The Russian Tea Room

This Privacy Policy explains how The Russian Tea Room (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses personal information about visitors to this website and guests of our restaurant, and describes the privacy rights available to you, including specific rights for California residents.

1. Scope

This Policy applies to personal information we collect through this website, by phone, by email, and in person in connection with reservations, events, catering, online ordering, and retail purchases. It does not apply to third-party websites or services we do not control, including reservation and ordering platforms that operate under their own privacy policies.

2. Personal information we collect

Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following categories of personal information (as those categories are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, together the “CCPA”):

Identifiers — such as name, email address, postal address, and telephone number.
Customer records — such as reservation details, party size, dining preferences, and billing information you provide.
Commercial information — such as products or services purchased or considered, and event or catering inquiries.
Internet or network activity — such as your interactions with our website, pages viewed, and limited device and browser information collected through cookies and similar technologies (see our Cookie Notice).
Geolocation data — approximate location derived from your IP address.
Audio/visual information — such as photographs taken at events where applicable.

We do not request or intend to collect sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16.

3. Sources of personal information

We collect personal information directly from you (for example, when you make a reservation, submit a form, or contact us); automatically through your use of our website; and, in some cases, from service providers who help us operate reservations, online ordering, payments, and events.

4. How we use personal information

We use personal information for the following business and commercial purposes:

To take and manage reservations, orders, events, and catering requests;
To process payments and fulfill purchases;
To respond to your inquiries and provide customer service;
To operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website and services;
To send you communications you request, and, where permitted, marketing communications you may opt out of at any time;
To comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms.

5. How we disclose personal information

We may disclose personal information to service providers and contractors who perform services on our behalf — such as reservation platforms, online ordering and payment processors, email and hosting providers, and event vendors — under contracts that limit their use of the information to providing those services. We may also disclose personal information to comply with the law, respond to legal process, protect our rights, or in connection with a corporate transaction.

6. Sale or sharing of personal information

We do not sell your personal information for money. However, we use third-party analytics and advertising services, including Google Analytics and Google Ads, that use cookies and similar technologies. Depending on your settings, these services may receive identifiers and information about your activity on our website for analytics and advertising purposes. Under the CCPA, this activity may be considered “sharing” of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

You have the right to opt out. You can opt out of this sale or sharing at any time using the banner on our website or our Your Privacy Choices page, and we honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signals. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.

7. Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Retention periods vary based on the type of information and the purpose for which it was collected.

8. Your California privacy rights

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights, subject to certain exceptions:

Right to know / access — to request the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources, the purposes, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed it.
Right to delete — to request deletion of personal information we collected from you.
Right to correct — to request correction of inaccurate personal information.
Right to opt out of sale or sharing — you may opt out of the sharing of your personal information for analytics and advertising using the banner on our website or our Your Privacy Choices page, and we honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signals.
Right to limit use of sensitive personal information — we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes that require an opt-out.
Right to non-discrimination — we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights.

9. How to exercise your rights

You may submit a request to know, delete, or correct by emailing us at info@russiantearoomnyc.com or calling (212) 581-7100. We will verify your request by confirming information we already maintain about you. You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf, subject to verification. We will respond within the timeframes required by law.

10. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. The “Last updated” date above reflects the most recent revision. Material changes will be posted on this page.

11. Contact us

The Russian Tea Room
150 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019
Email: info@russiantearoomnyc.com
Phone: (212) 581-7100