HOW WE USE COOKIES & SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
TYPES OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES (“COOKIES”) WE USE
Cookies are text files containing a small amount of information which is stored by your computer or device when you visit Sysco websites.
Sysco uses different types of cookies, including session cookies, persistent cookies, local shared objects, pixels, gifs, and other tracking technologies, such as third-party tags, and third-party cookies. We also use similar technologies, for example web beacons, embedded scripts and web server logs.
Depending on which Sysco business you are interacting with and your geographical location, Sysco uses the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our websites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our websites, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical or performance cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors interact with and navigate around our websites. This helps us to improve the way our websites work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily or to identify if there are error messages from web pages.
Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our websites. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting or Advertising cookies: These cookies record your visit to our websites, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our websites, and the advertising displayed on it, more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. We may also share this information with carefully selected third parties for this purpose. These types of cookies may also be placed by advertising networks with our permission.
HOW WE USE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Depending on which Sysco business you are interacting with and your geographical location, Sysco uses cookies to:
In addition to the cookies we use on our websites, Sysco may also use cookies in some emails. These help us to understand whether you have opened the email and how you have interacted with it, such as clicking any links within the email. This information helps us to ensure you receive offers and promotions more relevant to you and improve our future email communications.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Depending on your geographical location and the Sysco business you are interacting with, Sysco may collect information such as your IP address, browser characteristics, device IDs and characteristics, operating system version, screen resolution, language preferences, referring URLs, pages visited, and other information about the usage of our websites or emails.
Cookies help us to recognise users and avoid repetitive requests for the same information. Cookies assist us in identifying the types of browsers and operating systems used most by our customers, suppliers, website visitors, social media users, or other business partners and how website visitors move through the websites which helps us to continuously improve your experience when interacting with Sysco.
Cookies may be persistent, remaining on your computer until you delete them, or depending on your browsing session, where they will be deleted once you close your browser.
THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
You may encounter cookies from our third-party service providers, which we have authorised on our site to assist us with various aspects of our site operations and services. We may also permit carefully selected third-party partners to display ads on our websites. These ads may contain cookies. Cookies received with banner ads are collected by such third-party partners, and we do not necessarily have access to this information. These third-party partners may also combine information collected on our websites and emails with other information about your online activities over time, on other devices, and on other websites or apps, if those websites and apps also use the same third-party partners or other third parties such as advertising networks, social media companies, and analytics providers.
We currently use Google Analytics to collect and process certain website usage data. To learn more about Google Analytics, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. If you wish to opt-out, please visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Alternative language options can be selected on these pages.
MANAGING YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES
You can manage your cookie preferences by selecting your preferences directly on our cookie banners displayed on our websites or, at any time, by following the ‘cookie settings’ link at the bottom of our websites.
You may be able to change browser settings to block and delete cookies when you access our websites through a web browser. However, please note that if you do that, our websites may not work properly, and your experience may not be optimal. Depending on your geographical location, our websites may not respond to browser do-not-track signals.
When you opt out of personalised advertising, you may continue to see online advertising on Sysco’s websites and/or our ads on other websites and online services.