INTRODUCTION

We use and process Personal Data about you for the purposes described below: 

1. Checking you meet the minimum legal age requirements for the products or services requested;
2. To supply the products or services requested; 
3. To respond to your requests, comments and complaints;
4. To understand your interests and how you use our products and services, to personalize your experience and to tailor our marketing activities to your needs and preferences;
5. To show you targeted advertisements and find other people like you on social networks provided that you have given your consent;
6. To carry out analysis of statistics concerning our marketing campaigns and the activity of the website; 
7. To send commercial communications about products and services that may be of interest to you, provided that you have given your prior consent or ordered a similar product or service from the website ;
8. To manage the security of the website and protect it from fraud, theft or any other illegal activity that may affect our services;
9. To improve our website and provide you with technical support;
10. To comply with legal obligations (e.g. keeping transaction records and other business records is necessary to meet legal and administrative requirements, the needs of our insurers or for audit purposes).

The purposes of processing mentioned above at (a) and (j) are based on The Botanist’s compliance with the applicable legal and regulatory obligations to which it is subject;

The processing purposes mentioned above from (b) to (i) are based either on:

• the legitimate interest of TheBotanist to operate the website and respond to User requests or;
• the performance of a contract between TheBotanist and the User or;
• user consent when it is required by law for direct marketing.

For some of the cookies that may be used (see Section 6), the processing is based on the consent of the Data Subjects;

We undertake not to process your Personal Data in a way that would defeat the purpose for which it was collected and to collect only the Personal Data that is necessary for the purposes stated.

In accordance with the Applicable Law, you have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection, portability of your personal data we hold about you to the extent applicable, unless we can demonstrate a compelling legitimate reason for retaining your Personal Data.

Right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.

Right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.

Right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

When the Processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

You can ask us to stop sending you information regarding our offers, news and events at any time by using the unsubscribe link in every email we send you.

In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.            

You can exercise your rights by using your account settings or by writing to us at: privacy@remy-cointreau.com. 

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Your Personal Data will not be transferred to or made accessible by third parties, except in the following cases:

• the other entities of the Rémy Cointreau Group after obtaining your consent or for internal administrative purposes;
• our service providers (e.g. hosting and payment providers, advertising partners, marketing and advertising agencies, distribution partners) internal or external to Rémy Cointreau’s group;
• our external advisors (lawyers, accountants, auditors etc.);
• in the event of a change of control, if we sell or otherwise transfer all or part of The Botanist or our assets to another company (e.g. in a merger, acquisition or liquidation) and;
• when such disclosure is required by a legal or regulatory provision or by a court decision, or when such disclosure is necessary to ensure the protection and defense of rights or to avoid possible damage.

We may transfer your personal data to another country outside of the UK and European Union. Where we transfer your data to such third countries (e.g. for transaction processing and fraud prevention purposes), we ensure an adequate level of protection for the transferred personal data by entering into data transfer agreements with the recipients of your personal data based on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) or other valid transfer mechanisms and we carry out, in accordance with the European Court of Justice's decision of 16 July 2020 "Schrems II" (Case C 311-18) and with the guidance of the European Data Protection Board, a risk assessment of the transferred data. Please contact us if you would like to receive a copy of the safeguards in place to secure data transfers outside the UK and the European Economic Area. 

Data is processed both manually and electronically and is protected by appropriate security measures. We will provide an adequate level of protection for your data and ensure that appropriate technical and organisational security measures are in place to protect your data against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss or alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access and against all other forms of unlawful processing.

The same level of protection is contractually imposed by The Botanist on all its subcontractors. Any employee of The Botanist who, in the course of his or her duties, may have access to your personal data undertakes to hold it in strict confidence. However, as the Internet is not completely secure, we cannot guarantee that your personal information stored or sent will be completely safe. We encourage you to exercise caution when using the Internet to access our website.

This section on cookies explains how we use cookies to provide, protect and improve our website. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

In order to meet these purposes, we use partners, listed in this section, who may deposit cookies in your browser on our behalf. In some cases, these cookies may track your browsing beyond our website. Through these cookies, our partners collect and use your browsing data for the above purposes. For more information, we encourage you to review their privacy policies.

Consent Management

When you first visit our website, you will be asked to accept or decline the use of certain cookies. You can change your choices at any time by clicking 

Managing cookies in your browser

Without your explicit consent, no cookies are deposited on your device. Thus, the refusal to deposit cookies is set by default. 

When you make a choice (acceptance or refusal to deposit all or part of the data), we keep your choice for a period of 6 months from the date of collection. 

In order to manage your cookie expectations as precisely as possible, you can also change the settings of your web browser. Below you will find links to support pages for disabling cookies on the most commonly used browsers:

• Internet explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-do-not-track-in-internet-explorer-11-ad61fa73-d533-ce96-3f64-2aa3a332e792
• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature
• Google Chrome:https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/114836?hl=en&ref_topic=3421433
• Safari: https://help.apple.com/safari/mac/9.0/#/sfri40732
• Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/

If you refuse to accept cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to function, or if you delete the cookies stored on your terminal, you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functions that are nevertheless necessary to use the website. This would be the case if you attempted to access our content or services that require you to be identified. This would also be the case if we - or our service providers - were unable to recognize, for technical accounting purposes, the type of browser used by your terminal, its language and display settings or the country from which your terminal appears to be connected to the Internet. 

Where applicable, we decline all responsibility for the consequences linked to the degraded functioning of our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the cookies necessary for their functioning and which you would have refused or deleted. 

Duration of data retention

Cookies are stored on your terminal for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes pursued, as described above. In particular:

• Cookies, which may or may not require your consent, are stored on your device for a maximum of 13 months after they are created;
• The information collected via cookies is kept for 25 months from the date of their creation on your terminal.
• Your choice, consent and/or refusal, regarding cookies is retained for a period of 6 months (after this period we will ask you again to choose how you wish to manage your cookies on our website).

Tracking Technologies

If you subscribe to our newsletter or consent to receive marketing communications, we may send you emails regarding our products, services, events, and other relevant information.
 
Subject to your prior consent where required by applicable law, these emails may include a tracking pixel (or similar technology) that enables us to determine whether an email has been opened.
 
 The information collected through this technology may include:
 
 - Whether an email has been opened;
 - The date and time of the opening;
 - Technical information associated with the email interaction.
 
 We use this information exclusively to:
 
 - Measure the effectiveness of our email communications;
 - Improve and personalize the content of our communications;
 - Optimize the frequency of communications sent to you.
 
Where required by applicable law, your consent to receive marketing communications is independent from your consent to email open tracking. You may subscribe to our newsletter without consenting to email open tracking.
 
You may withdraw your consent to email open tracking at any time without affecting your subscription to our marketing communications. To do so, you may update your communication preferences using the “Manage my emails tracking” link available in our emails or contact us using the details provided below.

Your Data will be retained, in a form that allows you to be identified, only for as long as is necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, or for as long as is necessary to comply with any legal obligation. Please note that the length of time required by law to retain data may vary from country to country.

For example: 

• The data of prospects will be kept for a period of 3 years after the collection of the data or the last contact. After this period, the data will be deleted or anonymized.
• In the event that TheBotanist is required to fulfil a legal obligation, your data will be processed for the time necessary to fulfil this obligation and as provided by law;
• If you request to unsubscribe, your Personal Data will be destroyed within a maximum of 30 days.

The Botanist website is not intended for Internet users under the legal drinking age and The Botanist does not collects personal data from individuals under the legal drinking age. If you are under the legal drinking age, which varies by country, you are prohibited from using our Services. If you are the parent or guardian of a child about whom you believe we have collected information, please contact us.

You may have certain rights with respect to Personal Information under U.S. State Privacy Laws. Under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and/or the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), these rights have been extended to Personal Information collected, used, and shared between businesses (B2B); however, these rights have not been extended in any other state.  As a result, these rights are limited to consumers, not applicable to individuals in their capacity as employees of businesses that are exchanging personal information between one another.  For purposes of this subsection, the terms “consumer”, “Personal Information”, “categories of Personal Information”, “business purpose”, “third party”, “sell”, and “share” have the meanings ascribed to them respectively in the applicable state law. To the extent provided under applicable laws, you have the right to:

Access and Disclosure. You have the right to send us a request, up to two times every 12 months, that we disclose to you the categories of Personal Information we collected about you, the categories of sources from which we collected your Personal Information, the business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling, or sharing your Personal Information, the categories of third parties to whom we have shared your Personal Information, and the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you, the categories of Personal Information we sold or disclosed. You also have the right to request a portable copy of your Personal Information. 

Correction and Deletion. You have the right to send us a request to correct or delete Personal Information we have about you, subject to certain exceptions allowed under applicable law. 

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information (Opt-out of Targeted Advertising). Under certain U.S. State Privacy Laws, you may be able to request that we not sell, or share for targeted behavioural advertising, your Personal Information. We may sell, share, and use for targeted advertising the following categories of Personal Information to companies that provide marketing and advertising services to us, as well as advertisers that place advertisements on our Services: Device, Internet, and Network Activity Information, IP Address, cookie IDs and Device ID, and General Location Information. This information is shared to help us understand who our users are, so that we can sell ads on the Services and advertise and market the Services to new users. You can request that we not sell or share your Personal Information by sending an email with your request. 

Opt-out Preference Signals; Global Privacy Control. You have the right to send us a request to opt-out of the selling and sharing of Personal Information through an opt-out preference signal. If you use an opt-out preference signal, we will apply the opt-out to the device or browser which sends the opt-out preference signal and to any consumer profile associated with that browser or device, including pseudonymous profiles. You can use an opt-out preference signal by downloading a supported browser or extension. If known, we will also treat the opt-out preference signal as a valid request to opt-out of sale/sharing for the user. Some browsers allow you to send a Do Not Track signal, an older request to block tracking of users by third parties. We may not honor these older signals. 

Sensitive Personal Information. You have the right to send us a request to limit the use of your Sensitive Personal Information to those uses that are necessary to perform the services reasonably expected by an average person and to certain other permitted business purposes. These business purposes include helping to perform services reasonably expected by users of this Services who have requested such services, ensuring security and integrity (to the extent the use of the information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes), ensuring physical safety of natural persons (to the extent the use of the information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes), short-term, transient use (subject to certain conditions), performing certain services, and engaging in certain activities related to quality or safety of our services or products. We do not collect or process Sensitive Personal Information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.

No Financial Incentives. We do not offer any programs that would be considered a “financial incentive” for sharing your Personal Information under U.S. state privacy laws.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer by sending an email to privacy@remy-cointreau.com.

The Botanist may change or update this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it regularly. We will provide further notice of changes or updates as appropriate.

Last update : July 24th 2026