Privacy Policy

Updated On 01/24/2024

The Group Hospitality is the controller of your data under this Privacy Notice of the group of restaurants in the U.S. (the "Venues"). As a part of our operations, we gather certain types of information from and about online visitors and users through various websites.

This Privacy Notice explains our practices concerning the personal data we collect and process. It applies to information collected from and about visitors and users ("you") through various websites operated by us (either directly or through our service providers), their respective web pages, sub-domains, and any other websites (and subdomains thereof) that we operate and that link to this Privacy Notice (collectively, the "Website"). This Privacy Notice also applies to information collected from or about you through email and other electronic submissions and communications between you and us, as well as to information collected at our Venues (collectively, our "Services").

This Privacy Notice does not apply to information collected by any other company or third-party site, application, or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Website, nor directly through certain of our service providers or partners, such as OpenTable, who may have their policies that govern their use of your data; to the extent your data is transferred to us, depending on the purpose and basis on which it was transferred, it will be subject to this Privacy Notice or the privacy terms of such service provider or partner. Certain transactions and services offered while using the Services may be processed or provided by service providers and other strategic partners, even though it appears that you may not have left the Website or our Services (e.g., service providers that book reservations, carry out know-yourcustomer functions, or provide payment processing or hosting services).

Please read this Privacy Notice carefully. It explains how we process and safeguard personal data about you. By visiting or using our Services and/or by voluntarily providing personal data to us through or through or in connection with the Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understand the practices contained in this Privacy Notice. If you are providing information through the Website for or on behalf of a third party (e.g., customer, client, employee, family member, friend, or event guest), you hereby represent that you have the right to do so and that you have provided that party with a copy of this Privacy Notice, and all references to "you" or "your" data or personal data herein refer to the data or information of both you and such individual, as applicable.

This Privacy Notice is subject to any agreements, including the Terms of Use posted on our website, that govern your use of our website. Depending on your activities when visiting our website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice frequently, as it may change from time to time.  

The "Changes to This Privacy Notice" section below describes how changes to this Privacy Notice will be communicated to you and made effective.

TYPES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED ABOUT YOU AND HOW IT IS COLLECTED 

1. INFORMATION YOU SHARE WITH US 
2. AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATION 
3. COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES 
4. INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THIRD PARTIES 
5. HOW WE PROCESS PERSONAL DATA 
6. LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING 
7. OPERATIONAL PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA 
8. HOW WE SHARE PERSONAL DATA 
9. RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA 
10. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING PERSONAL DATA 
11. ACCESSING, MODIFYING, RECTIFYING, AND CORRECTING COLLECTED PERSONAL DATA 
12. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS 
13. YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS  
14. YOUR CHOICES
15. INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING
16. ANALYTICS
17. PUBLIC FORUMS
18. CHILDREN
19. SECURITY
20. HOW WE RESPOND TO DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS
21. OTHER WEBSITES/LINKS
22. INTERNATIONAL USE AND DATA TRANSFERS
23. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
24. CONTACT US

Our service providers and we collect various types of information from and about you, including:

"Personal data" is information about an identified or identifiable individual. This includes, for example, your name, email address, telephone numbers, company affiliation, title, physical address, screen names, credit card details (including the three- or four-digit security code on the back of your credit card), bank account or other payment information, credit information, birth date, driver’s license number, social security number, and any additional information by which you may be personally identified. Personal data also may include information that may not be personally identifiable standing alone (for example, your age), but any become personally identifiable when combined with other personal data (for example, your age combined with your name).

"Non-personal data" is information that is about you but which does not, and cannot be used to, identify you individually and is not linked to any personal data, including aggregated data, such as information regarding the use of our Website (including clickstream data, your movement within and interaction with the Website, including what pages you look at, and the time, date, and duration of your visit to the Website) and traffic patterns relating to the Website. Nonpersonal data may include personal data that has been anonymized in such a manner that it cannot be used, alone or in connection with other information, to identify you. Non-personal data also may be aggregated with non-personal data about others to create aggregate data (including demographic information about the age ranges of our users, average size of bookings, percentage of repeat customers, or number of users who visit the Website by clicking links contained in advertising materials).

Our service providers and we may collect this information through various means, including (a) directly from you when you provide it to us, for example, via forms that you fill out on the Website, through emails and other communications and information that you submit via the Website, and through your other activities on the Website; (b) automatically as you navigate through and interact with the Website, including via server logs, cookies, pixels, beacons, analytics, and other tracking technologies; and (c) from third parties, including without limitation our service providers, analytics providers, property owners, online intermediaries, analytics providers, and through your interactions with us on or involving social media websites or accounts.

INFORMATION YOU SHARE WITH US

The information our service providers and we collect may include the following types of personal data that you share with you:

• Information you provide when you register for the Website, make a purchase, participate in a service or offering made available on the Website, make a reservation, or sign up for our wireless Internet service, including without limitation your contact information (such as your name, address, zip code, email address, and/or phone numbers), your company name, job title and address, your screen name or username, and your payment information (such as your credit card details, bank and bank account routing information, or other information);
  
  
• Your demographic information, such as your age, gender, marital status, number of children, and nationality; 

• Information relating to your reservations, visits, or stay at our Venues, including the Venues you have visited, your arrival and departure dates, special requests made, dining reservations, your guest preferences, and your transactions and purchases. 

Information that you choose to provide to us at or through any of the Venues:

• Information you provide to sign up on web platforms (such as your name, email address, physical address, mobile phone number, gender, zip code, birth date (excluding year), social media handles, and social blogs) and information needed to administer web platforms.
  
  
• Information that you share in response to surveys and other market research; 

• Information that you include in an email, general comment, or recommendation sent through our website, as well as records and copies of that correspondence (including email addresses); 

• If you choose to log into the Website through social Sign-ins (such as Facebook Connect), personal data collected from your social media account consistent with your settings within the applicable social media service, such as photos, name, gender, contact information, and other information.
  
  
• Resumes and applications for employment at the Venues, including any personal, confidential, and/or sensitive information that you provide therein; 

• Your communications preferences;
  
  
• Other personal data that you choose to provide to us.
  
  

Whether you provide this information is your choice; however, please bear in mind that in many instances, certain personal data is necessary for you to participate in a particular activity, for us to provide a certain service or benefit to you, or for you to gain access to certain features, services, or content on our website. If you elect not to provide us with certain personal data, you may not be able to participate in a particular activity, realize a benefit we may offer, or gain access to certain content, functionalities, or services.

AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATION

When you visit and as you navigate through and interact with the Website, we, our service providers, and third parties may automatically collect information about your visits to our website, your providers and actions, patterns, and your activities on the Website. This information may include, but is not limited to:

• Details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data, the third-party website from which your visit originated, clickstream data, the search terms you use on our website, your movement within and interaction with the Website, including what pages you look at, and the time, date, and duration of your visit to the Website. 
• Information about your computer or devices and Internet connection, such as your IP address, your general geographic location, your computer or device type, and its capabilities and features, the operating system or platform you are using, your browser type, and your Internet Service Provider. 
• Information about traffic patterns, number of visits to certain pages, visits from other websites or to third-party websites linked to the Website, and visitors’ use of services.  
• and interest in services, information, or features of the Website. 

Automatically collected information is often processed to create aggregated statistical or demographic data. We may share such aggregated data with third parties as described in the "How We Share Your Information" section below. Automatically collected information that contains or constitutes personal data, as well as non-personal data that we or our service providers maintain or associate with personal data collected in other ways or received from third parties, is being treated as personal data and used and shared as disclosed in this Privacy Notice.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Our service providers and other third parties may place "cookies" on our website to collect certain information. A "cookie" or "browser cookie" is a small text file that can be stored on your computer’s hard drive or other device if your web browser or device settings permit. Certain features of the locally and us, (or Flash Cookies) to collect and store information, including information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our website. Cookies allow us and our service providers, for example, to customize your experience and make your visit to the Website easier (for example, recognizing when you return, remembering your viewing preferences, enabling social media Sign-in functionality, facilitating social sharing, and if you are a registered user, remembering your password), measure activity on the Website, track conversions, target ads, and provide analytics. While some cookies are deleted when you close your browser, others remain even after you close your browsing session.

We, our service providers, and other third parties also may use pixel tags, web beacons, or clear gifs, which are tiny files with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, that are placed in the code of a web page or an email. These technologies might be used, for example, to allow us and our service providers to track conversions, to send emails to you in a format you can read, to count users who have visited our Website, seen our ads, opened our emails, or clicked on any links in our emails, to inform us what content and advertising is effective, to optimize the Website and its content, to reduce or eliminate messages sent to customers, to enhance Website usability, to provide you with ads and other promotions and content that may be of interest to you based on your online activities and to collect other information about you and your visit when you use the Website. In addition, when you click on a link in an email, our service providers and we may record the individual response to allow us to customize our offerings to you.

We and our service providers may analyze the information derived from cookies, Pixels, and other technologies and match or combine that information with data provided by you or another party. We engage various service providers who may use unique identifiers, cookies, pixels, beacons, and other technologies to provide us with analytics about how and in what ways you interact with us and use the Website and to deliver advertisements and content that may be of interest to you (known as "interest-based advertising" or "online behavioral advertising").

For more information about analytics and our vendors, go to the "Analytics" section below, and for more information about interest-based advertising, go to the "Interest-Based Advertising" section below. To the extent that our service providers are using pixels, cookies, beacons, or other tracking technologies, we do not control the use of those technologies or the resulting information, and we are not responsible for the policies of those companies.

For more information about the cookies and tracking technologies, we use on the Website, what they do, and how to manage, opt-out, delete, block, or disable them (as applicable), consult our Cookie Notice. Please keep in mind, however, that you may not be able to access the full functionality of our website if cookies are disabled.

INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THIRD PARTIES

We receive personal data from third parties that book stays or order services on your behalf (such as web applications and intermediaries), from properties where you book stays, from third parties that provide services to us or you on our behalf, as well as from third parties that provide web analytics and usage information to us.

In addition, if you choose to interact with us on social media platforms by posting to our social media accounts or pages, tagging us (or using certain hashtags or other identifiers) in posts, or participating in activities, we may collect certain information from the social media account you use to interact with us depending on the social media platform and your account settings, including the name associated with the account, the account handle, recent activity, the content of any posts in which we are tagged, and other information that may be contained on your social media profile to allow us to respond to the posts and understand and engage with our audience.

For this Privacy Notice, "partners" means licensors, franchisees, vendors, service providers, and other third parties with which we have a business relationship.

HOW WE PROCESS PERSONAL DATA & LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING

We process personal data for, or based on, one or more of the following legal bases:

• Performance of reservation. We use personal data to enter and perform under, a reservation between us, such as when you reserve or pay with advance for stays, or order products or services. 

• Legitimate Interests. We use personal data for our legitimate interests, including contact information, reservation and request history, Service interaction, and Website usage data. 

• Compliance with Legal Obligations and Protection of Individuals. We may use personal data to comply with the law and our legal obligations, as well as to protect you and other individuals from certain harms. 

• Your Consent. We process certain personal data because you have given us your consent to process it in that manner. 

OPERATIONAL PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

We may process non-personal data (including aggregated information) for any lawful purpose. In addition, our service providers and we may use personal data collected from or about you as described in this Privacy Policy for the purposes disclosed to you or as otherwise permitted or required by law.

To provide, track, and process the services, purchases, and transactions that you request, including facilitating dining reservations; 

• To accommodate your preferences, to personalize and enhance your experience and the services provided to you at the Venues, and to improve the Venues and our services; 

• To validate your identity, to verify communications from you, and to respond to your emails, submissions, questions, comments, requests for information, and complaints, and to provide customer service; 

• To manage, store, and enhance guest data and preferences; 

• To send you updates and information, such as communications about purchases, programs you have joined, and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies; 

• To conduct customer satisfaction, market research, or quality assurance surveys; 

• To conduct market research and to develop new Venues and services; 

• To conduct and administer sweepstakes, prize draws, and other contests; 

• For marketing purposes, including without limitation interest-based advertising, other targeted promotions, sending you other promotional materials, and notifying you about special promotions, offers, events, or opportunities, including for select marketing partners of ours; 

• To send you marketing communications about the products and services offered by our property owners, marketing partners, and other third parties, including without limitation offers regarding residential sales opportunities; 

• To determine benefits and rewards; 

• For financial reporting and analysis; 

• To cross-reference, supplement, and combine with other information that we or our service providers have acquired about you or may acquire about you through other sources, except were prohibited by applicable law or regulation (if any non-personal data is combined with personal data, the combined information will be treated as personal data under this Privacy Notice for as long as it remains combined); 

• To monitor, track, and analyze Website usage and trends, to personalize and improve the Website, and to increase the Website’s functionality; 

• To send you confirmations, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages and otherwise facilitate your use of, and our administration and operation of, the Website; 

• To protect the security or integrity of our network, systems, Website, Venues, and business; 

• To prevent fraud and other prohibited or illegal activities, to investigate and resolve disputes and problems, and to otherwise comply with applicable laws and regulations; 

• For any other purpose that is disclosed to you at the point of collection of the personal data; 

• For any purpose for which you provide your prior consent; and 

• In other ways naturally associated with the circumstances in which you provided the personal data, and for any other lawful purpose. 

In addition, we use IP addresses for purposes of system administration, Website optimization, and Website security assessments, to report non-personal aggregate information to others, to track the use of our website, and to get a sense of where our website visitors are located. We also use your IP address to personalize content on the Website, to identify you, and to share that information as described in the "How We Share Your Information" section below.

HOW WE SHARE PERSONAL DATA

We may share non-personal data with any third parties for any lawful purpose. Unless otherwise prohibited by law, we disclose personal data collected from or about you as described in this Privacy Notice to the following types of third parties and for the following purposes:

• Affiliated Companies: We may share your information with our parents, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and other controlled affiliates (including restaurants and other business ventures that are licensed, owned, operated, and/or managed by us or our parents, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and other companies under common control), who may use personal data for any of the purposes disclosed in or consistent with the terms of this Privacy Notice (including without limitation those identified in the "How We Process Personal Data section above). 

• Property Partners: We may share your information with owners of Venues that we manage but do not own, owners and operators of licensed Venues, and owners and operators of certain residential properties associated with or located in proximity to various Venues (as well as the respective designees of any of the foregoing), who may use personal data to provide you with services at or relating to the Venues, to provide you marketing information consistent with the terms of this Privacy Notice (including without limitation those identified in the "How We Process Personal Data" section above).
  
  
• Marketing Partners: We do not share your data with our co-promotional partners and other business partners with whom we have marketing or other relationships for joint marketing purposes, but in certain circumstances, do allow you to opt-in or otherwise acknowledge or consent to the direct provision of your data to such parties when you provide it to us.
  
  
• Service Providers: We may share your information with our service providers who assist us by performing core services (such as reservations, hosting, billing, fulfillment, data storage, security, processing credit card payments, customer service, credit reporting, property management, customer relationship management, "know-your-customer," accounting, auditing, processing insurance claims, investigating accident reports, administering sweepstakes, surveys, email, and mailing services, and delivering packages) related to the operation of the Venues, the provision of services at the Venues, the operation of the Website, the processing and fulfillment of reservations or product orders, and/or by making certain Website functionality available to our users.
  
  
• Transactions: In the event of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, bankruptcy, reorganization, or liquidation, we may transfer, sell, or assign to third parties information concerning your relationship with us, including, without limitation, personal data collected from or about you provide, and other information concerning your relationship with us. Any successor may use your information for the same purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice.
  
  
• Legal: We reserve the right to your data to identify you, and where permitted or required by law or applicable regulation, we will provide any information about or relating to you, including any personal data about you, to third parties if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with a court order, subpoena or other legal or regulatory requirements; (b) otherwise fulfill a government request for information; (c) protect or defend our legal rights or property, our Venues, our Website, or other guests and online users; (d) respond to claims that any posting or other content of our Website violates the rights of third parties, including without limitation providing information necessary to satisfy the notice and counter-notice procedures under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; (e) in an emergency, to protect the health and safety of our Website’s users or the general public, or (f) enforce compliance with our Terms of Use or other contracts.
  
  
• Purpose Fulfillment: We disclose personal data to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  
  
• Consent: We disclose personal data with your consent and/or when you request that we do so.
  
  

RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA 

We retain personal data for as long is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, as well to the extent necessary or appropriate to carry out the processing activities described above, including but not limited to compliance with applicable laws, regulations, rules and requests of relevant law enforcement and/or other governmental agencies, and to the extent we reasonably deem necessary to protect our and our partners’ rights, property, or safety, and the rights, property, and safety of our users and other third parties. We consider multiple factors, including legal requirements, the scope and nature of the personal data, and the potential risk of harm to data subjects from a data breach, in determining the appropriate retention period. If you have a specific question regarding retention of your data, you may contact us as described in the "Contact Us."

YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING PERSONAL DATA 

You have a variety of legal rights regarding the collection and processing of personal data. You may exercise these rights, to the extent they apply to you, by contacting us as described in the Contact Us” section below, or by following instructions provided in this Privacy Notice or communications sent to you. Please be prepared to provide reasonable information to identify yourself and authenticate your requests.

Note, however, that we may request certain reasonable additional information (that may include personal data) to help us authenticate the request and/or to clarify or understand the scope of such requests.These rights vary depending on the laws of the jurisdiction applicable to you, but may include:

• The right to know whether and for what purposes we process personal data about you;
  
  
• The right to be informed about the personal data we collect and/or process about you;

• The right to learn the source of personal data about you we process, where we obtain that personal data from a source other than you;
  
  
• The right to access, modify, and correct personal data about you (as outlined in more detail below under "Accessing, Modifying, Rectifying, and Correcting Collected Personal data"); 

• The right to know with whom we have shared personal data about you, for what purposes, and what personal data has been shared (including whether personal data was disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes);
  
  
• Where the processing of personal data about you is based on consent, the right to withdraw your consent to such processing;
  
  
• The right to complain with a supervisory authority located in the jurisdiction of your habitual residence, place of work, or where an alleged violation of law occurred.
  
  

See "Your Rights" and "Your California Privacy Rights" for more information about certain legal rights.

ACCESSING, MODIFYING, RECTIFYING, AND CORRECTING COLLECTED PERSONAL DATA

We strive to maintain the accuracy of any personal data collected from you and will use commercially reasonable efforts to respond promptly to update our database when you tell us the information in our database is Incurred However, we must rely upon you to ensure that the information you provide to us is complete, accurate, and up-to-date, and to inform us of any changes. Please review all your information carefully before submitting it to us and notify us as soon as possible of any updates or corrections as described in the "Contact Us" section below.

Per applicable law, you may obtain from us certain personal data in our records. You can contact us as described in the "Contact Us" section below to access, review, update, or correct certain personal data. If you have registered an account on the Website, or are a member of the CODE Program, you can also login to your account to change or update certain information and preferences to keep such data accurate, complete, and up to date. Please note, however, that we reserve the right to deny access as permitted or required by applicable law.

YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

In addition to the above-listed rights, certain laws provide individuals with enhanced rights in respect of their data. These rights may include, depending on the facts and circumstances surrounding, and in certain cases the legal basis for, the processing of personal data, the following:

• The right to be informed of whether we hold personal data about you;
  
  
• The right to object to decisions based on profiling or automated decision-making that produce legal or similarly significant effects on you;
  
  
• The right to request restriction of processing of personal data or object to processing of personal data carried out under (a) a legitimate interest (including, but not limited to, processing for direct marketing purposes) or (b) performance of a task in the public interest; 

• The right to challenge the accuracy and completeness of your data and have it amended as appropriate;
  
  
• The right to be provided with information about our policies and practices concerning the management of personal data, including (a) the name title, and address, of the person who is accountable for our privacy policies and practices; (b) the means of gaining access to personal data; (c) a description of the type of personal data held by us, including a general account of its use; (d) a copy of any brochures or other information that explain our policies, standards, or codes; and (e) what personal data is made available to related organizations;
  
  
• The right to data portability, which means that you can request that we provide certain personal data we hold about you in a machine-readable format;
  
  
• The right to erasure and/or the right to be forgotten, which means that you can request deletion or removal of certain personal data we process about you.
  
  

Where applicable law is required, we will respond to a valid request relating to your rights within one month of receipt or within three months when a request is complex or challenging. Note that we may need to request additional information from you to validate your request.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS  

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits residents of the State of California to request from certain businesses with whom the California resident has an established business relationship a list of all third parties to which the business, during the immediately preceding calendar year, has disclosed certain personal data for direct marketing purposes.

We are only required to respond to a customer request once during any calendar year per person. To make such a request, you should send a contact request with the subject heading "California Privacy Rights." In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. Requests are free of charge.

Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the California privacy rights requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response. We reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted to addresses other than the addresses specified in this paragraph.

YOUR CHOICES 

In certain instances, we may provide you with the option to set your preferences for receiving email communications from us; that is, you can agree to receive some communications but not others. At any time, you also may opt out of receiving future commercial emails from us by following the "Unsubscribe" instructions contained in any commercial emails that you receive from us. You also may contact us as described in the "Contact Us" section if you want to opt-out from receiving future commercial correspondence, including marketing emails, from us.

We will respond to your request and, if applicable and appropriate, make the requested change in our active databases within a reasonable timeframe in compliance with applicable law. Please remember that we may not be able to fulfill certain requests while allowing you access to certain benefits and features. Even if you unsubscribe from our marketing communications, you may continue to receive certain communications from us, such as transactional, customer service, or other relationship messages, messages about your account and profile, and emails in response to communications or requests for information that we receive from you.

If you want to limit or prevent our ability to collect location information from you, you can deny or remove the permission for the Website to access location information or deactivate location services on your device. Please refer to your device manufacturer or operating system instructions for instructions on how to do this.

Finally, consult our Cookie Notice for more information about how to control and/or opt out of certain web tracking technologies.

INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING 

We may allow third parties to collect information about your online activities on our website through unique identifiers, cookies, pixels, beacons, and other technologies (as described above). These third parties include advertising networks that may use unique identifiers, cookies, pixels, beacons, and other technologies to track and collect information about your interests when you visit our website and other websites or view or interact with one of the advertisements they place on various websites or mobile platforms. The information gathered by these third parties is used to make predictions about your characteristics, interests, or preferences and to display advertisements on our website and across the Internet tailored to your apparent interests.

Consult our Cookie Notice for more information about interest-based advertising, as well as how to control and/or opt out of certain web tracking technologies, including cookies and certain interest-based advertising providers.

ANALYTICS 

We engage service providers to provide analytics data for understanding and optimizing web usage, for business and market research purposes, measuring conversion tracking, and measuring the effectiveness of our content and online advertising campaigns.

These service providers may use cookies alone or in conjunction with unique identifiers, pixels, beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Website.

Consult our Cookie Notice for more information about analytics, as well as how to control and/or opt out of certain web tracking technologies, including cookies and certain analytics providers.

PUBLIC FORUMS 

We may offer chat rooms, blogs, message boards, bulletin boards, or similar public forums where you and other users of our website can communicate. Unless otherwise required by applicable law or regulation, the protections described in this Privacy Notice do not apply to information (including personal data) that you post to these public forums.

We may use personally identifiable and non-personal data about you to identify you through your postings in a public forum. Any information you share in a public forum is public information and may be seen or collected by anyone, including third parties that do not adhere to our Privacy Notice. We are not responsible for events arising from the distribution of any information you choose to publicly post or share through our website.

CHILDREN 

The Website is a general audience site, and the features, programs, promotions, and other aspects of our website requiring the submission of personal data are not intended for anyone under 18 years of age. If you are under 18, you may not access, use, or register on the Website.

We do not knowingly collect personal data from individuals under 18. If you are a parent or guardian of an individual under 18 and believe they have disclosed personal data to us without your permission, please contact us at the provided form "Contact Us” section below.

A parent or guardian of a child under the age of 18 may request the deletion of such child’s data and prohibit the use thereof.

SECURITY 

We take reasonable steps to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration and protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience of the information under our control, including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to encrypt the transmission of non-public personally identifiable financial and transaction information over the Internet, provided you are using an SSL-enabled device. We also utilize other reasonable security measures such as firewalls, patches, and anti-virus programs, to protect nonpublic personal data. We also take steps to ensure personal data is backed up and remains available in the event of a security incident. We periodically test, assess, and evaluate the effectiveness of our safeguards and security controls.

Despite these efforts, please be advised that no security system or means of transmitting data over the Internet can be guaranteed to be entirely secure (including without limitation concerning computer viruses, malicious software, and hacker attacks), and we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us via the Internet, and are not responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your data. For your privacy protection, we recommend that you do not include any nonpublic personal or sensitive personal data such as passwords, social security numbers, credit card details, or bank account information, in any emails that you send to us. We will not contact you by email or text message to ask for such information.

HOW WE RESPOND TO DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS 

Some web browsers may give you the ability to enable a "do not track" setting which is an HTTP header field indicating your preferences regarding tracking or cross-site user tracking. This is different from disabling certain forms of tracking by declining cookies in your browser settings, as browsers with the "do not track" setting enabled could still accept cookies.

The Website does not recognize web browser "do not track" signals currently. We may work with third parties that use tracking technologies on the Website, including serving tailored advertisements on our behalf and behalf of other advertisers across the Internet.

These companies may collect information about your activity on the Website and other websites over time, as well as your interaction with our advertising and other communications, and use this information to determine which ads you see on third-party websites and applications. For more information about this practice and to understand your options, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/  or  http://www.aboutads.info 

OTHER WEBSITES/LINKS 

As a convenience, our website may reference or provide links to third-party websites and/or services that we do not control or maintain. When you access these third-party websites or services, you leave our website, and we are not responsible for and do not control, the content, security, or privacy practices employed by any third-party websites and services. You access such third-party websites and services at your own risk. Be aware that those third-party websites collect information and operate according to their privacy practices. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any third-party website. We encourage you to note when you leave the Website and to read the privacy statements of all third-party websites to understand how they collect, use, and disclose personal data before submitting any personal data to those websites.

INTERNATIONAL USE AND DATA TRANSFERS 

Your data will be stored and processed in the United States and the locations of the Venue(s) with which you interact. If you are using the Website or other Services from outside the United States, by your use of the Website or other Services you acknowledge that we will transfer your data to, and store your data in, the United States, which may have different data protection rules than in your country, and personal data may become accessible as permitted by law in the United States, including to law enforcement and/or national security authorities in the United States. For transfers of data out of the European Economic Area, we use standard contractual clauses, and as appropriate, other applicable mechanisms.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE 

This Privacy Notice replaces all previous disclosures we may have provided to you about our information practices concerning the Website. We may change or update this Privacy Notice in the future. You can identify the date that this Privacy Notice was last updated by looking at the date at the top of this Privacy Notice. Any revisions to this Privacy Notice will take effect upon posting to the Website. We will notify you of any material changes to this Privacy Notice either by sending an email to the email address that you provided to us and/or by placing a notice on the homepage of the Website. We encourage you to regularly review the current version of this Privacy Notice on the Website. Your use or continued use of the Website following posted changes constitutes your acknowledgment of the revised Privacy Notice then in effect.

CONTACT US 

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Notice, or if you would like to exercise the choices discussed above, please contact our team at  contact@thegroup.nyc through our contact form or (b) by postal mail in the U.S. at 108 7th Avenue South, New York, New York, NY 10014.

The Group Hospitality has taken the right to amend this policy occasionally. If our privacy policy impacts how we use your personal information, we will make that information available by posting a notice on this site.   

January 2024