Privacy Policy
Effective Date: June 11, 2025
At Restaurant Resource LLC (“Company,” “we,” “us,” “our”) we value the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Notice contains information about the types of personal data that are collected and recorded by Restaurant Resource on the website http://www.restaurant-resource.com (the “Website”), as well as through other related products and services (the “Services”), how we use it, and what your options are.
Amendments to this Privacy Notice will be posted on this page and will be effective when posted. Your continued use of any of our Websites or Services following the posting of any amendment, modification or change shall constitute your acceptance thereof. By visiting the Website or using our Services, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
1. PERSONAL DATA WE GATHER
We may gather the following types of personal data when you visit our Website or use our Services:
1.1 Account Information. We may collect information such as your name, email address, business address, business telephone number, and other personal or contact details that you voluntarily provide to the us to set up an account and profile with Restaurant Resource or that you provide directly through fields on our Website, including information that you add to your profile or you upload or submit to the Services. We may also collect personal information provided for any transactions, including details of any transactions made by you through the Website or Services. We may also receive personal information about you from other sources, including public sources, and add it to your account information.
1.2 Submissions and Contributions. We receive, store, and sometimes publish information you enter on our Website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. Our Website and Services may make public chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to you from time to time. Any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information.
1.3 Communications from other Restaurant Resource Users.
1.4. Browsing and Device Data.We gather date, time, certain information about a user's browser and system or device configuration and capabilities, navigation history, and IP address for all visitors to our Website and Services. We use this information for our internal audit log, for trend analysis and system administration, and to gather broad information about our audiences and their geographic locations.
2. HOW AND WHY WE USE PERSONAL DATA
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
| Processing Activity | Legal Basis for Processing |
|---|---|
| Providing the Services and Service-related messages | • Performance of Contract • Legitimate Interests |
| Responding to your requests, providing services to you, customizing future visits for you, improving our online store, notifying you of new products and services, and conducting market research | • Performance of Contract • Legitimate Interests |
| Administering our website and Services, and diagnosing and fixing technology problems | • Performance of Contract • Legitimate Interests |
| Monitoring the security of our Services, and preventing fraud and illegal or prohibited activities | • Performance of Contract • Legitimate Interests • Legal Obligations |
| Enhancing your website experience, including member-only content or discounts, and delivering or displaying personalized content that matches your professional goals and responsibilities | • Legitimate Interests |
| Offering you opportunities to connect directly with your peers and with sellers of products or services that may be of interest to you | • Legitimate Interests |
| Inviting you to join our communities via third-party social and professional networking sites | • Legitimate Interests |
| Optimizing our marketing campaigns | • Legitimate Interests |
| Creating aggregated statistical data which we use to improve our Services | • Legitimate Interests |
| To enforce our Terms and our rights, and to protect our business interests and the interests and rights of third parties | • Legitimate Interests |
| To comply with our contractual and legal obligations and requirements, and maintain our compliance with applicable laws, regulations and standards | • Performance of Contract • Legitimate Interests • Legal Obligations |
In addition, we may use your personal data for any purpose that you consent to.
3. SHARING PERSONAL DATA
We may share personal data you give to us as follows:
3.1 To our service providers, for the purpose of operating the Services;
3.2 To co-sponsors of events or webinars sponsored by us;
3.3 To comply with law;
3.4 To enforce our Terms of Service, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our users, or others.
3.5 In the event of a sale of all or part of our business, as part of the transaction.
4. OUR USE OF COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We, and our third party service providers, may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies (collectively “Cookies”) in connection with your use of the Services. Cookies serve to recall personal data, such as an IP address, as indicated by you, and may send us information about you and your use of the Website and Services. To learn more about our practices concerning cookies and tracking, please see our Cookie Notice. Most browsers allow you to control Cookies, or to block or remove Cookies altogether. Disabling some or all Cookies may affect your browsing experience. Please note that we do not change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from a browser or mobile application.
5. SECURITY
We use appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access and maintain the security of the personal information we collect. The transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Hence, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Services and any transmission is at your own risk.
6. LOCATION OF PERSONAL DATA
We host, process, and store all personal data in the United States. For transfers of personal data originating from the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK to countries that are not considered as offering an adequate level of data protection based on adequacy decisions relevant supervisory authorities, we and the relevant data exporters and importers have entered into standard contractual clauses as approved by the European Commission or the UK.
7. RETENTION
We will keep your information as long as it remains necessary for the identified purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, or as otherwise permitted by law. Examples include but are not limited to, mandatory data retention laws in the relevant jurisdiction; government orders to preserve data pursuant to an investigation; or data that must be retained in the event of litigation.
8. YOUR RIGHTS
Depending on where you reside, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data, including:
8.1 The right to withdraw consent to the processing, where consent is the basis of processing.
8.2 The right to access your personal data that we hold and request further details about how we process it, under certain conditions.
8.3 The right to demand rectification of inaccurate personal information about you.
8.4 The right to object to unlawful data processing under certain conditions.
8.5 The right to erasure of your personal data (your "right to be forgotten").
8.6 The right to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
8.7 The right to data portability of personal data concerning you that you provided us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, subject to certain conditions.
8.8 The right to opt-out of automated decision-making and profiling, except for automated processes in the context of marketing.
If your personal data is subject to any laws conferring these rights and you wish to exercise them, please contact us at hello@restaurant-resource.com. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law, for instance if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
9. CHILDREN’S GUIDELINES
Our Website, Services, events, and offerings are directed to adults only. No one under the age of 18 is eligible to use our Websites or Services and should not provide to us any personal information. As a practice, we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from persons under 18. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a person under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, we will promptly delete this information from our database.
10. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
We will update this Privacy Notice from time to time. When Restaurant Resource posts changes, we will revise the “Effective Date” at the top of the Privacy Notice. If there are material changes in how we use your personal information, we will notify you directly by prominently posting such changes in the Services or directly sending you a notification.
11. CONTACT
You can contact us by phone at 646-334-5708, email at hello@restaurant-resource.com, or by mail to Restaurant Resource, 8101 College Blvd, Suite 100 PMB1043, Overland Park, KS 66210.