Privacy Policy for Tide & Thyme Cafe

At Tide & Thyme Cafe, accessible from our site, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Tide & Thyme Cafe and how we use it. If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Tide & Thyme Cafe. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information We Collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account or make a booking through our online platform, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number. This might apply for catering services or event hosting.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website and services
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website and service offerings
• Understand and analyze how you use our website
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• Send you emails
• Find and prevent fraud
• Process your orders for coffee, teas, pastries, or light lunches
• Manage your bookings for catering services or event hosting

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data (GDPR)

We process your personal data under the following legal bases:

• Consent: Where you have given us clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose (e.g., subscribing to our newsletter).
• Contract: Where our use of your personal data is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract (e.g., processing your order for catering services).
• Legal Obligation: Where our use of your personal data is necessary for us to comply with the law (e.g., keeping records for tax purposes).
• Legitimate Interests: Where our use of your personal data is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, and these interests are not overridden by your rights or interests (e.g., improving our services, preventing fraud, marketing).

Log Files

Tide & Thyme Cafe follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Tide & Thyme Cafe uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Tide & Thyme Cafe.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Tide & Thyme Cafe, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Tide & Thyme Cafe has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third-Party Privacy Policies

Tide & Thyme Cafe's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

• The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
• The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children's Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Tide & Thyme Cafe does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Contact Information

Tide & Thyme Cafe

28 Harbour Drive, Floor 1

Bristol, England, BS1 5AT

United Kingdom