Privacy Policy

This policy outlines our personal information handling practices on our website www.brunchcritic.com (the “Site”). We take your privacy very seriously. If you give us personal information, we treat it according to this policy and we use your personal information only in the ways specified when it was collected. We do not otherwise share it. By using, accessing and downloading the website, you agree to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with the Terms and Conditions set above. We encourage you to review this privacy policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site.

Types and uses of personal information

In order to post comments and mark favorite posts on our Site, you must first create an account with a username and password; we use these to provide you with access to your profile and comments and this also assists us in preventing SPAM. Our registration system also requires that you provide a valid email address; we use that to confirm your account. Accounts in our system are perpetual. If you change the information in your account, our stored data backups may include your original information for up to six months. Separately, when you email us, we retain your address and correspondence. We use these to raise and respond to issues and inquiries of all types.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Personally identifiable information: We do not share personally identifiable information with third parties, with one limited exception: we may disclose personally identifiable information about you if we have a good faith belief that doing so is required by law, such as pursuant to a subpoena or other judicial or administrative order.

Cookies: A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this Site. The information we store in cookies is, in some cases, linked to readers' accounts. We may use both short-term cookies and persistent cookies. A short-term cookie expires within a limited period of time. We may use session cookies so that readers with accounts can navigate and contribute to our Site without logging in multiple times over a short period of time. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. We may use persistent cookies to recognize account holders and present the Site accordingly. You can remove cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file.

If you reject cookies, you may still use our Site, but your ability to use some areas of our Site, such as comments, will require logging in for each action you want to take.

Links to Other Sites

This Site may contain links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by the Company. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Site.

Changes in This Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.