Privacy Policy

Mega CO-OP Privacy Policy

We take your privacy seriously.

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Mega CO-OP is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains our data processing practices and your options regarding the ways in which your personal data is used. If you have requests concerning your personal information or any questions please contact us at contact.us@megacoop.com.

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Please note that the practices of Mega CO-OP, its affiliates, and agents, with respect to data collected and used by Mega CO-OP in connection with this website and all other websites of Mega CO-OP and its affiliates with links to this policy, are governed by this online privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) as amended from time to time, and not the privacy policy in effect at the time the data was collected. Please regularly review our Privacy Policy.

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If you have objections to the Privacy Policy, you should immediately discontinue use of the Site and the Products and Services enabled by the Site.

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Information collected

Mega CO-OP collects the details provided by you on registration together with information we learn about you from your use of our service and your visits to our web site and other sites accessible from them. We also collect information about the transactions you undertake including details of payment cards used when applicable.

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We may collect additional information in connection with your participation in any promotions or competitions offered by us and information you provide when giving us feedback or completing profile forms. We also monitor customer traffic patterns and site usage which enables us to improve the services we provide.

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Access to Retail Loyalty Card information

We will access the information recorded through the use of your retailer loyalty program to help us improve our services, target advertising and make our communications to you more relevant.

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Use of your information and your preferences

We will use your information to provide and personalize our service. We will also use your contact details to regularly communicate with you. We may use your information to send you offers and news from Mega CO-OP and services or those of other carefully selected companies which we think may be of interest to you. We may contact you by post, email, telephone, or SMS for these purposes.

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Once you have registered your email at www.megacoop.com or opted in on your membership application, you may receive email notifications from Mega CO-OP informing you of membership status, membership or CO-OP Rewards related information, events, promotions, or other information related to our business or your Co-op membership.

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We like to hear your views to help us improve our service. From time to time, we may contact you by post, email, telephone or SMS to ask your opinions.

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To opt out of email notifications, simply click “unsubscribe from this list” at the bottom of the email received.

Please note that there may be instances where it may be necessary for us to communicate with you, in any event, for administrative or operational reasons relating to our service or your Co-op Membership.

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Disclosures of your information

Your information may be used by all Mega CO-OP companies. We will never pass your personal data to anyone else, except for any successors to our business and the suppliers that process data on our behalf both in the US and abroad. We may also use and disclose non-personally identifiable information for marketing programs, advertisers and partners.

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Mega CO-OP displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria—for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.

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Mega CO-OP does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

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We may transfer information about you if Mega CO-OP is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Mega CO-OP will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy by updating this page.

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Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Mega CO-OP terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

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Other web sites

Our web site may contain links to other web sites which are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours.

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Cookies

“Cookies” are small pieces of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information from the browser. Mega CO-OP uses cookies for a number of purposes, for instance to enable us to simplify the logging on process for registered users, to help ensure the security and authenticity of registered users, target advertising, to provide the mechanisms for online shopping and to enable traffic monitoring.

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We use both session ID cookies and/or persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.

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Most browsers allow you to turn off the cookie function. If you want to know how to do this please look at the help menu on your browser. As described above this will restrict the online Mega CO-OP services you can use.

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Click here to opt-out of targeted advertising:
http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

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Clear Gifs (Web Beacons)

We use clear gifs on our sites from Google Analytics, Double Click DART and Quantcast and other 3rd party vendors. This enables us to gauge the effectiveness of our services and marketing programs and ad targeting.

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Mobile:

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Mobile Device Unique Identifier

When connecting to Mega CO-OP via a service provider that uniquely identifies your mobile device, Mega CO-OP may receive this identification and use it to offer extended services and/or functionality. Certain Mega CO-OP services may require our collection of your phone number. We may associate that phone number to the mobile device identification information. However, we will not use that phone number or share your number for the use of telemarketing.

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Physical Location

When you download our mobile applications, Mega CO-OP obtains your consent to use information for pinpointing technology such as GPS and cell tower information. Mega Foods may use and store this information, in combination with other location-based information such as IP address, billing postal code provided by your carrier or registration location, to provide enhanced location based services, serve location-targeted advertising, search results, and other content.

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Security

The security of your personal information is very important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Once we received the data it is immediately re-encrypted prior to storage. By default, payment card data is permanently destroyed within 91 days of submission.

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We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

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Changes in this Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here.