McDonald's Corporation and Ronald McDonald House Charities of North Carolina Internet Site Privacy Policy

McDonald's Corporation ("McDonald's") and Ronald McDonald House Charities of North Carolina (RMHC of NC) are pleased to provide information to all of its visitors about its web sites. We want to make our sites as helpful as possible while respecting your privacy. Please be assured that McDonald's and RMHC of NC uses its best efforts to protect the privacy of its on-line visitors. We use "cookies" (i.e. pieces of information that a web site transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes) only to obtain non-personal information in order to improve your on-line experience. For example, as most web sites do, we track the total number of visitors to our site on an anonymous aggregate basis. We do not associate cookie information with personal information.

McDonald's/RMHC of NC only gathers personally identifiable data, such as first and last names, addresses and email addresses when voluntarily submitted by a web site visitor. For example, personally identifiable information may be collected in order to respond to a request for information concerning a grant application. This information is used solely by McDonald's Corporation/RMHC of NC or other entities that provide technical or fulfillment services to us for internal purposes, like improving the site or to fulfill your requests; it is not sold or transferred to third parties. McDonald's/RMHC of NC does not send unsolicited email. McDonald's/RMHC of NC however, may respond to email it receives.

We may offer links to other sites. If you visit one of these linked sites, you should review their  privacy policy and other policies. We are not responsible for the policies of other companies.

McDonald's and RMHC of NC reserve the right to use or disclose any information as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request, to protect the integrity of the site, to fulfill your requests, or to cooperate in any law enforcement investigation or an investigation on a matter of public safety.

From time to time, it may be necessary for McDonald's to change this privacy policy, so we suggest that you check here periodically. Rest assured however, that any changes will not be retroactively applied and will not alter how we handle previously collected information.