At EntryMenu (accessible from https://entrymenu.com/), we believe discovering great restaurants should be frictionless, enjoyable, and fully respectful of your privacy. We do not require visitors to create accounts, supply credit card details, or install invasive tracking software to search our menus.
This Privacy Policy outlines the limited information collected during your visit, the transparent purpose behind its processing, and your extensive privacy rights.
1. Information We Collect & Receive
A. Information You Voluntarily Provide
When you contact us directly through our Contact form or email desk, we receive the specific details you submit: your name, email address, inquiry category, and message text. This information is utilized solely to respond to your inquiry, correct menu entries, or evaluate new restaurant additions.
B. Automated Technical Log Data
Like virtually all modern web services, our servers automatically log standard network connection metadata when your browser requests a webpage. This includes:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address (anonymized for high-level geographic routing)
- Browser user-agent, operating system, and device screen dimensions
- Referring URL and exit page timestamps
- HTTP request status codes and resource bandwidth usage
This data is examined in aggregate to maintain server uptime, balance traffic spikes, diagnose rendering errors, and protect our infrastructure from malicious scrapers.
2. How We Use Information
The information we collect is employed strictly to:
- Deliver, optimize, and maintain our digital restaurant directory and menu search index.
- Address patron feedback, verify pricing corrections, and update restaurant listings.
- Analyze high-level dining trends (such as popular regional cuisines) to expand directory coverage.
- Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent bot traffic, DDoS attacks, or security vulnerabilities.
- Comply with applicable legal, statutory, and regulatory obligations.
Zero Data Sale Guarantee: EntryMenu has never sold, rented, or traded visitor personal data to third-party data brokers, marketers, or lead aggregators, and will never do so.
3. Cookies & Browser Storage
Our website utilizes standard web cookies and local browser storage to provide a seamless browsing experience:
- Essential Cookies: Required for site navigation, security token generation (CSRF protection on forms), and cache performance.
- Preference Storage: Retains your navigation state, such as active menu category tabs or search filters, so your experience remains smooth as you browse.
- Analytics Cookies: Measures aggregate metrics (such as page view counts and session duration) to help us understand which culinary categories diners find most helpful.
You can manage, restrict, or disable cookies at any time via your browser settings. Note that disabling certain essential cookies may affect the interactivity of specific features.
4. Third-Party Advertising & Google DoubleClick DART Cookies
To keep our restaurant menu directory accessible to the public at no cost, we collaborate with third-party advertising partners, including Google AdSense.
- Third-party advertising vendors, including Google, utilize cookies to serve relevant advertisements based on prior visits to this website and other internet destinations.
- Google's use of advertising cookies (such as the DART cookie) enables personalized or contextual advertising aligned with general user interests.
- Visitors may easily opt out of personalized advertising by visiting the Google Ad Settings page.
- You can also opt out of participating third-party vendor cookies across the web by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices or Your Online Choices (Europe).
5. Your Privacy Rights (GDPR & CCPA/CPRA Compliance)
Depending on your location, you hold distinct rights regarding your personal information:
A. European Economic Area & UK (GDPR)
- Right of Access & Portability: Request confirmation of whether we hold personal data relating to you and obtain a copy.
- Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate contact information.
- Right to Erasure ("Right to Be Forgotten"): Request deletion of your contact submissions from our records.
- Right to Restrict or Object: Object to processing carried out on the basis of legitimate interests.
B. California Residents (CCPA / CPRA)
- Right to Know: Inquire about categories and specific pieces of personal information collected over the preceding 12 months.
- Right to Delete: Request deletion of personal information gathered directly from you.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: Receive equal service and access regardless of exercising your privacy rights.
- No Sale / Sharing: We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
6. Data Security & Encryption Standards
We deploy robust administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect our infrastructure. All data exchanged with EntryMenu is encrypted in transit using Transport Layer Security (TLS/HTTPS). Contact form submissions are defended by multi-layered anti-bot validations and CSRF security tokens.
7. Children's Online Privacy Protection (COPPA)
Protecting children's online safety is a paramount priority. EntryMenu does not knowingly collect, solicit, or store personal information from children under the age of 13. If you believe your child has submitted personal details through our contact form, please notify us immediately, and we will promptly purge the data from our records.
8. Policy Updates & Contacting Us
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect evolving technology or legal standards. The latest revision date will always be prominently noted at the top of this page.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or data protection requests regarding this policy, please reach out to our privacy desk at [email protected] or via our Contact Page.