BACKGROUND:

This website www.dine.scot (“Our Site”) uses Cookies and similar technologies in order to distinguish you from other users. By using Cookies, We are able to provide you with a better experience and to improve Our Site by better understanding how you use it. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of Our Cookie Policy is deemed to occur if you continue using Our Site. If you do not agree to Our Cookie Policy, please stop using Our Site immediately.

 

1. Definitions and Interpretation

  • In this Cookie Policy, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings:

 

“Cookie” means a small file placed on your computer or device by Our Site when you visit certain parts of Our Site and/or when you use certain features of Our Site;
“Cookie Law” means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and of EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”);
“personal data” means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data, as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998 and EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”); and
“We/Us/Our” means Dine Scotland Ltd, a limited company registered in Scotland under company number SC508630, whose registered address is Saltire Court, 10 (1F) Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, and whose main trading address is Saltire Court, 10 (1F) Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED.

 

2. Information About Us

  • Our Site is owned and operated by Dine Scotland Ltd, a limited company registered in Scotland under company number SC508630, whose registered address is Saltire Court, 10 (1F) Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, and whose main trading address is Saltire Court, 10 (1F) Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED.
  • Our Data Protection Officer is Paul Brennan, and can be contacted by email at data-controller@dine.scot, by telephone on our main telephone number 0131 218 18 18, or by post at Saltire Court, 10 (1F) Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED

 

3. How Does Our Site Use Cookies?

  • Our Site may place and access certain first party Cookies on your computer or device. First party Cookies are those placed directly by Us and are used only by Us. We use Cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of Our Site and to provide and improve Our services. We have carefully chosen these Cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times.
  • By using Our Site, you may also receive certain third party Cookies on your computer or device. Third party Cookies are those placed by websites, services, and/or parties other than Us. Third party Cookies are used on Our Site for Web Analytics, Interactive Maps and Social Media Integration. For more details, please refer to section 4 below.
  • All Cookies used by and on Our Site are used in accordance with current Cookie Law. We may use some or all of the following types of Cookie:
    • Strictly Necessary Cookies

A Cookie falls into this category if it is essential to the operation of Our Site, supporting functions such as logging in, your shopping basket, and payment transactions.

  • Analytics Cookies

It is important for Us to understand how you use Our Site, for example, how efficiently you are able to navigate around it, and what features you use. Analytics Cookies enable us to gather this information, helping Us to improve Our Site and your experience of it.

  • Functionality Cookies

Functionality Cookies enable Us to provide additional functions to you on Our Site such as personalisation and remembering your saved preferences. Some functionality Cookies may also be strictly necessary Cookies, but not all necessarily fall into that category.

  • Targeting Cookies

It is important for Us to know when and how often you visit Our Site, and which parts of it you have used (including which pages you have visited and which links you have visited). As with analytics Cookies, this information helps us to better understand you and, in turn, to make Our Site and advertising more relevant to your interests.

  • Third Party Cookies

Third party Cookies are not placed by Us; instead, they are placed by third parties that provide services to Us and/or to you. Third party Cookies may be used by advertising services to serve up tailored advertising to you on Our Site, or by third parties providing analytics services to Us (these Cookies will work in the same way as analytics Cookies described above).

  • Persistent Cookies

Any of the above types of Cookie may be a persistent Cookie. Persistent Cookies are those which remain on your computer or device for a predetermined period and are activated each time you visit Our Site.

  • Session Cookies

Any of the above types of Cookie may be a session Cookie. Session Cookies are temporary and only remain on your computer or device from the point at which you visit Our Site until you close your browser. Session Cookies are deleted when you close your browser.

  • Cookies on Our Site are not permanent and will expire within one month of you visiting Our Site.
  • For more details of the personal data that We collect and use, the measures we have in place to protect personal data, your legal rights, and our legal obligations, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
  • For more specific details of the Cookies that We use, please refer to section 4 ‘What Cookies Does Our Site Use?’.

 

4. What Cookies Does Our Site Use?

  • The following first party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:

 

Name of Cookie Purpose & Type Strictly Necessary
PHPSESSID Session Cookie to allow login function yes

 

  • The following third party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:

 

Name of Cookie Purpose & Type Provider Strictly Necessary
cookieconsent_status Remembers when the cookie notice has been dismissed Cookie Consent by Insites (https://cookieconsent.insites.com/) no

 

  • In addition to the third party cookies listed above, Facebook, Google Analytics and LinkedIn may place a cookie on your device. For the relevant information for each of these providers, see the links below:

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
Google Analytics – https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-table

  • Our Site uses analytics services provided by Google Analytics and LinkedIn Insights. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling Us to better understand how Our Site is used. This, in turn, enables Us to improve Our Site and the services offered through it. You do not have to allow Us to use these Cookies, however whilst Our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of Our Site, it does enable Us to continually improve Our Site, making it a better and more useful experience for you.
  • The analytics service(s) used by Our Site use(s) analytics Cookies to gather the required information.
  • The analytics service(s) used by Our Site use(s) analytics cookies as described in the following links:

Google Analytics – https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-table

 

5. Consent and Control

 

6. Changes to this Cookie Policy

  • We may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of Our Site after the changes have been made. You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time.
  • In the event of any conflict between the current version of this Cookie Policy and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.

 

7. Further Information

  • If you would like to know more about how We use Cookies, please contact Us at data-controller@dine.scot, by telephone on our main telephone number 0131 218 18 18, or by post at Saltire Court, 10 (1F) Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED.
  • For more information about privacy, data protection and our terms and conditions, please visit the following:

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how Dine Edinburgh uses and protects any information that you give Dine Edinburgh when you use this website.

Dine Edinburgh is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Dine Edinburgh may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 27/07/2012.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

name and job title
contact information including email address
demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

Internal record keeping.
We may use the information to improve our products and services.
We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Cookies

We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance. The list below describes the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. Currently we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete the cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.)

First Party Cookies

These are cookies that are set by this website directly.

Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information. We therefore do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Wordpress: Our websites runs the popular Wordpress CMS and cookies are used to store basic data on your interactions with Wordpress, and whether you have logged into Wordpress. We use a session cookie to remember your log-in for you if you are a registered user and we deem these as being strictly necessary to the working of the website. If these are disabled then various functionality on the site will be broken. More information on session cookies and what they are used for at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/session-cookies-used-for.html