risk.

What Information Requested on the Website is Required

The information we initially require at the time of registration is name, e-mail address, full postal address, telephone number, and date of birth of the website visitor. If the age reveals that the registrant is a minor under the age of 13, then the minor must have their parent or guardian's permission to register on the Site.

Who We May Share Our Collected Information With

We will use the information we collect only for internal purposes. This means we will never share or rent or intentionally make the personally identifiable information we have collected available to anyone outside Pepsi (including our affiliates and subsidiaries). If the information we collect is obtained with the help of an agent (for example, if we hire a company to collect the answers to certain questions and then supervise a random prize drawing, then that company is our agent) then we will have the agent sign an agreement that they will not use any of the information they have access to, for any reason other than the purposes for which we hired them.

All optional information is collected on a voluntary basis and will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy regarding the use of information that we collect. This optional information will not be provided to anyone outside Pepsi in any personally identifiable manner.

We may use the information we collect in order to offer a customized interactive environment for our Site's visitors, to enhance our general Site content development and for internal marketing purposes.

Changes in Our Policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at our discretion. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy we will post those changes here. We encourage you to visit this area frequently to stay informed. If there is any material change in the type of information we collect, we will obtain your permission before we attempt to collect the additional personal information from you. We will not make any changes which allow us to give personal information to a third party without obtaining permission from you first.

Your Consent To This Privacy Policy

By using this Site, you signify your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any term in this Privacy Policy, please do not use this Site or submit any personally identifiable information.

How to Contact Us

Should you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the collection of information, please e-mail us at: pepsistuff@wattsgroup.com

Please note: The laws and regulations in different countries may impose different (and even conflicting) requirements on the Internet and data protection. We are located in Canada, as are the servers that make this Site available worldwide. All matters relating to this Site are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario. If you are located in the European Economic Area and you contact us, please note that any information you provide will be transferred to Canada and by submitting the information you authorize this transfer.

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