Restaurant
Listings is committed to protecting consumer privacy online. We believe that
greater protection of personal privacy on the web will not only protect consumers,
but also increase consumer confidence and ultimately their participation in
online activities. At Restaurant Listings we intend to give you as much control
as possible over your personal information.
The
purpose of our policy is to inform you about the types of information we gather
about you when you visit our site(s), how we may use that information, whether
we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and
your ability to correct, the information. By your use of our site(s) you signify
your assent to this privacy policy. If you do not assent to this privacy policy,
you are not permitted to use our site(s). By your use of our site(s) following
posted changes to this privacy policy, you signify your assent to those changes.
Our
site(s) may contain links to other web sites, including web sites directed
to children. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content
of any of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors or other sites to which
we provide links from our sites. You should check the applicable privacy policy
of the web site sponsor when linking to other web sites.
I.
Information Which We Collect
We
may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information, including
your e-mail address, postal address, home or work telephone number, credit
card number (only if you choose to purchase a product online), for purposes
such as correspondence, making a purchase, or participating in online contests,
surveys or games. If you choose to give us personal information via the Internet
that we or our business partners may need -- to correspond with you, process
an order or provide you with a subscription, for example -- it is our intent
to let you know how we will use such information.
Like
many other commercial sites, our site(s) may utilize a standard technology
called a "cookie" to collect information about how our site is used. Cookies
were designed to help a web site recognize a user's browser as a previous
visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set
while the user was browsing the site. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data
from your hard drive, pass on a computer virus, or capture your e-mail address.
Our web site(s) may use cookies to enhance your visit. Cookies can securely
store a user's password, personalize home pages, identify which parts of a
site have been visited or keep track of selections, such as those selected
in a "shopping cart." Our cookies may collect your domain name and track your
selections through our web pages. We only use "cookies" to gather the information
indicated in this policy and do not use cookies to gather personal identifying
information about you without your consent.
We
also use cookies in connection with our chat rooms in order to record your
preferences. These cookies automatically store information pertaining to the
last chat room you visited, as well as certain comments that can be issues
in the chat room, in order to facilitate your experience with the chat rooms.
No additional identifying information is stored on these cookies. You also
have the option of choosing to allow us to use a cookie to store your username,
or "handle" and password on your computer for use in that chat rooms, forums
and other sites as indicated on the particular site.
We
may require you to supply us with personal information (demographic information
such as average age, income, education, population data, zip codes) during
a "registration" process online prior to using certain features of our site.
For example, you may be required to register to use chat rooms, forums, to
access archival stories, to subscribe to newspapers, and to access other features.
We use this general information to aggregate information according to demographics,
such as gender, geographic location, age, income or a combination of these
or other demographics.
In
addition, users may complete a subscription form online in order to subscribe
to any of our affiliate news sites. To subscribe, users must submit personal
information in order for us to send the newspaper to you.
II.
Use of User Information
We
may perform statistical analyses of aggregate user behavior. This allows us
to measure relative consumer interest in the various areas of our web sites
for product development purposes. Any information we collect is used for its
own internal purposes to improve the content of the web sites, to enhance
users' experiences when visiting our site(s), to customize the content and/or
layout of our pages, and to provide the services required by an individual
user. We do not use personal identifying information for any reason that is
not disclosed either in this Policy or at the time the information is requested.
We never send e-mail to you unless you request a particular service, or consent
to being contacted by e-mail. There are instances where you will have the
opportunity to subscribe to an e-mail list that will send information about
the site or our advertisers to your e-mail address, but this will be done
only with your permission and consent.
III. Disclosure to Third Parties
We
do not share personal identifying information with any third party without
your permission. We disclose only in aggregate form our statistical analyses
or demographics of users to third parties, such as advertisers or other business
partners. In some instances, we operate shared web sites with businesses affiliated
with us. Our privacy policy will apply to these web sites, and our affiliates
adhere to our privacy policy and will not share personal information with
any third party without your permission. PLEASE BE AWARE that when you voluntarily
disclose personal information (such as your name, e-mail address) in chat
areas or bulletin boards to third parties, that information may be collected
by others outside the control of us and may result in unsolicited messages
from others.
IV.
Compliance with Legal Process
We
may disclose personal information in special cases when we believe that disclosing
information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against
someone who may be causing injury to or interference with our site(s), other
users of our site(s), anyone else who could be harmed by such activities,
or where we are required to do so by court order to applicable law. We reserve
the right to disclose personal information when we believe, in good faith,
that the law requires it.
V. Accuracy of User Information
In
order to ensure the accuracy of personal information provided for registration,
you may return to the registration form online in order to change information
you have provided at any time. To the extent that such information is also
stored in other databases, we cannot always ensure that such correction or
deletion will reach the other databases. We will use all reasonable efforts
to ensure that your information is removed from or is correct in our records.
VI.
Security of Information
We
use our best efforts to ensure the security of personal information submitted
by users. When collecting credit card information for online purchases, we
offer secured-server transactions that encrypt your information in transit
to thwart someone from intercepting it and misusing it. When we collect other
information from our users, it is stored in an area where the general public
does not have access to it.
VII. Contacting
Us; Opting-out
Questions
regarding our privacy policy, the accuracy of your personal information or
the use of the information collected should be directed via e-mail to info@RestaurantListings.com
We
reserve the right to change this policy at any time, and will post notice
of such changes on a page of the site entitled "Legal Notice".
At
any time while assessing our site(s), any user while online may "opt-out"
of further e-mail contact from us (while still allowing access to our site(s)).
For further information about opting-out, contact us at the e-mail address
VIII. Use of Materials
The
right to download and store or output the materials in our site(s) is granted
for the user's personal use only, and materials may not be reproduced in any
edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance, display or
editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without the
express written permission of us is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to
obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on these
sites may contact us at using the contact information in Section VII.