PRIVACY POLICY

To policy is in place to explain how we protect your privacy. This policy covers data collected through this website, including it’s WooCommerce store, Rewards system and Mailing List. For a full policy covering all aspects of the Bruce Taverns company, please contact simon@brucetaverns.com

WHO WE ARE

Old Town Pub Co. is owned and operated by Bruce Taverns LTD. This website (www.oldtownpubco.com) is also owned and operated by Bruce Taverns LTD. Throughout the site, the terms “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Old Town Pub Co. (www.oldtownpubco.com).

Bruce Taverns LTD. are registered in the United Kingdom under company number SC197816. Our registered office is at 53 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH1 1EJ.

Our main trading address is 53 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH1 1EJ. Our VAT number is 735286419.

By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy. To change your cookie settings, please follow the guidance and reference links below.

We here at Old Town Pub Co. know that our users care about how their personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. We want you to know that Old Town Pub Co. does not sell, rent, or trade our email lists or information with other companies and/or businesses for marketing purposes. This Policy sets out to describe how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit, browse, engage with, or make a purchase from Old Town Pub Co. (https://www.oldtownpubco.com/ ) and how we keep it secure.

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Personal data’ means any data that may identify you. Different pieces of information, which when collected together can lead to the identification of an individual, is also personal data. We collect the personal data that is needed for us to carry out the services requested, analyse and improve our services, maintain our accounts and where we are required by law.

COOKIES

What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that we store on your device. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website and to improve the users experience while visiting. Cookies also provide us with information about how this website is used so we can keep it as up to date, relevant and as error-free as possible.

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy, however, users have some control over their privacy options which are outlined further on.

Types of cookies
There are various types of cookies, please be aware that by choosing to disable certain types of cookies, you may be unable to participate in certain interactions such as purchasing items through our online store or participating in the social rewards program.

Strictly necessary cookies – These are cookies that are essential to the operation of our website.

Analytical/performance cookie – These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website.

Functionality cookies – These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website.

Targeting Cookies – These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.

What cookies do we use?
There are two different types of cookies – the ones we use on oldtownpubco.com (first party cookies) and the ones set by companies with work or interact with (we call these third party cookies).

We use various first Party browser cookies to enable the smooth running of the website, this includes remembering whether you are logged in, what’s in your shopping cart and other necessary information.

List of Cookies.
Every attempt has been made to list all the cookies our website is currently using as accurately as possible. If you think we have missed any or any information is inaccurate, please feel free to contact us and we will investigate further.

Oldtownpubco.com First Party Cookies

WordPress
Cookies used:

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wordpress_logged_in_{random}
wordpress_test_cookie

The Old Town Pub Co. website is built using the WordPress platform. These cookies are Essential WordPress session management cookies for logged in users.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

For those logged in into the WordPress backend (system administrators)
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wp-settings-time-1

WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.

CC Cookie Consent
Cookies used:
cookieconsent_dismissed
cookieconsent_status

Used by our ‘CC Cookie Consent’ plugin which is used to present the cookie information and acceptance bar each visitor is presented with and remember the user preferences.

Woocommerce
Cookies used:
woocommerce_items_in_cart
woocommerce_cart_hash
wp_woocommerce_session_

The first two woocommerce cookies cookies contain information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. The final cookie (wp_woocommerce_session_) contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. No personal information is stored within these cookies.

Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (GADWP)
Cookies used:
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gadwp_wg_default_metric
gadwp_wg_default_swmetric

These are Google Analytics analytical cookies used by GADWP to present the information we collect from Google analytics in a clear and customised dashboard within the WordPress administration panel.

Wordfence Security
Cookies used:
wfwaf-authcookie

This website uses Wordfence – a security plugin to help keep our website safe. This cookie is set by the WordPress security plugin “Wordfence”. It is used to authenticate user’s login request. This cookie is persistent and expires in 1 day.

Third Party Cookies

Google Analytics
Cookies used:
NID
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_utmb
_utmc, _utmz

We use google analytics so we can measure the traffic and success of individual pages and our website as a whole. We use these to learn more about how our users interact so we can keep it as up to date, relevant, enjoyable and error-free as possible.

We have used The IP anonymization feature in Google Analytics which allows a website to request that all of their users’ IP addresses are anonymized within the product. This feature is designed to help site owners comply with privacy policies such as GDPR.

Google stores the information collected by these cookies on servers in the United States. Google may transfer this information to third-parties where required to do so by law, or where such third-parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

OPT-OUT OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS

In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect usage of the website in any other way. A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=None

For more information on the usage of cookies by Google Analytics please see the Google website. A link to the privacy advice for this product is provided below for your convenience.

http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

gstatic.com
Cookies used:
NID
CONSENT
_ga
_gid

gstatic.com is a google owned domain where it hosts its static content. These analytical cookies are used to distinguish users.

Google
Cookies used:
APISID
NID
SID
1P_JAR
CONSENT
HSID
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SAPISID
SIDCC
SSID

Google uses these cookies for a number of purposes including but not limited to:
– Collecting information based on recent searches and interactions, to help customize ads on Google properties, like Google Search.
– To authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties.
– Process cookies help make the website work and deliver services that the website visitor expects, like navigating around web pages or accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.
– Google Maps

To find out more about these cookies and other types of cookies used by google visit here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types

Akamai Technologies
Cookies used:
abmr.net

This cookie is set by the abmr.net domain to enable streaming data such as videos.

Paypalobjects.com (Paypal)
Cookies used
PYPF

This cookie is linked to the checkout process if you decide to use the Paypal option.

Facebook
Cookies used include:
reg_ext_ref
reg_fb_gate
reg_fb_ref
wd
datr
dpr
fr
c_user
pl
sb
xs

These are third party Facebook cookies. These cookies enable users the ability to interact with our website, participate in our social rewards program and share content from our website with their friends should they choose. These cookies do not allow oldtownpubco.com any access to your account nor do they provide us with any confidential information relating to the account.

As we do not control the cookies set by facebook, we recommended you read about their privacy policy on their website here – Facebook Privacy Policy

Twitter
Cookies used:
personalization_id
_twitter_sess
ct0
external_referer
guest_id

These cookies are set due to Twitter integration with the website including sharing capabilities and to enable our Twitter Feed. As we do not control the cookies set by Twitter, we recommended you read about their privacy policy on their website here https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

DISABLING COOKIES

If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below for convenience and will be available for the Internet browser of your choice either online or via the software help (normally available via key F1).

Internet Explorer https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Google Chrome https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Mozilla Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Apple Safari https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

OTHER INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you sign up as a registered user either to participate in the social rewards scheme, make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the website, we may collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address and shipping address, payment information.

When you enter a competition held by Old Town Pub Co. we may collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address and shipping address.

When you email, phone us, or correspond with us in any way, we may collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address and shipping address and the content of the correspondence.

We use a wordpress plugin called ‘Sumo Rewards’ which is used to reward users for placing orders or engaging with the website on a points based system (liking posts, making comments etc). In order to keep a record of and tally a users points, it generates a log on each users interactions. We have a list within the backend of WordPress which is a record of each action a user has participated in that earns points. This list is used for two reasons only – firstly it is required in order for users to be able to redeem their points at the checkout and secondly, so we can identify frequent and loyal users should we choose to reward them. You can request to have these actions (and subsequently the points associated with them) at any time by contacting us on info@oldtownpubco.com

COMMENTS

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

MAILCHIMP

MailChimp is an email marketing service we use to email news, updates and events to our subscribers.

When you subscribe to our Mailchimp account you are consenting to providing your contact information which will be stored in our MailChimp account. This will consent us to send out marketing emails.

You will only receive marketing communication if you’ve opted in to receive them. You can opt out of receiving these at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any marketing email, or by contacting us at info@oldtownpubco.com

You can view MailChimp’s policies at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

PAYPAL

We use paypal as our payment Gateway, to learn about there privacy policy, please visit here: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-prev

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use personal data provided to us for the purposes of carrying out our day to day business and services, and to keep our clients up to date with important information related to these services.
We will use this data in a transparent manner, using a common sense approach and only on lawful grounds.
Internal record keeping.
We may use the information to improve our products and services.
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you.
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
To contact you if you have won a competition or if we have decided to reward you for participating in our website rewards system.
Where we are required by law to keep accurate and up to date records of our business accounts and transactions. When you work with us, you may be added to our accounting system.
As required by any other applicable laws or legal requirements in connection with records retention or for internal administrative purposes.
We use Google Analytics data to measure website traffic and the success of the website.
We use the Order Information that we collect to fulfil any orders placed through the Site (including arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). These orders arrive through our website but are fulfilled by an external company as outlined below. Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
– Communicate with you;
– Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud.

HOW DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

INKTHREADABLE

oldtownpubco.com uses a UK distribution company called ‘Inkthredable” to fulfil our online storefront orders and subsequently we share your details with them for the purpose of enabling them to print, organise and send out your orders – as well as to communicate with us regarding each order status.

Inkthreadable use an API to communicate with our Woocommerce dashboard and our receive orders on a real time basis.

You can read about their privacy policy here:
https://www.inkthreadable.co.uk/privacy-policy

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as outlined above.
We may share your personal details when announcing competition winners or if you have been selected to receive a prize.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
We may need to share your personal information with staff who are employed to carry out any of the duties outlined in ‘how do we use your personal data’.
We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

WHO MAY SEE YOUR DATA?

As part of running our day to day operations and only when necessary, we may disclose your data to other parties such as:

Our direct employees
Contractors we work with
Service providers providing services to us
Advisors
Agents

We may also disclose your information to third parties if we are compelled to by law or to comply with any legal obligation.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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.

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

Personal Data collected through shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose it has been collected for.

Google analytics data will be kept for 26 months as per the settings within analytics.

EXTERNAL LINKS

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website.

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

SHORTENED LINKS IN SOCIAL MEDIA

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses].

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

RESOURCES & FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT US

To contact us regarding any areas of this policy, please email us at info@oldtownpubco.com

This policy is effective from May 25th, 2018

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