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The Eton Mess Privacy Policy 

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We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our enterprise. The Eton Mess is a trading name of SMB Restaurant Ltd. We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.  

 

Privacy Policy 

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This privacy policy explains how we use any personal information we collect about you when you use this website or stay at our hotel. 

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Topics: 

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  • What information do we collect about you? 

  • How will we use the information about you? 

  • Your rights 

  • Keeping your information 

  • How we secure your information 

  • Marketing 

  • Cookies 

  • Changes to our privacy policy 

  • How to contact us 

 

What information do we collect about you? 

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At various times, we will be obliged to ask you, as a The Eton Mess customer, for information about you and/or members of your family, such as: 

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  • Contact details (for example: last name, first name, telephone number, email) 

  • Personal information (for example: date of birth, nationality) 

  • Information relating to your children (for example: first name, date of birth, age) 

  • Your credit card number (for transaction and reservation purposes) 

  • Your membership number if you are a member of our loyalty program 

  • Your arrival and departure dates 

  • Your preferences and interests (for example: preferred floor, type of bedding, sports, cultural interests) 

  • Your questions/comments, during or following a stay in one of our hotels 

 

The information collected in relation to persons under 18 years of age is limited to their name, nationality and date of birth, which can only be supplied to us by an adult. 

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How will we use the information about you? 

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We use your information in a number of different ways; primarily to fulfil a contract and also provide excellent service to our customers— what we do depends on the information. The section below sets this out in detail, showing what we use the information we collect for. 

 

 

Contact Details 

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  • To manage the reservation of restaurant, rooms and accommodation requests along with other hotel services 

  • To manage your restaurant bookings and stay in the hotel, rooming lists, special requests and services 

  • To monitor your use of our services such as Wi-Fi usage and  

  • To manage invoicing and payment records 

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Personal Information 

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  • To improve hotel and restaurant services and the guest experience, to join our marketing programme, to assist with the promotion of our products and services in social media platforms 

 

Information Relating to your Children 

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  • Limited to name, nationality and DOB, only supplied by an adult to manage their stay in the hotel 

 

Credit Card Number 

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  • To guarantee bookings and take payment in-line with our terms 

 

Loyalty Membership Number 

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  • To record the use of services and supply rewards if and when they are functional 

 

Arrival & Departure Dates 

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  • To manage your reservation/booking 

 

Preferences & Interests 

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  • To enhance and personalise a guest’s stay with us and improve the services we offer 

 

Comments & Feedback 

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  • To collect information to improve our services and monitor customer experience. 

 

Your rights 

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You have rights relating to your personal information: 

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  • The right to be informed about how your personal information is being used (like this notice) 

  • The right to access the personal information we hold about you 

  • The right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information we hold about you 

  • The right to request that we delete your data, or stop processing it or collecting it, in some circumstances 

  • The right to stop direct marketing messages, and to withdraw consent for other consent-based processing at any time 

  • The right to request that we transfer or export elements of your data either to you or another service provider 

  • The right to complain to your data protection regulator — in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office 

 

If you want to exercise your rights, have a complaint, or just have questions, please contact us. Details are in the Contact Us section at the end of this document. 

 

Keeping your information 

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We’ll hold on to your information for as long as you have a booking with us, and for as long as is necessary to provide support-related reporting. 

We’ll also hold on to your information if reasonably necessary or required to meet legal or regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse, or enforce our terms and conditions. We may also keep hold of some of your information as required, even if it is no longer needed to provide the services to you. 

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How we secure your information 

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The Eton Mess takes data security seriously, and we use appropriate technologies and procedures to protect personal information. Our information security policies and procedures are aligned with widely accepted international standards. We apply the controls detailed in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) to all environments storing personal data. These standards are applied and are reviewed regularly and updated as necessary to meet our business needs, changes in technology, and regulatory requirements. 

For example: 

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Policies and procedures 

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  • We have measures in place to protect against accidental loss and unauthorised access, use, destruction, or disclosure of data 

  • We place appropriate restrictions on access to personal information 

  • We implement appropriate measures and controls, including monitoring and physical measures, to store and transfer data securely 

  • We conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) in accordance with legal requirements and our business policies 

  • To protect your online transaction, we use SSL technology and your personal information will be automatically encrypted or encoded before being sent over the internet. When you enter a secure portion of our site an image of a closed lock should appear in your browser window. We undertake not to share any personal information provided by you with any third parties. 

  • We reserve the rights to use several social media and analytical platforms as mentioned below. Their privacy policies could be found in their respective websites.  
    Facebook - www.facebook.com 
    Instagram - www.instagram.com 
    Linkedin – www.linkedin.com 
    Google Analytics – www.analytics.google.com 
    Google Ad-words – www.ads.google.com 

  • Our Guest Wi-Fi is managed by Purple. We collect guest information and their visit counts every time they connect to the guest Wi-Fi through Purple. Any information or data stored within Purple is subject to their own terms of usage and privacy policy. 
    Their website is www.purple.ai 
    Their privacy policy can be found in https://purple.ai/privacy-policy/                   

  • One of our review and customer interaction platform is TripAdvisor. Any information or data stored within TripAdvisor is subject to their own terms of usage and privacy policy.                                                     

Training for employees and contractors    

       

  • We provide privacy, information security, and other applicable training on a regular basis for our employees who have access to personal information and other sensitive data 

  • We take steps to ensure that our employees, and contractors where possible, operate in accordance with our information security policies and procedures and any applicable contractual conditions 

 

3rd party provider risk management

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  • We require, through the use of contracts and security reviews, our third-party providers to protect any personal information with which they are entrusted in accordance with our security policies and procedures 

 

Marketing 

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We would like to send you information about products and services of ours and other companies in our Group which may be of interest to you. If you have consented to receive marketing, you can still opt out at a later date. 

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You have the right, at any time, to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your information to other members of The Eton Mess. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please click  here. 

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Cookies 

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We use cookies when you visit our site. There are four main types of cookies – here’s how and why we use them. 

  • (1) Site functionality cookies – these cookies allow you to navigate the site and use our features. 

  • (2) Site analytics cookies – these cookies allow us to measure and analyse how our customers use the site, to improve both its functionality and your shopping experience. 

  • (3) Customer preference cookies – when you are browsing, these cookies will remember your preferences (like your language or location), so we can make your experience as seamless as possible, and more personal to you. 

  • (4) Targeting or advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver ads relevant to you. They also limit the number of times that you see an ad and help us measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. 

 

By using our site, you agree to us placing these sorts of cookies on your device and accessing them when you visit the site in the future. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, the “help” section in your browser should provide instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Further information about cookies can be found at https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-and-similar-technologies/ . Please note that by deleting or disabling future cookies, your user experience may be affected, and you might not be able to take advantage of certain functions of our site. 

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Changes to how we protect your privacy 

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We may change this page from time to time, to reflect how we are processing your data. If we make significant changes, we will make that clear on our website, or by some other means of contact such as email, so that you are able to review the changes before you continue to use our services. 

 

How to contact us 

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If you: 

  • Have any questions or feedback about this notice 

  • Would like us to stop using your information 

  • Want to exercise any of your rights as set out above, or have a complaint 

 

You can contact the team by emailing us at: 

info@theetonmess.co.uk 

 

Or if you’d like to, you can write to us at: 

The Eton Mess – Data Protection 
55, High Street 
Eton 
Berkshire 
SL4 6BL 

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