IndyDiningGuide.com Privacy Policy
Last Updated: September 2009
IndyDiningGuide.com strives to offer its visitors valuable information about restaurants and other food and beverage establishments in the Indianapolis area. We care about protecting your privacy online and understand your concerns about how your personal information is used and shared. This policy covers how we treat personal information that we collect and receive from our users. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable, such as your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. We may use personal information subject to the terms of this privacy policy. Please note this policy applies only to information collected solely by IndyDiningGuide.com and its sub domains ("IndyDiningGuide.com" or the "Site") online. This Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that IndyDiningGuide.com does not control.
Gathering information from users
The majority of our website can be viewed without providing any information. Other pages may prompt you to provide personal information when you register for access to portions of our site, such as signing up for membership or requesting certain features (e.g., coupons, contests or special offers).
Like most websites, IndyDiningGuide.com also collects information automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to our visitors. This is called aggregate information, and this is not linked with personal information. For example, we may log the name of your Internet Service Provider, your internet protocol ("IP") address, and information provided by and about your browser. We also may use "cookie" technology or other tracking technology for purposes such as storing your user name and password, to spare you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or to control the advertising you see on our site. As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can choose not to provide us with information, for example by setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but doing so may limit your ability to access certain portions of the site or may require you to re-enter your user name and password. However, we may not be able to customize the site's features according to your preferences.
Use of user information
We may use personal information collected on IndyDiningGuide.com to communicate with you regarding our Terms and Conditions of Use, Privacy Policy, site inquiries, services offered by IndyDiningGuide.com and our Affiliates and partners, administration of sweepstakes and contests and to request your input or participation in connection with marketing research, user testing or other similar activities.
Personal information collected by IndyDiningGuide.com may also be used for other purposes including but not limited to site administration and troubleshooting. Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our site (such as our Web hosting service), or who provide promotions management or email management may also have access to information you have provided to complete their business functions, but will be required to maintain the confidentiality of such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Aggregated Information (information that does not personally identify you) may be used in many ways. As one example, we may combine information about your usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to analyze which pages are visited most or what features are most attractive. Aggregated Information may occasionally be shared with our advertisers and business partners, but cannot be used to identify or contact you individually.
Information sharing and disclosure
IndyDiningGuide.com may share personal information about you with our Affiliates. However, we do not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with non-Affiliate companies except to provide products and services you've requested, when we have permission, or as described in this privacy policy, including under the following circumstances. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior to the types of disclosures listed below.
(1) We may disclose your information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
(2) We may disclose your information when we believe it necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, and/or to protect our rights and property.
(3) As we continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets.
We may send email that promotes our own services and email that promotes third parties that have partnered with us as advertisers or featured restaurants to Registered Members who opted in to receiving such promotional email.
Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements
IndyDiningGuide.com expects its partners, advertisers and third party partners to respect the privacy of our users. However, third parties, including our partners, advertisers, and other content providers accessible through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our site you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a IndyDiningGuide.com page, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also, through IndyDiningGuide.com you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, websites, advertisements, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other parties. IndyDiningGuide.com is not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.
While you are on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or other third parties may use cookies, web beacons, or other technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences or gather aggregated information about you. For example, some of our advertising is served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before. IndyDiningGuide.com does not control the use of this technology or the resulting information and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.
Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. If you send us emails, you should be aware that information disclosed in emails may not be secure, possibly making it available to others. While we have security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control, we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of any communication transmitted to or from IndyDiningGuide.com through the Site or e-mail.
Security Precautions
IndyDiningGuide.com incorporates appropriate precautions to protect the security, privacy and accuracy of the personal information we have collected, as well as protection against loss, misuse and alteration of this data. Only authorized individuals have access to the information you provide. IndyDiningGuide.com will execute all appropriate safeguards to protect user data, but because the internet is not secure, we cannot guarantee that information cannot be intercepted. By utilizing the Site, you hereby acknowledge that IndyDiningGuide.com cannot be held liable for use of intercepted information in an unauthorized manner.
Children
IndyDiningGuide.com does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from or about children under 18 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have received any personal information from a child under 18 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe IndyDiningGuide.com has any information from or about anyone under 18, please contact us at the address listed below.
Contacting us
IndyDiningGuide.com can be reached by contacting:
IndyDiningGuide.com, Inc.
8103 E. Hwy 36, #108
Avon, IN 46123
Changes to this policy
By using the website, you signify your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy. IndyDiningGuide.com reserves the right to change this policy at any time. You are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically for changes. Your continued use of our site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
Governing law
This policy and the use of this Site are governed by Indiana law. Any claim related to the Site or this policy shall be brought in a federal or state court in Indianapolis, Indiana, within 6 months after the claim arises. You agree no such claim may be brought as a class action. Users of IndyDiningGuide.com consent to the jurisdiction and venue of such court as the most convenient and appropriate for the resolution of disputes concerning this policy. IndyDiningGuide.com is controlled, operated and administered entirely within the United States. If you are located outside the United States, please note the information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. You hereby consent to this transfer.
In the event of any conflict between the terms of this policy and the terms of any electronic or machine readable privacy policy (for example, a P3P electronic privacy policy), the terms of this written policy shall control.