Cookie and privacy policy

Cookie policy

This website dedicated to the Heineken brand (the “Website”) is provided by Heineken Brouwerijen B.V., a company organized under the laws of the Netherlands (“Heineken”). The Website makes use of so-called cookies". Cookies are small text files that the Website stores on your user device.

Cookies used on the Website

The Website uses cookies for the following purposes: Functional cookies: cookies used to enhance the user friendliness of the Website for visitors. For example, a cookie is placed to remember your preferred country and language settings and to remember the information you submitted on the age-gate page. Without this cookie, you would have to re-enter the age-gate before every page you want to visit on the Website.

Analytics cookies: Heineken uses Google Anaytics cookies, with the purpose to analyze how visitors use the Website. Heineken can then make improvements to the usability of the Website. Google only processes data obtained via the Website in an anonymous form. Please visit www.google.com/analytics for more information on Google Analytics.

Third party cookies: the Website allows cookies of social plugins of certain third parties. This enables a user to share content of the Website on such social networks. These plugins also enhance the user friendliness of the Website, for example with the Facebook plugin on the Website users can simply register to the Website with their Facebook account details. The data collected by these third parties via the plugins are exclusively determined by such third party as Heineken can’t read these cookies (nor can these parties read the cookies of Heineken). For information regarding the third party cookies please check the respective third party’s privacy policy. The functional cookies of the Website that are stored by Heineken on your computer only remain valid during your session on the Website.

Changing your settings

By changing the settings in your web browser, you can establish that you will be given notice if a cookie is stored on your computer. By changing settings, you can also establish that your browser does not accept cookies from this Website. However, if your browser does not accept cookies from this Website, you may not be able to access or use all features of this Website.