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What information does RestaurantEdge, Inc. maintain about visitors, and how we do we protect it?
Registration: During a free registration process required to access portions of the site, www.restaurantedge.com requires that you supply a unique member ID, e-mail address, and demographic information (which may include country, zip code, age, sex, household income, industry, job title, and job function). You may be asked to agree to the terms of a Subscriber Agreement.

Premium Information: While the majority of www.restaurantedge.com is offered free of charge, we do charge fees for select information, including access to resumes and regulatory information. To enable the purchase of these products, www.restaurantedge.com collects and stores billing and credit card information. This information will only be shared with third parties who perform tasks required to complete the purchase transaction. Examples of this include fulfilling orders and processing credit card payments.

Contests and Surveys: From time to time we will have contests and surveys on www.restaurantedge.com. Entries and information collected during in this process may be transmitted to our promotional partners. If this is the case it will be revealed on the entry form.

Cookies: The www.restaurantedge.com web server employs cookies to recognize you and your access privileges on RestaurantEdge, as well as to track site usage. Subscribers who do not accept cookies from the domain "restaurantedge.com" will not be able to access many areas of www.restaurantedge.com.

Advertisers may use additional cookies to identify their specific banner ads, and these cookies may come from the domain of the advertiser or a third-party banner serving firm. We do not have access to this information, additional information may be available from advertisers using these systems. If your browser is set to accept cookies only from the same domain as the website it will not affect your ability to view content.

IP Addresses: The www.restaurantedge.com web server logs IP addresses, or the location of your computer on the Internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. We do not use IP address logs to track your session or your behavior on our site.

What does RestaurantEdge do with the information it gathers/tracks?
Statistical Analysis and Banner Advertising: RestaurantEdge will perform statistical analyses of user behavior in order to measure interest in the various areas of our site (for product development purposes) and to inform advertisers as to how many consumers have seen or"clicked" their advertising banners. We also use demographic and preference information to allow advertising banners on our Web site to be targeted, in aggregate, to the users for whom they are most pertinent. This means that users see advertising that is most likely to interest them, and advertisers send their messages to people who are most likely to be receptive, improving both the viewer's experience and the effectiveness of the ads. In this statistical analyses and banner advertisement targeting, we will disclose information to third parties only in aggregate form. Personal information about you as an individual subscriber will not be provided to any third party without your consent, except under the circumstances described in Compliance with Legal Process below.

Data Security: To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to protect the information we collect online.

With whom does RestaurantEdge share the information it gathers/tracks?
RestaurantEdge shares the information it gathers, in aggregate form only, with advertisers and other partners. We will not release personal information about you as an individual to third parties, except under the circumstances described in Compliance with Legal Process below.

Forums: RestaurantEdge offers several Forums, or message boards. Any information you disclose when posting a message in these Forums becomes public. Moreover, Members who post a message in our Forums may make their e-mail address available to others through a feature of our Forums software, which could result in unsolicited e-mail from other subscribers or parties.

Compliance with Legal Process: We may disclose personal information if we are required to do so by law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of www.restaurantedge.com; or (4) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions).