Food Allergy Restaurant Reviews − Privacy Policy

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Who We are and What We Do
Thank you for visiting LonelyPlate.org. LonelyPlate provides a platform for food allergic individuals and families to share information on the businesses they have visited, where you can highlight the businesses’ understanding or lack thereof of food allergic individuals’ special needs.

LonelyPlate.org publicly presents and stores your reviews and comments about businesses that serve food in order help food allergic individuals make informed choices about businesses they visit. Your reviews, comments, photos and star ratings that we make public are presented online together with the screen name you submitted.

By visiting LonelyPlate.org, you agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these terms, please to not use this site. For more information on the purpose of this site, click above on “About.”

Your Information
LonelyPlate.org collects no personal information about you except when knowingly provided by you. You must register with your email address to post comments on this site. This email address is stored on our server and may in the future be used to send you information that might be of interest to you. If you choose include personal information in your reviews, comments or photos, third parties may be able to identify you or infer that a review or comment was written by you, which may lead them to contact you. Please do not include information in your reviews, comments or photos that you expect to remain private.

We may retain data connected with your use of our site, such as searches, page views, and other type of IP and URL information. These data are used to enhance and upgrade the site based on user interest. We also analyze individual and bulk visits to our site to ascertain which parts of the site are of most interest to the food allergic community.

Invite Friends
If you send or receive a personal message using our “Invite Friends” email feature, LonelyPlate.org and its parent company have no control over whether the content of any email you sent is posted publicly by the recipient. The content of these emails is private only if the sender and recipient keep them private. If you choose to use the “Invite Friends” feature to invite another person to visit our website, you are choosing to provide us that person’s email address which we use to contact that person with your invitation. When you provide us with another person’s email address, you represent to us that you have obtained the other person’s consent regarding your disclosing to us their personal data.

Transfer of Information to Third Parties
We do not currently share any email addresses or personal information that you have provided but may in the future share this information, for example, with researchers studying food allergies or allergic disease, businesses aiming to accommodate customers with food allergies, advocates of the food allergic community or other third parties. We may disclose your personal information to third parties in a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce or apply our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, protect our property, rights, and reputation, or those of our users, affiliates, or the public, comply with legal process, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order, or take action regarding suspected illegal activities. We are not required to question or contest the validity of any search warrant, subpoena or other similar governmental request that we receive. We may disclose information to third parties about user behavior in connection with actual or prospective business relationships with those third parties. If in the future we use third party advertising companies to provide ads, these companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites to provide their service. LonelyPlate.org and our parent company reserve the right to transfer or assign the data shared by or collected from our users in the event of a merger, acquisition, sale, pending merger, pending acquisition, or pending sale. If another company in the future acquires us, our parent company or our assets, they may use this information publicly on their media platforms or websites. In the event of our parent company’s bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, we may not be able to control how user data are disposed of.

Links
This website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by LonelylPlate.org or our parent company and with which we have no affiliation. We provide the links to you only as a convenience. We do not endorse these sites or their use or contents. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of every website you visit.

Security
You hereby acknowledge that LonelyPlate.org and its parent company are not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the internet, and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner. Third parties may be placing and reading cookies on users’ browsers, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving on this website, including from Google Ads.

Contacting Us
If you contact us to ask a question, offer feedback or record a complaint, we will record any personal information and other content that you provide in order to answer you effectively. If you send us an e-mail, your e-mail address typically will be displayed at the top of your message. We keep most of the emails we receive; therefore, your address likely will remain on record in our e-mail archives, which are stored on servers owned by a third party. If you send us an e-mail message, we will assume that you consent to your message—including your name, e-mail address, and IP address—being reprinted in full on our website should we decide the information is worthy of publication. If you do not consent to that information being made public, please say so in your message.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be revised from time to time without notice. Please check this page periodically for updates. Your use of LonelyPlate.org on any given date indicates your acceptance to the terms of this policy as of that date. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at info@lonelyplate.org.

DISCLAIMER: LonelyPlate.org publishes user-written reviews about businesses that serve food. Each review may make unique claims, and an individual food establishment may or may not be appropriate for each food allergic individual depending on one's specific food allergies. LonelyPlate.org has no authority or control over the safety of the foods these companies serve or the claims made by reviewers and companies regarding their products. Each business has its own terms and conditions. No matter what an individual reviewer may choose to include or omit on this website, we urge you to inquire about ingredients carefully and to inquire about safe food preparation practices as you would with all foods you purchase. LonelyPlate.org is not a party to the relationship you may establish with these third parties, nor does LonelyPlate.org own, operate, control or endorse these companies or their business practices. The information on this website is presented for information and interest only. It is not medical advice. Always consult your health care provider. You assume full responsibility for using the information on this site and you understand and agree LonelyPlate.org and any hyperlinked websites are neither responsible nor liable for any claim, loss or damage resulting from its use.