# Privacy Policy
**Rod & Reel Pier Restaurant**
*Effective Date: July 17, 2026*

At Rod & Reel Pier Restaurant, accessible from https://rodreelpier.lemke.berlin, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document outlines the types of information that is collected and recorded by our website and how we use it, in compliance with applicable United States state and federal privacy laws.

## 1. Information We Collect
We collect information to provide better services to all our visitors. This information may be gathered in the following ways:
* **Comments and User Content:** When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist with automated spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
* **Media Uploads:** If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images hosted on the site.
* **Contact and Communication:** If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

## 2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
* Provide, operate, maintain, and improve our website and services.
* Understand and analyze how you use our website to optimize user experience.
* Develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
* Detect, prevent, and mitigate security threats, fraudulent activities, and spam.
* Comply with legal obligations and enforce our website terms.

## 3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our website utilizes cookies to enhance user convenience and streamline site functionality:
* **Comment Cookies:** If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies persist for one year.
* **Authentication and Session Cookies:** If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
* **Content Management Cookies:** If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 24 hours.

## 4. Embedded Content from Third-Party Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, maps, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website directly.

These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that specific website.

## 5. Data Sharing and Third-Party Disclosures
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to third parties. We may share information under the following limited circumstances:
* **Service Providers:** Visitor comments may be verified through an automated automated spam detection service.
* **Account Administration:** If you request a password reset, your IP address will be automatically included in the reset email for security and tracking purposes.
* **Legal Compliance:** We may disclose information if required to do so by US federal or state law, or in response to valid legal requests by public authorities.

## 6. Data Retention
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy:
* If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a manual moderation queue.
* For users that register on our website (if any), we securely store the personal information provided in their user profile. All registered users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also view and update that information.

## 7. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your state of residence within the United States (such as Florida, California, or others), you may have specific data privacy rights. We honor the following core principles for our users:
* **Right to Access:** You have the right to request copies of the personal data we hold about you. If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we maintain.
* **Right to Deletion:** You have the right to request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are legally or administratively obligated to retain for security, accounting, or compliance purposes.
* **Right to Opt-Out:** We do not sell your personal data or engage in targeted advertising using your personal information. You can configure your browser to reject cookies or block automated tracking.

## 8. Children’s Privacy Protection
Another priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We do not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately, and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

## 9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your rights, or the data practices of our website, please contact us at:

**Rod & Reel Pier Restaurant**
Anna Maria Island, Florida, USA
Website: https://rodreelpier.lemke.berlin