What we keep about you

This page covers mymenuarea.com and the restaurant menu pages that belong to it. Reading menus here asks nothing of you: we only hold what you choose to send us, plus the short technical record that every visit leaves. Using the site means you accept the handling set out below.

Who is behind this site?

My Menu Area runs a directory of restaurant menus. It publishes a menu page for each restaurant it lists and offers owners a free listing. Any question about your data reaches us at support@mymenuarea.com.

What do we keep when you send a restaurant's details?

The owner form asks for your name and role, your email and phone number, and the restaurant's name, address, link and menu files or photos. We use them to create, update, correct or remove that restaurant's page and to reply to you. A request is kept while we work on it, and afterwards as the record of what changed on the listing.

Please keep payment details, identity documents and other sensitive papers out of every form on the site.

What do we keep when you write to us?

A note sent through Add to an Area, or an email, gives us your name, your email address and whatever you wrote. We use it to answer you and to deal with the page you asked about, nothing else, and we hold it for as long as that takes, together with the record of any change it led to.

What does a review leave behind?

To post a review on a menu page, you give a name, where you are from, a rating and your text. Those four things can appear publicly on the restaurant's page. The form does not ask for an email address, and if you ever give us one, it is never published.

We read each review before publishing it. A published review stays online until we take it down or you ask us to. To change or delete one of yours, write to us with the restaurant and the name you used, and say what should change.

What does the server note on every visit?

Each time a page loads, our servers log a few technical details: your IP address, browser and device type, the page you opened, the page that sent you, and when the visit happened. Those details help us keep pages loading, track down faults and fend off abuse, and the logs are deleted once a limited period has passed.

Do cookies or embedded maps follow you?

We set no cookies to build advertising profiles. Some pages embed content from other services, such as a Google Map, and when that content loads, the service may set its own cookies or collect data under its own privacy policy. If we ever add analytics or another tool that uses cookies, this page will say so first, and we will ask for your consent wherever the law requires it.

What else is the information used for?

Beyond the uses above, we look at how the site is used so that we can improve it, and we keep what we need to keep the site secure and to meet our legal obligations.

What do we publish about restaurants?

A menu page shows business details: the restaurant's name, address, phone number, menu, prices, photos and opening hours. They come from the restaurant itself or from public sources, and the owner can have any of it corrected or removed at any time through Add to an Area.

Who else sees your details?

Nobody buys them from us, because we never sell anyone's personal information. Apart from that, your details reach only the outside services that keep mymenuarea.com online and its mail flowing, such as our web host and the service that sends our email, which are bound by agreements that limit what they may do with them, or whoever the law obliges us to hand them to.

What can you ask us to do with your data?

Depending on where you live, you may ask to see, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you, object to or limit some uses of it, and receive a copy. Send the request to support@mymenuarea.com. We may need to confirm that it is really you before we act on it.

What about children?

My Menu Area is made for a general audience, not for children under 13, and we never set out to gather their personal details. If you think a child has sent us details, tell us and we will delete them.

How is the information protected?

We guard what we hold with reasonable safeguards, both technical and organizational. No way of sending or storing data online is perfectly safe, though, so we cannot promise absolute security.

What happens when this page changes?

We may revise this page. When we do, the date under the title moves to the day the new version applies, and we point out larger changes on the site.

Where do privacy questions go?

Write to support@mymenuarea.com, or use the note form on Add to an Area.