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Menu Venue - Privacy Policy

MenuVenue
LLC understands the need to maintain privacy when using the Internet for communication,
shopping, exploration and play. Please note that each particular web site operated
by MenuVenue LLC (including www.menuvenue.com , www.menuvenue.net , and www.menuvenue.us)
may have particular privacy policies that apply only to that web site. Therefore,
please refer to those individual web sites for their unique privacy policies.
MenuVenue.com
Privacy Policy
The MenuVenue.com
business ("MenuVenue.com") has created this privacy policy to demonstrate
our firm commitment to protecting your personal information and informing you
about how we handle it. This privacy policy only applies to transactions and
activities in which you engage ("Transactions"), and data gathered,
on the MenuVenue.com web site (the "Site") and does not apply to any
other web site or offline point of contact between MenuVenue.com, or any other
company, and consumers. Please review this privacy policy periodically as we
may modify it from time to time. This privacy policy was last revised on July
30, 2002. Each time you visit the Site or provide us with information, by doing
so you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy at that
time.
Your
IP Address
Like most
e-commerce websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically collect
your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer
and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use
your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information
about you.
Cookies
Like most
websites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and other activity
on the Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We also use cookies to
deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password, and if you
choose, to save other personal and financial information so you do not have
to re-enter it each time you visit the Site. Third parties advertisers on the
Site may also place cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable these cookies,
the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how.
However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to
access certain areas or features of the Site.
Information
We Collect From You
In order
to operate the Site and provide you with information on products and services
that may be of interest to you, we may collect personal information (i.e. information
that could be used to contact you such as full name, postal address, phone number
and email address), demographic information (e.g. zip code, hometown, gender,
purchase history information and age), public information such as user ratings
and reviews and a user name from you. Please note that nowhere on the Site do
we knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.
Information
Other Web Sites Collect From You
On the
Site, we place links to other web sites operated by other parties. Some of these
other web sites contain our brand names and trademarks and other intellectual
property that we own; others do not. When you click on these links and visit
these other web sites, regardless of whether or not they contain our brand names,
trademarks and other intellectual property, you need to be aware that we do
not control these other web sites or these other web sites' business practices,
and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other web sites. Consequently,
the operators of these other web sites may collect different kinds of information
about you, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than
we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage you to review their
privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.
How
We Use Personal Information
We use
your personal information to help us efficiently perform Transactions on the
Site, to contact you when necessary in connection with Transactions, and to
send you information, offers and other promotional materials for MenuVenue's
goods or services. We carefully select the information we send to you and attempt
to send you offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers
or special event information. The Site provides you with the option of declining
to receive offers from MenuVenue.com by "opting-out" of receiving
this type of communication.
To process
Transactions on the Site, we may share your personal information with our agents,
representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with
support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, order fulfillment
and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We require these entities not to
use your information for any other purpose.
By purchasing
or making reservations for products or services, electing to receive communications
(such as emails), or electing to participate in programs (such as discount or
rewards programs), offered by third parties on the Site, you consent to our
providing your personal information to those third parties.
Your personal
information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of
ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy, of MenuVenue.com. We may also disclose
specific information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to
comply with applicable law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect
the interests or safety of MenuVenue.com or other visitors to the Site. We also
may disclose your personal information to our subsidiary and parent companies
and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom
we are under common corporate control. However, all of these parent, subsidiary
and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive your personal information
from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with respect to their
use and disclosure of such personal information.
Any third
party with whom we are allowed to share your personal information is authorized
to use your personal information in accordance with our contractual arrangements
with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over
which we have no control. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly
by you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by
them.
Please
read the information below under the heading "How We Use Public Information,
Reviews, Ratings and User Names" to learn how we may make some of your
personal information accessible to the public via the Site or via other means.
How
We Use Financial Information
We use
your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you for products
and services and to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and similar
programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a purchase, or engaging
in any other kind of Transaction that uses financial information, on the Site,
you consent to our providing your financial information to our service providers
and to such third parties as we determine is necessary to process your Transactions,
as well as to your credit card issuer for their purposes. These third parties
may include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process
the Transaction. By purchasing products or services of third parties offered
on the Site, or by participating in programs offered on the Site that are administered
by third parties and that require you to submit financial information in order
to use them, you also consent to our providing your financial information to
those third parties. Any of these various third parties are authorized to use
your financial information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with
such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which
we have no control.
How
We Use Demographic Information and Saved Listings
We use
demographic information and Saved Listings to tailor the Site and communications
to the interests of our users. We may share demographic information and Saved
Listings with advertisers and other third parties ("Sponsors") so
that they can tailor their advertisements and communications to the appropriate
audience. If you consent to have us share your personal information as described
above, then the demographic information and Saved Listings that we provide to
Sponsors may be linked to your personal information so that Sponsors will be
able to know about your demographic information and will also know what your
Saved Listings are. If you do not consent to have us share your personal information
as described above, then we will only provide your demographic information and
Saved Listings to Sponsors on an anonymous and aggregated basis.
How
We Use Public Information, Reviews, Ratings and User Names
When you
register on the Site, you must enter a user name. You will also be given the
chance to designate certain of your personal information and other information
as "public" or "private." You may change these public/private
designations in the Edit My Profile section of the Site. The Site provides you
with the opportunity to give user reviews and ratings for restaurants, hotels,
bars, events and other items. Your user name and public information may appear
next to your user reviews and ratings as they are posted on the Site. Your user
name and public information may also appear on a User Profile section of the
Site. Please note that if you designate your email address as "public"
information, then other Site visitors may see your email address and send you
emails. We may also use and disclose your user name, public information and
reviews and ratings in any other manner. To read further details about how we
may use your user name, public information and reviews, see our Terms of Use.
Our
Security Precautions, Location of Information
The Site
has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration
of the information under our control. Your information may be transferred to
and maintained on computer networks which may be located outside of the state,
province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and
the countries in which these computer networks are located may not have privacy
laws as protective as the laws in your country.
How
You Can Access and Update Your Email Preferences, Personal Information and Public/Private
Designations
When you
provide personal information to the Site, you must enter a user name. You may
also be given the chance to designate certain of your personal information and
other information as "public" or "private" and to opt-out
of receiving certain communications from us and third parties, as described
above. We also give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications
and/or modify personal information you have provided to us, or to change public/private
designations, at anytime by clicking on the My Profile link, then clicking on
the Edit My Profile link and selecting those portions of your profile you would
like to update. Please be aware that it may take several hours for the changes
you make to your public information or your public/private information designations
to take affect on the public areas of the Site. We thank you for your patience.
Please
note that changing or deleting your information through Edit My Profile, or
otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications from MenuVenue.com will
only change or delete the data in our My Profile database for purposes of future
Transactions on the Site and for managing future communications from MenuVenue.com.
These changes and deletions will not change or delete information that we may
have already forwarded to credit card companies or any other third parties,
all as provided above in this privacy policy.
If you
have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices of the
Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can contact us at legal@MenuVenue.com.
You can also send us mail to: Privacy Officer, MenuVenue.com, c/o Legal Department,
P.O. Box 600801 Dallas, Texas 75360
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