Privacy Policy

EFFECTIVE 02/07/21

This Privacy Policy describes the policies on the collection, use, and disclosure of information about you in connection with your use of RaineyStreetRestaurants.com or Rainey Street Restaurants, including services offered through our websites, communications, and mobile access of (collectively, the “Service”). The terms “we”, “us”, and “RaineyStreetRestaurants.com” and “Rainey Street Restaurants” refer to this website.

When you use the “Service” (access of RaineyStreetRestaurants.com), you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.

By visiting and interacting with RaineyStreetRestaurants.com, you may share certain information with us, as detailed below. We may share some of the information you share with us between our websites to provide you with the most relevant content and may use some of the information you share with us to serve the most relevant advertising.

BY INSTALLING, USING, REGISTERING TO, OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING ANY SERVICES OF, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, USE, AND PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT VISIT, USE, REGISTER TO, OR OTHERWISE ACCESS ANY SERVICES RELATED TO RAINEYSTREETRESTAURANTS.COM.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT

We may collect, transmit, and store information about you in connection with your use of the Service, including any information you send to or through the Service. We use that information to provide the Service’s functionality, fulfill your requests, improve the Service’s quality, engage in research and analysis relating to the Service, personalize your experience, track usage of the Service, provide feedback to third party businesses that are listed on the Service, display relevant advertising, market the Service, provide customer support, message you, back up our systems, allow for disaster recovery, enhance the security of the Service, and comply with legal obligations. Even when we do not retain such information, it still must be transmitted to our servers initially and stored long enough to process.

Please Consider:

  1. Public Content: Your contributions to the Service are intended for public consumption and are therefore viewable by the public, including your photos, ratings, reviews, tips, lists, collections, compliments, and comments.
  2. Communications: When you sign up to comment or use certain features, you are opting to post certain information to RaineyStreetRestaurants.com and the hosting servers for which it operates. For example, if you make a reservation, order food, place yourself on a waitlist, or request a quote from a business through the Service, we may collect information you provide to enhance our Service or provide relevant advertising. We may not deliver messages that we believe are objectionable, such as spam messages, fraudulent solicitations, or requests to exchange reviews for compensation. If you send or receive messages through the Service via SMS text message, we may log phone numbers, phone carriers, and the date and time that the messages were processed. Carriers may charge recipients for texts that they receive. We may also store information that you provide through communications to us, including from phone calls, letters, emails and other electronic messages, or in person. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
  3. Activity: We store information about your use of the Service, such as your search activity, the pages you view, the date and time of your visits, businesses you call using our mobile applications, and reservations, purchases, or transactions you make through the Service. We also store information that your computer or mobile device may provide to us in connection with your use of the Service, such as your browser type, type of computer or mobile device, browser language, IP address, WiFi information such as SSID, mobile carrier, phone number, unique device identifier, advertising identifier, location (including geolocation, beacon based location, and GPS location), and requested and referring URLs and mobile applications. We may also receive and store your location whenever our mobile applications are running, including when running in the background, if you enable our mobile apps to access such information in the course of using the Service. You may be able to limit or disallow our use of certain location data through your device or browser settings, for example by adjusting the settings for our applications in iOS or Android privacy settings.
  4. Professional Information: If you represent a business on RaineyStreetRestaurants.com, we may collect and display information about you related to your business activities, such as a business name that may incorporate your name, or a publicly available business address that is also used as a home address. We will also collect and display information about your professional background that you choose to share with us through the Service, such as information about your professional licenses or certifications, or your professional history or specialties. 
  5. Cookies
    We, and third parties with whom we partner, may use cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, local shared objects such as HTML5 and Flash (sometimes called “flash cookies”), advertising identifiers (including mobile identifiers such as Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (“IDFA”) or Google’s Advertising ID (“GAID”)) and similar technology (“Cookies”) in connection with your use of the Service, third party websites, and mobile applications. Cookies may contain unique identifiers, and reside, among other places, on your computer or mobile device, in emails we send to you, and on our web pages. Cookies may transmit information about you and your use of the Service, such as your browser type, search preferences, IP address, data relating to advertisements that have been displayed to you or that you have interacted with, and the date and time of your use. Cookies may be persistent or stored only during an individual session. The purposes for which we use Cookies in the Service is to make the Service work in the way you expect. For example, we use a Cookie that tells us whether you have already signed up for an account. Cookies are used for authentication, security, and compliance intended to prevent fraud, protect your data from unauthorized parties, and comply with legal requirements. For example, we use Cookies to determine if you are logged in, preferences intended to remember information about how you prefer the Service to behave and look. For example, we also use cookies to make advertising more relevant to users and more valuable to advertisers. For example, we may use Cookies to serve you interest-based ads, such as ads that are displayed to you based on your visits to other websites, or to tell us if you have recently interacted with an ad. Analytics Intended to help us understand how visitors use the Service. For example, we use a Cookie that tells us how our search suggestions correlate to your interactions with the search page. You can set some Cookie preferences through your device or browser settings, but doing so may affect the functionality of the Service. The method for disabling Cookies may vary by device and browser, but can usually be found in your device or browser preferences or security settings. For example, iOS and Android devices each have settings which are designed to limit forms of ad tracking. Please note that changing any of these settings does not prevent the display of certain advertisements to you. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
  6. THIRD PARTIES
    Third parties may receive information about you as follows:
    1. Advertisers: We allow third parties to use Cookies through the Service to collect the same type of information for the same purposes as we do. In doing so, we adhere to the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising. Third parties may be able to associate the information they collect with other information they have about you from other sources. We do not necessarily have access to or control over the Cookies they use, but you may be able to opt out of some of their practices by visiting the following links: Network Advertising InitiativeOmniture and Digital Advertising Alliance. Please note that opting out does not prevent the display of all advertisements to you. We may also share some non-identifiable, de-identified or aggregated information from or about you, such as location information, with third parties in connection with advertising programs and data analytics. You may be able to limit our sharing of some of this information through your mobile device settings or browser settings.
    2. Content Partners: We allow third party partners to use and display some of the public content available through the Service, such as photos you upload, reviews, and other information listed under “Public Content” in Section 1 above.
    3. Service Providers: We rely on third party service providers to support or provide services for us in connection with your use of the Service, such as food delivery services, communications and hosting, security and fraud prevention, technical and customer support, tracking and reporting usage of the Service, quality assurance testing, payment processing, marketing, and other functions. We share information from or about you with these third party providers so that they can perform their services or complete your requests. For example, we may share your advertising identifiers (e.g., your IDFA, GAID, or a cryptographic hash of your email address) with third party service providers that help us facilitate RaineyStreetRestaurants.com’s advertising programs and measure and report their effectiveness, including with third parties that help determine the efficacy of our Service with advertising programs by combining information they receive about you from other sources than the Service. You may be able to limit our access to some of this information through your mobile or desktop device settings. RaineyStreetRestaurants.com’s third party service providers may likewise share information with us that they obtain from or about you in connection with providing their services or enhancing ours.
    4. Aggregate or Anonymous Information: We share user information in the aggregate with third parties.
  7. Investigations and Legal Disclosures: We may investigate and disclose information from or about you if we have a good faith belief that such investigation or disclosure: (a) is reasonably necessary to comply with legal or law enforcement processes, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, judicial proceeding, or other legal process or law enforcement request; (b) is helpful to prevent, investigate, or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service; or (c) protects our rights, reputation, property, or that of our users, affiliates, or the public.
    1. Links: The Service may link to third party-controlled websites, like a business’s URL. Except as set forth herein, we do not share your personal information with them, and are not responsible for their privacy practices.
    2. Third Party Integrations: If you sign up for, or log into, RaineyStreetRestaurants.com using a third party service, like Google, we may receive information about you from such third party service. If you post content to a third party service through the Service, that third party service will also receive that content, which will be visible to anyone that has access to it through that third party service. Some of our web pages utilize framing techniques to serve content to you from our third party partners, while preserving the look and feel of the Service. In such cases, please note that the information you provide may be transmitted directly to the identified third party partner, like Google. If you interact with businesses through RaineyStreetRestaurant.com, they will receive whatever information you choose to share with them, for example, contact information, email addresses, or other personal information.
  8. CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
    Other users may be able to identify you, or associate you with your account, if you include personal information in the content you post publicly.
  9. DATA RETENTION AND ACCOUNT TERMINATION
    If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
  10. CHILDREN
    The Service is intended for general audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us at RaineyStreetRestraurants@gmail.com. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account.
  11. SECURITY
    We use various safeguards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and after we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or via mobile device, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
  12. CONTACT INFORMATION
    You may contact us at RaineyStreetRestaurants@gmail.com
  13. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
    We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the Privacy Policy will govern our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you and will be located here. Users can always access the most up-to-date Privacy Policy by typing in Google, “Rainey Street Restaurant’s Privacy Policy.”
  14. WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER DATA
    1. If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Please send an email to raineystreetrestaurants@gmail.com with your request.
    2. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.