Updated June 27, 2010
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This is our Privacy Policy that details the privacy practices for the Charitydine.com websites. Charitydine.com, LLC, a Florida company, the provider of the Website (referred to as 'us' or 'we'), is committed to protecting your online privacy. We provide you with and ask you to please read the following to learn what information we obtain from you (the 'User' or the 'End User') and what and if in any way we use that information. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please email us at customerservice@charitydine.com.
We may use information that identifies a specific user, such as creating an account, ordering a product or service from us or our affiliates, filling out a survey, completing a survey, sending us or our affiliates feedback, requesting information about our products, submitting an affiliate agreement, applying for employment, or signing up for special offers from third parties through the Website. We may ask you to provide certain information about yourself. It is optional for you to engage in an identification activity. If you elect to engage in an identification activity, however, we may ask you to provide us with certain personal information, such as your first and last name, mailing address (including zip code), email address, telephone number, date of birth and Charitydine.com account information. When you order products, we may also ask you to provide us with your credit card number, expiration date and authentication codes or related information. Depending on the service, some of the information we ask you to provide is identified as required and some is identified as optional. If you do not provide the required information for a particular activity that requires it, you will not be permitted to engage in that service.
We may collect and use information to provide products and services to you, make the shopping process easier, help you track your past purchases and orders, enhance the functions of the Website, improve our promotional efforts to your needs and to tailor your experience with third parties. For Ex/, if you send our customer service an email we may use your comments and feedback to enhance our service to you. In addition, if you use our Website to send information or a product to another person, we may store your personal information, and the personal information of any recipient. We may use that other person's contact information to allow him or her to access the information you requested we send.
We may also collect information that may include things like the uniform resource locator ('URL') of the website you visited prior to coming to our Website, the URL of the website you visit after being on our Website, the type of browser you are using and your internet protocol ('IP') address. We, and/or our authorized third party service providers and advertisers, may automatically collect this information when you visit our Website through the use of electronic tools like cookies and web beacons or pixel tags. We use information to analyze trends, collect demographic information, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities. We may also share this information with authorized third party service providers and Advertisers to measure the overall functions of our internet marketing and content.
We may share your information with our Affiliates. We provide some products jointly with certain merchants. These are known as affiliated merchants. We share some of your information with affiliated merchants in order to help them provide you with better service. Sharing this Information will allow an affiliated merchant to market directly to you should they choose to. We may share your information with our marketing affiliates to enable them to contact you regarding products, services, and special offers that may be of interest to you. Some marketing affiliates may contact you from a promotional space on our Website, and others may contact you via email.
We may share your information Third Party Service Providers. We may share your information with such service providers to fulfill orders, deliver packages, send postal or email, analyze data, provide marketing assistance, provide search results and links, process credit card payments, operate the Website, troubleshoot, and provide customer service. We may also collect personal information from individuals and companies with whom we have relationships and may have to share their information to accomplish our administrative tasks. We encourage affiliated restaurants, affiliated businesses, marketing partners and third party service providers to adopt and post privacy policies. In the event we merge with, or be acquired by another company, the successor company would acquire the information we maintain. However, information would remain subject to this Privacy Policy. We may also disclose information to comply with the law or a court order; enforce or apply this privacy policy, our website terms of use or other agreements; or protect the rights, property or safety of the Website, its Users or others.
Transfer information
We may disclose or share information with partners, affiliates and advertisers. An example would be for the purposes of demographic information. We also use Google analytics, to track and analyze usage and volume statistical information. You're encouraged to update your information if it changes. You may ask to have the information on your account deleted or removed.
Customer options regarding information
You can choose not to provide information, though it may be required to engage in a certain activity on the Website. As a condition of account registration, we require your permission to send you administrative and promotional emails. You may 'unsubscribe' from promotional and administrative emails at anytime. When contacting us, please indicate your name, address, email address, and what Promotional Emails you do not want to receive. You may do so by emailing us at customerservice@charitydine.com. This would also pertain to personally identifiable information.
If you are a restaurant affiliate and you provided us with your email address, you will receive service-oriented Emails from us regarding your account. You have the choice of whether you would like to receive these emails. If you do not wish to receive account updates, you can contact us by email at merchantservices@charitydine.com.
Data Storage In order to customize your experience with our website, we store cookies on your computer, which is a small file that is stored on a User's computer for record-keeping purposes which contains information about that User. We may also use pixel tags and web beacons to track your use of our site pages and promotions.
Third Party website privacy policy
This Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. Other websites that may be accessible through this Website have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. We are not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties.
Privacy Policy for minors
Minors under the age of 13 may not use the Website. We do not collect or maintain information from anyone known to be under the age of 13, and no part of the Website is designed to attract anyone under the age of 13.
California Residents. California law requires that we provide you with an explanation of your privacy rights under the California Online Privacy Protection Act and the California Business and Professions Code. As required by the Act, we will provide you with the categories of information that we collect through the Website and the categories of third party persons or entities with whom such information may be shared for marketing purposes at your request. California law requires us to inform you, at your request, (1) the categories of information we collect and what third parties we share that information with; (2) the names and addresses of those third parties; and (3) examples of the products marketed by those companies. The Act further requires us to allow you to control who you do not want us to share that information with. To obtain this information, please send a request by email or standard mail to the address found below. When contacting us, please indicate your name, address, email address, and what information you do not want us to share.
Headquarters
Charity Dine, LLC
224 Datura St. Suite 1111
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
1-877-442-DINE (3463)