
Privacy Notice
Thank you for visiting Potbelly.com. This site is owned by Potbelly
Corporation, Merchandise Mart, Suite 2300 Chicago, Illinois 60654. Potbelly
knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and
we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly Your
privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide
this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices
you can make about the way your information is collected and used at
this site. By visiting Potbelly.com, you are accepting the practices
described in this Privacy Notice.
The Information We Collect
We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give
us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information,
but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features.
From time-to-time on our site you may be able to order products, enter
contests, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion or subscribe
to one of our services. The types of personally identifiable information
that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail
address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and
information about your interests in and use of various products, programs,
and services.
At certain parts of some of our sites, only persons who provide us with
the requested personally identifiable information will be able to order
products, programs, and services or otherwise participate in the site's
activities and offerings.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information
when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you
are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating
system you are using, (e.g., Windows '95 or Mac OS) and the domain name
of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).
How We Use the Information
Information about our customers is an important part of our business,
and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer
information only as described below.
We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your
requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your
inquiries about our offerings, to offer you other products, programs
or services that we believe may be of interest to you and to notify
you when you have won one of our contests.
We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we
collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable
us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information
in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products,
programs, or services.
We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal
process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We
also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement
agency's request.
Agents and contractors of Potbelly who have access to personally identifiable
information are required to protect this information in a manner that
is consistent with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the
information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they
are performing for Potbelly.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized
disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable
information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that
is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice.
We may on occasion combine information we receive online with outside
records to enhance our ability to market to you those products or services
that may be of interest to you.
Finally, Potbelly will not use or transfer personally identifiable information
provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without
also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated
uses.
Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and
Sponsors
Our site may contain links to other sites whose information practices
may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites'
privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted
to, or collected by, these third parties.
Cookies
To enhance your experience with our site may use "cookies."
Cookies are text files we plac e in your computer's
browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell
us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information
unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example,
registering at our site. However, once you choose to furnish the site
with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked
to the data stored in the cookie.
We may use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content
and offerings on our site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize
your experience at our web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name when
you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas,
and enable you to use shopping carts on our sites. We also may use cookies
to offer you products, programs, or services.
Children's Privacy Policy
Our site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. Potbelly
does not knowingly request or collect personal information from children
under the age of 13.
Our Commitment to Security
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial
procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain
data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.