GENERAL 

Anglian Country Inns Ltd. (ACI Anglian Country Inns, ACI, we or us) respects the right to privacy of every individual who visits our website/s (www.acinns.co.uk - the Website) or any one of our venue websites (http://www.whitehorsebrancaster.co.uk/, http://www.foxatwillian.co.uk/, http://www.jollysailorsbrancaster.co.uk/, http://www.hermitagerd.co.uk/ , http://www.whitehorseholme.co.uk/, http://www.thecricketersweston.co.uk/ , http://www.brancasterbrewery.co.uk/, http://www.farmhouseatredcoats.co.uk/, http://www.kingsheadnorfolk.co.uk/ - the Website/s)

This Privacy Policy explains how we use any personal information we collect about you and your rights to access and correct the personal information we hold about you.

What personal information do we collect and how we will use it?

We, or our third-party service providers, may collect the following information about you:

When you request to subscribe to our newsletters on any of our websites "Subscribe" forms or ticked site boxes associated with “I’d like to receive communications from” when registering a Loyalty Card on our www.acinns.co.uk website, we collect your name, email address, contact number and month and day of your birth. This information is used from time to time to provide you with news, offers, promotions and updates regarding ACI according to the preferences you state (and your subsequent instructions to us regarding such preferences). If you would like any changes to your preferences or if you would like your details deleted from our system please contact us on 01462 – 416540 or email info@acinns.co.uk. All changes will be actioned within 7 working days. Alternatively, you can click the “unsubscribe now” button on the bottom of any of our emails to stop receiving promotional emails.

Details you provide us with in connection with recruitment opportunities through the ‘Careers’ section of the Website (including through applications for particular positions) will be held by our HR department and processed and shared only with relevant management employees in connection with recruitment. We will use this information (such as your name, contact details and information relating to your experience) in order to process any applications, you make for jobs with ACI and to contact you in respect of your application. If you no longer wish ACI to hold this data please call 01462 416540 or email hr@acinns.co.uk and we will remove your details within 7 working days.

When you visit the Website, we log the IP address of the machine you are using, and process information regarding your activity on the Website. The IP address is a unique number that is used on the Internet to identify a unique computer for the purposes of allowing computers to communicate with each other. We collect this information using cookies (see below).

THIRD PARTIES

We may disclose your personal information to our service provider Zonal Retail Data Systems (Zonal)for the purposes of providing services to you.

Certain services available through the Website are provided by Zonal, and they may process your personal information in the performance of their services.

We will also disclose any of your personal information to any third party where we are under a duty to do so in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or protect any of our rights, property or safety (or those of our customers).

In the event that all or part of Anglian Country Inns Ltd are acquired by a third party, personal data held about our customers may be one of the assets transferred.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR DATA

The data we collect from you is stored by our service provider Zonal Retail Data Systems.

Any payment transactions are encrypted using SSL technology.

You are responsible for keeping confidential the password that you have chosen to register a Loyalty Card, we ask you not to share this password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of the data transmitted to our website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

COOKIES

A cookie is a small piece of information that is placed on your computer, and is used to differentiate you from other users accessing our site. Cookies remain valid across visits, and can be helpful in avoiding the need for you to enter the same information on each visit to our site.

We may use analytics programmes (for example Google Analytics) to log and analyse the information collected by cookies. This information, together with similar information from other users, helps us to:

Compile anonymous statistics around how our site is used to help improve our service (including for example information on the type of web browser that you are using, the operating system that your computer uses, and (where applicable) the link that you followed to get to our site);

Speed up your searches; and

Recognise you when you return to our site.

This may involve sending your data between different countries, including countries outside the European Economic Area.

For more information about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or refer to the documentation provided with your web browser software.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and www.allaboutcookies.org tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However please note that certain features of our site require cookies in order to function.

SECURITY

ACI takes the security of any personal information we hold very seriously.

Our web servers are housed behind a secure firewall that prevents access to our databases by unauthorised users. All of our servers are housed in a secure environment with high levels of physical security.

DIRECT MARKETING

From time to time we may use your registration details to provide you with additional information about ACI products and services which we feel may be of interest to you.

If you have agreed to receive marketing communications you may opt out or change your marketing preferences at any time by clicking unsubscribe on emails

OTHER WEBSITES

This Website contains links to other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to this Website so when you link to other sites you should read their privacy policies.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this webpage. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 17th July 2024.

CONTACT US

If you require further information or have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, then please call 01462 416540

FURTHER INFORMATION

This website is operated by ACI, 20 Hermitage Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. SG5 1BT

t 01462 416540

ACI is a registered company