High, provisions that significantly limit your legal rights, authorize broad data collection, or create material financial exposure. Medium, provisions worth knowing about but with partial protections or limited scope. Low, standard terms with minimal consumer impact.
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score. Computed algorithmically from McDonald's’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
Withdrawal results in the permanent loss of all accumulated rewards value, creating a significant consequence for users who choose to leave the program.
This right allows users to prevent two distinct forms of commercial use of their personal information: sale-equivalent disclosure and behavioral advertising data sharing.
Users have a cost-free escalation path to an independent third-party body when their DPF-related concerns remain unresolved.
This provision establishes that accountability for DPF compliance does not automatically end when McDonald's transfers data to vendors, and creates a rebuttable liability standard.
Users can exercise data sale and sharing opt-out rights automatically through browser-level signals without taking manual steps on McDonald's platform.
This document explains how McDonald's collects your personal information — including your location, your activity on other websites, and data from outside sources — and uses it to send you …
These terms set the rules for using McDonald's website, app, and other online services — you must be at least 18, and McDonald's can change or shut down those services, …
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ConductAtlas tracks 2 McDonald's documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
McDonald's has made 1 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 27 provisions across McDonald's's tracked documents. 1 are rated high severity, 19 medium, and 7 low.
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