Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 29, 2026

Effective date: August 29, 2026
Entity: Elev8ed Table LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Elev8ed Table," "we," "us," "our")

1. Overview and Scope

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information Elev8ed Table LLC collects, how we use it, who we share it with, and the rights you have — including under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (together, "CCPA/CPRA"). It applies to all of our brands and surfaces, each operated by the same single Delaware entity:

  • Elev8ed Table — our restaurant directory, credentialed editorial, and AEO/GEO/SEO authority content.
  • Elev8ed Insights (retired) — a paid AI-visibility report product formerly offered at elev8edtable.com/insights. Elev8ed Insights retired in September 2026 and is no longer sold; this section is retained to describe how data was handled while it was active.
  • ET Concierge — catering and private-dining inquiry capture.
  • The Elev8ed Brief — our email newsletter.
  • Promotional codes — historically distributed to promote Elev8ed Insights (retired); no longer issued.
  • Our data products — aggregated, de-identified intelligence built from the information described below.

By using our sites and services, you agree to the practices described here. If you do not agree, do not use the sites or submit information to us. This policy does not change any right you have under applicable law that cannot be waived.

A note on the restaurants we cover. Our editorial directory contains factual information about restaurants, some of which are not our customers. Publicly available business information about a restaurant (name, address, cuisine, hours, and similar facts) is editorial content, not the personal information of a site visitor. Business owners have the rights described in Section 8 and in our Terms of Service with respect to factual corrections.

2. Categories of Personal Information We Collect

We collect the following categories of personal information (using CCPA/CPRA category terms):

  • Identifiers — name, email address, postal or business address, phone number, and online identifiers (IP address, device and cookie identifiers).
  • Customer records / commercial information — products or services purchased or inquired about, purchase history, and billing records (payment-card data is handled by our processor; see Section 5).
  • Internet or network activity — pages viewed, referring pages, interactions with our emails and site, and analytics/advertising cookie data.
  • Geolocation data — approximate (city/region-level) location inferred from IP address.
  • Professional / employment-related information — your role and your restaurant/business details, submitted in inquiry, intake, or client-onboarding forms.
  • Commercial data submitted by restaurant clients — for participating restaurants: business, menu, catering-pricing, and listing data the restaurant provides and confirms under our Restaurant Partner Agreement, and point-of-sale data only where a restaurant has separately chosen to connect it (see Section 10).
  • Inferences — demand, interest, and audience inferences drawn from the above to operate and improve our products.

We do not intentionally collect "sensitive personal information" as defined by the CPRA (such as government-ID numbers, financial-account log-ins, precise geolocation, or data revealing protected characteristics) for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you. Dietary preferences you select on an inquiry form — such as vegetarian, gluten-free, or nut-free — are treated as catering requirements for your event, not as health information about any individual, and are used only to route your inquiry and help the restaurant plan. Please do not submit medical information, diagnoses, or details about any individual's health condition in any free-text field; if you do, we will remove it. Dietary selections are never used to profile or target anyone, and any statistics we publish are aggregated across many inquiries and cannot identify a person or an event.

We collect this information directly from you (forms, email, SMS, purchases); automatically as you use our sites (cookies and similar technologies, Section 6); and, for editorial directory content, from public sources and our own credentialed verification process.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use personal information to:

  • deliver the sample report and any Elev8ed Insights report purchased before its September 2026 retirement;
  • build, produce, fulfill, and re-check (the included 90-day re-check) your report;
  • respond to inquiries, provide ET Concierge catering and private-dining inquiry capture and estimates, deliver your inquiry to the restaurant you asked about, and provide support;
  • process payments and maintain purchase and tax records;
  • send transactional/service messages, and — where permitted — the newsletter, occasional AI-visibility tips, and marketing you can opt out of at any time;
  • operate ET Concierge and paying restaurant listings, including estimate generation, lead delivery, and profile infrastructure;
  • measure and improve our sites, content, and marketing;
  • build aggregated and de-identified intelligence products that we may license or sell to, or that may be transferred to, third parties (see Section 9);
  • detect, prevent, and address fraud, abuse, and security incidents; and
  • comply with legal obligations and enforce our agreements.

4. Notice at Collection

At or before the point of collection, we provide notice of the categories collected, the purposes, whether the category is "sold" or "shared," and our retention approach.

  • Identifiers (name, email, phone, address): used to deliver products/services, support, and opt-out marketing. Not sold. Shared only via ad cookies, and only after opt-in. Retention: leads up to 24 months after last interaction; customers for the term plus the tax period.
  • Online identifiers / cookie & pixel data: used for analytics and advertising/retargeting (post-consent). Not sold. Shared via ad cookies, post-consent, opt-out available. See Section 12 for retention.
  • Commercial information (purchases, inquiries): used to fulfill orders, operate concierge, and keep records. Not sold or shared. Retained as required by law (commonly about 7 years for tax-related records).
  • Internet/network activity: used to measure and improve our services and for security. Not sold or shared. Aggregated/de-identified data may be retained indefinitely.
  • Geolocation (approximate): used to localize content and for analytics. Not sold or shared. Retained the same as the source record.
  • Professional/business info (role, restaurant): used to fulfill requests, concierge matching, and client onboarding. Not sold or shared. Retained for the engagement plus a follow-up window.
  • Restaurant client business/menu/POS data: used to operate the listing, for reporting, and for aggregated/de-identified data products. Not sold or shared as identifiable data. Retention per the client agreement; see Sections 9 and 12.

We do not sell your personal information for money. We license or sell data only in de-identified and/or aggregate form — data that is not, and cannot reasonably be used to be, linked back to you. Some advertising-cookie activity is treated as "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising under the CPRA. You can opt out of that sharing — see Section 8.

Forms on restaurant websites. Some of our inquiry and catering-estimate forms appear on the websites of restaurants we work with. Those forms are operated by Elev8ed Table, not by the restaurant. When you complete one, your information is collected by Elev8ed Table LLC and handled under this policy, and we then share it with the restaurant you inquired about so they can respond to you. That restaurant's own privacy practices govern what it does with your information after that.

5. Service Providers and Third Parties We Share With

We share limited personal information with vendors that process it on our behalf, under contract, to run the service. These are service providers / processors, not recipients to whom we "sell" data.

  • GoHighLevel (GHL / LeadConnector) — CRM, forms, email, SMS, payments UI. Receives: name, email, phone, form-field data, tags/activity, consent records.
  • Stripe — payment processing. Receives: billing/payment information, purchase records (we do not store full card numbers).
  • Beehiiv — newsletter delivery. Receives: email and subscription status.
  • Google — analytics (GA4) and advertising (Google Ads). Receives: usage/device data, online identifiers, cookie/pixel data (post-consent).
  • Meta — advertising (Meta Pixel). Receives: usage/device data, online identifiers, pixel data (post-consent).

Report-production vendors (not consumer-facing).To produce Elev8ed Insights reports — a retired product, no longer sold as of September 2026 — we used SEO and local-data vendors that analyzed publicly available business and search data about the subject restaurant. These vendors were not provided your account credentials and did not receive our marketing lists.

Automation and AI processing. Your inquiry passes through our customer-relationship platform, our hosted database, and our workflow-automation service, each engaged under contract as a service provider and each permitted to use your information only to run the service for us. As part of producing your estimate, limited inquiry details may also be processed by an AI service to check the estimate for obvious errors before it is sent to you. That processing is automated, is used only to review the estimate, and does not make any legal or similarly significant decision about you. Our agreement with that provider prohibits it from using your information to train its models. We do not use AI to profile you, and we do not sell or share your information with any AI provider for their own purposes.

We may also disclose information to comply with law or valid legal process; to enforce our Terms; to protect our rights, safety, or property or those of others; and in connection with a business transfer (see Section 11). We require our service providers to protect personal information under contract, use it only for the purposes we specify, and not sell or share it. We never resell your inquiry to another restaurant: when you submit a catering or private-dining inquiry through ET Concierge, we share it only with the specific restaurant you chose to inquire about, so that restaurant can respond to you, and with our own service providers acting on our behalf under contract. We do not sell, license, rent, or otherwise disclose your inquiry, or your contact information, to any other restaurant, caterer, or competing business. This is separate from, and does not limit, the aggregated and de-identified data products described in Section 9, which never identify you.

Restaurants you inquire about. When you submit a catering or event inquiry, we share the details you provide — your name, contact information, event details, and any dietary notes — with the restaurant you inquired about, so that restaurant can respond to you, prepare a quote, and arrange your event. This is the purpose of the service and you direct it by submitting the inquiry. We may be paid by restaurants for the service that delivers your inquiry to them; that payment is for the service and does not change what we share, who we share it with, or your rights under Section 8. We share your inquiry only with the restaurant you asked about — never with their competitors, and never with a general marketing list.

6. Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising

We use essential cookies required for the site to function, and — only after you consent through our cookie banner — analytics and advertising technologies (Google Analytics 4, Google Ads, and the Meta Pixel). Our banner lets you Accept or Decline non-essential cookies. Decline loads essential cookies only; Accept additionally enables analytics and advertising technologies. You can also manage cookies through your browser and opt out through Google's and Meta's own ad-settings tools. We honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signals as a valid opt-out of "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising. See our separate Cookie Policy for the full category breakdown and banner behavior.

7. Children's Privacy

Our sites are intended for restaurant owners and other business users and are not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16, and we do not sell or share the personal information of consumers we know to be under 16. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us (Section 17) and we will delete it.

8. Your California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have the right to:

  • Know / access the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected, the sources, the purposes, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclose it;
  • Correct inaccurate personal information;
  • Delete personal information we have collected, subject to legal exceptions;
  • Opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information. We do not sell personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we do not license or transfer identifiable personal information to data brokers. We do share your inquiry with the restaurant you inquired about, at your direction, and we may be compensated by restaurants for the service that delivers it. If you would prefer we not do that, use the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link in our site footer — note that opting out means we cannot deliver your inquiry to the restaurant; and
  • Limit the use of sensitive personal information where applicable.

To exercise these rights, use the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link in our site footer, decline advertising cookies in our banner, send a GPC signal, or contact us using Section 17. We will verify your identity before acting on a request and you may use an authorized agent. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We aim to respond within the timeframes required by law.

9. Data Products — De-Identification, Aggregation, and Licensing

A core part of our business is building aggregated and de-identified intelligence products from restaurant, catering/event buyer-intent, and (for paying clients who connect it) POS data.

We may license, sell, or transfer data that is aggregated and/or de-identified — data that is not, and cannot reasonably be used on its own or in combination to be, linked to you or your device. Examples: market-level demand trends, category benchmarks, and longitudinal visibility metrics across many restaurants. We do not license or sell identifiable personal information to data brokers, and we do not sell personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do share your inquiry with the restaurant you inquired about, at your direction, and we may be compensated by restaurants for the service that delivers it to them. If that ever changes further, we will update this policy and provide the required notice and opt-out mechanisms before doing so.

For data we treat as de-identified, we: (i) take reasonable measures to ensure it cannot be associated with a consumer or household; (ii) publicly commit to maintain and use it only in de-identified form and not to attempt to re-identify it, except to test that de-identification is effective; and (iii) contractually obligate any recipient or licensee to that same no-re-identification commitment.

Every record contributing to a data product is traceable to a lawful basis and, where required, to a logged, versioned consent captured at the point of collection.

10. Restaurant Partners — Business and Menu Data

For restaurants that participate in ET Concierge or become paying clients, we process business, menu, catering-pricing, and listing data the restaurant provides and confirms, under our Restaurant Partner Agreement. Under that agreement the restaurant grants us a license to use, aggregate, and de-identify that data and to include it in the data products described in Section 9. Point-of-sale access is NOT required and is not a condition of participating in ET Concierge; we do not request a restaurant's cost, margin, or profit-and-loss data. If a restaurant separately chooses to connect a point-of-sale, analytics, or search-console account under a future optional service, that connection requires its own written authorization. Consumer personal information incidentally present in any connected business data (for example, a diner's contact details) is not used to market to those diners and is handled only in de-identified or aggregate form. Restaurants that participate in ET Concierge are also bound not to sell, rent, or transfer an inquiring customer's contact information to any third party; a restaurant may use an inquiry only to respond to that inquiry and fulfill the resulting event.

11. Business Transfers

Personal information and the data assets described above may be transferred to a successor or acquirer as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of some or all of our assets. Any successor will be bound by commitments materially consistent with this policy, including the de-identification and no-re-identification commitments in Section 9.

12. Data Retention

We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes described here, then delete or de-identify it, except where a longer period is required by law.

  • Lead / inquiry contact records (no purchase): up to 24 months after last interaction, then delete or de-identify.
  • Customer records, purchase, and tax records: for the engagement plus the period required by law (commonly about 7 years for tax records).
  • Elev8ed Insights intake-form content (retired form, described here for historical record): duration of the engagement plus a reasonable follow-up window.
  • Restaurant client business/POS data: duration of the client relationship plus a wind-down period; de-identified derivatives retained per Section 9.
  • Consent records: retained for the life of the relationship and a period after, as evidence of consent.
  • Email/SMS opt-out records: retained as long as needed to honor the opt-out.
  • Aggregated / de-identified analytics and data products: may be retained indefinitely.

13. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information, including access controls, encryption in transit, and vendor security commitments. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. If we become aware of a breach affecting your personal information, we will notify you and regulators as required by applicable law.

14. Users Outside the United States

Our services are directed to Southern California restaurant businesses and are operated from the United States; information is processed in the U.S. We do not target the EU/EEA or UK. If we knowingly begin serving individuals protected by the GDPR/UK GDPR, we will provide the additional disclosures those laws require.

15. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by an updated effective date at the top of this page and, where required, by additional notice and re-consent. Your continued use of the sites after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

16. SMS / Text Messaging

If you provide your mobile phone number and opt in — for example, by checking the consent box in the chat widget on our website — you may receive text messages from Elev8ed Table such as order confirmations, report-status updates, delivery notifications, and other service messages related to your request, and, only where you have separately consented, marketing messages. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out at any time, or HELP for help. Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of any purchase.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. Information sharing to subcontractors in support services, such as customer service, is permitted. All other use case categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

17. Contact Us

Elev8ed Table LLC
8 The Green, Suite R, Dover, DE 19901
Email: [email protected] · Phone: +1 714-332-5986

To exercise privacy rights, use the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link in our footer or contact us above.