The web site you have entered is operated by or on behalf of Maple Leaf Foods Inc. Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is committed to protecting your personal privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines the type of information that is collected by Maple Leaf Foods Inc. on this web site, and how we use and protect it. This policy also tells you what to do if you do not want your Personal Information collected when you visit our web site, and how you can change or delete information you have already provided to us.
By using our web site, you signify that you agree with the terms of our current Privacy Policy as posted in this area of the site. If you do not agree with any term in this policy, please do not use the site.
As used in this Privacy Policy, "Personal information" means personally-identifiable information such as your name, street and address, telephone number, screen name and e-mail address. Throughout our site, you may be asked for personal information so that you can register for a sweepstakes or contests, request information or mailings, fill out a survey or for a variety of other reasons. Please be assured that Maple Leaf Foods Inc. will not collect any Personal Information from this site unless and until you provide this information to us voluntarily. If you do not want us to have access to your Personal Information, please do not provide it while using our site. When you provide us with Personal Information, you are authorizing us to use that information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, including your right to limit our use of the Personal Information.
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. may collect other information about you during your visit to our site, but this information will not be linked to your Personal Information (that is, it is collected only in the aggregate in connection with all the users of our site, and will not be linked to you personally). Such information may include:
"Cookies" are files or pieces of information that may be stored in your computer's hard drive when you visit a web site. Maple Leaf Foods Inc. uses cookies to show us how and when a user visits areas within our site so that we can see which areas are popular and which may need improvement. We also use cookies to help speed up your future activities at our site because the computer will remember that you have already provided Personal Information to us. Maple Leaf Foods Inc. does not share Personal Information obtained through cookies with any third parties. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you would prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent.
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. does not share any Personal Information with any third parties, except for outside contractors who will first have to sign a confidentiality agreement with us.
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. will not use your Personal Information to send you any mailings or to otherwise contact you unless you have expressly authorized us to do so. In addition, at any time you may let us know that you wish to discontinue such mailings or contact (see "Who to contact" below).
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is committed to protecting the online privacy of children and making the internet safe for our users. To that end, no information should be submitted to or posted on this site by children under the age of 15 without their parent's or guardian's permission. In addition, if a user younger than 15 wishes to send us Personal Information, he or she must first give us his or her parent's or guardian's e-mail address so that we can obtain their permission through regular mail. No Personal Information will knowingly be accepted from a child under 15 before this permission is obtained. If your child has already provided us with Personal Information, you may ask to see this information for the purposes of correcting it, or ask us to delete this information from our records entirely (see "Who to contact" below).
We use state-of-the-art technology to keep your Personal Information as secure as possible. Access to your Personal Information is permitted among our employees only on a need-to-know basis, and any outside contractors with access to such information must first sign a confidentiality agreement with us.
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. reserves the right to change or remove this Privacy Policy at our discretion. Whenever we make any alteration to this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes here and will alert you to the change for a period of time with a banner on our home page. We encourage you to visit this area frequently to stay informed.
Please click here if you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy, or to do any of the following:
Again, Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is committed to protecting your privacy in connection with this web site. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy.