Cookie Policy

Last Updated: October 9, 2026

Welcome to the Cookie Policy for Cheddar Menus.

This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies may be used when you visit or interact with Cheddar Menus.

Our website is an independent informational resource focused on providing menu-related information about Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, including menu items, prices, categories, dining information, and related topics.

Cookies and similar technologies may help us operate the website, understand how visitors use our pages, improve website performance, support advertising, remember certain preferences, and maintain a better user experience.

By continuing to use our website, cookies may be placed or accessed depending on your browser settings, applicable consent requirements, and the technologies active on the website.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites may store on a visitor’s browser or device when the website is accessed.

A cookie may contain information that allows a website or third-party service to recognize a particular browser or remember certain information between visits.

Cookies can perform different functions. Some are necessary for website functionality, while others may help with analytics, advertising, personalization, security, or user preferences.

Cookies do not normally contain the full contents of a person’s device or give a website unrestricted access to the device.

2. Why Cheddar Menus Uses Cookies

Depending on the technologies active on the website, cookies and similar technologies may be used for several purposes.

These purposes may include:

• Helping the website function correctly
• Maintaining security
• Remembering preferences
• Understanding website usage
• Measuring website performance
• Improving content and navigation
• Supporting advertising
• Measuring advertising performance
• Reducing repeated advertisements
• Understanding general visitor behavior
• Detecting unusual or potentially harmful activity
• Supporting third-party services

The specific cookies used may change over time as website functionality, analytics services, advertising providers, or other technologies change.

3. Types of Cookies We May Use

Cookies can generally be divided into several categories.

Essential or Necessary Cookies

Some cookies may be necessary for basic website functionality.

These cookies may help with functions such as:

• Security
• Session management
• Basic website operation
• Remembering technical settings
• Preventing certain types of abuse
• Supporting essential functionality

Because these cookies may be necessary for the website to operate properly, disabling them may affect certain website features.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may help a website remember choices or preferences.

Depending on the services implemented on Cheddar Menus, these may help remember things such as:

• Display preferences
• Interface preferences
• Certain website settings
• Previously selected options

Functional cookies are generally intended to improve the visitor experience.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies may help us understand how visitors interact with the website.

Depending on the analytics services used, information may include:

• Pages visited
• Approximate visit duration
• General navigation behavior
• Referring pages
• Browser or device information
• General geographic information
• Website interaction patterns

Analytics information can help us identify areas of the website that may need improvement.

Analytics data is generally used to understand overall website usage rather than to personally identify individual visitors whenever possible.

Advertising Cookies

Advertising cookies may be used by advertising providers to support the delivery, measurement, and management of advertisements.

Where Google AdSense or another advertising platform is used, the relevant advertising provider may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes permitted by its policies.

Advertising-related technologies may help with:

• Delivering advertisements
• Measuring advertisement performance
• Frequency management
• Contextual advertising
• Personalized advertising where permitted
• Detecting invalid activity
• Generating aggregated advertising reports

The availability and purpose of advertising cookies may vary depending on the visitor’s location, consent status, browser, device, and applicable advertising technologies.

Performance Cookies

Performance-related technologies may help us understand how efficiently the website operates.

They may help identify:

• Slow pages
• Technical problems
• Broken functionality
• Performance issues
• General website usage patterns

This information can help us improve website reliability and usability.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies may be placed by third-party services rather than directly by Cheddar Menus.

Third-party services may include, depending on the technologies currently active on the website:

• Advertising providers
• Analytics providers
• Security services
• Embedded content providers
• Performance services
• Social media services
• Other website technology providers

Third-party cookies are generally governed by the policies of the third party that operates them.

We recommend reviewing the privacy and cookie information provided by relevant third-party services if you want to understand their specific practices.

5. Google Advertising Services

Cheddar Menus may use Google advertising services, including Google AdSense.

Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve, measure, personalize, or otherwise manage advertisements, depending on applicable settings and user consent.

The advertisements displayed to one visitor may therefore differ from advertisements displayed to another visitor.

Google may process information according to its own privacy policies and applicable requirements.

For current information about Google’s advertising technologies and privacy practices, visitors should consult Google’s official privacy and advertising resources.

6. Personalized Advertising

Where permitted and depending on applicable consent requirements, advertising technologies may use information to provide advertisements that are more relevant to a particular visitor.

Personalized advertising can involve signals such as:

• Browser information
• Device information
• Previous advertising interactions
• General interests or contextual information
• Cookie identifiers
• Approximate location
• Information associated with the page being viewed

The exact information used depends on the advertising provider and the settings available to the visitor.

Visitors may have options to control or limit personalized advertising through applicable advertising-provider or device settings.

7. Non-Personalized Advertising

Advertising may also be displayed without using personalized advertising based on a visitor’s interests.

Non-personalized advertising may rely more heavily on information associated with the current page, general contextual information, or other permitted signals.

The type of advertising shown can depend on the visitor’s location, consent choices, browser, device, and the advertising provider’s systems.

8. Consent and Cookie Preferences

Depending on where you are located and the legal requirements applicable to your visit, you may be presented with options to accept, reject, or manage certain categories of cookies and similar technologies.

Where a consent mechanism is required, your choices may affect which non-essential technologies can operate.

If you reject certain cookies, some website functions or personalized experiences may be affected.

The exact options available may differ depending on your location and the consent technology implemented on the website.

9. Browser Cookie Controls

Most modern web browsers allow visitors to control cookies through browser settings.

You may be able to:

• Block cookies
• Delete existing cookies
• Allow cookies only from certain websites
• Block third-party cookies
• Receive notifications before cookies are stored
• Clear website data

The exact steps depend on the browser you use.

If you disable cookies completely, certain website features may not work as intended.

10. Cookies Do Not Give Us Unlimited Access to Your Device

Cookies are generally limited pieces of information stored or accessed through your browser.

The use of cookies does not mean that Cheddar Menus has unrestricted access to files, applications, passwords, or other private information stored on your device.

However, third-party services may have their own technologies and data practices, which are governed by their respective policies.

11. Similar Technologies

In addition to traditional browser cookies, websites and third-party services may use technologies such as:

• Web beacons
• Pixels
• Local storage
• Device identifiers
• Similar tracking or measurement technologies

These technologies may perform functions similar to cookies, including analytics, advertising measurement, security, and website performance monitoring.

For simplicity, this policy may refer to cookies and similar technologies collectively as “cookies.”

12. Website Analytics

Cheddar Menus may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors use the website.

Analytics may help us understand questions such as:

• Which pages receive the most visits?
• How do visitors navigate the website?
• Which content is useful to visitors?
• Which pages may have technical problems?
• How can website performance be improved?

Analytics information is generally evaluated in aggregate or statistical form where possible.

Analytics providers may use their own cookies or similar technologies.

13. Advertising Measurement

Advertising services may use cookies or similar technologies to measure advertising performance.

This may help determine information such as:

• Whether an advertisement was displayed
• Whether an advertisement was interacted with
• General advertising performance
• Frequency of advertisements
• Aggregated campaign results

This information may be processed by the relevant advertising provider under its own policies.

14. Security and Fraud Prevention

Cookies or similar technologies may sometimes be used for security and fraud-prevention purposes.

These technologies can help advertising providers, analytics providers, or website services identify suspicious behavior, automated activity, invalid interactions, or other unusual patterns.

This may help protect the website, visitors, and advertising ecosystem from abuse.

15. Cookies and Personal Information

A cookie may sometimes be associated with information that can be considered personal information under applicable law.

Whether cookie information is considered personal information depends on factors such as:

• The type of information collected
• How it is combined with other information
• The applicable law
• The relevant third-party service
• Whether the information can reasonably identify an individual

Our Privacy Policy provides additional information about how personal information may be handled.

16. Information We Do Not Intentionally Request Through Cookies

Cheddar Menus does not intentionally use cookies as a method for requesting sensitive information such as:

• Passwords
• Banking credentials
• Payment card numbers
• Authentication codes
• Government identification numbers

Visitors should also avoid entering sensitive information into suspicious third-party advertisements or external websites.

17. Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to external websites.

External websites may use their own cookies and tracking technologies.

Once you leave Cheddar Menus, this Cookie Policy no longer controls the cookie practices of that external website.

Visitors should review the relevant website’s privacy and cookie policies before using an external service.

18. Embedded Content

Some pages may contain embedded content or third-party functionality.

Examples may include:

• Videos
• Maps
• Social media content
• Interactive tools
• External widgets
• Other embedded services

These third-party services may use cookies or similar technologies when their content is loaded or interacted with.

Their cookie practices are governed by their own policies.

19. Cookies and Advertising Partners

Advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to support their advertising systems.

The use of these technologies may allow advertising providers to:

• Deliver relevant advertisements
• Measure advertising performance
• Manage advertising frequency
• Detect invalid activity
• Produce statistical reports
• Support contextual or personalized advertising where permitted

The exact technologies and purposes may change as advertising services evolve.

20. Managing Advertising Preferences

Visitors may have options to manage advertising preferences through:

• Browser settings
• Device settings
• Applicable consent-management tools
• Advertising-provider settings
• Privacy controls offered by relevant platforms

Changing these settings may not remove advertising completely.

Instead, it may affect whether advertisements are personalized or how certain advertising technologies operate.

21. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers or devices may provide privacy-related signals or settings, including “Do Not Track” or similar controls.

The way these signals are handled can depend on the technology, service provider, applicable law, and technical implementation.

Where applicable requirements exist, we aim to respect legally required privacy choices and controls.

22. International Visitors

Cheddar Menus may be accessible to visitors from different countries.

Cookie and privacy laws can differ depending on where a visitor is located.

For this reason, certain visitors may see different consent options or privacy controls based on their location and applicable legal requirements.

We aim to maintain appropriate privacy and consent practices for the services used on the website.

23. Children’s Privacy

Cheddar Menus is not specifically designed as a children’s website.

We do not intentionally use cookies to encourage children to interact with advertisements or provide sensitive information.

Parents and guardians should supervise children’s internet activity and review applicable privacy settings where appropriate.

Additional information about privacy practices is available in our Privacy Policy.

24. How Long Cookies Remain

Cookies can have different lifespans.

Some cookies may exist only for the duration of a browsing session and may be removed when the browser is closed.

Other cookies may remain on a device for a longer period unless they expire or are manually deleted.

The exact duration depends on the cookie and the service that places it.

Because third-party services may change their cookie configurations, the specific lifespan of a cookie may change over time.

25. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

A first-party cookie is generally placed by the website being visited.

A third-party cookie is generally placed by a service or domain other than the website directly visited.

Cheddar Menus may use both types depending on the website’s functionality and third-party services.

Third-party cookies are controlled by the relevant third-party provider and may be subject to that provider’s own privacy and cookie policies.

26. Changes to Our Cookie Practices

The technologies used by websites can change over time.

We may introduce, remove, replace, or modify cookies and similar technologies when:

• Website functionality changes
• New services are introduced
• Advertising providers change
• Analytics tools change
• Security requirements change
• Legal requirements change
• Privacy practices are updated

As a result, the exact list of cookies active on the website may change.

27. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in:

• Website functionality
• Cookies and tracking technologies
• Advertising services
• Analytics services
• Privacy requirements
• Applicable laws
• Our internal practices

When we make significant changes, we may update the “Last Updated” date displayed at the beginning of this policy.

Visitors are encouraged to review this page periodically.

28. Relationship With Our Privacy Policy

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

The Privacy Policy provides broader information about how personal information may be collected, used, stored, disclosed, and protected.

The Cookie Policy specifically explains cookies and similar technologies.

If you have questions about personal information that are not answered by this Cookie Policy, please review our Privacy Policy or contact us.

29. Your Responsibility

Visitors are responsible for reviewing and managing their own browser and device settings where they wish to control cookies.

You should also review the privacy and cookie policies of third-party websites and services before interacting with them.

Disabling cookies may affect website functionality, advertising preferences, analytics, or other features.

30. Contact Us About Cookies

If you have questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies on Cheddar Menus, you can contact us at:

Email: [email protected]

When contacting us, please describe your question as clearly as possible so we can understand and review your concern.

31. Independent Website Notice

Cheddar Menus is an independent informational website.

We are not the official website of Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen and do not claim an official affiliation, sponsorship, endorsement, or partnership unless explicitly stated and supported by reliable information.

References to Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen and related brand names are made for informational and identification purposes.

Third-party trademarks, logos, and brand names remain the property of their respective owners.

32. Final Statement

Cookies and similar technologies can play an important role in keeping modern websites functional, secure, measurable, and financially sustainable.

Cheddar Menus aims to use these technologies responsibly and transparently.

We also aim to maintain a clear distinction between necessary website functionality, analytics, advertising, and other optional technologies.

Because third-party services and online privacy technologies can change over time, this Cookie Policy may also be updated when necessary.

For questions regarding cookies, privacy, or advertising technologies used on Cheddar Menus, please contact:

[email protected]

Website: Cheddar Menus