Effective Date: September 23, 2026  ·  Last Reviewed: September 2026
Website: https://www.thequeendairymenu.us  ·  Direct Privacy Contact: hello@thequeendairymenu.us  ·  Contact Page

Plain-Language Summary: You do not need to create an account or provide any personal information to use this website. We serve informational menu reviews, pricing guides, and nutritional data freely to all visitors. We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic performance and Google advertising services (including Google Ad Manager / Google AdSense) to display ads. These third-party technologies utilize cookies to serve ads based on your web activity. You may opt out of personalized tracking at any time as explained in Section 6, and you may contact us with any privacy requests at hello@thequeendairymenu.us.

1. About Us & Website Scope

The Queen Dairy Menu (thequeendairymenu.us) is an independent, consumer-oriented reference publication providing up-to-date information, pricing estimates, calorie counts, and culinary guides for Dairy Queen® menu items across the United States. We serve as the data controller for the technical and operational data described in this policy.

Important Independent Disclaimer: The Queen Dairy Menu is an independent editorial portal and is not affiliated with, associated with, authorized by, sponsored by, or in any way officially connected to Dairy Queen®, International Dairy Queen, Inc., Berkshire Hathaway, or any of their franchisees or subsidiaries. The official Dairy Queen website is located at dairyqueen.com.

2. Information We Collect

2a. Information You Voluntarily Submit

We do not require user registration, passwords, or payment information. If you choose to contact our editorial team via our contact form or by emailing hello@thequeendairymenu.us, we collect the name, email address, and message content you provide. This information is used strictly to respond to your specific inquiry and is never rented, shared, or sold for third-party marketing.

2b. Automatically Collected Technical Data

When your web browser requests pages from our servers, standard web logging infrastructure automatically records standard technical parameters:

  • Server Log Data: Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, operating system, referring and exit URLs, timestamps, and page request paths.
  • Device Metrics: Device category (mobile, tablet, desktop), screen dimensions, language preferences, and rendering engine.
  • Cookies & Local Storage: Identifier tokens utilized by analytics platforms and advertising networks (see Sections 5, 6, and 7).

We do not collect sensitive personal data such as financial details, social security numbers, precise GPS coordinates, biometric data, or health records.

3. How We Use Collected Information

We process the limited data we collect for the following legitimate business and operational purposes:

  • To deliver, format, and optimize content for your specific screen size and browser;
  • To detect, prevent, and mitigate security threats, DDoS attacks, and unauthorized crawling;
  • To analyze aggregated web traffic trends, popular menu items, and user journey flows;
  • To display commercial advertising via Google Ad Manager and Google AdSense to fund site hosting and ongoing menu research;
  • To respond to consumer correspondence, correction suggestions, and copyright/DMCA notices.

4. Legal Grounds for Processing (GDPR & UK Data Protection)

For individuals located within the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, our processing activities are justified under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR based on:

  • Consent: For non-essential cookies, analytics cookies, and personalized advertising cookies, which you can grant or withdraw at any time.
  • Legitimate Interests: To maintain website security, prevent fraud, optimize content delivery, and ensure reliable server uptime without infringing upon your fundamental privacy rights.
  • Contractual / Pre-contractual Request: To respond directly when you initiate contact with us.

5. Cookies & Tracking Technologies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites you visit. Our website uses the following categories of cookies:

  • Strictly Necessary / Functional Cookies: Required for fundamental site navigation, cached asset loading, and server session management.
  • Analytics Cookies: Placed by Google Analytics to collect aggregated, anonymous statistics on visitor volume, bounce rates, and navigation paths.
  • Advertising & Retargeting Cookies: Set by Google and accredited third-party advertising partners to measure ad performance and serve relevant advertisements.

You can manage, restrict, or wipe cookies through your web browser preferences. For detailed guidance on disabling cookies across various browsers, visit aboutcookies.org or allaboutcookies.org.

6. Advertising: Google Ad Manager (AdX) & Google AdSense

This website monetizes through display advertising managed by Google Ad Manager / Google AdSense (Google Publisher Tags / GPT). In connection with our advertising implementation:

  • Third-party ad networks, including Google, utilize cookies and web beacons to serve advertisements based on your prior visits to this website and other internet destinations.
  • Google's use of advertising cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) enables it and its certified ad partners to serve advertisements based on your visit history across the web.
  • Opting Out of Personalized Advertising: You can opt out of personalized ads served by Google by visiting Google My Ad Center. You can also opt out of multi-vendor behavioral targeting via the Network Advertising Initiative at networkadvertising.org and the Digital Advertising Alliance at aboutads.info.
  • For visitors in the EEA and UK, Google operates in compliance with the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF v2.2) to obtain explicit consent before firing personalized tracking.
  • Review Google's comprehensive transparency documentation at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services and Google Privacy Policy.

7. Web Analytics (Google Analytics)

We deploy Google Analytics to gauge readership engagement and identify trending menu items. Google Analytics uses cookies to capture pseudonymous data, including approximate geographic area (city level), referral sources, dwell time, and page sequences. IP anonymization protocols are enforced. If you wish to prevent Google Analytics from recording your web sessions across all websites, you can install the official Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

8. Your Legal Privacy Rights

Depending on your state or country of residence, applicable data protection legislation may entitle you to exercise the following legal rights:

  • Right to Know & Access: You may request disclosure of the specific pieces and categories of personal information we maintain regarding you.
  • Right to Deletion: You may request the permanent deletion of personal data you have directly submitted to us.
  • Right to Rectification: You may request corrections to any inaccurate personal information on file.
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale / Sharing: You may opt out of the commercial sale or sharing of your personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will never deny service, adjust speeds, or alter your user experience for exercising any of your statutory privacy rights.

To submit a privacy inquiry or exercise your legal rights, please contact us at hello@thequeendairymenu.us or via our contact form. We process all verified requests within the statutory timeline (30 to 45 calendar days).

9. U.S. State Privacy Disclosures (California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah)

Under comprehensive U.S. state privacy frameworks—including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Virginia VCDPA, Colorado CPA, Connecticut CTDPA, and Utah UCPA:

  • We Do Not Sell Personal Information for Monetary Consideration: We do not sell user names, phone numbers, or email addresses to data brokers.
  • Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising ("Sharing"): The transmission of online identifiers and browsing events via third-party advertising cookies (such as Google Ad Manager) may be legally classified as "sharing" or "targeted advertising" under CPRA and state laws. You can opt out of such sharing via Section 6 above or by transmitting a valid Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal from a supported browser, which our systems respect where technically recognized.
  • California "Shine the Light": California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents to request information regarding disclosures of personal data to third parties for direct marketing. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

10. Data Retention & Storage Periods

  • Contact Correspondence: Inquiries sent via email or the contact form are retained for up to twelve (12) months for audit, follow-up, and spam defense, after which they are purged.
  • Server Logs: Technical access logs generated by our web hosting provider are retained for ninety (90) days for diagnostic and security auditing before automated overwriting.
  • Analytics Aggregates: Google Analytics user and event data retention is configured to expire after the minimum practical retention timeframe (typically 2 to 14 months).

11. Data Security Standards

We maintain strict administrative and technical safeguards to protect your browsing sessions. All traffic between your device and our servers is secured via TLS/HTTPS encryption (Transport Layer Security) using modern cryptographic cipher suites. However, no electronic transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as 100% invulnerable. We encourage users to maintain updated web browsers and operating systems.

12. Children's Online Privacy Protection (COPPA)

Our website is designed for general-audience adult and family consumers seeking public fast-food pricing information. We do not knowingly target, solicit, or collect personal information from children under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain international jurisdictions). If a parent or guardian discovers that a minor has submitted personal information through our contact form, please email us immediately at hello@thequeendairymenu.us, and we will promptly purge the data from our records.

13. Third-Party Links & Stock Photography Attribution

Our articles, menu guides, and blog entries contain outbound hyperlinks to third-party domains (such as official Dairy Queen locators, nutritional calculators, social channels, and external reference guides). We do not control, endorse, or accept liability for the privacy practices, content, or cookie deployments of external websites.

Illustrative photography used throughout this publication consists of royalty-free stock imagery sourced from platforms such as Unsplash in accordance with their editorial commercial licenses. These image resources do not track users or execute client-side scripts.

14. Revisions to This Privacy Policy

We review and update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect technological enhancements, statutory revisions, or updates to our advertising configurations. The revised document will be published on this page with an updated "Last Updated" timestamp. Continued browsing of the website following published updates signifies your acknowledgement of the revised terms.

15. Contact Our Privacy Team

If you have any questions, regulatory requests, or feedback concerning this Privacy Policy, our data handling, or our editorial disclosures, please reach out to us through either of the following channels:

For our complete 2026 fast-food catalog and nutritional breakdowns, visit The Queen Dairy Menu.