Friends Coastal Restaurant is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Friends Coastal Restaurant Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Friends Coastal Restaurant website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Friends Coastal Restaurant collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Friends Coastal Restaurant also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Friends Coastal Restaurant. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Friends Coastal Restaurant for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Friends Coastal Restaurant Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Friends Coastal Restaurant public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Friends Coastal Restaurant does not read any of your private online communications.

Friends Coastal Restaurant encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Friends Coastal Restaurant so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Friends Coastal Restaurant is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Friends Coastal Restaurant and Friends Coastal Restaurant family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Friends Coastal Restaurant collects and uses your personal information to operate the Friends Coastal Restaurant Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Friends Coastal Restaurant also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Friends Coastal Restaurant and its affiliates. Friends Coastal Restaurant may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Friends Coastal Restaurant does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Friends Coastal Restaurant may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Friends Coastal Restaurant may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Friends Coastal Restaurant, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Friends Coastal Restaurant does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Friends Coastal Restaurant keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Friends Coastal Restaurant, in order to determine what Friends Coastal Restaurant services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Friends Coastal Restaurant to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Friends Coastal Restaurant Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Friends Coastal Restaurant or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Friends Coastal Restaurant; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Friends Coastal Restaurant, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Friends Coastal Restaurant Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Friends Coastal Restaurant pages, or register with Friends Coastal Restaurant site or services, a cookie helps Friends Coastal Restaurant to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Friends Coastal Restaurant Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Friends Coastal Restaurant features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Friends Coastal Restaurant services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Friends Coastal Restaurant secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Friends Coastal Restaurant secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Friends Coastal Restaurant will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Friends Coastal Restaurant encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Friends Coastal Restaurant is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Friends Coastal Restaurant welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Friends Coastal Restaurant has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Friends Coastal Restaurant at admin@friendscoastal.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.