Privacy Policy

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Effective date: January 1, 2023

This Website Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) sets out the manner in which Northwest Meat Company (“we”, “us” or “our”), as operator of https://chicagowholesalemeats.com (“Site”), will collect, use, disclose and otherwise manage the Personal Information of each user of the Site (referred to as “you”).

Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to your use of this Site only.

The Site may include links to third party websites. These linked websites have separate and independent privacy policies which we recommend you read carefully. We have no control over such websites and, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the manner in which the organizations that operate such linked websites may collect, use, disclose, or otherwise treat your personal information.

What is Personal Information?

“Personal Information” is information about an identifiable individual, or information that allows an individual to be identified. It includes, but is not limited to: first and last name, physical street address, telephone number, username and password, and e-mail address.

What is Non-Personal Information?

“Non-Personal Information” is information we collect about how you use our Site. This information cannot be used to identify you personally. This information may include, but is not limited to the following: IP address, browser type, the name of a user’s internet service provider (ISP), information about where a user comes from before arriving at our Site, what pages a user visits, the order of those pages, the geographic location of a user, and the amount of time spent on each page.

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Site and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Site.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

Collection of Personal and Non-Personal Information

You may visit the Site without providing any of your Personal Information to us. At this time, we collect Personal Information on the Site when submitted by you either through one of the Site’s contact forms, or when you create an account to place product orders.

We may also automatically collect Non-Personal Information related to your use of our Site (“usage data”). This usage data may include information such as: IP address, browser type, the name of a user’s internet service provider (ISP), information about where a user comes from before arriving at our Site, what pages a user visits, the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on each page, the geographic location of a user, and other diagnostic data.

We do not respond to web browser “do not track” or other related mechanisms at this time.

Use of Personal Information

Northwest Meat Company uses the collected Personal Information and Non-Personal Information for various purposes:

To provide and maintain our Site

  • To notify you about changes to our Site
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Site when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer support, such as responding to inquiries and/or fulfilling orders
  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Site
  • To monitor the usage of our Site
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

By providing Personal Information to Northwest Meat Company you agree and consent that we may use and disclose your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any other applicable legislation. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not provide your Personal Information to Northwest Meat Company. If you choose not to provide us with any required Personal Information, we may not be able to offer you those services.

We may use Personal Information you provide to us to identify who you are and to respond to the purpose for which you contacted us.

We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing and promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any or all of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link, instructions provided in any email we send, or by contacting us via the contact information provided in this Privacy Policy.

We may use and store information about your location (“Location Data”). We use this data to provide features of our Site, and to improve and customize our Site. You can enable or disable location services when you use our Site at any time, through your device settings.

We may disclose Personal Information to organizations that perform services on behalf of Northwest Meat Company. Personal Information will be provided solely for the purposes of providing services to Northwest Meat Company and under the instruction of Northwest Meat Company.

We may disclose Personal Information as part of the sale or transfer of some or all of our assets.

Please note that there are circumstances where the use and/or disclosure of Personal Information may be justified or permitted or where our business is obliged to disclose information without consent. Such circumstances include:

  • Where Northwest Meat Company is required by law or by order or by requirement of a court, administrative agency or other governmental tribunal to disclose certain information;
  • Where Northwest Meat Company believes, upon reasonable grounds, that disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of an identifiable person or group;
  • Where disclosure is necessary to permit Northwest Meat Company to pursue available remedies or limit any damages that Northwest Meat Company may sustain; or

Where obliged or permitted to disclose information without consent, Northwest Meat Company will not disclose more information than is required.

We keep track of the websites and pages our customers visit within the Site to determine what Northwest Meat Company services are most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Northwest Meat Company to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals, including but not limited to Google, to facilitate our Site, to maintain the Site on our behalf, to perform Site-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Site is used (“Service Providers”). These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf.

Google Ads

Google uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our Site or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and other websites on the internet. You may opt out of Google’s personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticatedhttps://adssettings.google.com/authenticated). You may also visit www.about.ads.infowww.about.ads.info to opt out of a third party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Site. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Site available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

Data Retention

We will retain your Personal Information only for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required for our legitimate business purposes or permitted by a law that applies to us.

Security of Personal Information

We make reasonable efforts to protect Personal Information that you submit over the Site from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, which may include the use of firewalls and other security measures on our servers. However, Northwest Meat Company does not warrant or represent that the level of security meets or exceeds any particular standard, and no server or internet transmission is ever 100% secure or error-free.

Children

Our Site does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

California Residents

California residents may request from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship (1) a list of categories of Personal Information, such as name, physical street address, e-mail address, and the type of services provided to the customer, that a business has disclosed to third parties during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes and (2) the names and addresses of all such third parties. To request the above information please contact us by writing to us via the contact information provided in this Privacy Policy. We will respond to such requests within 30 days of receipt.

Changes to Privacy Policy

Northwest Meat Company reserves the right to change or update this Privacy Policy at any time, and will notify users of our Site by posting such changed or updated Privacy Policy on this page. Any changes or updates will be effective immediately upon posting to the Site. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how Northwest Meat Company, uses, discloses and otherwise manages your personal information.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: andrew@chicagowholesalemeats.com
By visiting this page on our website: https://www.chicagowholesalemeats.com/contact-us/
By phone number: 312-733-1418
By mail: 351 N. Justine Street, Chicago, IL 60607