What information is collected and how do we obtain it?
Personal Information
In the normal course of our business, we will collect personal information relating to you, such as your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address (“Personal Information”) whenever you communicate with us or one of our partners or sub-contractors, (including by email, phone, SMS, via the website, our apps or otherwise), for example, in the following situations:
- When you book a table, order online or by telephone, dine in, pay a deposit, pay your bill or purchase a voucher for use in one of our restaurants. When you book or order through one of our partners, they may pass your Personal Information (including your name, email address, telephone number and details of your booking) onto us;
- When you register for Coast to Coast rewards, vouchers or other offers, subscribe for e-mail newsletters and update services;
- When you use our free Wi-Fi service;
- The Coast to Coast App provides services based on your location; if you wish to switch off location services, you will need to change the settings on your device;
- If you choose to participate in market research initiatives or promotional events, complete a questionnaire or competition entry form;
- We operate CCTV in all our restaurants - please consult the signage in the restaurant for more details;
- If you submit a job application form and/or CV, or otherwise seek employment with us, we will collect your Personal Information (including employment history and qualifications, photo id, and reference contact details and, where required, criminal records checks). You may also choose to give us certain details about a medical condition or disability, religious belief or other sensitive data relevant to your application for employment. We also collect ethnicity data (on a voluntary basis) in order to monitor our adherence to equal opportunities and anti-discrimination laws;
Some of the personal information that you provide may include sensitive personal information, such as health-related information when you make a complaint or suffer an incident in one of our restaurants (see above). We need this information to investigate the complaint or incident and (if necessary) report it to health or other authorities, law enforcement agencies, our insurers and any suppliers who may be involved). We may also collect information about the names of others in your party, and any other information needed for the purposes of the investigation.
Information is also collected automatically using cookies and other similar tracking technologies. Whenever you interact with our website (including when you browse the website or download information from it) we collect and store certain types of information about your visit using cookies. We describe how we use cookies and how you can disable them below. The information we collect using cookies includes information which identifies the computer you use to access the website, the date and time of the visit and the pages visited.
Information may be collected automatically when you use the Free Wi-Fi service in one of our restaurants in order to produce aggregated and anonymous reports concerning the use of the Free Wi-Fi service. These reports will not personally identify you. Specifically, the information we collect automatically may include information like your IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser-type, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location) and other technical information.
Please note that Free Wi-Fi is not available for persons under 18 years old. If you are under 18 years old, you will need to ask a parent or other responsible adult to sign in for you.
Payment and card details and paying via the app or website
In order to pay your Filling Station bill using Pay My Bill, Pay by Phone or another app or website feature, where this service is available, you will need to input a valid email address and your credit or debit card details. Payment processing services are provided by Braintree, a division of PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, SCA (“Braintree”), which will involve transferring your data to Braintree’s servers located within the United States. Braintree is self-certified to the US Department of Commerce under the EU-US Privacy Shield. The application will transfer payment details directly from Braintree to the operator’s point of sale system.
We will not store your card details on our system. Your personal and card details will be securely stored by Braintree and used only for the purpose of administering payment, verification of transactions, refunds, and ease of use in future transactions using the service. However, your CSC/CVV number will not be stored and must be entered each time you use a card for authentication. We will also share your email address with Omnifi Limited who will generate and send you an electronic receipt on our behalf, following bill payment.
How do we protect your information?
We apply appropriate technical and organisational security measures to prevent unauthorized access to Personal Information we hold about you. All Personal Information about our guests is stored within a robust secure environment. We never sell your data to a third party. Our practice is that no data is ever provided to third parties except in the circumstances described below under Sharing and Disclosure of Personal Information.
Please note that email correspondence with us is in free format text and cannot be encrypted. Accordingly please do not send any sensitive information such as credit card details or passwords via email. Please also note that perfect security does not exist on the Internet. You’ll know that you’re in a secure area of our website when a “padlock” icon appears on your screen and the “http” portion of our URL address changes to “https.” The “s” stands for “secure.”
Purpose and legal basis for the information we collect and use
We know how important your Personal Information is so we will only ever collect and use your Personal Information for a lawful reason relating to our business. Generally this means that we will use your Personal Information:
- to carry out a contract with you or because you have asked us to take specific steps, for example booking a table, ordering food, arranging delivery or collection, processing payment of your bill, allowing you to connect to free WiFi at our restaurants, investigating and handling complaints or considering your CV or employment application;
- because we have to comply with the law and applicable regulations, for example NHS Test and Trace or reporting any health, safety or security incidents to the relevant authorities,
- for legitimate legal purposes such as providing you with special offers, discounts, news and information about us which may be of interest to you (we think you’ll love receiving these but, if not, you can opt out at any time); updating and maintaining our records, retaining your details so you can log in quicker in the future, preventing or detecting fraud or abuses of our website or our Free Wi-Fi service, issuing vouchers for use in our restaurants, enabling third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf to make our apps, website more useful to you; for personalised service and communications, targeted and online behavioural advertising: analytics and profiling of guests; monitoring website usage and offer performance/conversion; guest surveys and data analytics to understand how we are doing, whether we are meeting our guests’ needs and seeking ways we can improve our products, services, communications, and offers;
- where required by external parties we deal with such as our insurers (e.g. where there has been an accident or incident in one of our restaurants), suppliers (if there has been a food-related incident) or where necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of any legal claims.
Special offers and promotions
We think you will love hearing about our special offers, discounts, news, and information so you don’t miss out on our special deals so unless you have told us that you do not wish to be contacted for this purpose, we will send these to you by email or text. These may include joint promotions with our business partners.
If you no longer want to receive such offers special offers, discounts, news, and information, you can either:
- simply click on “unsubscribe” at the foot of the email or text and we will take you off our marketing and promotions list or
- if you have registered for Filling Station offers, rewards or vouchers, log into your account on our website at www.c2crestaurants.com and change your preferences at any time.
Sharing and Disclosure of Personal Information
We want you to be clear on what we do with your Personal Information. We will keep your Personal Information secure and never sell your Personal Information to anyone. We do use sub-contractors to carry out certain functions on our behalf and, occasionally, have to disclose your Personal Information (for example, to provide specific services to you or dealing with insurers or public authorities like the police). This is described more fully below:
Sub-contractors, suppliers and agents: From time to time, we employ other companies to perform functions on our behalf, including taking orders and fulfilling order deliveries, designing and sending guest communications, providing guest vouchers, analyzing data, providing elements of our IT or back-up systems, providing marketing assistance, processing payments, improving our services, and providing customer service. They may have access to Personal Information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to use it for other purposes and cannot modify, disclose or erase your data without our instructions.
Payment processing: Payment processing services are provided by Braintree, a division of PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, SCA. We will also share your email address with Omnifi Limited who will generate and send you electronic receipts and other payment confirmations on our behalf.
Legal reasons: We may disclose information about you (i) if we are required to do so by law or regulation (e.g. food safety), (ii) in response to a request from law enforcement authorities or other government officials, or (iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity.
Fraud / Credit Risk: Where necessary to prevent fraud or reduce credit risk, we may exchange your Personal Information with other companies and organisations.
Business transfers: In any corporate transactions (e.g. buying or selling of businesses, stores, or business units) Personal Information is generally one of the transferred assets. We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets, however, that would always be under conditions of strict confidentiality and limited to the specific purpose.
Sending data outside of Europe: We do not transfer your Personal Information to countries outside the European Union. However, some of our appointed carriers, sub-contractors, suppliers, and agents may transfer, use, or store data in other countries. Where this is the case, they are obliged to ensure that there is equivalent protection for your Personal Information as would be the case within the European Union.
We have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Notice. These safeguards may include implementing the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information by a data controller established in the European Union to a processor established in a third country that does not offer an adequate level of protection.
Analytics and profiling: In order to offer you a more personalized experience in your interactions with us, information collected through one source may be combined with information we obtain through other sources. This may include information that allows us to identify you across multiple devices through which you access our websites. We may also supplement the information we collect with information obtained from other parties, including our business partners and other third parties to create customized profiles about you. Examples of how we may use this information include using your data to help us improve your experience using our website, to present you with options tailored to your preferences, and for targeted advertising purposes. For more information about the use of cookies and other similar tracking technologies, including how to opt out of them, please see “Cookies” below.
Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites
Our website may contain links to other websites whose privacy practices may be different from ours. You should check the privacy notices of those third-party sites as we have no control over information that is submitted to or collected by those third-party sites. We are not responsible for the content of these sites, any products or services that may be offered through these sites, or any other use of these sites.
Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Information
You have certain rights regarding your Personal Information. We summarize these below:
- Right to Access: You have the right to access data about you that we use. If you have registered for Filling Station offers, rewards, or vouchers, you can see and update your Personal Information by logging into your account on our website at https://www.filling-stations.co.uk/. If you want to access all your Personal Information or specific Personal Information not available on your Filling Station Rewards account, then you can make an access request by writing to us (see below). We will process your request without undue delay and, at the latest, within 1 month, unless your request is complex or numerous, in which case we may take up to 3 months, but we will inform you within 1 month if this is the case.
- Right to Rectification: When you log in to your account, you can also rectify or update any information on your account. If you are not able to do so, then you can make a rectification request by writing to us (see below).
- Right to Erasure: When you log on to your account, you may also erase any data on your account with the exception of data that is required for you to keep your account open (such as your email address, name, etc.). You also have the right to request us to erase Personal Information that Filling Station holds about you by writing to us (see below). Please note that there are exceptions, such as where we need to retain Personal Information for legal reasons (e.g., where necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of any legal claims) or where we have another legitimate business reason for retaining Personal Information.
- Right to Restrict or Object to Processing: If you want to stop receiving special offers, discounts, news, and information from us, either:
- Simply click on “unsubscribe” at the foot of the email or text, and we will take you off our marketing and promotions list.
- If you have registered for Filling Station offers, just log into your account on our website at www.c2crestaurants.com and change your preferences on your profile tab at any time.
You also have the right to request portability of your Personal Information which you have given us. - Right to Complain to a Data Protection Authority: You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
To make a request concerning your Personal Information, as described above, please use the contact form on the website or email us at: [email protected].
Retention of Personal Information
We will keep your data for as long as necessary to carry out the purpose for which we collected it. If we have had no online contact from you (e.g., logging onto free Wi-Fi, using your Filling Station rewards, ordering vouchers, or taking up special offers and promotions) for 3 years, we may delete your Personal Information.
If at any time you wish to opt-out of receiving special offers and promotions, restrict our processing of your Personal Information, or ask us to erase your Personal Information, please see Your rights regarding your Personal Information above.
Cookies
We, our service providers, and/or non-affiliated third parties, may use “cookies” or similar technologies on the Site. When you visit our website, we serve cookies to your computer. Cookies may be used in the following ways:
- to enable the personalization features on our website (which give you the ability to recall recently viewed pages and see information which you have input online);
- to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our website and to help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally in this way; and
- for security, site, and product integrity.
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can recognize your computer when a user of your computer returns to a website previously visited by someone using your computer. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number that identifies your computer. Cookies are widely used to make websites work or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.
There are two broad categories of cookies: “first party cookies” and “third party cookies”. First-party cookies are cookies that are served directly by the website operator to your computer and are used only by the website operator to recognize your computer when it revisits that site. Third-party cookies are served by a service provider on behalf of the website operator and can be used by the service provider to recognize your computer when it visits other websites. Third-party cookies are most commonly used for website analytics or advertising purposes.
The sorts of cookies we use may include:
User Experience
Our website uses several cookies to improve your experience, such as remembering preferences in your browser. This includes whether you have already closed our cookie notice (cookie-agreed) and whether your browser supports Javascript (has_js). This data is only used to remember your preferences and is not collected or stored by us. Session cookies may also be used to remember where you are on a website and other necessary functions.
Anonymous Site Usage Statistics
We use Google Analytics cookies to record anonymous usage of the site and produce statistics such as the number of visitors to a page. These cookies include _ga, _gat, _gid.
We also use Hotjar web analytics to keep track of how people use our website. It has no personal information stored and certainly cannot be used to contact you.
Third-Party Services
Some parts of our website are supplied by third parties and embedded within this site. When you use third-party services, they may also place cookies on end user browsers. An example of this is our table reservation system. These third parties may use additional cookies for service, performance, tracking, and analytics purposes, and the information practices of those third-parties are not covered by this Privacy Notice. We suggest you check these third-party websites for more information about the cookies they use.
Disabling / Enabling Cookies
You can accept or decline cookies by modifying the setting in your browser. The “help” portion of the toolbar on most Internet browsers will tell you how to change your browser cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies altogether. For further details on how to do this, please visit the educational sources http://www.allaboutcookies.org and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Please note that if you disable cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our website.
Revisions to this Privacy Notice
We may update or revise all or any part of this Privacy Notice from time to time. A copy of the current Privacy Notice will be posted on our website, and we encourage you to check it periodically so you are aware of any changes or updates to the notice. When we update our Privacy Notice, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.
You can see when this Privacy Notice was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the bottom of this Privacy Notice.
How to Contact Us
Should you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or how we use your Personal Information, please email us at: [email protected].
27th Nov 2023