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Privacy policy
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This policy explains what PaperChef collects, why, and what a restaurant can ask us to do with it. Every bracketed item is a placeholder awaiting your legal review.
1. Who this policy covers
This policy describes how [legal company name] (PaperChef) handles information when a restaurant uses the PaperChef application and when someone contacts us through this website.
Effective date: [effective date]. Last reviewed: [review date].
2. Information we collect
Account information: name, email address, role and the restaurant account you belong to.
Operational records you enter: ingredients, recipes, invoices, counts, sales, labour, waste and planning notes. These belong to your restaurant and are kept separate from every other customer's records.
Contact form details: the name, email address, restaurant and message you choose to send us.
Technical information: [describe the log and analytics data actually collected, if any].
3. How we use it
To provide the application, including costing, inventory, purchasing, ordering and planning calculations that run on your own records.
To answer your messages and provide support.
To meet legal, tax and accounting obligations. [List any other purpose actually relied on.]
4. Sharing
We do not sell personal information. [List the actual categories of processors used, such as hosting, email delivery and error monitoring, with their locations.]
We may disclose information where required by law, or to protect the rights and safety of our customers and the service.
5. Retention
Restaurant records are kept for as long as the account is active, and for [retention period] afterwards so a restaurant can retrieve its own history.
Contact messages are kept for [retention period].
6. Security
Records are separated per restaurant account and access follows the role assigned to each seat. [Describe encryption, backups and access controls actually in place.]
No system is perfectly secure. Tell us immediately if you believe an account has been compromised.
7. Your choices
You can ask to see, correct or delete personal information we hold about you by writing to [contact email address]. Restaurant owners can also manage seats and remove memberships in the application.
Where applicable law gives you further rights, [describe how those requests are handled and the response time].
8. Contact
Questions about this policy: [contact email address], [mailing address].