Terms & Privacy

Last updated January 30, 2017.

The following Good Food Network and Good Food 100 Restaurants (collectively, “GFN”) Terms of Use apply to all GFN electronic communications, including GFN’s websites, blogs, social media sites, and other electronic communications that we may send to you, such as email. By using the GFN website and opting in to other methods of communication, you agree to the following terms and conditions.

General Policies

Ownership, license, use
This website and other methods of communication are owned and operated by GFN. GFN has developed certain marks, taglines, and logos to identify GFN and the Good Food 100 Restaurants. GFN has registered its marks in the U.S. and reserves all rights to their use. Unauthorized use of the GFN marks is a violation of trademark laws of the U.S. and is subject to legal action and penalties as provided by law.

General
Periodically, we perform site maintenance activities that may disrupt the normal operations of the site. Our goal is to perform routine maintenance during non-peak hours; however, occasionally unforeseen interruptions occur to normal operation of the site. We are committed to correcting these as soon as possible.

Email
GFN regularly distributes e-newsletters via email. GFN also may occasionally send email announcements regarding new GFN services and information. These email messages may be sent to website visitors who have provided an email address and have indicated a desire to receive such announcements.

All broadcast e-newsletters and email messages give individuals the ability to “opt out” of receiving similar future GFN email announcements. Email addresses collected from members and/or through the GFN website are not sold to third parties. It may be necessary for GFN to send users a service-related announcement for situations, such as a temporary suspension of service. Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications.

Links
The GFN website may include links to other sites. GFN is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other sites. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by the GFN website.

The Good Food Network respects the privacy of all of our online visitors. The Good Food Network and Good Food 100 Restaurants (“we”, “our” or “GFN“) respects and is committed to protecting the privacy of users of services provided on a its websites, including our website located at goodfoodmedianetwork.org and goodfood100restaurants.org (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect information about you through the Site and how we use such information. In order to fully understand GFN‘s privacy practices, you are encouraged to read this Privacy Policy. This Policy applies to information we collect about you on or through the Site.

This Privacy Policy covers the two types of information we gather on the Site, personal and aggregated. The term “personal information” refers to data you voluntarily provide to us in connection with your use of the Site and services that identify you, such as your name, physical address and/or e-mail address. The term “aggregated data” refers to general, abstracted information regarding visitors and users of our Site, including traffic patterns, number of visits to certain pages, visits from other websites or to third-party websites linked to our Site, use of particular services or features on the Site or on other websites reached through our Site.

Data Collection and Use

Some of our services require you to register for an account. We ask you for some personal information in order to create an account (such as your name, email address, mailing address, and/or a password for your account) and we will use that information to provide the service. In the event you choose to make a donation online to goodfoodmedianetwork.org, we use trusted third party service providers who process and maintain your credit card information in encrypted form on secure servers.

When we require personal information, we will inform you about the types of information we collect and how we may use it. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with us.

For surveys completed by you, we will not disclose your personal information without your prior consent. The information you provide as part of the any survey will be confidential. However, audited survey data will be used in aggregate form by GFN or third parties to create data assessments of various types. We will NEVER publish or sell individual restaurant data. You must be at least 18 to participate in any survey.

We collect aggregated data your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and improve our services.

We may analyze web logs in order to understand traffic patterns and determine whether there are problems with the Site. We may also use embedded images in emails to track open rates for emailings, so that we can tell which email communications appeal most to users of our Site and services.

Upon your first visit to the Site, a cookie is sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A “cookie” is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to collect and maintain aggregate information about Site use, to improve the quality of our services and to better understand how people interact with our Site. We do this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. We use this aggregated data only in the ways explained in this Privacy Policy.

Parts of the Site are password-protected. If you check “Remember Me” upon log-in, we may use a “cookie” to enable you to return to password-protected areas of the Site without having to re-enter your password.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some the Site’s features or services may not function properly without cookies.

Third-Party Advertising and Links to Other Websites

Our site may include third-party advertising and links to other websites. We do not provide any personal information to these advertisers or third-party websites.

These third-party websites and advertisers, or Internet advertising companies working on their behalf, sometimes use technology to send (or “serve”) the advertisements that appear on our Sites directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices. In addition, the Network Advertising Initiative offers useful information about Internet advertising companies (also called “ad networks” or “network advertisers”), including information about how to opt-out of their information collection.

Information Sharing

We may share the information you submit in connection with your account or requests for our services with our related entities in order to provide you with a seamless experience on our Site and to provide and improve the quality of our services.

We do not rent or sell your personal information to other companies, organizations or individuals.

We may share your personal information in the following limited circumstances:

If we have your consent.

To provide to the administrator(s) of any “group” that you join on the Site.

We may provide such information to trusted business partners for the purpose of processing personally identifiable information on our behalf.

If we are required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to the requirements of applicable law or comply with legal process served on GFN; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of GFN; (3) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of any person; or (4) fix or debug problems with the GFN software/service.

In the event of a transfer of ownership of goodfoodmedianetwork.org and goodfood100restaurants.org, such as acquisition by or merger with another organization, we will provide notice before any personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy, and allow you the opportunity to opt out of such a transfer.

We may share aggregated information with others, such as the number of members who are participating in local groups.

We take reasonable security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of personal information.

We restrict access to your personal information to our employees, related entities, business partners, service providers and coalition members who need to know such information in order to operate, develop or improve the Site and/or to provide our services. When your personal information is shared, it is subject to agreements that oblige those parties to process such information only on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy, and the information is protected by appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

Credit Card

You agree that you are an authorized user of any credit card that you supply to us, and you understand and agree that we have an obligation to fully investigate any possible fraudulent credit card use.

Children’s Privacy & Parental Consent

This Site is not designed or intended for use by children under the age of 13. Should we become aware that we inadvertently acquired personal information or other data from users under the age of 13, we will delete the information as soon as possible.

Changes to this Policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “last updated” date at the top of the this page. Changes will always be prospective, not retroactive. Should we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy that alter the use of your personal information, we will notify you of such change by email. In that email, you will be provided with the opportunity to have your information deleted from our database. Prior versions of this policy are archived and are available for you to view.

If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us at any time by email at: [email protected]