This site is owned and operated by McCormick (UK) Ltd. We at McCormick recognize that many consumers are concerned about their personal privacy. This privacy policy is provided to inform you of what personal information is collected at our site, and how it is maintained and used by McCormick. These practices may be updated periodically, by posting them to our website, so we encourage you to review the privacy policy from time to time.
Why do we collect your data?
By collecting your data, it allows us to understand what your needs and wants are, provide personalised content and match the most relevant adverts and services for you. It also allows us to provide targeted offers and services you may be interested to hear about.
What information do we collect?
You don't need to provide any personal information to access our site. However, McCormick provides you with the opportunity to register for occasional email updates on Schwartz products, recipes and special offers that may be of interest to you.
All personal information is collected voluntarily
We will never share personally-identifiable information about you without your prior consent. Like many companies, however, we may share aggregate information about people who use our site (for example, number of males & females) to business partners and other third parties. If we collect personal information from you for a promotion (for example, your address, email address, phone number), we will use it for the purpose of conducting the promotion. We won't share it with anyone outside McCormick.
Security
The Schwartz website employs appropriate security measures which are designed to prevent the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of any personally - identifiable information.
Note to Parents
We don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. Parents may always ask to review any personal information we have collected from their children. You may have information related to your child deleted from the database and refuse to permit further collection or use of children's information.
Cookies and IP Addresses
Like many companies, we use “cookie” technology on our website to enhance your experience. If you’ve registered for our site, cookies tell us whether you’ve been on the site before and help identify information you’ve already viewed or information that would be of most interest you. From time to time we may also use cookies to display Schwartz advertising to you on third party websites. Schwartz cookies will not obtain any personal information from you.
There are several types of Cookies:
1. Essential Cookies
These cookies are essential for the running of our websites. Without the use of these cookies parts of our websites would not function. For example the Cooking Club login uses cookies to help us identify returning members, remember passwords and speed up access to the Club.
2. Analytical Performance Cookies
We use these types of cookies to monitor our websites performance and how our users may use it. These cookies provide us with information that helps us provide better products to their users and also to identify areas that need maintenance. For example, we use performance cookies on our websites to identify, for example, the Top 10 most viewed recipes on our website.
3. Functional Cookies
Functional cookies are used to remember your preferences on our websites. For example these allow us to show you your most recently viewed recipes.
4. Behavioural Advertising Cookies/Third Party Cookies
Online behavioural advertising is a way of providing advertisements on the websites you visit to make them more relevant to your interests. It can also track which sites you have recently visited to tailor advertising to your interests. This is done by grouping together shared interests based upon previous web browsing activity.
Behavioural advertising is based upon your web browsing activity over a period of time - so it's different to advertising you may see when you're looking for something online using a search engine (eg Google) or on the website you may be visiting at a particular time.
How to control the use of cookies
You are not obliged to accept cookies and may modify your browser so that it will not accept cookies. The browser you use to surf the web not only allows you to see the cookies that you have got but also allows you to control their use.
You can control them by allowing them, deleting them individually or deleting all of them. You can also set your browser to not accept cookies altogether. If this option is selected, you should be aware that many websites will not function properly or at all. It may be possible to set your browser to not accept cookies and ask for your consent before each cookie is set on your device. This gives you control over what is set on your device, however has the drawback of slowing down your browsing experience.
There are different levels of control too. You are able to prevent just third party cookies being deployed, effectively opting out of behavioural advertising, and some even allow you to block specific companies you do not wish to deploy a cookie, instead of selecting all companies.
In order to manage your cookies, please select your browser from the list below and follow the instructions:
Internet Explorer
Chrome
Safari
Firefox
Opera
Mobile devices:
Android
Safari
Windows Phone
Blackberry
How can I prevent Online Behavioural Advertising?
Further to using your browser to controlling the use of cookies, there are also other ways that you can opt out of Online Behavioural Advertising.
The "Your Online Choices" page provided by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), provides an easy way to opt out of behavioural advertising from each (or all) of the networks represented by the IAB.
Flash Cookies
When you use one of our websites that uses Macromedia Flash Player, a small Flash Cookie may be used. The purpose of using these cookies is to store your flash player preferences and enhance your browsing experience.
Flash Cookies are stored on your computer in a similar way to standard cookies, except they are stored in a different location. Due to this, it is not possible to block or manage Flash Cookies directly from your browser.
In order to manage or delete Flash Cookies, please visit Adobe’s website, which provides full information by clicking here.
Useful information about Cookies
Further information about cookies can be found on the following websites:
All About Cookies
Your Online Choices
Information Comissioners Office
Direct Marketing Association
Microsoft Cookies Guide
If you have any questions about the use of cookies on our websites, please email:
rachel.forshaw@mccormick.co.uk
Please be aware that if you disable cookies, many services on our websites will not be available to you, particularly those that contain personalised content as outlined in the section Personalised content.
Personalised content
The content on our websites and in our email communications may be adjusted depending on what we know about the content, products and services that you like. This means we can highlight content and articles that we believe will be of interest to you. Advertising content may be adjusted depending on personal information.
We provide personalisation by using cookies, IP addresses, web beacons and URL tracking. A full explanation of how this works and how you can prevent the use of such activities, please see our Cookies, and IP Address section.
Consent
By completing our registration forms with personal information or by the continued use of our services, you are consenting to:
a) our processing your personal data for the above purposes; and
b) the transfer and processing of your information in countries outside of the European Economic Area which may not provide the same level of data protection as the UK. If we do make such a transfer or if your personal information will be processed outside of the European Economic Area, we will put a contract in place to ensure your information is protected or where applicable covered by the US "Safe Harbor Program".
Notification of changes
From time to time, we may make changes to the Privacy Policy. This may be in relation to changes in the law, best practice, changes in our services or treatment of your personal information. We will always display clearly when the privacy policy was last amended on the website.
How to contact us
By email: rachel.forshaw@mccormick.co.uk
By telephone: 01844 294355
By mail:
Rachel Forshaw
McCormick (UK) Ltd
Haddenham Business Park
Pegasus Way
Haddenham
Bucks, HP17 8LB
General information about data protection may be found at:
dataprotection.gov.uk
dma.org.uk
mydm.co.uk
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