Privacy policy

The Sentinel Plate Index (sentinelplateindex.com) is a product of SentinelBrain™, published by SentinelBrain LLC ("we"). This policy covers the email list and the forms on this site. Reading the site needs no signup. Your use of the site and the editions is covered by our terms of use.

What we collect

• Your email address, your role (restaurant owner, manager or other) and the metro you choose.
• If you add them: your restaurant or company name and the cuisines you care about.
• If you tick the separate text box: your mobile number, the exact wording you agreed to and the time. We do not send texts yet; if we start, we will text only numbers that ticked that box.
• The wording you agreed to when you signed up, this policy's version, and when you confirmed or unsubscribed.
• A one-way scrambled form of your IP address, used only to stop form abuse. We do not store the address itself.
• Whether each email to you was sent or failed, from our email provider.
• On "Request your metro": the city you name and, if you add it, your email.
• Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs (such as IP address, browser type and the page requested) for a short time, for security and to fix problems.

How we use it

• To send you the free edition email for the metros and cuisines you chose, after you confirm your address.
• SentinelBrain LLC also makes paid tools for restaurant owners. If you tell us you are an owner or a manager, we may contact you about them. You can unsubscribe at any time, and that stops all of our emails.
• To decide which metros to cover next (city requests are counted; they are never shown publicly).

What we never do

• We never sell, rent or license your personal details, and they are never part of any paid product or data license. Our paid products are built from restaurant menu-price data, not from subscriber details.
• We never use your details to say, or hint, which restaurants are in the index.
• Your details are kept apart from the data of our paid product's customers.

Restaurant price data

The index is built from prices that restaurants publish on their own public websites. That is information about businesses, not about you, and it is covered by our terms of use, not by this policy. We publish only summaries across many restaurants and never say which restaurants are included.

Who handles it for us

We use service providers only to run the site and send email: our hosting provider (Vercel), our database provider (Supabase) and our email delivery provider (Resend). They process your details on our behalf.

When we may share it

• With the service providers above, only to run the site and send email.
• If the law requires it, such as a valid subpoena or court order, or to protect our rights or someone's safety.
• If SentinelBrain LLC or the index is sold or merged, with the new owner, who must keep following this policy for details collected under it.

Cookies

This site sets no advertising or tracking cookies. We use Vercel Web Analytics to count page visits without cookies.

How long we keep it

While you are subscribed. After you unsubscribe we keep only what we need to prove your choice and to make sure we do not email you again. Ask us and we will delete the rest.

Your choices

Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. To see, correct or delete your details, write to optout@sentinelplateindex.com. We reply within 45 days.

Children

This site is for adults in the restaurant business and is not meant for children under 13.

Changes

If we change this policy we will post the new version here with a new version label. We will not use details collected under this version in a new way without asking.