Privacy Policy

Dinners With Friends respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

1. Who We Are

Dinners With Friends ("we", "our", "us") is dedicated to creating memorable social dining experiences. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. For any privacy-related queries, please contact us at [email protected].

2. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services: Identity Data: Name, title, dietary preferences and requirements. Contact Data: Email address, telephone numbers, and postal address. Payment Data: Billing information processed securely via Stripe. Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types. Marketing Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and communication preferences.

3. How We Collect Your Information

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including: Direct interactions: Information you provide when booking tickets, subscribing to our newsletter, or contacting us. Automated technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment and browsing patterns. Third parties: We may receive personal data from third parties such as Stripe (our payment processor).

4. How We Use Your Information

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances: To register you as a new guest and manage your bookings. To send you relevant information about upcoming events (with your consent). To improve our website, products/services, and customer experience. To comply with legal obligations.

5. Legal Basis for Processing

We rely on the following legal bases for processing your personal data: Consent: Where you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose. Contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you. Legal obligation: Where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation. Legitimate interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

6. Data Sharing

We may share your personal data with: Service providers who provide IT and system administration services. Event partners and venues (limited to information necessary for the event). Regulatory authorities when required by law. We will never sell your personal data to third parties.

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. When we no longer need your personal data, we will securely delete or anonymise it.

8. Your Rights

Under data protection laws, you have rights including: Right of access: Request access to your personal data. Right to rectification: Request correction of inaccurate personal data. Right to erasure: Request deletion of your personal data. Right to restrict processing: Request restriction of processing of your personal data. Right to data portability: Request transfer of your personal data. Right to object: Object to processing of your personal data. Right to withdraw consent: Withdraw consent at any time where we rely on consent. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected].

9. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know.

10. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience. We use the following types of cookies: Essential cookies: Required for the operation of our website. Analytical cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our website. Functional cookies: Enable enhanced functionality and personalisation. Advertising cookies: Used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.

11. Third-Party Links

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. Last updated: January 2025

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at: Email: [email protected] You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).