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Privacy Notice

At Waffle House restaurants, we are committed to protecting your privacy. While visiting the Waffle House website, you may be asked to provide information that personally identifies you (name, address, billing address, email address, home telephone number, mobile telephone number and/or credit card number). The following are sample areas on the Waffle House website where we request personal information:

  • Job Inquiries with Waffle House
  • Customer Feedback
  • Contest Entry
  • Sign-ups for Waffle House Regulars’ Club E-mail Service
  • Information about Waffle House Museum Tours
  • Information about Catering opportunities
  • Information about surplus properties

The information that we collect is on a voluntary basis. You may choose not to provide personal information and you will still be able to visit most of the Waffle House website pages. However, you will not be able to complete the activities listed above using the website without providing us the required personal information. Please read on for more detail about our privacy policy.

What information do we collect? How do we use it?

The personal information that we collect varies depending on the activity you wish to conduct on the website. We will need more information for some activities (i.e. job inquiries) than others (i.e. Museum Tour Information).

When you enter a contest or other promotion, we may ask for your name, address, birthdate and email address so we can administer the contest and notify winners. If you have not opted out of receiving marketing materials, we may also use the information we collect to occasionally notify you about important functionality changes to the website, new services or other special offers we think you’ll find valuable.

You can choose to not allow us to use your personal information for direct marketing purposes by indicating your preference at the time of collection or by responding to the promotional e-mail in the manner provided. In certain circumstances, consent may be sought after the information has been collected but before it is used (i.e. when we want to use information for a purpose not previously identified).

Will Waffle House restaurants disclose the information it collects to outside parties?

Presently, Waffle House does not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others. Waffle House may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no individual personal information.

If you submit comments through the website, we may use or post your comments (or a portion or variation of your comments), along with your first name, city or town, on this website or other media without payment or compensation to you.

In instances when we receive customer complaints or feedback concerning specific franchised restaurants, we will forward the feedback to the franchise organization.

Other instances in which we may need to disclose personal information include:

1. when required by law to comply with a judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on us;

2. to enforce our policies or agreements, including the collection of amounts owed to us;

3. to protect users of our website from fraudulent or abusive use.

We also reserve the right to disclose or transfer personal information to a third party in the event of a proposed, or actual, purchase, sale, lease, merger or any other type of acquisition, disposal or financing of all or any portion of Waffle House Inc.

Children Under the Age of 13

While we are happy to have you visit the Waffle House restaurants’ website with your children, this website is a general audience site and is not designed nor intended to collect personal information from children under the age of 13.

Changes to Your Personal Information

We currently do not have a process where you can review the personal information that we have on file. However, if you have a change in personal information and would like to update our information, please contact us using the Contact Us page on this site.

Links to Other Sites

We may provide links to third party sites on our website. We are not responsible for the content or information collection practices of those other sites. The privacy policy of other sites may differ from Waffle House® restaurants’ privacy policy. Please read the privacy policy of any third party website before providing any personal information.

Your Consent

By using our website and submitting the personal information requested, you consent to the collection and use of this information in the manner described in this policy by Waffle House restaurants. We reserve the right to change this policy in this regard at any time in the future. In the event of a change in policy, a notification of such change will be posted on the website with more details on what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Short Code Terms of Service

1. When you opt-in to the service, we will send you a message to confirm your signup. Text CAREERS to 923353 to start your Waffle House Career. Message and data rates may apply. You will receive 1 message per request. Text “HELP” for help. Text “STOP” to cancel.

Text PICS + an image to 923353 to start your Waffle House Career. Message and data rates may apply. You will receive 1 message per request. Text “HELP” for help. Text “STOP” to cancel.

2. You can cancel this service at any time. Just text “STOP” to 923353. After you send the message “STOP” to us, we will send you a reply message to confirm that you have been unsubscribed. After this, you will no longer receive messages from us.

3. If you want to join again, just sign up as you did the first time and we will start sending messages to you again.If at any time you forget what keywords are supported, just text “HELP” to 923353. After you send the message “HELP” to us, we will respond with instructions on how to use our service as well as how to unsubscribe.

4. Participating carriers: AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Boost Mobile, MetroPCS, Virgin Mobile, Alaska Communications Systems (ACS), Appalachian Wireless (EKN), Bluegrass Cellular, Cellular One of East Central, IL (ECIT), Cellular One of Northeast Pennsylvania, Cricket, Coral Wireless (Mobi PCS), COX, Cross, Element Mobile (Flat Wireless), Epic Touch (Elkhart Telephone), GCI, Golden State, Hawkeye (Chat Mobility), Hawkeye (NW Missouri), Illinois Valley Cellular, Inland Cellular, iWireless (Iowa Wireless), Keystone Wireless (Immix Wireless/PC Man), Mosaic (Consolidated or CTC Telecom), Nex-Tech Wireless, NTelos, Panhandle Communications, Pioneer, Plateau (Texas RSA 3 Ltd), Revol, RINA, Simmetry (TMP Corporation), Thumb Cellular, Union Wireless, United Wireless, Viaero Wireless, and West Central (WCC or 5 Star Wireless).

5. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

6. For all questions about the services provided by this short code, you can send an email to [email protected].

7. If you have any questions regarding privacy, please read our privacy policy.

Short Code Privacy Policy

The Waffle House application and the associated Waffle House Careers website available at Waffle House (“Waffle House”) are owned and operated by Waffle House (“us” “we” or “our”). This Waffle House privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) is intended to inform you of our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any information you submit to us through Waffle House. This includes “Personal Information,” which is information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, e-mail address, user ID number, and other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing, as well as “Anonymous Information,” which is information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information and does not permit the identification of individual persons.

User Consent

By accessing or otherwise using Waffle House, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and the associated Terms of Service (set forth here) you expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information and Anonymous Information according to this Privacy Policy.

Your Personal Information may be processed by us in the country where it was collected as well as other countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.

Regarding Children

Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to use Waffle House and we do not intentionally collect or maintain Personal Information from those who are under 13 years old. Protecting the privacy of children is very important to us. Thus, if we obtain actual knowledge that a user is under 13, we will take steps to remove that user’s Personal Information from our databases. We recommend that children between the ages of 13 and 18 obtain their parent’s permission before submitting information over the internet. By using Waffle House, you are representing that you are at least 18 years old, or that you are at least 13 years old and have your parents’ permission to use Waffle House.

Collection and Use of Information

Personal Information

In general, we collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily through Waffle House. We also collect information that you submit in the process of creating or editing your account and user profile on Waffle House. For example, our registration and login process requires you to provide us with your name, valid email address and password of your choice. When you personalize your profile and use the features of Waffle House, we will collect any information you voluntarily provide, and we may also request optional information to support your use of Waffle House, such as your year of birth, gender and other demographic information. We collect information in the form of the content that you submit during your use of Waffle House, such as photos, comments, ratings and other information you choose to submit. We may also collect information about you and your friends, from any social network you may have connected from, in order to provide you with a more personalized experience. For instance, we may collect your user ID or profile information that you have permitted to be displayed through Waffle House in order to display you as a friend or in association with your profile and collections. When you order our products or services, you will need to submit your credit card or other payment information so that our service providers can process your payment for those products and services. If you choose to sign up to receive information about products or services that may be of interest to you, we will collect your email address and all related information. Additionally, we collect any information that you voluntarily enter, including Personal Information, into any postings, comments, or forums within the Waffle House community.

Personal Information from Other Sources

We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources with which you have registered, companies who we have partnered with (collectively, “Partners”) or other third parties. We may associate this information with the other Personal Information we have collected about you.

E-mail and E-mail Addresses

If you send an e-mail to us or fill out our “Feedback” form through Waffle House, we will collect your e-mail address and the full content of your e-mail, including attached files, and other information you provide. We may use and display your full name and email address when you send an email notification to a friend through Waffle House or the social network from which you have connected to Waffle House (such as in an invitation, or when sharing your content). Additionally, we use your email address to contact you on behalf of your friends (such as when someone sends you a personal message) or notifications from a social network or other website with whom you have registered to receive such notifications. We may use this e-mail address to contact you, for things such as notifications of limited-edition shop sales and other related information. You may indicate your preference to stop receiving further promotional communications as further detailed below.

Information Collected Via Technology

As you use Waffle House, certain information may also be passively collected and stored on our or our service providers’ server logs, including your Internet protocol address, browser type, and operating system. We also use Cookies and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the solutions and information for which you searched and viewed, or on which of the advertisements displayed on Waffle House you clicked. This type of information is collected to make Waffle House and solutions more useful to you and to tailor the experience with Waffle House to meet your special interests and needs.

An “Internet protocol address” or “IP Address” is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. In some cases, your IP Address stays the same from browser session to browser session; but if you use a consumer internet access provider, your IP Address probably varies from session to session. For example, we, or our service providers, may track your IP Address when you access Waffle House to assist with ad targeting.

“Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience with Waffle House. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. In order to use our services offered through Waffle House, your web browser must accept Cookies. If you choose to disable Cookies, some aspects of Waffle House may not work properly, and you will not be able to receive our services.

We may also enable advertisers and ad servers to promote third-party products and/or services by placing advertisements on Waffle House. These advertisers and ad servers may use Cookies and/or “Web Beacons” (which are usually small, transparent graphic images) in order to monitor information related to served advertisements. Clicking on such advertisements will direct you to the website of a third-party and the advertiser. This Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy practices of any advertisers or ad servers.

Use and Disclosure of Information

Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not generally sell, trade, rent, or share the Personal Information that we collect with third parties, unless you ask or authorize us to do so.

In general, Personal Information you submit to us is used by us to provide you access to Waffle House, to improve Waffle House, to better tailor the features, performance, and support of Waffle House and to offer you additional information, opportunities, promotions and functionality from us, our partners or our advertisers at your request. Additionally, we do share your content preferences and other information with the social network from which you have connected to Waffle House, along with those companies and persons you have asked us to share your information with.

We may provide your Personal Information to third-party service providers who work on behalf of or with us to provide some of the services and features of Waffle House and to help us communicate with you. Examples of such services include sending email, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing payments (including credit card payments), and providing customer service. We require our third-party service providers to promise not to use such information except as necessary to provide the relevant services to us. We may share some or all of your Personal Information with our third-party partners, those with whom we have a co-branding or promotional relationship, or other third-parties about whom you are otherwise notified and do not request to opt out of such sharing. This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of your personally identifiable information by such third-parties. We do not maintain responsibility for the manner in which third parties, including, without limitation, social networks, other partners and advertisers, use or further disclose Personal Information collected from you in accordance with this Privacy Policy, after we have disclosed such information to those third parties. If you do not want us to use or disclose Personal Information collected about you in the manners identified in this Privacy Policy, you may not use Waffle House.

Although we currently do not have a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control, we may in the future, and we may share some or all of your Personal Information with these companies, in which case we will require them to honor this Privacy Policy.

In the event we go through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your Personal Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy, and that any acquirer of ours or that acquirer’s assets may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

We may disclose your Personal Information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; or (b) to protect and defend our rights or property, you, or third parties. You hereby consent to us sharing your Personal Information under the circumstances described herein.

The Ability of others to View your Information

Helping you to protect your information is a vital part of our mission. It is up to you to make sure you are comfortable with the information you choose to provide us and the information you choose to publish. You understand that when you use Waffle House, certain information you post or provide through Waffle House, such as your name, profile, comments, posts and ratings, may be shared with other users and posted on publicly available portions of Waffle House, including without limitation, chatrooms, bulletin and message boards, along with other public forums. Please keep in mind that if you choose to disclose Personal Information when posting comments or other information or content through Waffle House, this information may become publicly available and may be collected and used by others, including people outside the Waffle House community. We will not have any obligations with respect to any information that you post to parts of Waffle House available to others and recommend that you use caution when giving out personal information to others in public forums online or otherwise. We also share the information you publish with other third parties.

Third Party Sites and Advertising

Waffle House may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each and every website they visit. This Waffle House applies solely to information collected by us through Waffle House and does not apply to these third-party websites. The ability to access information of third-parties from Waffle House, or links to other websites or locations, is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such third-parties, their products, their services, other websites, locations or their content.

Your Choices Regarding Your Personal Information

We offer you choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Information. When you receive promotional communications from us, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving further promotional communications from us and you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the promotional e-mail you receive or by contacting us directly (please see contact information below).

Despite your indicated email preferences, we may send you administrative emails regarding Waffle House, including, for example, administrative confirmations, and notices of updates to our Privacy Policy if we choose to provide such notices to you in this manner.

You may change any of your profile information by editing it in the profile settings page. You may request deletion of your Personal Information by contacting us at [email protected], but please note that we may be required (by law or otherwise) to keep this information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time, in which case we will comply with your deletion request, only after we have fulfilled such requirements). When we delete Personal Information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in our archives.

Feedback

If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback for any purpose, provided we do not associate such feedback with your Personal Information. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the Personal Information in it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You agree that any such comments and any email we receive becomes our property. We may use feedback for marketing purposes or to add to or modify our services without paying any royalties or other compensation to you.

Security

We are committed to protecting the security of your Personal Information. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Even though we have taken significant steps to protect your Personal Information, no company, including us, can fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information.

Contact and Revisions

If you have questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us here. This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision at our discretion, and if we make any substantial changes in the way we use your Personal Information, we will post an alert on this page. If you object to any such changes, you must cease using Waffle House. Continued use of Waffle House following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgment of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.