Thank you for visiting The Home Table. ("The Home Table", "TheHomeTable", "Home Table", "we", "us" or "our"). At The Home Table, we respect your privacy, and we understand the importance of the information you entrust to us. This Privacy Policy describes our practices concerning the information collected through our website or any of our related applications (our 'Services'). Below we describe what information we collect when you use our Services, how we protect that information, with whom we share it, and what your privacy options are. By using our Services, you consent to our collection and use of your data as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy only applies to properties we own and operate. Our properties may provide links to third party websites and this Privacy Policy will not apply to any information you may provide while on such third party websites. We will continue to evaluate this Privacy Policy against new technologies, business practices, and our users' needs, and may make changes to the Privacy Policy accordingly. Please check this page periodically for updates. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the updated Privacy Policy here, along with its effective date, and notify you by email or by means of a notice on our website.
Information You Provide to Us
Account Information: You may choose to create an account and provide us with information in order to use certain services or to take advantage of special offers. If you create an account on The Home Table, we may store and use information such as your full name, email address, zip code, gender and birth date. You may provide this information directly to us or you may choose to register using your Facebook account in which case you would authorize us to access certain Facebook profile information including, but not limited to, your first name, last name, gender, birth date and email address. Please be mindful that your username from your email address, as well as your Facebook photo or any photo you submit through the registration process, will be publicly displayed as part of your account profile. You can always edit some of the information associated with your account here, or if you believe that an unauthorized account has been created using your name, or likeness, you can request its removal here.
Public Content: You may also choose to post content (such as ratings, reviews, recipes, tips, photos or comments, likes, bookmarks, friends, lists) that may be shared with others through our Services or through your Facebook account. The information that you post to our Services is intended to be available for other users of The Home Table to read, including your posted content and reviews about restaurants with which you transact through our Services, and your account profile. We may display this information on our Services, share it with businesses, and further distribute it to a wider audience through third party sites and services.
Contacts: You have the option to invite those of your friends that you think would like to join our Services, by providing their contact information. If you invite a friend to join and connect with you on our Services, we will only use your friend's contact information to process your requests.
Communications: If you participate in a survey, poll, promotion, contest, or sweepstakes, submit a customer service or other inquiry to us, request to receive certain communications from us, or contact us about employment opportunities posted to the Services, we may collect contact information such as your name, address, email address, or telephone number.
Information We Collect When you Use the Services
When you use our Services, we may collect and store certain information about your computer or device and your activities. Currently, we are storing only certain login information via a cookie to maintain your identity while in your current browsing session. This may change in the future, so check this Privacy Policy periodically to see any changes.
Cookies: We, and third parties with whom we partner, may use cookies, 'flash cookies' and similar files or technologies to collect and store information in respect to your use of our Services and third party websites. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer that enables us to recognize you (for example, as a registered user) when you visit our website, store your preferences and settings, enhance your experience by delivering content specific to your interests, perform research and analytics, track your use of our Services, and assist with security and administrative functions. Cookies may be persistent or stored only during an individual session.
How We Use the Information We Collect
We use the information we collect from and about you for a variety of purposes, including to:
- Respond to your queries.
- Understand our users (their demographics, what they do on our Services, what features they like, how they use them, etc.), improve our Services, such as by personalizing content to your interests, process and complete your transactions, and make special offers.
- Administer our Services and diagnose technical problems.
- Send communications that you have requested or that may be of interest to you. When you sign up for an account, you are opting in to receive emails from other The Home Table users, businesses, and The Home Table itself. You can manage your email preferences here, but note that you cannot opt out of receiving certain administrative or legal notices from The Home Table. If you exchange messages with others through our Services, we may store them in order to process and deliver them, allow you to manage them, and investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our Services. If you send information from our Services to your phone via SMS text message, we may log your phone number, phone carrier, and the date and time that the message was processed. Carriers may charge recipients for texts that they receive.
- Send you questions from other users that you may be able to answer if you have registered with The Home Table.
- Enable us to show you ads on our website and in our mobile applications that are more relevant to you.
How We Share the Information We Collect
We will not share the personal information we collect about you with any third party for their own marketing purposes without your consent. We will share your information in the following ways:
- We use outside vendors for a variety of purposes, such as to send you emails and messages on behalf of other Home Table members, push notifications to your mobile device on our behalf, provide voice recognition services to process your spoken queries and questions, help us analyze use of our Services, and process and send awards or payments if you are a restaurant. Some of our products, services and databases are hosted by third party hosting services providers. We also may use vendors for other projects, such as conducting surveys or organizing sweepstakes for us, that involve collection of information from our users. We may share information about you with these vendors to enable them to perform their services.
- We may share your information with our affiliates, which are entities under common ownership or control of our ultimate parent company The Home Table, LLC.
- We may disclose data we collect about you when we believe disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent, or respond to suspected illegal or fraudulent activity or to protect the safety, rights, or property of us, our users, or others.
- If requested or required by government authorities, such as law enforcement authorities, courts, or regulators, or otherwise to comply with the law, we may disclose any information we have about our users. We also may disclose information collected about you in order to exercise or protect legal rights or defend against legal claims.
- We may transfer your information to a third party if we or any of our affiliates are involved in a corporate restructuring (e.g., a sale, merger, or other transfer of some or all of our assets).
- Advertisers and advertising networks place ads (including sponsored links in search results) on our site and in our mobile applications. These companies may collect information, such as your computer's IP address, browser information, mobile device ID, and search queries, as you use our Website and Services. They also may use cookies and other technologies to collect this information when you visit our site.
- We may use and disclose non-personal information (e.g., de-identified or aggregate data) to third parties.
Reviewing, changing or deleting information
If you would like to permanently delete your Home Table account, please contact us via the 'About Us' link at the bottom of every page.
Security
We have implemented commercially reasonable security measures that are designed to prevent unauthorized or unlawful access to and misuse of the information we collect, including technological and physical security measures as well as procedural safeguards. However, because no security system can be 100% effective, we cannot completely guarantee the security of any information we may have collected from or about you.
How Long We Keep Data About You
We retain the information we collect about and from you for as long as necessary to fulfill a business purpose or comply with a legal request. We may also choose to anonymize certain of the information you provide to us so that it can no longer be attributed to you if we would like to retain it for longer periods of time.
Children Under 18
Our Services are not intended for users under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 18 or market to or solicit information from anyone under the age of 18. If we become aware that a person submitting personal information is under 18, we will attempt to delete the account and any related information as soon as possible. You hereby represent that you are at least 18.
Consent to Transfer of Information
If you are visiting the Services from outside the United States, your data will be transferred to and stored in our servers in the U.S. By using our Services, you consent to our collection and use of your data as described in this Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any question about our privacy practices, you can contact us by clicking the About Us menu option at the bottom of each page.