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Wendy’s Cookies and Tracking Technologies Policy

Last Updated: 12/20/2019

We collect through our website (www.wendys.com) and our other related websites, mobile Wendy’s applications (“mobile apps”), services, tools, and other applications (collectively, the “Site”) information about your use of the Site. We, along with our advertising partners and vendors, use a variety of technologies to learn more about how people use the Site. You can find out more about these technologies and how to control them by reading this Cookies and Tracking

Technologies Policy (this “Policy”). This Policy forms part of the Wendy’s Privacy Policy. A reference to “Wendy’s,” “our,” “we,” or “us” includes Wendy’s International, LLC and each of its related, affiliated, parent or subsidiary companies.

Contents & Summary

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES, AND HOW WE USE THEM
YOUR COOKIE CHOICES AND HOW TO OPT-OUT
EXAMPLES OF COOKIES USED ON THE SITE
DEFINITIONS AND KEY TERMS
USE OF COOKIES BY OUR ADVERTISING PARTNERS
CONTACT US

1. Cookies and Other Technologies, and How We Use Them

Like many companies, we use cookies and other tracking technologies on the Site (hereinafter referred to as “Cookies”), including HTTP cookies, HTML5, web beacons/GIFs, embedded scripts, and e-tags/browser cache. See Section 4 (Definitions and Key Terms) for certain definitions and key terms used in this Policy.

We may use Cookies for a variety of purposes to enhance your online experience, for example, by remembering your log-in status and viewing preferences from a previous use of an online service, for when you later return to that online service.

In particular, the Site uses the following categories of Cookies and other tracking technologies:

Strictly Necessary Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: We may use Cookies or other tracking technologies required for system administration, to prevent fraudulent activity, improve security or allow you to make use of shopping cart functionality. We are not required to obtain your consent to Cookies or other tracking technologies that are strictly necessary.
Analytics and Performance-Related Cookies: We may use Cookies to assess the performance of the Site, including as part of our analytic practices to improve the content offered through the Site.
Functionality-Related Cookies: We may use Cookies to tell us, for example, whether you have visited the Site before or if you are a new visitor and to help us identify the features in which you may have the greatest interest.
Targeting-Related Cookies: We may use Cookies to deliver content, including ads, relevant to your interests on our online service and third-party sites based on how you interact with our advertisements or content or your geolocation/location. Further information about the use of Cookies by our advertising partners is set forth in Section 5 (Use of Cookies by our Advertising Partners) .

Your use of our services indicates your consent to our use of Cookies as described in this Policy. For further information about our use of Cookies and your opt-out choices, see Section 2 (Your Cookie Choices and How to Opt Out) . See Section 3 (Examples of Cookies Used on the Site) for examples of the types of cookie used on the Site.

You have the choice of whether to accept the use of Cookies, and we have explained how you can exercise your rights below.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept HTTP cookies. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, and how to disable existing cookies.

For more information about HTTP cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information provided at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

Controlling the HTML5 local storage on your browser depends on which browser you use. For more information regarding your specific browser, please consult the browser’s website (often in the Help section).

You may control the collection of usage data from our third party partners through www.aboutads.info/choices or through optout.networkadvertising.org.

For more information about local storage objects (“LSOs”), and how to disable them, you can consult the information provided at kb2.adobe.com/cps/526/52697ee8.html.

Please note, however, that without HTTP cookies and HTML5, you may not be able to take full advantage of all Site features and some parts of the Site may not function properly.

See Section 5 (Use of Cookies by our Advertising Partners) for further information about how to opt-out of advertising Cookies. Please note that rejecting Cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit the Site.

3. Examples of Cookies Used on the Site

The following table sets out some examples of the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Purpose: These cookies are required to operate our digital properties

Content: Stores session identifier

Expiry: Session cookie (expires when browser is closed)

Performance Cookies

Purpose: Cookies in this category enable Wendy’s to measure the performance of our digital properties

Content: Unique visitor ID time/date stamp

Expiry: Updated every page view

Functionality Cookies

Purpose: These cookies store user settings and preferences to enable functionality

Content: User entered zip code for locale search

Expiry: Session expires when browser is closed

Targeting Cookies

Company: Google

Purpose: Advertising cookies enable more precise ad delivery to our visitors

Content: Unique user identifier

Expiry: 2 years

More info: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/

4. Definitions and Key Terms

Cookies

A cookie (sometimes referred to as a local storage object or LSO) is a data file placed on a device. Cookies can be created through a variety of web-related protocols and technologies, such as HTTP (sometimes referred to as “browser cookies”), HTML5.

Web Beacons

Small graphic images or other web programming code called web beacons (also known as “1×1 GIFs” or “clear GIFs”) may be included in the Site pages and messages. Web beacons may be invisible to you, but any electronic image or other web programming code inserted into a page or e-mail can act as a web beacon.

Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to HTTP cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

Embedded Script

An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the online service, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your device from our web server or a third-party service provider, is active only while you are connected to the online service, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter.

ETag, or entity tag

A feature of the cache in browsers, an ETag is an opaque identifier assigned by a web server to a specific version of a resource found at a URL. If the resource content at that URL ever changes, a new and different ETag is assigned. Used in this manner, ETags are a form of device identifier. ETag tracking may generate unique tracking values even where the consumer blocks HTTP, Flash, and/or HTML5 cookies.

Unique Device Tokens

For each user that accepts push notifications in mobile apps, the app developer is provided with a unique device token (think of it as an address) from the app platform (e.g., Apple and Google).

Unique Device ID

The unique series of numbers and letters assigned to your device. This may also be referred to as your device’s advertising identifier.

5. Use of Cookies by Our Advertising

We provide the chart below as a courtesy, but we are not obligated to maintain or update it. We are not responsible for third-party sites and their privacy practices as it relates to opt-outs from tracking activities. The following third-parties that collect information from you on the Site have given us notice that you may obtain information on their policies and practices, and in some instances opt-out of certain of their activities, as follows:

Party: Google Analytics

Service: Google Analytics for Display Advertisers, Ads Preferences Manager, and Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

For More Information:

http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=2611283&answer=2700409
http://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/?hl=en&sig=ACi0TCg8VN3Fad5_pDOsAS8a4...
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Use of Tracking: Yes

Party: Apis.google.com

Service: Applications

For More Information: Google.com