Privacy Policy

TOP Food & Drug’s pledge to you

You have our word that the information gathered through this site will only be used on behalf of giving you, our valued guest, our very best. We will hold all such information in the strictest of confidence, even within TOP Food & Drug, and pledge never to provide your name, address, or purchase information to anyone. We guarantee it!

Privacy policy for TOP-foods.com

Since 1933, our business philosophy has been to best serve the wants and needs of our guests. The Internet is just one more way for us to serve you. TOP Food & Drug understands that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will use the information wisely and legitimately.

Why do we need personal information from you?

The information you provide helps us understand your preferences, so we can personalize and continually improve your online experience (see examples below). If at any time you would like us to cancel your registration, please contact us at 1-877-TOP-3850. Inactive accounts are automatically purged after one year.

Methods of gathering information

  • Information from you - This information comes directly from what you enter during registration for the TOP Connection. The information you provide is used for creating personal shopping lists, detailing what's on sale in your TOP Food & Drug store, and sending you information according to your personal preferences. You also have easy access to change your TOP-foods.com services, which adds value and convenience to your shopping experience.
  • Email communications - When you register for a service that we offer, we store your information in an electronic database, which is for TOP Food & Drug’s use only. If at any time you do not want to receive our emails, please adjust your preferences in My Account.
  • Cookies - Whenever you interact on our site, we receive and store certain information. This is done through Internet "cookies," which allow you to take advantage of some of our best features. We do NOT use cookies to examine your surfing behavior before or after leaving the TOP Food & Drug web site.

Why does TOP-foods.com use Internet cookies?

  • Internet cookies allow the web site to identify your moves throughout the TOP-foods.com web site. This allows us to personalize content and services to you.
  • Internet cookies allow you to take advantage of all the features TOP-foods.com offers.
  • An Internet cookie is a text file placed on your computer by TOP-foods.com. It cannot transmit a virus or do damage to your system and will not contain any of your personal information.

In what ways does TOP-foods.com share the information that it receives?

  • Crew Members - Access to guest information is limited to crew members who need it in order to serve guests or maintain our information systems. All crew members are subject to our company Privacy Policy. We have a Privacy Committee that periodically reviews access, system safeguards, and company policies.
  • Vendor Partners - We may provide purchase information to our vendor partners in aggregate form (i.e., customer non-specific) in order to bring you special offers on products and services. We may also provide a list of names and addresses to a mail house so that they can send a direct mail offer from us to you. The mail house would be required to sign a strict Nondisclosure Agreement, which prohibits them from disclosing the information to anyone else.
  • Other situations - We may release guest information when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law, enforce our legal rights; or to protect our guests or us. We may also release your information if you request or authorize us to do so.

How secure is information about me?

  • We make every effort to ensure that your personal information, including your credit card number, is protected while you are on our site. Our web site uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption so that your personal information cannot be read as it passes over the Internet. A padlock appears in the corner of your web browser when you are using SSL encryption.
  • Remember to keep your email address and password secure. Also, be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

What information can I access about myself?

TOP-foods.com gives you access to your record for updating information and for viewing it. All of the information you've shared with us is available to you only, through My Account. Please review your profile on a regular basis and up-date it so we can serve you better.

Who can use TOP-foods.com?

Everyone! All of the content contained on TOP-foods.com is suitable for people of all ages.

Privacy Policy last updated August 2008