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- MenuCircle Policy 
MenuCircle is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets out our privacy policy and explains what we do with the personal information that we collect from our users. Please read the following to understand our views and practices regarding personal information, and how they pertain to you as you use our various features and services. This statement discloses the current privacy practices for our Web sites. If we make any substantive changes to this policy, we'll announce it on our site.

- What Information Does MenuCircle.com Gather About You?
MenuCircle.com collects a limited amount of information about our visitors in order to improve our site as well as provide advertising that is more appropriate to our users. We ask for your name, email address, and other personal information when you register to use our personalized deal listing, and/or newsletter subscription. We also may ask for such information at other times, such as whenever you enter sweepstakes or other promotions sponsored by MenuCircle.com and/or our partners. If you use our email service to email a special offer to a friend, you will need to provide us with your friend's email address. MenuCircle.com will automatically send this person an one-time email, attaching the special offer information as well as inviting them to visit and register with our site. We do not store your friend's email address after sending the email. We also collect IP addresses to help us understand how our audience uses our site, so that we can make our site better and improve our users' overall experience when they visit MenuCircle.com. We also, if your browser is set up to accept them, use a feature known as a "cookie." Cookies contain bits of information that Web sites transfer to your computer's hard drive for record keeping purposes. Cookies can make the Web more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site such as ours. Although we may assign your browser a cookie, it doesn't tell us who you are.

- How Does MenuCircle.com Use Your Personal Information?
MenuCircle.com collects personal information to provide you, the user, with the best and most personalized Web experience possible. We use the information collected to customize advertising and the content you see on our pages, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and to contact you about specials and new products.

- How Do We Use "Cookies" and IP Addresses?
We collect IP addresses for the purpose of system administration and for studying how our visitors use the site. With these information, we can further improve our service to you. Cookies are used to automatically access your previously stored account information when you log in to our site. Advertising networks that serve ads onto our site may also use cookies but please note that we don't control, nor have access to those cookies. Most browsers are set up to accept cookies, but you can configure your browser to refuse cookies or to notify you when you've done. If you reject cookies, though, you will not be able to use certain areas of our site. Even if you accept our cookies, unless you tell us, we cannot find out who you are.

- Will We Disclose Any of Your Personal Information?
MenuCircle.com will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. We do not provide individual information to our advertisers. We will occassionally provide general demographic information of our site to perspective advertisers. For example, we might tell our advertiser that out of our 100,000 subscribers, 20,000 of which are female living in San Francisco. The advertiser will never know that Mary is one of them and she is a female lives in San Francisco. We will only disclose your personal information when: We have your consent to share the information; We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or We explicitly specify that we will be sharing your information, such in the case of joint promotion, sweepstakes, or giveaways. What If I Link to a Third-Party Web Site? When you click on links and/or ad banners that take you to third-party web sites, you will be subject to the third parties' privacy policies. While we support the protection of privacy on the Internet, MenuCircle.com cannot be responsible for the actions of third parties. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement whenever interacting with any web site.

- MenuCircle Members Usage Policy
Members can purchase as many listing points as they wish. We do not offer any refunds; all sales are final.

- MenuCircle Posted information such as dishes and offers
MenuCircle.com makes every effort to publish accurate merchant information. Merchant offers are subject to change without notice. Some exclusions may apply to offers depending on merchant policies.

This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services. By using the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether you are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Website) or you are a "Member" (which means that you have registered with MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com ). The term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only authorized to use the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and to this Agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully and save it. If you do not agree with it, you should leave the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Website and discontinue use of the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services immediately. If you wish to become a Member, you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the Registration process.

This Agreement includes MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com policy for acceptable use of the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services and Content posted on the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Website, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services and MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  Privacy Policy. Therefore, SPAM will not be tolerated!  Please report any misconduct to legal@MenuCircle.com.

MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  may modify this Agreement from time to time and such modification shall be effective upon posting by MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  on the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  Website. You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services after any such modification is posted. Therefore, it is important that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes made to our policies.

MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.

Proprietary Rights in Content on MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com 
MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  does not claim any ownership rights in the candid images, photos, and works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you post to the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  Services.

The MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  Services contain Content of  ("MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  Content"). MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Content is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other laws, and MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com owns and retains all rights in the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  Content and the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services. MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  Content (excluding any software code) solely for your personal use in connection with viewing the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Website and using the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services.

The MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  Services contain Content of Users and other MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  licensors. Except for Content posted by you, you may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any Content appearing on or through the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services.

Content Posted.
MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  may delete any Content that in the sole judgment of MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any person. MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  assumes no responsibility for monitoring the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services, MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the Content, no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate Content, and no responsibility for the conduct of the User submitting any such Content.

Copyright Policy.

You may not post, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy of MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com to terminate Membership privileges of any Member who repeatedly infringes the copyright rights of others upon receipt of prompt notification to MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com by the copyright owner or the copyright owner's legal agent.

Privacy.
Use of the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.

Disclaimers. MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com  is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.comWebsite or in connection with the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.comServices, whether caused by Users of the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the MenuCircle.com and RateTheMeal.com Services. Please contact us at: legal@MenuCircle.com with any questions regarding this Agreement.

I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.

 


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**MenuCircle.com makes every effort to publish accurate merchant information. Merchant offers are subject to change without notice. Some exclusions may apply to offers depending on merchant policies.
 
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