Overview
TORI CAFE values transparency, reasonable data handling, and a browsing experience that does not mislead visitors. This website is intended to share cafe information, menu highlights, original blog content, visit details, and contact options in a clear and trustworthy way.
By using this site, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, you should discontinue use of the website and avoid submitting personal information through the contact form.
Information We May Collect
The type of information collected depends on how you interact with the site. We may collect the following limited categories of information:
- Information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address, subject line, and message when using the contact form.
- Basic device and browser information, such as browser type, operating system, approximate location, language settings, referring page, and pages viewed.
- Technical usage data, including date and time of visits, page interactions, general traffic patterns, error signals, and information used to understand site performance.
- Cookie or advertising identifiers that may be created by analytics, advertising, embedded maps, or other third-party tools if those services are enabled on the live website.
How We Use Information
Information collected through this website may be used to respond to inquiries, improve visitor experience, maintain site functionality, understand which pages are useful, measure site performance, detect technical problems, and protect the website from spam, misuse, or security issues.
We do not sell contact form submissions, and we do not use visitor-submitted contact details for unrelated mass marketing. If we reply to a message, we use the information only for the purpose of handling that inquiry or related business communication.
Information We Do Not Intentionally Request
The website is not designed to collect payment card numbers, government identification numbers, sensitive health records, precise geolocation, account passwords, or confidential employment documents. Visitors should avoid sending sensitive personal information through the contact form unless it is absolutely necessary for the question being asked.
If a visitor submits unnecessary sensitive information, we may delete, redact, or ignore that portion of the message where appropriate while still responding to the general inquiry.
Contact Form Handling
Messages submitted through the contact page may include your name, email address, subject, and message text. This information is used to understand your request, respond when appropriate, manage guest communication, and identify corrections or issues with the website.
The current static form may show an on-page confirmation rather than transmitting data until a live form service or email endpoint is connected. If a live form provider is added later, the provider may process submissions according to its own security and privacy practices, and this policy should be reviewed to reflect that setup.
Cookies and Analytics
Like many websites, this site may use cookies, log files, pixels, tags, or similar technologies to remember preferences, measure performance, understand traffic, prevent abuse, and improve page quality.
Analytics tools, if enabled, may collect non-personally identifying usage information such as pages visited, session length, device type, approximate region, and referring source. This information helps us understand whether the website is useful to real visitors.
You can usually control or block cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect some website features, embedded services, analytics, or advertising behavior.
Advertising, Google AdSense, and Cookies
This website may display advertising, including ads served by Google AdSense or other third-party advertising partners. Advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, or similar technologies to serve ads, limit repeated ads, measure ad performance, detect invalid activity, and understand how visitors interact with this website and other websites.
Google and its partners may use advertising cookies to personalize ads where permitted by law and user settings. Google may also use cookies to show non-personalized ads, measure ad delivery, and prevent fraud or abuse. Visitors can review Google ad settings and opt-out options through Google's advertising controls and browser-level cookie settings.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's ad settings or other recognized industry opt-out tools where available.
TORI CAFE does not ask visitors to click ads, does not reward ad clicks, and does not place ads in a way intended to imitate navigation links, downloads, forms, menu buttons, or site controls. Advertising is intended to remain separate from editorial and business content.
Ad Placement and Editorial Independence
Advertising may help support the cost of maintaining the website, but ads do not determine what we write on core pages or in the TORI Journal. Menu guidance, visit information, privacy disclosures, and editorial articles are intended to serve readers first.
We may review page layouts to reduce accidental ad clicks, confusing placements, excessive ad density, or placements that interfere with reading, navigation, forms, or accessibility.
Third-Party Services
This website may link to or embed third-party services such as map providers, social platforms, image hosts, font providers, analytics services, advertising networks, or form tools. Those services may collect data according to their own privacy policies and technical settings.
TORI CAFE is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites once you leave this site or interact with embedded external services. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of those services before sharing information with them.
How Information Is Shared
We may share information only when reasonably necessary to operate the website, respond to a request, work with service providers, comply with law, investigate abuse, prevent invalid advertising activity, or protect the rights, safety, and security of TORI CAFE, visitors, or service providers.
Operational service providers may include hosting providers, analytics tools, advertising partners, email or form processors, security tools, and map or media providers. Where possible, operational data is handled in limited and proportionate ways consistent with running a normal business website.
Data Retention
Contact inquiries and related communications may be retained for as long as reasonably needed to answer your message, keep business records, prevent misuse, and support site administration. Non-personal usage data may be retained in aggregated form for performance, analytics, security, and reporting purposes.
We aim to avoid keeping personal information longer than necessary for the purpose for which it was submitted, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted for legal, security, or legitimate business reasons.
Your Choices
You may choose not to submit contact information through the website. You may also request correction or deletion of personal details you previously submitted, subject to legitimate recordkeeping, security, and legal requirements.
You can manage cookies through your browser, adjust Google ad personalization settings, or use available opt-out tools for interest-based advertising. Depending on your location, you may also have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to certain uses of personal information.
Regional Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, privacy laws may give you additional rights related to access, deletion, correction, portability, restriction, objection, or opting out of certain data uses. Requests can be submitted through the contact page, and we may need enough information to verify and process the request responsibly.
We do not knowingly sell personal information submitted through the contact form. If advertising or analytics partners use cookies or identifiers for interest-based advertising, visitors can manage those choices through browser settings, Google ad settings, and other available opt-out tools.
Children's Privacy
This website is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe information from a child has been submitted through the site, please contact us so we can review and remove it where appropriate.
Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical steps to keep the website and submitted information protected from unauthorized access, misuse, or accidental loss. No website, form, hosting service, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Policy Updates
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect site improvements, legal obligations, advertising changes, analytics changes, new contact tools, or business updates. The latest version posted on this page will control future use of the website.