Effective Date: August 15, 2007
The Dannon Company, Inc. ("Dannon"), U.S. manufacturer of DANNON® branded
yogurts and cultured dairy drinks, has created this privacy statement in order
to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our
information gathering and use practices for all of Dannon's Consumer Web sites.
INFORMATION COLLECTION NOTICE
This Web site does not offer the ability to site visitors to post personal
information or personally identifiable information. It collects personal
information only from site visitors who send emails to us and forwards that
information to various third parties who provide marketing research, customer
service and web-related services. We use the information consumers send us
in emails in order to reply to those consumers and retain it securely as part
of our third party's consumer affairs database. Dannon analyzes the data consumers
send to us in emails for marketing and quality assurance purposes, but does not rent,
sell or distribute personally identifiable information to third parties other than as
described above. Additionally, Dannon may use information consumers send us in emails
in order to provide those consumers coupons and additional information about our products.
As noted above, Dannon does not collect any personal information about you
during your visit to this Web Site unless you provide that information voluntarily
by sending an email or initiating an online transaction such as a survey, registration,
sweepstakes or contest entry. You may choose not to send us an email, respond
to a survey, or enter a sweepstakes contest. While your choice not to participate
in these activities may limit your ability to receive specific services or
products through this Web Site, it will not prevent you from requesting services
or products from Dannon by other means and will not normally have an impact on
your ability to take advantage of other features of the Web Site, including browsing or downloading publicly available information. If you would like to participate in Dannon promotions and do not wish to enter personal information through this Web Site, contact the site named at the end of this policy statement.
COOKIES
For each visitor to dannon.com our web server automatically recognizes
and stores information such as the visitor's IP address/domain name combination,
type of web browser, computer operating system (e.g., Windows or Mac OS),
and any referring web sites. We also use pixels, or transparent GIF files, to
help manage online advertising. These GIF files are provided by our ad management
partner. These files enable us or our partner to recognize a unique cookie on your
Web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to
our website. When you visit Dannon.com, our server sends
a "cookie" to your browser. Cookies are small amounts of data that our
web site sends to your computer while you are visiting the web site. This
information gets stored on your computer's hard drive and among other
things, it allows our web site to distinguish between visitors and analyze
traffic patterns through dannon.com. Most web browser software automatically
accepts cookies, but you can change your browser setting to prevent that
if you do not wish to store the information on your computer. How to turn
off all cookies differs for each web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer,
Netscape, etc.) so you may wish to consult your browser's "Help" menu
for additional information.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA FROM CHILDREN
Dannon will not collect or post personal information from children under
the age of thirteen without following the requirements of the Children's
Online Privacy and Protection Act. Non-personal information may be
collected via cookies. When a child submits information to the Dannon Web
site, he or she would be asked to provide, for example, name, email address
and/or parent's email address. In certain instances, the child's parent or
guardian receives an email alerting them to the child's registration and
provides instructions on how the parent could delete the child's
registration, if so desired. We will use the personal information collected
from a child to inform the child about the result of a sweepstakes she or
he has won. The child's information is accessible only to Dannon's Internet
agencies, which have agreed to keep children's personally identifiable
information confidential. A parent may consent to the collection of a child'
s personal information without consenting to that information being shared
with third parties. Although children are allowed to participate in
contests, if a child wins, notification and prizes are sent to the parents
or guardians identified in the initial registration process. No child's
participation in any game or prize shall be conditioned upon the entry of
more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in
the activity. Dannon encourages parents and guardians to spend time online
with their children and to participate in the interactive activities
offered on the sites. If you are a parent and wish to review and/or delete
any personal information collected from a child so that it is not used in
the future, you may do so by directing such request to Dannon at:
dannon@casupport.com or call 1-877-DANNONUS.
CHANGING PERSONAL INFORMATION
It is not necessary for visitors to the Dannon Web site to provide personal
information unless they want information to be sent to them. Visitors
who send emails to us may request that personal information be changed.
In order to review the personal information that has been collected about
you, please click here to send an email to Dannon via our
Contact Us section. Visitors who wish to change or update personal
information can do so by sending emails to us indicating the changes to
be made. The email address to use to change personal information is dannon@casupport.com.
SECURITY
Our hosting and e-mail database management agencies institute commercially
reasonable security systems including firewalls to guard against access to
the data.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of this
information by us. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post
those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose this
information.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For questions regarding this Web Site, please
click here to send an email to Dannon.