This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your sensitive information and how we will deal with it. For the purposes of the Data Protection Act and the GDPR, sensitive information includes what is defined as your ‘personal data’.

By visiting menuverse.co.uk (the ‘Website’) you accept and consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

In this Privacy Policy, we seek to abide by the letter and spirit of the guidelines laid out by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office in the document ‘Privacy Notes – Code of Practice’.
 

Who We Are

More formally, we are Menuverse Ltd. We are a company registered in England and Wales with Company Number 14995310.

Menuverse Limited is the Data Controller and we are committed to complying with the UK’s Data Protection Law (the ‘DPA’) and the European Union General Data Protection Regulations (the ‘GDPR’) for the protection of personal data, as well as the principals of data security in the configuration of our services. If you have any concerns about the way we use your information or any questions about this Privacy Policy, please let us know. We can be contacted via email at privacy@menuverse.co.uk, or you can write to us at the following address:

Menuverse Limited, 13 Jemond Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE13 6BU.



Your Information

We will use your information to:
 

• Deliver our services to you;

• Allow you access to our Website and help you to use our services;

• Improve our service continually, along with our Website and user experience.

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We compile statistics about user trends on our Website, which are used by third party organisations to understand how users interact with businesses, brands, and one another online and to advise about these things. These statistics are drawn from a dataset which does not contain any information from which you can be identified.

Whenever you visit our Website we will automatically collect the following information:

Information you give us - this is information about you that you give us by accessing our Website or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. It includes information you provide when you register to use our Website and subscribe to our service. We will only request from you the minimum data required for you to use our service, but you are able to supplement your profile with more detailed information should you wish. The information you give us will include as a minimum your name, address, email address and phone number.

Technical information - including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;

Information about your visit - this includes the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), pages you have visited, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain page and page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs);

Information we receive from other sources - This is information we receive about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. In this case we will have informed you when we collected that data if we intend to share those data internally and combine it with data collected on this site. We will also have told you for what purpose we will share and combine your data. We are working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies). We will notify you when we receive information about you from them and the purposes for which we intend to use that information.

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Where We Hold and What We Do with Your Information

The information and content held on our Website is deployed geographically to maximise user experience. All information that could identify individuals within the European Union is stored exclusively within the European Union. We will never share your user information with third parties for promotional purposes.

We hold our data on 3rd party service providers, who are contracted by use for the provision of technical services. We remain responsible at all times for the security of your information, but if you want to know more about how we interact with the 3rd party service providers, please contact us via email at policy@menuverse.co.uk


What We Do to Ensure the Security of Your Personal Information

​We take the security of your personal data very seriously. Our approach to information security is constantly evolving and continually reviewed. We have adopted industry best practices from both technological and business process perspectives in order to make the security of your data a key part of the way we do business.

We have policies and practices in place that not only ensure our compliance under the DPA but also the GDPR, including training and adequate procedures put in place for any staff that handle or have access to sensitive information.


Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Information

​We may contact you via email with updates about the services that we offer or any changes that we have made to our Website. You can opt in or out at any time by clicking the ‘Unsubscribe’ link in our emails.

Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates (including, but not limited to, websites on which our service may be advertised). If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites and any services that may be accessible through them have their own privacy policies and that we are not responsible or liable for these policies or for any personal data that may be collected through these websites or services, such as contact and location data. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites or use these services.


Access to Information

​You have the right to find out about what information we hold about you. You can exercise that right by contacting us and we will send you any request for information in a suitable electronic form within 20 working days. Please contact us at privacy@menuverse.co.uk. You also have the right ‘to be forgotten’ and to have your information permanently deleted from our systems. Again, if you would like to exercise this right then please contact us at privacy@menuverse.co.uk. There will be no charge made for electronic access to your information or for your right to be forgotten from our systems.



Changes to this Privacy Policy

​Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you when you next log onto our Website. The new terms may be displayed on-screen and you will be required to read and accept them to continue your use of our services.


Our Cookie Policy

As part of our overall approach to privacy and transparency, this section describes what cookies are in the context of our web and mobile interfaces, and what their use means to you. At the end, we've included some links to help you research cookies and their impact, and how you can use your web browser to control the way it manages cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the Website, you agree to our use of cookies.


We use the following types of cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies - these are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services;

Analytical/performance cookies - these allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily;

Functionality cookies - these are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region);

Targeting cookies - these cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose but this will contain no information capable of identifying you personally.



Consent

In line with the latest advice from the Information Commissioner’s Office, we interpret your continued use of our platform as consent for us to use cookies to capture data about how you interact with our services, and those of other services we use.

If you consider we have not addressed your problem, you can contact the UK Information Commissioner’s Office for assistance. Further information can be found here.

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