Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 19, 2024

Last Updated: May 22, 2026

Specialty Restaurants Corporation and its affiliates (the "Company" or "we") have developed this privacy policy out of respect for the privacy of our customers, visitors to our website, job applicants, and independent contractors. This policy describes the personal information we collect, use, and disclose about individual consumers, applicants, and contractors who visit or interact with this website, visit any of our offices, stores, facilities or locations, purchase or inquire about any of our products or services, contract with us to provide services, apply for a position of employment, or otherwise interact or do business with us.

Whenever you visit our website, we will collect some information from you automatically simply by you visiting and navigating through this site, and some voluntarily when you submit information using a form on the website, enroll in or subscribe to our newsletter or marketing communications, request information, or use any of the other interactive portions of our website. Through this website, we will collect information that can identify you and/or your activity.

Additionally, whenever you communicate, interact or do business with us, whether online or at any of our physical locations or facilities, or whether you are contracted to perform services for us or apply for a position of employment, we will be collecting personal information from you or about you in the course of our interaction or dealings with you.

This policy does not apply to our current and former employees and their family members, dependents, and beneficiaries; if you are a California resident who is a current or former employee of the Company or a family member, dependent, or beneficiary of any of our current or former employees, you may request access to our Employee Privacy Policy by sending an email to hrinbox@srcmail.com.

Consent to Share Personal Information When Using Live Chat Function

By using the Live Chat feature, you consent to our collection and analysis of all personal information provided. The Live Chat feature uses a chatbot that is analyzing the data and information submitted to respond intelligently to meet or identify customer's needs and answer questions.. We utilize a vendor called Paradox ("Chat Vendor") to process, analyze, and store the contents of the chat on our behalf. For more information on how the Chat Vendor may use or disclose your personal information, please review their privacy policy HERE. By using these forms and features, you direct the Company to disclose to and share with the Chat Vendor any personal information you provide.

Collection of Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information

Based on your specific transactions and interactions with us or our website, we will or may collect, and we have in the last 12 months collected, the following categories of personal information about you. For each category of information, the categories of third parties and service providers to whom we have disclosed the information in the last 12 months are referenced by a letter that coincides with the letter in the list of categories of service providers and third parties that follows soon after this table.

Category	Examples	Disclosed in Last 12 Months To	Sold or Shared in Last 12 Months to	Retention Period
Personal Identifiers	Name, alias, social security number, date of birth, driver's license or state identification card number, passport number.	D, E, F, G, H, I, J, M	Not Sold or Shared	Duration of our relationship with you plus 4 years. If you are a job applicant and are hired by the Company, then name will be retained permanently, and the rest will be retained for duration of employment plus 6 years. If you are not hired, this data will be retained for 4 years from when position is filled or the date we receive your information, whichever is longer.
Contact Information	Home, postal or mailing address, email address, home phone number, cell phone number.	D, E, F, H, I, M	Not Sold or Shared	Duration of our relationship with you plus 4 years. If you are a job applicant and are hired by the Company, this will be retained permanently. If you are not hired, this data will be retained for 4 years from when position is filled or the date we receive your information, whichever is longer.
Account Information	Username for Company accounts and systems (including where a job applicant or candidate must create an account to apply for a job).	E	Not Sold or Shared	Username: permanent; Password or security code: while in use + 2 years
Commercial Transactional Data	Information regarding products or services provided, purchasing history	Not Disclosed	Not Sold or Shared	4 years after transaction, unless necessary to maintain for a longer period for product warranty, or OSHA / FDA or other regulatory compliance.
Internet Network and Computer Activity	Date and time of your visit to this website; webpages visited; links clicked on the website; browser ID; browser type; device ID; operating system; form information downloaded; domain name from which our site was accessed; search history; and cookies; internet or other electronic network activity information related to usage of Company networks, servers, intranet, or shared drives, as well as Companyowned computers and electronic devices, including system and file access logs, security clearance level, browsing history, search history, and usage history.	G, L, M	Sold to G Shared with L	3 years
Geolocation Data	IP address.	G, L, M	Sold to G Shared with L	3 years
Mobile Device Data	Information collected when you navigate, access or use any of our websites via mobile device, including device type, software type; data identifying your device if you access our business networks and systems, including cell phone make, model, and serial number, cell phone number, and cell phone provider.	G, L, M	Sold to G Shared with L	3 years
Visual, Audio or Video Recordings	Your image when recorded or captured in surveillance camera footage or pictures of you taken on our premises or at our events or that you share with us; audio recordings of calls and virtual meetings as disclosed to you at the time of the call.	C, F, L	Not Sold or Shared	Surveillance video – 90 days; the rest of this category is retained for the duration of our relationship with you plus 4 years.
Pre-Hire Information	Information gathered on job applicants as part of background screening and reference checks, pre-hire drug test results, information recorded in job interview notes by persons conducting job interviews for the Company, information contained in candidate evaluation records and assessments, information in work product samples you provided, and voluntary disclosures by you.	H, I	Not Sold or Shared	If hired, this data will be retained for duration of employment plus 6 years. If not hired, it will be retained for 4 years from when position is filled or the date we receive your information, whichever is longer.
Employment and Education History	Information contained in job applicants' resumes regarding educational history, information in transcripts or records of degrees, vocational certifications obtained, and information regarding prior job experience, positions held, and when permitted by applicable law your salary history or expectations.	H, I	Not Sold or Shared	If hired, this data will be retained for duration of employment plus 6 years. If not hired, it will be retained for 4 years from when position is filled or the date we receive your information, whichever is longer.
Professional Related Information	Information on independent contractors contained in tax forms/1099 forms, safety records, licensing and certification records, and performance records, and information related to services provided by independent contractors, including in statements of work.	A, H, I	Not Sold or Shared	Duration of our relationship with you plus 4 years.
Medical and Health Information	Information related to symptoms, exposure, contact tracing, diagnosis, testing, or vaccination for infectious diseases (e.g., COVID-19), pandemics, or other public health emergency.	Not Disclosed	Not Sold or Shared	2 years. Job Applicants: If hired, this data will be retained for duration of employment plus 6 years. If not hired, it will be retained for 4 years from when position is filled or the date we receive your information, whichever is longer.
Inferences	For job applicants, based on analysis of the personal information collected, we may develop inferences regarding job applicants' predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes for purposes of recruiting and hiring assessments and decisions.	H, I	Not Sold or Shared	Job Applicants: If hired, this data will be retained for duration of employment plus 6 years. If not hired, it will be retained for 4 years from when position is filled or the date we receive your information, whichever is longer.

Of the above categories of Personal Information, the following are categories of Sensitive Personal Information the Company may collect from or about consumers, independent contractors, or applicants:

Personal Identifiers (social security number, driver's license or state identification card number, passport number)
Account Information (your Company account log-in,)
Geolocation Data (IP address)
Medical and Health Information

Personal information does not include:

Publicly available information from government records.
Information that a business has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public by the consumer, independent contractor, or applicant, or from widely distributed media.
Information made available by a person to whom the consumer, independent contractor, or applicant has disclosed the information if the consumer, independent contractor, or applicant has not restricted the information to a specific audience.
Deidentified or aggregated information.

We may collect your personal information from the following sources:

You the consumer, independent contractor, or job applicant, when you visit the website and voluntarily submit information through forms on the website or social media, when you visit any of our stores or physical locations, when you purchase or inquire about any of our products or services, when you enter into a contract to perform services for us, or when you apply for a position of employment.
Our employees, contractors, vendors, suppliers, guests, visitors, other consumers, and customers based on your interactions with them (if any)
We utilize cookies to automatically collect information about our website visitors
Surveillance cameras at our physical locations
Lead generators and referral sources
Credit and consumer reporting agencies
HR support vendors
Recruiters
Staffing agencies
Social media platforms
Company-issued computers, electronic devices, and vehicles
Company systems, networks, software applications, and databases you log into or use
Company systems, networks, software applications, and databases you log into or use in the course of applying for a position with the Company, interacting with our website, or otherwise interacting with us in any other capacity, including from vendors the Company engages to manage or host such systems, networks, applications or databases
Personal references and former employers (if you are a job applicant)
Schools, universities, or other educational institutions which you attended (if you are a job applicant)
From friends, family, or colleagues who choose to email you job postings that they think you may be interested in from our application platform or careers page

We may disclose, sell, or share your personal information to the following categories of service providers, contractors, or third parties:

Financial institutions
Lead providers
Government agencies
Promotional or other fulfilment vendors
Marketing support vendors and vendors that support managing or hosting the website
Transaction support vendors (e.g., check guaranty, payment processors)
Data analytics vendors
Recruiting firms, and/or staffing agencies
Talent acquisition management systems, and other vendors providing services for purposes of our human resources information system (HRIS) and management of job applicant data and recruiting process J. Security and risk management vendors, including IT, cybersecurity, and privacy vendors and consultants
Corporate customers (meaning an entity, as opposed to a natural person, that purchases, leases, or finances any of our products or services)
Social media platforms
Live Chat Vendor

We may collect your personal information for the following business purposes:

To fulfill or meet the purpose for which you provided the information.
To process, complete, and maintain records on transactions.
To retain your selection for Text opt in/opt out to ensure customers who opted out are not sent any text messages.
To schedule, manage and keep track of customer appointments.
To complete appraisals.
To maintain records of when customers decline a service or sale.
To respond to consumer inquiries, including requests for information, customer support online, phone calls, and in-store inquiries.
To provide interest-based and targeted advertising.
To contact you by email, telephone calls, mail, SMS, or other equivalent forms of communication regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, services, or other information you requested or asked the Company to provide to you.
To improve user experience on our website.
To understand the demographics of our website visitors.
To detect security incidents.
To debug, identify, and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our website.
To protect against malicious or illegal activity and prosecute those responsible.
To verify and respond to consumer requests.
To prevent identity theft.
JOB APPLICANT PURPOSES:

To fulfill or meet the purpose for which you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to apply for a job with the Company, we will use that Personal Information in connection with your candidacy for employment.
To comply with local, state, and federal law and regulations requiring employers to maintain certain records, as well as local, state, and federal law, regulations, ordinances, guidelines, and orders relating to infectious diseases, pandemics, outbreaks, and public health emergencies, including applicable reporting requirements.
To evaluate your job application and candidacy for employment.
To obtain and verify background check and references.
To communicate with you regarding your candidacy for employment.
To permit you to create a job applicant profile, which you can use for filling out future applications if you do not get the job you are apply for.
To keep your application on file even if you did not get the job applied for, in case there is another position for which we want to consider you as a candidate even if you do not formally apply.
To evaluate and improve our recruiting methods and strategies.
To engage in lawful monitoring of job applicant activities and communications when they are on Company premises, or utilizing Company internet and WiFi connections, computers, networks, devices, software applications or systems.
To engage in corporate transactions requiring review or disclosure of job applicant records subject to non-disclosure agreements, such as for evaluating potential mergers and acquisitions of the Company.
To evaluate, assess, and manage the Company's business relationship with vendors, service providers, and contractors that provide services to the Company related to recruiting or processing of data from or about job applicants.
To improve job applicant experience on Company computers, networks, devices, software applications or systems, and to debug, identify, and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our systems.
To reduce the risk of spreading infectious diseases in or through the workplace

We may disclose your personal information for any one or more of the business purposes identified above.

We do NOT and will not sell or share your personal information in exchange for monetary consideration. However, we may sell or share some of your information to third parties for other valuable consideration, as noted in the table above.

We may sell or share your personal information for the following business purposes:

To provide interest-based and targeted advertising.
To understand the demographics and uses of our website visitors.

Other than these exceptions, we do not and will not disclose your personal information to any third party in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

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