Privacy Policy
Restauranteers is committed to protecting your privacy when visiting Restauranteers.com. To better protect your privacy, we provide this “Privacy Policy,” which explains our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way information you submit to us through Restauranteers.com is collected, used and/or disclosed.

BY ACCESSING OR USING THE RESTAURANTEERS.COM WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AS WELL AS TO OUR WEBSITE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, OR TO ALL OF OUR WEBSITE TERMS OF USE, PLEASE EXIT THIS PAGE AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE RESTAURANTEERS.COM WEBSITE. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE RESTAURANTEERS.COM WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR EXPRESS CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR “PERSONAL INFORMATION” ACCORDING TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

1.  Revisions to Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision at our discretion. Should we make any substantial changes as to how we use your Personal Information, we will post an alert on this page or may otherwise post an alert on the Restauranteers blog, located at http://blog.restauranteers.com/blog/. If you object to any such changes, you must immediately stop using Restauranteers.com. Continued use of Restauranteers.com following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of the changes and your agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of the changes.

2.  Collection of Personal Information

Non-Personally Identifiable Information
When visiting Restauranteers.com, “Non-Personally Identifiable Information” can be tracked on our site. Non-Personally Identifiable Information is information this is not associated with or linked to you personally and does not permit the identification of individual persons. This could include the IP address used to access our website, the dates and times of your access and the URL of our website before and after you access it. This Information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movement and gather demographic information. We and authorized third party service providers may automatically collect this Information when visiting our website through the use of electronic tools, as described in Section 6.

Personally Identifiable Information
When you engage in certain activities at Restauranteers.com, such as signing-up for a contest, answering survey questions or adding a comment to a post, you are providing Personally Identifiable Information. Personally Identifiable Information is information about you that is personally identifiable, such as your name, email address, user ID number and other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing. We use this Information to better serve you, such as by enhancing our marketing and promotional efforts, improving the usability of our website, tailoring our product offerings and administering contests.

We may provide areas on our website where you can publicly contribute Information about yourself, restaurants and food. This Information may be accessible by other consumers and companies and may appear on other websites or web searches.

When you sign up with your email address on our website, you will have the option to opt-in to our mail list for weekly email updates and special offers. If at a later date you wish not to receive promotional emails, please click the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email.

3.  Release of Personal Information
We will not share any Personal Information with other parties except as follows:

• We may share your Information with authorized third party service providers. These third party service providers perform functions on our behalf such as sending promotional emails or administering contest prizes.
• We may share Non-Personally Identifiable Information with partners, affiliates and advertisers. For example, we may share aggregated demographic information with third party advertisers or with potential Restauranteers merchants.
• We may share your Information with third parties if required to do so by law, or if we believe that such action is necessary to (i) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process served upon us; (ii) protect or defend our legal rights or property, the Restauranteers.com website, or our users; or (iii) investigate, prevent or take action in response to illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person or violations of the terms and conditions for using the Restauranteers.com website.

Please contact us at contact@restauranteers.com if you would like to change or update your Personally Identifiable Information. Please include your name, email address and the Information you would like to change.

4. Children
Protecting the privacy of children is important to us. Accordingly, we do not intentionally collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18, and no part of the Restauranteers.com website is designed to attract anyone under the age of 18; nor does Restauranteers.com permit anyone under the age of 18 to use its website. By using Restauranteers.com, you are representing that you are at least 18 years old.

5. Security
The security of your Personal Information is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting the Information we collect. While no company, including us, can fully eliminate security risks, we have implemented significant industry-standard security technologies and procedures to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use and disclosure.

6. Google AdSense and the DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a third party advertisement vendor, uses “Cookies” to serve ads on this site. Cookies are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a website. In particular, Google uses DART Cookies to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website, as well as to other sites on the internet.
To opt-out of the DART Cookies, you may visit the GoogleAd and content network privacy policy at the following URL: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. Tracking of users through the use of DART Cookies is subject to Google’s own privacy policies.
Other third party ad servers or ad networks may also use Cookies to track users’ activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies. Restauranteers.com has no access or control over Cookies that may be used by third party advertisers.

7. Links to Third Party Websites
We have included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own.

8. Contact
If you have any questions concerning this Privacy Policy, we encourage you to contact us at contact@restauranteers.com.

Last updated: December 17th, 2010