Darden: Online Privacy Notice
Effective Date: December 20, 2012
We at Darden Corporation, along with our affiliates (collectively, "Darden"), respect
your concerns about privacy. This Privacy Notice applies to personal information
we collect on the Darden websites on which we have posted this Privacy Notice (collectively,
the "Sites").
This Privacy Notice describes the types of personal information we collect on the
Sites, how we may use the information, with whom we may share it and the choices
available to you regarding our use of the information. We also describe the measures
we take to safeguard the information and tell you how to contact us about our privacy
practices.
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Information We Collect
We may obtain certain personal information (such as name and other contact details)
through our Sites. The types of personal information we may collect include:
- Contact information, such as your name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone
number
- Names, postal addresses, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of others to whom
you ask us to send information
- Username and password to access Darden products and services online
- Payment information (such as payment card details, financial account information
and billing address)
- Birth date
- Online order history
- Information about your education, work and military history, legal work eligibility
status, and other information relevant to specific jobs for which you may apply
- Other personal information you may provide to us
In addition, when you visit our Sites, we may collect certain information by automated
means, such as cookies and web beacons. The information we collect in this manner
includes IP address, browser characteristics, device characteristics, operating
system, language preferences, referring URLs, information on actions taken on our
site, and dates and times of website visits. A "cookie" is a text file that websites
send to a visitor's computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify
the visitor's browser or to store information or settings in the browser. A "web
beacon," also known as an Internet tag, pixel tag or clear GIF, links web pages
to web servers and their cookies and may be used to transmit information collected
through cookies back to a web server. Through these automated collection methods,
we obtain "clickstream data," which is a log of content on which a visitor clicks
while browsing a website. As the visitor clicks through the website, a record of
the action may be collected and stored. We may link certain data elements we have
collected through automated means, such as your browser information, with other
information we have obtained about you to let us know, for example, whether you
have opened an e-mail we sent to you. Your browser may tell you how to be notified
when you receive certain types of cookies or how to restrict or disable certain
types of cookies. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able
to use all of the features of our Sites.
If you use Site features operated by third-party social networking services (such
as Facebook), we may receive information you have made available to those services,
including the geographic location of your mobile device and other information about
you (such as name, email address, gender, locale, time zone, languages, social media
profile URL, personal website URL, biographical information, birthday, photo, list
of devices, education history, work history, hometown, interests, current city,
political views, favorite athlete and teams, relationship status and information,
religion, name of significant other, and certain security settings information)
and your contacts on those services. Some of these social networking services allow
you to push content from our Sites to your contacts or to pull information about
your contacts so you can connect with them on our Sites. Some of these services
also will facilitate your registration for our Sites or enhance or personalize your
experience on our Sites. You should make sure you understand the information your
third-party social networking services may make available to our Sites. We may use
and disclose the personal information we receive on our Sites through third-party
social networking services as described in this Privacy Notice.
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How We Use The Information We Obtain
We may use the information we obtain through the Sites to:
- Create and manage your account
- Offer and provide products and services to you
- Process and collect payments for gift cards
- Communicate about, and administer your participation in, special events, programs,
surveys, contests, sweepstakes, and other offers or promotions
- Send information to others if you ask us to do so
- Respond to and communicate with you about your requests, questions and comments
- Manage your application for employment with Darden and contact you in connection
with potential employment opportunities
- Process claims we receive in connection with our products and services
- Operate, evaluate and improve our business (including developing new products and
services; managing our communications; determining the effectiveness of our sales,
marketing and advertising; analyzing and enhancing our products, services and Sites;
and performing accounting, auditing, billing, reconciliation and collection activities)
- Perform data analyses and other processing (including market and consumer research,
trend analysis, financial analysis, anonymization, encryption and tokenization of
personal information)
- Protect against, identify and prevent fraud and other criminal activity, claims
and other liabilities
- Comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards
and our policies.
In addition, we use information collected online through cookies, local shared objects
(also known as "Flash cookies"), web beacons and other automated means for purposes
such as (i) customizing our users' visits to our Sites, (ii) delivering content
(including advertising) tailored to our users' interests and the manner in which
our users browse our Sites, and (iii) managing our business. We may supplement data
we collect through automated means with information about your location (such as
your zip code) to provide you with content that may be of interest to you. We also
use this information to help diagnose technical and service problems, administer
our Sites, identify users of our Sites, and gather demographic information about
our users. We use clickstream data to determine how much time users spend on web
pages of our Sites, how users navigate through our Sites, and how we may tailor
our Sites to better meet the needs of our users. To identify local shared objects
on your computer and adjust your settings, visit www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html.
We may use third-party web analytics services on our Sites, such as those of Google
Analytics. The analytics providers that administer these services use technologies
such as cookies, web server logs and web beacons to help us analyze how visitors
use the Sites. The information collected through these means (including IP address)
is disclosed to these analytics providers, who use the information to evaluate use
of the Sites. To learn more about Google Analytics and how to opt out, please visit
www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html. We may combine information
we collect from you with information we receive from third parties and use it for
the purposes described in this Privacy Notice. We also may use the information we
obtain about you in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time
of collection.
Interest-Based Advertising
On the Sites, we may collect information about your online activities for use in
providing you with advertising about products and services tailored to your individual
interests. This section of our Privacy Notice provides details and explains how
to exercise your choices.
You may see certain ads on other websites based on your visits to our Sites because
we participate in advertising networks administered by third-party vendors. Ad networks
allow us to target our messaging to users through demographic, interest-based and
contextual means. These networks track your online activities over time by collecting
information through automated means, including through the use of cookies, web server
logs and web beacons. The networks use this information to show you advertisements
that are tailored to your individual interests. The information our ad network vendors
collect includes information about your visits to websites that participate in the
vendors' advertising networks, such as the pages or advertisements you view and
the actions you take on the websites. This data collection takes place both on these
Sites and on third-party websites that participate in the ad networks. This process
also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. To learn more about
how to opt out of ad network interest-based advertising, click here.
Information We Share
We do not sell or otherwise share personal information about you, except as described
in this Privacy Notice. When you post a comment on our blogs, we may publish your
name and user ID on the blog with your comment. We share personal information with
third parties who perform services on our behalf based on our instructions. These
third parties are not authorized by us to use or disclose the information except
as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements.
We also may share the personal information we obtain with our affiliates, franchisees
and joint marketing partners.
We also may disclose information about you (i) if we are required to do so by law,
regulation or legal process (such as a court order or subpoena), (ii) in response
to requests by government agencies, such as law enforcement authorities, or (iii)
when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm
or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual
illegal activity. We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about
you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets
(including in the event of a reorganization, dissolution or liquidation).
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Your Options
We offer you certain choices about how we communicate with you and what information
we collect from you. To update your preferences, ask us to remove your information
from our newsletter e-mail lists or submit a request, please contact us as specified
in the How To Contact Us section of this Privacy Notice.
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Notice to California Residents
Subject to certain limits under California Civil Code ยง 1798.83, California residents
may ask us to provide them with (i) a list of certain categories of personal information
that we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during
the immediately preceding calendar year, and (ii) the identity of those third parties.
To make this request, California residents may contact us as specified in the How
to Contact Us section below.
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Links To Other Websites
Our Sites may contain links to other websites for your convenience and information.
These websites may be operated by companies not affiliated with Darden. Linked websites
may have their own privacy policies or notices, which we strongly suggest you review
if you visit any linked websites. We are not responsible for the content of any
websites that are not affiliated with Darden, any use of those websites, or the
privacy practices of those websites.
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How We Protect Personal Information
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect
the personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized
destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.
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Children's Privacy
Our Sites are not directed to children under the age of thirteen and we do not knowingly
collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen on our Sites.
If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from
a visitor under the age of thirteen on our Sites, we will delete the information
from our records.
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Updates To Our Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you
to reflect changes in our personal information practices. We will post a prominent
notice on our Sites to notify you of any significant changes to our Privacy Notice
and indicate at the top of the notice when it was most recently updated.
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How To Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, or if you would like us to
update information we have about you or your preferences, please contact us by e-mail
at ComplianceEthics@darden.com
or by phone at 407-245-5397, ext. 7. You also may write to us at:
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
Attention: Compliance and Ethics Office 1000 Darden Center
Drive
Orlando, FL 32837
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