What are cookies and how are they used by Coca-Cola?

Cookies are little text files sent from a web server and saved in your hard disk. We use cookies to save and track information about you, which allows giving you a more personalized service.

“Cookies. Cookies are data that a web server transfers to an individual's computer for recordkeeping purposes. Cookies are an industry standard used by most web sites, and hel

The cookie information identifies you (or your computer) and, if you are registered in a promotion or service offered by Coca-Cola, the system can access your information which is saved in our computers, in order to offer you a personalized service with certain type of contents.

We use cookies for building up statistics. They allow us knowing if the users are new or regular, in order to estimate the amount of users and its growth. They are also useful for measuring certain traffic patterns such as Coca-Cola's visited sections and your visit's general patterns. This enables us to understand how our users navigate Coca-Cola's site. With this information we can personalize the contents and promotions that the users will find in our sites.

Cookies are also used in some of our promotional events for tracking the amount, progress, and status of your entries. You can control which cookies can remain installed. In Netscape ®, enter the menu “Edit”, then “Preferences”, then “Advance” in the bottom part of the category column, and select your preferred cookies. In Microsoft Internet Explorer ®, select the menu “View”, then “Internet Options”, then “Advanced Options”, and select from the cookie configuration box the ones you prefer.

“Pixel Tags. The Site may use so-called "pixel tags," "web beacons," "clear GIFs" or similar means (collectively, "Pixel Tags") to compile aggregate statistics about Site usage

You can look for a determined cookie in your hard drive. In Netscape ®, enter C: Program Files NetscapeUsers (user`s name) cookies.txt; if your operative system is Windows 95, 98 or NT ®. enter ® system folder: Preferences: Netscape; f:MagicCookie if you are a Macintosh ® user. In Microsoft Internet Explorer ® 95, 98 or NT enter system folder: MS preferences: Cookies if your are a Macintosh ® user.