McCormick & Company
Consumer Staples
41
out of 100. Number 289 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where McCormick & Company does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration: unlike most consumer brands, McCormick's Terms do not force disputes into arbitration — you can still go to court, just not as a class.
- The Privacy Notice honors the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal and offers a 'Your Privacy Choices' opt-out of sales/sharing.
- McCormick states it does not knowingly sell or share personal information of individuals under 16, uses sensitive personal information only for purposes expressly permitted by California law, and commits to not discriminating against consumers who exercise their privacy rights.
- No consumer subscription, loyalty scheme, or auto-renewal program exists in its public terms, so there are no cancellation-trap mechanics for this brand.
You cannot join a class action or representative lawsuit against McCormick over its digital services, and you lose the right to sue entirely if you wait more than one year after a dispute arises (shorter than many states' statutes of limitations). There is no forced arbitration, but you must sue individually, in Maryland courts only.
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.
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You cannot join a class action or representative lawsuit against McCormick over its digital services, and you lose the right to sue entirely if you wait more than one year after a dispute arises (shorter than many states' statutes of limitations). There is no forced arbitration, but you must sue individually, in Maryland courts only.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU AGREE THAT ANY CLAIM, CAUSE OF ACTION, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ... MUST BE FILED WITHIN ONE YEAR AFTER SUCH DISPUTE AROSE. YOU AGREE THAT YOU MAY BRING DISPUTES ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.
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McCormick can change the terms whenever it wants with no promise of email or direct notice — changes take effect the moment they are posted, and simply continuing to use the site counts as your agreement to them.
McCormick has the right at any time to revise and to otherwise modify this Agreement, and to impose new or additional terms or conditions (collectively, 'Additional Terms') on your use of the Digital Services. Such Additional Terms are effective immediately and are incorporated into this Agreement when posted by McCormick to the Digital Services. Use of the Digital Services following such notice indicates your acceptance of all such Additional Terms.
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Rate a spice, leave a review, or post a recipe photo and McCormick gets a permanent, irrevocable, worldwide license to use it for any purpose — including advertising — without paying you or even crediting you, and they can sub-license it to others.
by submitting such Feedback, you grant McCormick a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual license to display, publish, disclose, use, reproduce, edit, modify, market ... for any or all commercial or non-commercial purposes ... with or without attribution to you or any other party. (The same grant applies to all user-generated Content such as photos and posts.)
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McCormick openly admits it 'sells' and 'shares' your data — your identity, location, shopping behavior, and inferred cooking preferences — to ad partners, sponsors, and social media companies for marketing and ad personalization, even when no money changes hands. An opt-out exists but is not the default.
We disclose certain personal information in exchange for services, insights, or other valuable consideration. The recipients include business partners (such as ad partners, sponsors, joint marketing partners, advertisers, social media companies, and analytics providers). California law treats such disclosures as 'sales' even if no money is exchanged. We 'sell' or 'share' the following categories ... for marketing, advertising, and personalization: Identifiers; Demographics; Location Information; Information Included in Your Interactions with Us; Commercial Information; Information About Web and Application Activities; Inferences Regarding Preferences or Other Characteristics.
McCormick Privacy Notice — (US notice, via crawled snapshot)
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No concrete deletion timeline: McCormick keeps your data for an undefined 'period after our relationship has ended' plus for legal defense and 'internal uses' as allowed by law. A deletion right exists for Californians, but the notice caveats that it 'may be permitted to retain personal information for certain purposes.'
We will retain your information while we have a relationship with you, as necessary to accomplish the purpose for which it is processed, and for a period after our relationship with you has ended. ... We may also retain personal information to investigate or defend against potential legal claims in accordance with the limitation periods of countries where legal action may be brought, and for internal uses, as allowed by law.
McCormick Privacy Notice — (US notice, via crawled snapshot)
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Signing up for McCormick texts means agreeing to recurring autodialed marketing SMS that override your state or federal Do Not Call registration. Message frequency may vary, and you bear any carrier charges.
If you agree to send or receive SMS/text messages as part of our Digital Services, you agree to receive recurring SMS/text messages from and on behalf of McCormick, including SMS/text messages that may be sent using an automatic telephone dialing system, through your wireless provider at the mobile number you provided, even if your mobile number is registered on any state or federal Do Not Call list.
How these were found
Terms and Conditions of Use read in full via browser fetch on 2026-10-01 (https://www.mccormick.com/pages/terms-and-conditions, 'Last Updated: June 02, 2025'). The US Privacy Notice on mccormickprivacy.com is client-side rendered: locale notice URLs (e.g. /en-us/mccormick-for-chefs) redirect to the corporate responsibility page when fetched without JavaScript, so the live notice could not be read in full; privacy quotes below come from the search index's crawled snapshots of the official mccormickprivacy.com US notice (crawls ~91-139 days before 2026-10-01), not from a direct read — treat quote wording as close-verbatim rather than guaranteed verbatim. No consumer subscription, loyalty, or auto-renewal program could be found in McCormick's public terms (flavor-shop checkout is standard one-off purchase), hence 0 for auto-renew. Score reflects a consumer packaged-goods brand with no forced arbitration, but real data-selling disclosures and a sweeping content-license clause.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.