Last Updated: June 19, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how RestaurantBuyouts.com, Inc. ("RestaurantBuyouts.com," "Company," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects information when you access or use RestaurantBuyouts.com, including our website, marketplace, account registration system, listing tools, messaging system, member dashboard, contact forms, emails, advertisements, and related services.
By accessing or using RestaurantBuyouts.com, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you should not use the platform.
We collect information in several ways, including when you voluntarily provide information to us, when you use the platform, when you communicate with us, and through certain automated technologies.
We may collect information that you provide directly to us, including when you:
This information may include your name, email address, phone number, business name, address or general location, ZIP code, login credentials, account preferences, seller type, listing information, message content, photos, equipment information, and any other information you choose to provide.
When you create an account, we may collect information such as your full name, email address, password, phone number, business name, seller type, and other account-related information.
We may require you to verify your email address before accessing certain features. Email verification confirms only that you have access to the email address used during registration. It does not verify your identity, business status, ownership of equipment, authority to sell, trustworthiness, location, financial ability, safety, or the accuracy of any listing or message.
If you list equipment on RestaurantBuyouts.com, we may collect listing-related information, including category, subcategory, manufacturer, model number, model description, condition, price, ZIP code, city, state, short description, full description, product weight, dimensions, year manufactured, tags, photos, video links, draft listing information, seller acknowledgments, and related communications.
Listings are user-submitted and may be displayed publicly on the platform once approved. Public listing information may be indexed by search engines or viewed by users, visitors, and third parties.
RestaurantBuyouts.com may provide an internal messaging system that allows users to communicate regarding listings. We may collect and store messages sent or received through the platform, including message content, sender and recipient information, timestamps, listing references, moderation status, and related records.
Messages may be reviewed, moderated, approved, denied, blocked, archived, or retained for platform administration, security, compliance, dispute review, and operational purposes.
When you contact us through the website contact form, by email, by phone, or through any other communication method, we may collect your name, email address, phone number, message content, call details, inquiry type, business information, and any other information you provide.
We may use this information to respond to your inquiry, provide support, review business opportunities, address platform issues, maintain records, or protect our rights and the platform.
When you access or use RestaurantBuyouts.com, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
This information may be collected through cookies, analytics tools, server logs, content delivery network logs, security tools, and other technologies.
RestaurantBuyouts.com may use IP-based geolocation to estimate your approximate city, state, ZIP code, or general region in order to display geographically relevant listings or improve platform functionality.
We do not need precise GPS location for basic browsing. If future features request more specific location access, that request may be controlled through your browser or device settings.
We may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, session storage, and similar technologies to operate the platform, remember preferences, manage sessions, support login functionality, improve performance, analyze traffic, detect abuse, and support advertising or marketing efforts.
You may be able to disable or limit cookies through your browser settings. Some platform features may not function properly if cookies are disabled.
We may use analytics tools, including Google Analytics 4 or similar services, to understand how visitors use the platform. These tools may collect information such as page views, session activity, traffic sources, device information, browser information, approximate location, clicks, listing views, message-related events, registration events, and other usage data.
We use analytics information to improve the platform, understand user behavior, measure marketing performance, monitor traffic, and identify technical issues.
We may use email service providers, such as SendGrid or similar providers, to send account verification emails, password reset emails, listing approval or denial notices, messaging notifications, security notices, administrative emails, and marketing communications.
We may collect or receive email-related data such as delivery status, bounce data, unsubscribe status, suppression status, open activity, click activity, and email category information.
The platform may use third-party hosting, cloud infrastructure, content delivery networks, database services, file storage, backup systems, security tools, and monitoring systems. These systems may collect technical data such as IP addresses, file requests, access logs, user agents, timestamps, referrers, error logs, and performance information.
This data is used for security, uptime monitoring, troubleshooting, performance, fraud prevention, and platform operation.
We may use the information we collect for purposes including:
Certain information you submit may be displayed publicly on RestaurantBuyouts.com, including equipment listings, photos, category, subcategory, manufacturer, model number, description, condition, price, general location, tags, seller ID, and other listing details.
You should not include sensitive personal information in listing descriptions, photos, messages, or other public areas of the platform.
RestaurantBuyouts.com may remove or edit public content at its discretion, but we are not responsible for information that you choose to submit or make available through the platform.
Messages sent through the platform may be reviewed by RestaurantBuyouts.com before delivery or after submission. We may approve, deny, block, archive, or retain messages for moderation, safety, security, compliance, dispute review, legal, and operational purposes.
Users should not assume that messages are private from RestaurantBuyouts.com. However, we do not sell user message content to advertisers.
We may share information with other users as needed to operate the marketplace. For example, if you post a listing, public listing details may be visible to visitors and users. If you send a message, the message may be delivered to the intended recipient after any applicable moderation.
We may share information with third-party vendors and service providers who help us operate the platform, including hosting providers, cloud infrastructure providers, database providers, file storage providers, email providers, analytics providers, security providers, CAPTCHA providers, backup providers, customer support tools, payment providers if added later, and other technology vendors.
These service providers may access information only as needed to provide services to us, subject to their own contractual and legal obligations.
We may use analytics and advertising tools to understand platform traffic, measure marketing performance, improve user experience, and promote RestaurantBuyouts.com.
These tools may collect or receive technical, usage, device, browser, and interaction data. You may be able to limit certain analytics or advertising tracking through browser settings, cookie settings, device settings, or third-party opt-out tools.
We may disclose information if we believe it is necessary or appropriate to:
If RestaurantBuyouts.com is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale, financing, restructuring, bankruptcy, asset transfer, or similar business transaction, information may be transferred or disclosed as part of that transaction.
RestaurantBuyouts.com may collect user information, require account registration, require email verification, review listings, moderate messages, or use fraud prevention tools. However, these activities do not mean that RestaurantBuyouts.com verifies a user's identity, confirms ownership of equipment, verifies authority to sell, inspects equipment, verifies condition, confirms safety, or guarantees any transaction.
Users are responsible for their own due diligence, inspections, communications, payment decisions, pickup arrangements, shipping arrangements, and transaction decisions.
We may retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to operate the platform, maintain records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent fraud, maintain security, improve services, and protect our rights.
If you delete or deactivate your account, we may retain certain records, including listings, messages, account activity, moderation history, support communications, security logs, and transaction-related communications for internal, legal, compliance, dispute review, fraud prevention, audit, and operational purposes.
Public listings may be removed from public view after account deletion or listing removal, but internal records may be retained as permitted by law.
If you delete or deactivate your account, we may stop sending account-related emails that are no longer applicable. We may also remove your email address from marketing lists where required or appropriate.
However, we may retain your email address and related records in internal systems if needed for legal, security, audit, suppression, compliance, fraud prevention, or dispute-related purposes.
Transactional emails, such as account notices, security notices, listing notices, and messaging notices, are part of the platform service and may not include an unsubscribe option. Marketing emails, where used, will include an unsubscribe option as required by applicable law.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. These may include HTTPS, password protection, access controls, server-side validation, CAPTCHA, security logs, backup systems, secure hosting practices, and other measures.
No website, platform, system, or method of electronic transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of information.
You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential. You should use a strong password and not share your account credentials with others.
If you believe your account has been compromised, contact us promptly.
RestaurantBuyouts.com is intended for users who are at least eighteen (18) years old, or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, whichever is greater. The platform is not intended for children or minors.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. We also do not knowingly allow minors to create accounts, submit listings, send messages, or use the transactional features of the platform.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, or that a minor has created an account or used the platform in violation of this Privacy Policy or the User Agreement, we may delete the information, suspend or terminate the account, and take other appropriate action.
RestaurantBuyouts.com may contain links to third-party websites, advertisers, service providers, logistics providers, payment providers, financing providers, inspection providers, or other resources.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, policies, or actions of third parties. You should review the privacy policies of any third-party websites or services you use.
At this time, RestaurantBuyouts.com may not process payments between buyers and sellers. If payment processing, escrow, paid listings, premium placements, advertising payments, or other paid services are added in the future, payment information may be collected and processed by third-party payment processors.
RestaurantBuyouts.com may receive limited payment-related information, such as transaction status, payment confirmation, billing contact details, or payment history, but full payment card information may be handled directly by the payment processor.
Depending on how you use the platform, you may have choices regarding your information, including the ability to:
Certain records may be retained even after account deletion as described in this Privacy Policy.
Depending on where you live, you may have certain privacy rights under applicable law. These may include the right to request access to personal information, correction of personal information, deletion of certain personal information, or information about how personal information is collected, used, or shared.
RestaurantBuyouts.com will respond to valid privacy requests as required by applicable law. We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
Some browsers offer "Do Not Track" signals. There is currently no uniform industry standard for responding to these signals. RestaurantBuyouts.com may not respond to Do Not Track signals unless required by law.
RestaurantBuyouts.com is operated from the United States. If you access the platform from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be collected, stored, processed, and transferred in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on the platform with a revised "Last Updated" date.
Your continued use of RestaurantBuyouts.com after an updated Privacy Policy is posted means you accept the updated policy.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, you may contact us at:
RestaurantBuyouts.com, Inc.
Email: Legal (at) RestaurantBuyouts.com