Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 22, 2026 | Last Updated: May 22, 2026

Welcome to Taco Time. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website tacotime-food.top, place orders with us, or interact with our services in any way. Please read this policy carefully. If you disagree with its terms, please discontinue use of our site.

By accessing or using our website and services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. This policy applies to all information collected through our website, mobile applications, and any related services, sales, marketing, or events.

1. About Us

Taco Time is a food service business operating in the United States. We operate the website located at tacotime-food.top. For the purposes of applicable United States privacy law, Taco Time is the data controller responsible for your personal information.

Business Name	Taco Time
Website	tacotime-food.top
Email Address	[email protected]
Address	United States

2. Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our website and services, including information that may identify you personally, information about your device, and information about how you use our services. Understanding what we collect helps us serve you better and operate our food services responsibly.

2.1 Personal Information You Provide to Us

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on our website, place a food order, express interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, participate in activities on our website, or otherwise contact us. The personal information we collect may include:

Identity Information: First name, last name, username, or similar identifier.
Contact Information: Billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
Financial Information: Payment card details, billing information, and transaction data (note: full card numbers are processed by third-party payment processors and are not stored on our servers).
Order Information: Details about food orders you have placed, including items selected, special dietary requirements or allergy information, delivery instructions, and order history.
Account Credentials: Passwords, password hints, and similar security information used for authentication and account access.
Communications Data: Any correspondence you send us, including messages through our contact forms, customer support tickets, emails, and feedback submissions.
Profile Data: Your preferences, interests, feedback, and survey responses related to our food offerings and services.
Marketing Preferences: Your preferences in receiving marketing communications from us and our third parties, and your communication preferences.

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information about your device and your interactions with our website. This information may include:

Usage Data: Pages viewed, links clicked, time spent on pages, referring URLs, and navigation patterns through our website.
Device Information: IP address, browser type and version, browser language, operating system, device type, screen resolution, and unique device identifiers.
Location Data: General geographic location data derived from your IP address, and precise location data if you grant permission through your browser or mobile device for delivery purposes.
Log Data: Server logs including access times, error logs, and activity records associated with your use of our website.
Cookie and Tracking Data: Information gathered through cookies, web beacons, pixels, and similar tracking technologies. Please see Section 8 for more information about our use of cookies.

2.3 Information From Third Parties

We may receive information about you from third-party sources and combine this with information we collect directly from you. This may include:

Information from social media platforms if you choose to connect your social media account or interact with our social media pages.
Analytics providers who provide us with aggregated data about website traffic and user behavior.
Advertising networks that provide us with data about ad performance and user interactions.
Delivery and logistics partners who provide order fulfillment status and delivery confirmation information.
Payment processors who confirm transaction status and flag potentially fraudulent transactions.

2.4 Sensitive Information

We may collect certain information that could be considered sensitive, such as dietary restrictions, food allergies, and health-related preferences you voluntarily provide when placing orders. We collect this information solely for the purpose of fulfilling your food orders safely and accurately. We take extra care to protect this type of information and do not use it for marketing or profiling purposes without your explicit consent.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the personal information we collect for a variety of legitimate business purposes. Below we describe the various ways we use your information and the legal bases for doing so under applicable United States law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) where applicable, and the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act).

3.1 Service Provision and Order Fulfillment

To process and fulfill your food orders, including preparation, packaging, and delivery.
To manage your account registration and maintain your account profile.
To send you order confirmations, receipts, and delivery updates via email or SMS.
To process payments and prevent fraudulent transactions.
To accommodate dietary restrictions and food allergy requests you have specified.
To provide customer support and respond to your inquiries, complaints, and requests.

3.2 Analytics and Service Improvement

To understand how users interact with our website and services so we can improve functionality and user experience.
To monitor the performance of our website and identify technical issues.
To analyze trends in food ordering and user preferences to optimize our menu and offerings.
To conduct research and analysis to develop new products, services, and features.
To generate aggregate, anonymized statistical information about our user base and service performance.

3.3 Marketing and Promotional Communications

To send you promotional communications about our food offerings, special deals, limited-time offers, and new menu items, where you have consented or where we have a legitimate interest in doing so.
To personalize your experience on our website based on your order history and preferences.
To display targeted advertisements on third-party websites and platforms based on your interests and interactions with our site.
To administer contests, promotions, surveys, and other events.
To measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

Opt-Out: You may opt out of receiving marketing emails at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in any marketing email we send, or by contacting us at [email protected]. Note that even if you opt out of marketing communications, we will still send you transactional messages related to your orders and account.

3.4 Legal and Safety Purposes

To comply with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
To enforce our Terms of Service and other agreements.
To protect the rights, property, or safety of Taco Time, our customers, or others.
To detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities.
To respond to legal process, court orders, and government authority requests.

4. Sharing Your Information With Third Parties

We may share your personal information with third parties in certain circumstances. We do not sell your personal information to third parties for monetary consideration. However, as described below, we may share your information with selected partners and service providers.

4.1 Service Providers

We share information with third-party vendors and service providers that perform services on our behalf, including:

Payment Processors: Companies that securely process your payment card information and financial transactions.
Delivery Partners: Third-party delivery services that fulfill your food orders and provide delivery tracking.
Cloud Hosting Providers: Companies that host our website and store our data on secure servers.
Analytics Providers: Services such as Google Analytics that help us understand website traffic and user behavior.
Email Service Providers: Platforms used to send transactional and marketing emails on our behalf.
Customer Support Tools: Software platforms used to manage customer inquiries and support tickets.
Marketing Platforms: Advertising and marketing technology providers who help us deliver targeted ads and promotional content.

All service providers are contractually obligated to keep your personal information confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, and protect it using appropriate security standards.

4.2 Business Transfers

In the event that Taco Time undergoes a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our website before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

4.3 Legal Requirements and Protection of Rights

We may disclose your information to third parties when we reasonably believe such disclosure is necessary to:

Comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request.
Enforce our Terms of Service, including investigating potential violations.
Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
Protect the rights, property, or safety of Taco Time, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law.

4.4 With Your Consent

We may share your information with other third parties with your specific consent or at your direction. For example, if you choose to submit a review to a third-party review platform, your information may be shared with that platform.

4.5 Aggregate and Anonymized Data

We may share aggregate or anonymized information about our users and their use of our services with third parties, including business partners, advertisers, and research organizations. This information does not identify any individual and cannot reasonably be used to identify you personally.

5. Data Security

We take the security of your personal information seriously and have implemented technical, administrative, and physical safeguards designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Our security measures include:

5.1 Technical Safeguards

Encryption: We use industry-standard Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption to protect data transmitted between your browser and our servers.
Secure Payment Processing: All payment card data is processed using Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant payment processors. We do not store full payment card numbers on our servers.
Access Controls: We implement role-based access controls to limit employee access to personal information on a need-to-know basis.
Firewalls and Intrusion Detection: We use firewalls and intrusion detection systems to monitor and protect our network and servers.
Regular Security Assessments: We conduct regular vulnerability assessments and security audits of our systems and infrastructure.

5.2 Administrative Safeguards

Regular training of staff on data protection and privacy practices.
Strict internal policies governing access to and handling of personal information.
Confidentiality agreements with employees and contractors who have access to personal data.
Documented data breach response procedures.

Important Notice: While we implement these security measures, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your personal information. In the event of a data breach that affects your rights, we will notify you in accordance with applicable law, including applicable state breach notification requirements.

6. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residence in the United States, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information. We are committed to honoring these rights in accordance with applicable law.

6.1 Rights Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the CCPA as amended by the CPRA:

Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you.
Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Correct: You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: You have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information. We do not sell personal information for monetary consideration, but you may opt out of certain sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: You may have the right to limit our use of sensitive personal information to necessary purposes.
Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your CCPA/CPRA privacy rights.

To exercise your California privacy rights, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by emailing [email protected]. We will respond to your request within 45 days, with a possible extension of an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary.

6.2 General Privacy Rights for All Users

Regardless of your state of residence, we offer all users of our services the following rights:

Right of Access: You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Right to Correction: You may request that we update or correct inaccurate information in your account or records.
Right to Deletion: You may request that we delete your personal information. We will honor this request unless we have a legal obligation to retain it or a legitimate business need.
Right to Data Portability: You may request a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format where technically feasible.
Right to Opt-Out of Marketing: You may opt out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time.
Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection or consumer protection authority. See Section 12 for more information.

6.3 How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise any of the rights described above, please contact us using one of the following methods:

Email: [email protected]
Website: tacotime-food.top

We may need to verify your identity before processing your request to ensure the security of your personal information. We will not charge a fee for the first request in any 12-month period; however, we reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee for excessive or repetitive requests.

7. Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. When determining the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process it, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.

Data Type	Retention Period	Reason
Account Information	Duration of account plus 3 years after closure	Service provision, legal obligations
Order History	7 years from order date	Tax and financial record-keeping requirements
Payment Records	7 years from transaction date	Financial and legal compliance
Marketing Preferences	Until opt-out plus 1 year	Compliance with opt-out requests
Customer Support Records	3 years from last interaction	Service quality and dispute resolution
Website Usage Data (Analytics)	26 months from collection	Analytics and service improvement
Cookie Data	Varies by cookie type (see Cookie Policy)	Functionality and tracking

After the applicable retention period expires, we will securely delete or anonymize your personal information. If deletion is not immediately possible (for example, because your information has been stored in backup archives), we will isolate your personal information from further processing until deletion is possible.

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, and for marketing purposes. Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website.

8.1 Types of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our website and cannot be switched off. They are usually set in response to actions you take, such as logging in, adding items to your cart, or filling out forms.
Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated.
Functional Cookies: These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization, such as remembering your preferences and saved items.
Targeting and Advertising Cookies: These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites.

8.2 Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Most web browsers allow you to manage your cookie settings through the browser's tools or settings menu. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website. For more detailed information about our use of cookies and how to manage them, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

9. Children's Privacy

Our website and services are intended for use by individuals who are 18 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect, solicit, or maintain personal information from children under the age of 13, and our services are not directed to children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us immediately at [email protected] so that we can take appropriate action.

Age Restriction: By using our website and services, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age. If you are under 18, you may not use our services without the supervision and consent of a parent or legal guardian.

10. International Data Transfers

Taco Time is based in the United States, and the personal information we collect is governed by United States law. Our website and services are primarily intended for users located within the United States. If you are accessing our services from outside the United States, please be aware that your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated.

The data protection and privacy laws of the United States may differ from those in your country of residence. By using our services and providing us with your information, you consent to the transfer of your information to the United States and its processing there in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We take steps to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it, including by entering into appropriate data transfer agreements where required.

If you are located in a jurisdiction that restricts the transfer of personal information to other countries, you should not use our services. By using our services, you explicitly and unambiguously consent to the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of your information in and to the United States as described in this Privacy Policy.

11. Third-Party Websites and Links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, including social media platforms, delivery partner websites, and payment processor websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to our website and services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit through links on our site.

Third-party services that may be integrated with our website include, but are not limited to:

Google Analytics (web analytics)
Social media sharing buttons and widgets
Third-party payment gateways
Online advertising networks
Customer review platforms

Each of these services has its own privacy policy, and we encourage you to read them to understand how they collect and use data.

12. Filing Complaints With Data Protection Authorities

If you believe we have not adequately addressed a privacy concern, you have the right to file a complaint with relevant data protection or consumer protection authorities. We encourage you to contact us first at [email protected] so we have an opportunity to address your concerns directly.

12.1 Federal Complaints

At the federal level in the United States, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is the primary agency responsible for enforcing consumer protection laws, including privacy-related matters under Section 5 of the FTC Act. You may submit a complaint to the FTC at:

FTC Online Complaint Form: reportfraud.ftc.gov
FTC Mailing Address: Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Response Center, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580
FTC Phone: 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357)

12.2 California Residents

California residents may also file complaints with the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) or the California Attorney General's Office regarding violations of the CCPA/CPRA:

California Privacy Protection Agency: cppa.ca.gov
California Attorney General: oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa

12.3 Other State Residents

Residents of other states may have rights under their state's specific privacy or consumer protection laws. We encourage you to consult your state's Attorney General's office or consumer protection agency for information about your specific rights and how to file complaints in your state.

13. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers incorporate a Do Not Track (DNT) feature that signals websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Currently, there is no industry-standard interpretation or legal requirement for how websites should respond to DNT signals. At this time, our website does not respond to browser DNT signals. We continue to monitor developments in this area and may update this policy if standards emerge.

However, we do provide you with choices about how your data is used for advertising and analytics purposes through our cookie preference settings and the opt-out options described in this Privacy Policy.

14. Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

We may use automated decision-making processes to personalize your experience on our website, including displaying relevant menu recommendations, offers, and promotional content based on your order history and browsing behavior. These automated processes do not make legally significant decisions about you. If you have concerns about any automated decision-making processes that affect you, please contact us at [email protected].

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes in our business practices, legal requirements, or the services we offer. When we make material changes to this policy, we will:

Update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.
Post a prominent notice on our website notifying users of the change.
Where required by law or where we deem it appropriate, send you a notification via the email address associated with your account.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information. Your continued use of our website and services after any changes to this Privacy Policy are posted will constitute your acceptance of the updated policy.

16. Applicable Law

This Privacy Policy is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States of America. We comply with applicable federal privacy laws including but not limited to the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act), the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and the CAN-SPAM Act, as well as applicable state privacy laws including but not limited to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) for California residents. We are committed to monitoring and adapting to new and emerging state privacy legislation across the United States.

17. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or the way we handle your personal information, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are committed to resolving any privacy concerns promptly and transparently.

Privacy Inquiries

Business Name: Taco Time

Email: [email protected]

Website: tacotime-food.top

Location: United States

We will acknowledge receipt of your inquiry promptly and aim to respond substantively within 30 calendar days. For complex requests or those requiring additional verification, we may take up to 45 days to respond, and we will notify you if we require additional time.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 22, 2026. All previous versions of this policy are superseded by this document. Taco Time reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time in accordance with applicable law.