DenverGRUB.com Privacy Policy
YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS:
The DenverGRUB.com business ("DenverGRUB.com") has created this privacy
policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your profile 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 DenverGRUB.com web site (the "Site") and
does not apply to any other web site or offline point of contact between DenverGRUB.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 March 16, 2006. 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 may use cookies to keep track of your clicks 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 that advertise
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 profile information
(i.e. information that could be used to contact you such as full name, postal
address, phone number and email address), financial information (e.g. passwords
and credit card numbers), 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 profile information from children under the age
of 13. The Site also provides you with the opportunity to save, in a personal
account, restaurant listings, event listings and other information you view
on the Site. A collection of such listings and other information that is so
saved in a personal account is referred to elsewhere in this privacy policy
as "Saved Listings."
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 profile 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 DenverGRUB.com's
or third parties' 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 DenverGRUB.com by "opting-out"
of receiving this type of communication.
To process Transactions on the Site, we may share your profile 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 magazine subscriptions), or electing
to participate in contests, sweepstakes, or other programs (such as discount
or rewards programs), offered by third parties on the Site, you consent to our
providing your profile information to those third parties. Those third parties
may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
You will need to contact those third parties to instruct them directly regarding
your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally,
you agree that we will have the right to use and disclose all such information
you submit in the same manner in which we use and disclose all other information
you submit.
Your profile information may be passed on to a third party in the event of
a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy, of DenverGRUB.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 DenverGRUB.com or other visitors to the
Site. We also may disclose your profile 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 profile
information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with respect
to their use and disclosure of such profile information.
Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your profile information
is authorized to use your profile 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, and you agree that we are not responsible
or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Those who contact you will
need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use
of your profile 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 profile 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, or making reservations for,
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, and you that
we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions.
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 profile information as described
above, then the demographic information and Saved Listings that we provide to
Sponsors may be linked to your profile 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 profile 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 profile 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.
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 profile information to the Site, you must enter a user name.
You may also be given the chance to designate certain of your profile 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 profile 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.
After you submit personal information in connection with purchasing or reserving
products or services, electing to receive communications or electing to participate
in contests, sweepstakes, or other programs (such as discount or rewards programs),
offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, we may use such information
to send you marketing emails. However, if we do so, we will provide a link that
you can click on to opt-out of receiving subsequent marketing emails generated
from the same such information. In many cases we will also provide opt-in boxes
so that you can indicate your preferences before receiving marketing emails.
Please note that changing or deleting your information through Edit My Profile,
or otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications from DenverGRUB.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
DenverGRUB.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@denvergrub.com.
You can also send us mail to: Privacy Officer, Legal Department, DenverGRUB.com,
1020 15th Street - Suite 270 - Denver, CO 80202.