Privacy Policy & Data Transparency

Ember & Oak is a multi-page web demonstration built to showcase modern, accessible, frontend-only user experience design for a contemporary hearth restaurant. The project focuses on elegant typography, semantic HTML5 structure, responsive layout principles, and interactive client-side components.

Because this website operates strictly as a static frontend demonstration, there are no commercial transactions, active point-of-sale integrations, live table booking services, or private event contracts conducted through these pages. This document explains how browser interactions are handled within this demonstration environment.

The interactive forms found on our Contact page and Reservations page are frontend demonstrations engineered to illustrate client-side validation, accessible form error handling, and responsive state transitions:

• Local Confirmation Only: When you complete and submit either form with valid test information, the browser intercepts the submission event via JavaScript (event.preventDefault()). A local confirmation card and summary table are rendered directly in the document.
• No Backend Transmission: Form inputs are never transmitted to any web server, REST API, cloud function, database, CRM, third-party reservation manager (such as OpenTable or Resy), or restaurant email address.
• No Commercial Commitment: Submitting a reservation inquiry in this prototype does not reserve a physical seat, nor does it charge a deposit or communicate with any venue staff.

The client-side scripts running on this website (assets/js/main.js) do not intentionally save, persist, or cache submitted form records in any persistent client-side storage medium, including:

• Browser localStorage or sessionStorage keys
• HTTP or document cookies
• IndexedDB or WebSQL local databases
• Server-side file storage, logs, or databases

Once you refresh the browser page, navigate away to another URL, or close the browser tab, all form values and simulated confirmation cards return to their initial blank state.

To provide high-quality typography, responsive styling, and scalable iconography, this website loads select assets from public Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). When your browser downloads these assets, the respective third-party providers automatically receive standard technical transmission metadata.

We do not claim that absolutely no information leaves the browser. While our application scripts do not collect or dispatch personal details, network requests made to external hosting networks inevitably convey technical parameters such as:

• Your device’s IP address
• Your browser User-Agent header (browser type, operating system, version)
• The referring URL (`referer` header)
• Request timestamp and protocol metadata

Visitors who prefer to restrict CDN asset requests can use content-blocking extensions or configure privacy-enhanced browser controls.

A careful inspection of this codebase confirms that no first-party tracking cookies, analytics engines, or advertising pixels are implemented in this demonstration:

• No Tracking Beacons: There are no tracking scripts such as Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Hotjar, or commercial ad network tags embedded in these files.
• No First-Party Cookies: The application does not generate or evaluate HTTP cookies for tracking, session profiling, or marketing purposes.
• No Cookie Banner Required: Because no non-essential tracking cookies or profiling mechanisms are used by this demonstration site, a cookie consent banner is not implemented.

This website may contain hyperlinks directing visitors to third-party web destinations, such as demonstration social media profiles (Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter), open-source code repositories, or third-party mapping utilities.

When you click an external link, you leave the Ember & Oak demonstration environment. Third-party websites have independent privacy policies, terms of service, and cookie management practices. We encourage you to review their respective privacy notices upon arriving on external domains.

While this website uses modern frontend standards and secure CDN resources, it remains an educational portfolio demonstration rather than an enterprise web application. As such, the forms are designed exclusively for mock testing.

This sample policy statement may be updated periodically as the portfolio codebase is refined, refactored, or enhanced with additional frontend features. If new static assets, accessibility enhancements, or demonstration forms are introduced, this document will be amended to accurately reflect those changes.

Because Ember & Oak is a fictional demonstration project, there is no registered commercial legal entity, registered office, or designated Data Protection Officer (DPO). The contact information provided below is purely illustrative and serves demonstration purposes:

For questions regarding the code implementation or frontend architecture of this portfolio project, please consult the project repository documentation.