Online Cookie Policy
Hormel Foods Corporation or one of its wholly owned subsidiaries or joint ventures (“Company”, “our,” or “we”) use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies (collectively, “Cookies”) on www.hormelfoods.com and the webpages for our brands and subsidiaries (our “Websites”).
Cookies are small amounts of data that are stored on your browser, device, or the page you are viewing. Some cookies are deleted once you close your browser, while other cookies are retained even after you close your browser so that you can be recognized when you return to our Websites.
For more information about our privacy practices, we encourage you to review our Privacy Policy.
Cookies We Use
Cookies on our Websites are generally divided into the following categories:
- Essential Cookies: These Cookies are required for the operation of our Websites and enable you to move around our Websites and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of our Websites.
- Analytical / Performance Cookies: These Cookies that are useful to assess the performance of our Websites, including as part of our analytic practices or otherwise to improve the content, products or services offered through our Websites.
- Functional Cookies: These Cookies improve the functional performance of our Websites and make them easier for you to use. For example, these Cookies are used to remember the choices you make, such as language options or the region you are in, and to personalize your experience when you use our Websites.
- Targeting / Advertising Cookies. These Cookies record your visit to our Websites, the pages you visit, and the links you follow, so that we and third parties can recognize you and track your activity on our Websites and other websites you visit, and offer goods and services that may be of interest to you.
Your Choices Regarding Cookies
You can modify your browser settings to decline or accept certain Cookies. However, if you decline Cookies, some of our Websites’ features may not function as designed. You may also use the preference options that appear in the Cookie banner on our Websites to modify the use of certain Cookies.
Analytics Information.
We may use Google Analytics or other service providers for analytics services. These analytics services may use Cookies to help us analyze how users use our Websites. Information generated by these services (e.g., your IP address and other usage information) may be transmitted to and stored by Google Analytics and other service providers on servers in the U.S. or elsewhere, and these service providers may use this information for purposes such as evaluating your use of our Websites, compiling statistical reports on our Websites’ activity, and providing other services relating to our Websites activity and other Internet usage. You may exercise choices regarding the use of Cookies from Google Analytics by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Third Party Targeted Advertising.
You may opt out of the use of third party targeting or advertising cookies on the specific browser you are using by broadcasting an Opt-Out Preference Signal, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC). To download and use a browser supporting the GPC browser signal visit: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/orgs. Please note that if you do not have an account with us or if you are not logged into your account, your opt out request will be linked to your browser identifier only and not linked to any account information, because the connection between your browser and your account is not known to us.
To learn more about how to opt out of third party targeting and advertising cookies, visit: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/, http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/, or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. Please note that these opt-out tools are provided by third parties, not the Company. We do not control or operate these tools or the choices that advertisers and others provide through these tools.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
Hormel Foods Corporation
1 Hormel Place
Austin, MN 55912
Attn: Ethics & Compliance
Email: privacy@hormel.com