Le Bernardin, located in the heart of New York City on West 51st Street, is committed to protecting your privacy. We understand the importance of your personal information and are dedicated to handling it with care and respect. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices regarding the collection, use, and safeguarding of your information when you interact with our website, including mobile sites and apps (collectively, the “Sites”). By visiting our Sites, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Cookie Disclosure Policy, which are integral parts of this document. If you do not agree with these policies, please refrain from using our Sites.
Information We Collect
Throughout your interactions with our Sites, we may collect personally identifiable information at various points. This information can include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and similar details.
How We Use and Share Your Personal Information
The information we collect serves several key purposes:
- Subscription Management: To process, validate, and verify your subscriptions to our services.
- Communication and Updates: To inform you about new projects, Site features, special events, and services we offer.
- Service Improvement: To conduct surveys aimed at measuring your satisfaction with our services and identifying areas for improvement.
- Contractual Obligations: To enforce our rights arising from any agreements between you and Le Bernardin.
- Protection and Safety: To protect our rights, property, safety, our members, and others as necessary.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with court orders, legal processes, or governmental and regulatory requests.
- Business Transactions: To facilitate the transfer of information in the event of a merger, asset transfer, or organizational restructuring.
- Site Evaluation and Development: To monitor and assess our Sites, identifying areas for changes or service expansion.
- Advertiser Information (Aggregated): To provide advertisers with aggregated, non-individualized information about our subscriber base and usage patterns.
- Feature and Service Development: To provide our marketing and development teams with valuable insights for creating new features and services that meet subscriber needs.
- Affiliate Sharing: To share data with our affiliated companies for collaborative marketing and other joint initiatives.
- Third-Party Marketing: To share data with carefully selected nonaffiliated third parties who offer products and services that may be of interest to you.
To better serve you, we may engage third-party service providers or partner organizations. These entities may collect, store, or process your personal information on our behalf to fulfill your requests, such as completing transactions or outsourcing some of the functions mentioned above.
As a subscriber, you have the ability to modify your registration information or cancel your subscription at any time. We retain the right to contact subscribers regarding subscription renewals, subscription-related issues, questions, or changes to our Subscriber Agreement.
Research and Surveys
Occasionally, we may partner with market research firms to conduct online surveys. While you are on our Sites, you might encounter a pop-up window inviting you to participate in an optional survey. Participation is entirely voluntary. If you choose not to participate, simply click “No, Thank You,” and you will not see the window again. If you opt to participate, you will be asked to answer a series of online questions. You may be asked for your email address for validation, but no other personal information (like name or address) will be collected within the survey itself, unless a free gift is offered for participation. In such cases, we will require your name and address solely for the purpose of sending you the gift.
Cookie Usage
We utilize cookie technology to enhance your experience on our Sites. Cookies are small strings of information that websites send to your computer and are stored on your hard drive or temporarily in your computer’s memory. This technology helps you navigate our site more efficiently by avoiding the need to repeatedly verify your registration details for each page you access. A cookie is typically deleted when you log out of your session. We also use cookies to securely store usernames and passwords for subscribers, further streamlining your access. For a detailed breakdown of our cookie usage, please refer to our Cookie Disclosure Statement below.
It’s important to note that while some web browsers offer “Do Not Track” signals, our information collection and disclosure practices will continue to operate as described in this policy, regardless of these signals.
Links to Third-Party Websites
Our Sites may include links to websites operated by third parties. Please be aware that we do not have control over these external websites or their content. Once you leave our Sites, our privacy practices no longer apply, and we cannot be held responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party sites. We strongly recommend that you exercise caution and carefully review the privacy policies of any website you visit. The presence of hyperlinks to third-party websites on our Sites does not imply our endorsement of their content, actions, or policies.
Data Storage, Access, and Your Rights
We store and process data on servers located in the United States. If you are located in the European Union, you should be aware that the European Union has not determined that the United States provides data protection laws that are essentially equivalent to those in the European Union. However, we are committed to respecting the data subject rights of individuals in the European Union, which may include:
- Access, Rectification, and Erasure: The right to request access to your personal data and to have it corrected or deleted.
- Restriction and Objection to Processing: The right to limit or object to the processing of your personal data.
- Data Portability: The right to receive your personal data in a portable format.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us via email at [email protected], addressed to Cathy Sheary.
Individuals in Europe also have the right to lodge a complaint with their local data protection authority regarding the processing of their personal data. If you have any questions, concerns, or issues related to data protection, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected], attention Cathy Sheary.
We retain personal data for varying periods, consistent with the original purposes of collection, as subsequently authorized, or as required or permitted by applicable law.
We do not make decisions about data subjects that have legal consequences based solely on automated processing of personal data.
For residents of the United States, our marketing practices comply with the CAN-SPAM Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and other relevant laws. For residents of the European Union, we only engage in marketing with your explicit consent and in accordance with applicable data privacy laws. EU residents will not be added to marketing lists unless they have provided express affirmative consent as required by data protection laws.
Data Security
We are dedicated to maintaining your trust and confidence and take measures to help protect the personal information you entrust to us. However, it’s important to acknowledge that no method of data transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed as completely secure. Therefore, we encourage you to always exercise caution when transmitting information over the Internet.
Children’s Privacy
Our Sites are not intended for children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, please do not use our Sites or provide us with any personally identifiable information.
California Privacy Rights
California residents are afforded specific rights under California law. Under California’s “Shine The Light” law, residents can request information annually and free of charge about what personal information is disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. California residents who have an established business relationship with Le Bernardin, Inc. can opt out of having their personal information disclosed to third parties for marketing purposes.
Data Controller and Data Protection Officer
Le Bernardin, Inc. is responsible for your privacy protection and serves as the official service provider. If you have any questions about our website, this policy, or wish to contact our privacy protection representative, please email us at [email protected], attention Cathy Sheary.
Policy Updates
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date at the top. Please check this page regularly to stay informed of any modifications. Your continued use of our Sites after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, or if you need to update your information or manage your marketing preferences, please contact us by email at [email protected].
LE BERNARDIN COOKIE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
Last Updated: [5/24/2018]
At Le Bernardin, located at West 51st Street in New York, we are committed to providing you with a secure and efficient online experience. We use cookie technology and web beacons throughout our site to enhance your navigation and security. Alongside data encryption during registration, cookies are integral to providing consistently secure and efficient online sessions. They enable us to validate your subscription, give you access to your account, and remember some of your personal settings so you can enjoy our site the way you prefer. This Cookie Disclosure Statement explains our specific use of cookies, which are a fundamental part of our online operations.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file sent from a website’s server to your computer or device. It records details about your visit, such as your username, last visit time, pages viewed, and more. Contrary to some misconceptions, cookies cannot extract information from your hard drive without your consent, damage files, or transmit viruses. Crucially, cookies can only contain information that you willingly disclose to the site that sends them. For our site, this means any information you provide in your subscription form or during site customization.
Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies primarily to:
- Enhance Speed and Security: Cookies allow you to navigate our site more quickly and securely. For instance, when you first visit our site, a test cookie verifies your browser’s ability to accept cookies, checks your subscription status, and logs your session’s Internet Protocol (IP) address. A temporary cookie is then set in your browser, allowing you to proceed without repeatedly entering your username and password. Without cookies, features like saving your username and password and customized settings would not be possible.
Benefits of Cookies for You
Here’s a summary of the advantages of cookies:
- Faster, More Secure Access: Cookies eliminate the need to re-identify yourself on each page, enabling quicker access to content and customized information, while also efficiently storing your settings.
- Improved Services: By analyzing popular and less popular features in aggregate, cookies help us understand user preferences, allowing us to improve our site and tailor our services to better meet your needs.
Cookie-Based Usage Tracking
We do track the aggregate usage of features within our sites and share this general data with advertisers. However, we do not track your individual usage or personal information in any identifiable way.
As mentioned earlier, some web browsers may send “Do Not Track” signals. Our cookie practices will remain consistent with this policy, regardless of these signals.
Cookie Persistence
Some cookies we use are automatically deleted when you close your browser (“session cookies”). We also employ “persistent cookies” that remain on your hard drive for a set period (ranging from one to thirty days, depending on the cookie). Persistent cookies are automatically removed by your browser after their designated lifespan. You have the option to manually delete cookies from your hard drive at any time by searching for files named “cookie.txt” or similar and deleting them.
Browser Cookie Alerts
While you can enable cookie alerts in your browser settings, we recommend disabling this feature after using our site with it activated for a day to understand our cookie usage firsthand. Cookies are integral to a smoother and better user experience on our site. Given our reliance on cookies throughout the site, constant alerts might become cumbersome, especially since many of our cookies are session-based and expire quickly.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can adjust your browser settings to manage cookies: accept all, reject all, get notified when a cookie is set, or delete existing cookies. Browser settings vary, so consult your browser’s “Help” menu for instructions on customizing your cookie preferences. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser allows, but this may limit your access to certain features on our site. Additionally, several companies offer tools to help you browse websites anonymously. For detailed guidance on managing cookies across various browsers, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Third-Party Advertising Cookies
When you visit our site, you may receive cookies from third parties. We utilize third-party retargeting and remarketing technologies to display personalized advertisements on our partners’ websites to users who have previously visited our site. For this purpose, a retargeting or remarketing provider will place a cookie on your hard drive.
Since cookies do not contain or access personal information, we also permit third parties, such as ad networks and servers, to deliver tailored ads to you. These third parties may access their own cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer or mobile device. We do not have access to the information collected by these third parties, and this Cookie Disclosure Statement and our Privacy Policy do not govern the use of third-party cookies or similar technologies.
If you wish to opt out of receiving tailored advertisements, you can visit the following opt-out pages:
Google
Criteo
NAI Opt Out Tool
Plug-in Cookies
When you access our site, plug-in providers may store cookies in your browser. We lack control over the data collected by providers via plug-ins.
Plug-ins may share information with their hosts, such as your visit date and time, IP address, and browser type. If you are logged into your account with a plug-in provider while visiting our site and interact with the plug-in (e.g., clicking a button), the provider may link this information with your account data. Your recommendations or comments may be displayed publicly, along with your profile name and photo, within the provider’s service, search results, user profile, or in advertisements online.
Even if you are not a member of a plug-in service, the provider may still collect and store your IP address under certain circumstances.
For details on the purpose, scope of data collection, processing, and usage by plug-in providers, as well as your rights and opt-out options, please refer to the privacy policies of Twitter and Google.
If you are a member of a plug-in service and prefer to prevent the provider from collecting data about your site visits and linking it to your member data, log out of your account with the provider before visiting our websites.
