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Constellation Brands

Consumer Staples

43

out of 100. Number 270 of 512, counting from the worst.

  • Arbitration 14 of 20, bad
  • Renewals 0 of 20, good
  • Data sharing 9 of 20
  • Price & terms 8 of 15
  • Data retention 7 of 15
  • Other findings 5 of 10

Where Constellation Brands does well

  • Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
  • There are no subscriptions or auto-renew products at all — nothing to be trapped by (autorenew 0/20).
  • A 30-day arbitration opt-out exists, which many consumer sites do not offer.
  • The legacy IR privacy policy was bluntly consumer-friendly: 'Is Your Personal Information Shared? No.' and the email-alerts page states 'We do not sell, rent, or loan any information to any third party.' Marketing data is deleted on request, and the company states it does not knowingly sell or share personal information of consumers under 16.

Simply using the Constellation Brands website signs you up for mandatory individual arbitration — you give up your right to sue in court, join a class action, or get a jury trial.

The fine print

6 clauses and findings from the draft archive, dated 1 October 2026. The plain English comes first; the small print is the company's own words. None of these has been checked yet.

  1. Simply using the Constellation Brands website signs you up for mandatory individual arbitration — you give up your right to sue in court, join a class action, or get a jury trial. This is aggressive for a beer/wine company website.

    THIS USER AGREEMENT CONTAINS AN ARBITRATION AGREEMENT THAT REQUIRES YOU TO ARBITRATE ANY DISPUTES YOU HAVE WITH CONSTELLATION BRANDS, A CLASS ACTION WAIVER THAT WAIVES THE ABILITY TO BRING CLAIMS AGAINST CONSTELLATION BRANDS IN A CLASS ACTION, AND A WAIVER TO A TRIAL BY JURY.

    User Agreement (mirrored copy, Effective Date: June 1, 2025)

  2. The only way to keep your right to sue is a physical mailed letter with your full personal details and signature, sent within 30 days of your first visit. There is no online or email opt-out.

    Opt-out. If you do not want to be bound by this binding arbitration provision and class action waiver, you must notify us within 30 days of the date that you first use the Website or otherwise accept or receive this User Agreement by sending a written notification to Constellation Brands, Inc. at 50 E. Broad St., Rochester, NY 14614, Attn: Legal Department that includes your actual name, address, telephone number, email address, signature, and a clear statement that you do not wish to resolve disputes with us through arbitration.

    User Agreement (mirrored copy, Effective Date: June 1, 2025)

  3. No matter what goes wrong — including harm from products or offers found through the site — the most you can recover is $100, and the company's position is that your only real remedy is to stop visiting.

    TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF COMPANY AND COMPANY PARTIES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THIS USER AGREEMENT, THE WEBSITE OR YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE... SHALL NOT EXCEED US$ 100.00. ... TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOUR SOLE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE WEBSITE IS TO CEASE ALL OF YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE.

    User Agreement (mirrored copy, Effective Date: June 1, 2025)

  4. The company says it doesn't 'sell' data in the traditional sense, but it admits its disclosures for targeted/cross-context advertising count as a 'sale' or 'share' under California law — which triggers your opt-out rights.

    We do not sell your CA Personal Information as that term is traditionally understood. However, some of our disclosures of CA Personal Information may be considered a 'sale' or 'share' as those terms are defined under California Privacy Law. Under California Privacy Law a 'sale' is broadly defined to include a disclosure for something of value, and a 'share' is broadly defined under to include a disclosure for cross-context behavioural advertising.

    Privacy Notice (mirrored copy, Effective Date: June 1, 2025)

  5. The company can rewrite the terms whenever it wants without notifying you directly — just posting changes on the page is enough, and continuing to visit means you've agreed to them.

    We may change, add, or remove portions of this User Agreement at any time. We will post those changes on this page or otherwise as required by applicable law. If you do not agree to the changes we have made, please cease use of the Website. Your use of the Website after the effective date of any such change constitutes your acceptance of the applicable changes.

    User Agreement (mirrored copy, Effective Date: June 1, 2025)

  6. Marketing data is kept until you unsubscribe; everything else is kept for as long as the company deems 'necessary' with no fixed time limit. If you ask to be deleted but later interact with their site or brands again, your data collection starts over.

    We typically retain Personal Information related to marketing activities for as long as you accept marketing communications from us, and upon request we will securely delete such information in accordance with applicable law. To the extent you have asked for your Personal Information to be deleted, but then you subsequently interact with our Services or request to receive marketing communications again, at that point we will start processing your Personal Information again. For Personal Information that we collect and process for other purposes described above, we typically retain such Personal Information for no longer than for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice and as otherwise needed to address our legal rights and obligations.

    Privacy Notice (mirrored copy, Effective Date: June 1, 2025)

How these were found

Live www.cbrands.com and ir.cbrands.com legal pages are JavaScript-rendered (Shopify) and returned near-empty content to the text fetcher, so verbatim text was verified via search-engine snippets of the company's official staging/test mirror (cbrands-test.cbrands.com), which hosts identical copies of the User Agreement and Privacy Notice dated Effective June 1, 2025. URLs given are the mirrors actually read. The legacy IR privacy policy (http://ir.cbrands.com/privacy-policy) appears to be an older, simpler document. Constellation Brands is a beer/wine/spirits company with minimal consumer data collection (no accounts/subscriptions), so scores are modest by design; the User Agreement applies to the corporate/brand websites, not in-store alcohol purchases.

These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.