Welcome to Food Lion Weekly Deals (accessible at foodlionweeklydeals.us, hereinafter referred to as “the Website,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to safeguarding your personal privacy and providing complete transparency regarding the collection, use, and protection of information when you interact with our digital publication.

This Privacy Policy explains the specific data we collect, how third-party advertising partners (including Google AdSense) deploy cookies on this site, your legal rights under United States state privacy statutes (such as the California Consumer Privacy Act / CPRA and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act), international privacy frameworks (including GDPR), and how you can exercise full control over your personal data.

1. Third-Party Advertising & Google AdSense Policy Disclosure

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on foodlionweeklydeals.us, which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note: Food Lion Weekly Deals has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

2. Types of Information We Collect

We collect information in three ways: directly from your input, automatically through web server telemetry, and through third-party analytics tools:

A. Information Collected Automatically (Log Files & Telemetry)

Like standard websites, our hosting servers collect log file telemetry to ensure site stability, security, and load optimization. This data includes:

• Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (anonymized where applicable).
• Browser type, language preferences, and operating system.
• Internet Service Provider (ISP) network identifiers.
• Referring URLs, exit pages, date/time stamps, and clickstream sequences.

This data is not linked to any information that is personally identifiable and is used solely for analyzing aggregate trends and administering the site.

B. Browser Local Storage (Interactive Shopping List)

Our website provides an interactive “Shopping List” and “Deal Clipper” utility that allows visitors to save weekly ad deals during their browsing session. This feature relies entirely on your browser’s client-side localStorage API.

• Your shopping list data is stored exclusively on your personal device.
• It is never transmitted, processed, stored, or viewed on our web servers.
• You can erase this data at any time by clicking “Clear List” in the shopping drawer or clearing your browser cache.

C. Information You Provide Directly

When you contact our editorial team via email (contact@foodlionweeklydeals.us) or submit an inquiry through our contact form, we collect your name, email address, subject matter, and message content solely to investigate and respond to your inquiry.

3. Web Analytics & Cookie Management

We may employ standard privacy-conscious analytics tools (such as Google Analytics with IP anonymization enabled) to understand how readers interact with our supermarket savings guides. Cookies are small text files stored on your hard drive to assist in site navigation and usage measurement.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. Detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge).

4. California Privacy Rights (CCPA / CPRA Disclosures)

If you are a resident of California, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) grants you specific rights regarding your personal information:

• Right to Know: You have the right to request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal data we have collected about you over the past 12 months.
• Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete personal information collected from you, subject to legal exceptions.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you in any way for exercising your privacy rights.
• Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information: We do not sell personal information in exchange for monetary payment. However, because third-party ad networks (including Google AdSense) may track browsing behavior across different websites for targeted advertising, this may be considered “sharing” or “selling” under California law. You can opt out at any time via the opt-out links provided in Section 1 or by enabling Global Privacy Control (GPC) in your browser.

To submit a verifiable CCPA consumer request, please contact our privacy compliance desk at privacy@foodlionweeklydeals.us.

5. European Privacy Rights (GDPR & UK GDPR Compliance)

If you reside in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, you possess specific data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

• The right to access, rectify, or erase your personal data.
• The right to restrict or object to the processing of your personal information.
• The right to data portability.
• The right to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.

Our legal basis for processing non-sensitive telemetry is our legitimate interest in maintaining website security, preventing fraud, and delivering high-quality grocery consumer journalism.

6. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA Compliance)

Protecting the privacy of children is of paramount importance. foodlionweeklydeals.us is an informational website designed for adults and household grocery decision-makers. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

If a parent or guardian believes that our website has unintentionally collected personal data from a child under 13, please notify us immediately at privacy@foodlionweeklydeals.us, and we will promptly remove such records from our databases.

7. External Links & Non-Affiliation Declaration

Our website contains outbound hyperlinks to external web destinations, including official Food Lion digital portals (e.g., foodlion.com and ad.foodlion.com). Food Lion Weekly Deals does not control, supervise, or endorse the privacy practices of external third-party entities. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of every third-party website you visit.

8. Data Security & Storage Integrity

We implement industry-standard SSL/TLS (HTTPS) encryption across all web connections to protect user interactions from eavesdropping, interception, or unauthorized tampering. However, no data transmission across the Internet is guaranteed to be 100% secure.

9. Contacting Our Data Privacy Officer

If you have questions, comments, or formal privacy inquiries regarding this Privacy Policy or our compliance protocols, please reach out to our team: