This policy ("Policy") explains the privacy practices for the Check, Please! website accessible at http://www.checkplease.tv and any other website operated or owned by Check, Please! LLC ("Check, Please!"), unless a contrary policy is stated to apply at such other websites.
If you do not agree with these policies, please do not use the Check, Please! website. Questions and concerns regarding this Policy should be directed by e-mail to customerservice@checkplease.tv.
Check, Please! respects your privacy. Any information you give us is held with care and security, and will only be used as described in this Policy or otherwise with your consent.
In order to access our services and participate in the interactive and community features of the Check, Please! website, you may be required to first become a member and complete one or several registration forms. During registration (and possibly thereafter) you may be asked to give your name, a username, a password, your postal address, e-mail address, phone number, and other contact or identifying information. Check, Please! may also ask for other information pertaining to the mission of our website or to your demographic characteristics such as your age, your dining and shopping habits, and similar information. Generally, this information falls into one of two categories: (1) "Personal Information" which can be used to personally identify or contact you (or to confirm your identity in the case of usernames and passwords), and (2) "Non-Personal Information" which can be aggregated across users and then used to determine the demographics, habits, preferences, or statistical characteristics of the Check, Please! website users or a subgroup of such users, but which is not Personal Information. Non-Personal Information may also be collected by your presence on the Check, Please! website, even if you have not registered.
Check, Please! will use your Personal Information as follows: (1) to regulate access to the Check, Please! website and its features and services (such as requiring passwords to access certain services); (2) to personalize and enhance your experience when visiting the Check, Please! website; (3) to promote to you Check, Please! or Check, Please! endorsed products or services (including contacting you by e-mail); (4) to assist our partners and sponsors in promoting to you their products or services (including contacting you by e-mail), provided that you may opt-out of receiving promotions from such third parties and provided also that third party promotions will be provided on a "blind" basis, such that only Check, Please! will have access to your Personal Information, and (5) for other internal or administrative purposes consistent with our mission of providing our members with the highest quality content, community and interactive services in a secure manner.
Check, Please! may use third party providers for the services described above or any feature offered through its website. Services through these providers may necessarily include providing them with some or all of your Personal Information, but Check, Please! will use diligent efforts to restrict use of your Personal Information by these third parties to the specific Check, Please! feature or service for which the third party has been engaged. Additionally, Check, Please! may share your Personal Information with affiliates under its control or common control, subject to the same restrictions described in this Policy. Finally, Check, Please! may use or disclose your Personal Information when legally required or in conjunction with the enforcement of the website Terms of Use or any other rule, policy, or legal terms of Check, Please!
[In addition, Check, Please! may request your express consent to receive information from, or to our provision of your Personal Information to, our third party partners for specified purposes. If you provide this consent, Check, Please! may share certain portions of your Personal Information with these third parties for the purposes specified in conjunction with your consent.] [Note: this is optional if you will ever ask users to specifically consent to be on a list that is transferable or rentable vs used internally or on a blind basis by partners; you may provide services for which this consent is mandatory]
As long as such usage does not use or disclose any Personal Information, Check, Please! will use Non-Personal Information for a number of purposes, including to provide demographic information to advertisers, dining and shopping habits of our aggregate user groups to affiliates and restaurants, and other Non-Personal Information for relevant commercial purposes.
From time-to-time the Check, Please website may request information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. In addition to any use of Personal Information or Non-Personal Information described in this Policy, information collected during surveys and contests will be used for the purposes specified on the forms on which it is collected.
To the extent you post any content on the Check, Please! website, such as your dining opinions or preferences, or participate in any forum, chat, message board, or any other interactive, review, or community service or feature on the website, all of the information contained in your submission or communications will become published public information and Check, Please will not have any control over the use of such information by users and third parties with access to that information. Check, Please! reserves the right to use all of such information at its discretion without restriction.
If you consent now, but later change your mind, you may at any time withdraw your consent by notifying us at customerservice@checkplease.tv or by writing us at Check, Please!, User Privacy Policy, 1438 West Kinzie Street, Chicago, Illinois 60622. If you withdraw your consent, Check, Please! will immediately stop using your information, but may cancel your registration or restrict your access to certain features of the website, in its discretion.
Please note that both Personal Information and Non-Personal Information may be transferred or assigned by Check, Please! in conjunction with a merger or the sale of all or a portion of the Check, Please! business (or similar event).
The Check, Please! website contains links to third party websites and advertisements leading to promotions of third party products and services. Check, Please! is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy statements of each website that collects personally identifiable information. This Policy applies solely to information collected by the Check, Please! website and other websites operated or controlled by Check, Please!, and not any third party website.
Check, Please! uses a feature of your Web browser called a "cookie" -- a file that your browser places on your computer's hard drive to uniquely identify your computer. Check, Please! creates and then uses cookies to tell us whether you have previously visited Check, Please!, to track your clicks through the website, and to help us determine whether you came to Check, Please! from a particular Internet link or advertisement. Cookies can also be used to save and retrieve passwords and to save information on past usage of features and other preferences. Check, Please! does not and cannot use cookies to retrieve personal information about you from your computer unless such information was knowingly and willingly provided by you.
Some of our business partners use cookies through the Check, Please! website (for example, advertisers), which is standard practice for many of the websites you may visit. Check, Please! has no access to or control over these cookies; however, you do: please check your browser settings, or check your browser's "Help" information for instructions on how to enhance the security of your browser or limit use of and access to cookies. Please note that your browser's security settings may disable some features or services on certain websites.
Similarly, Check, Please!, its advertisers and partners may also use "web beacons" (small image files which are used to track presence on web pages and surfing patterns) in a similar fashion to cookies, except that web beacons do not store any personal information on your computer.
Finally, servers owned or controlled by Check, Please! will log each website visitors' IP address, browser type, referring and exiting URLs, and other statistical and technical information. Check, Please will treat this as Non-Personal Information.
Check, Please! has appropriate technical and organizational security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of user data under our control. For example, we impose strict rules on Check, Please! employees who have access either to the databases that store member information or to the servers that host our services. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur, we make diligent efforts to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.
The Check, Please! website is not intended for use by children or minors. We ask that children and minors not use the website without their parents' guidance and only after their parents have fully reviewed the terms applicable to such use, including the contents of this Policy.
Check, Please! reserves the right to reasonably modify this Policy at any time. All such modifications will be binding on all registrants and users. If you are concerned, please check back periodically to review the current Check, Please Privacy Policy.
The terms contained in this Policy are subordinate to any contrary terms contained in any express user or membership agreement between a user and Check, Please! or to any express written agreement containing the signatures of authorized representatives of both parties.