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Privacy Policy

Tripsora Dining is operated by Tripsora Capitals Ltd. First come the details specific to Tripsora Dining, then the privacy policy of Tripsora Capitals Ltd, which covers all Tripsora services.

Tripsora Dining: guests

When you book a table, we collect your name, email, optional phone number, the restaurant, date, time, number of people and any note you write. We pass them to the restaurant so it can expect you, we email you a confirmation (and one reminder about a day before, for bookings made more than a day ahead) with a link to view or cancel, and we tell the restaurant if you cancel. We charge nothing and never see your card number: any payment is between you and the restaurant. Our legal basis is performing the booking you asked for, and our legitimate interest in keeping the service secure and preventing abuse. The restaurant that receives your booking becomes responsible for that data and may use it only to serve and manage your booking.

Notes. Please do not put health details in the notes box unless you need to, for example an allergy. If you do, you are choosing to share it with the restaurant so it can look after you, and we pass it on only for that purpose.

Booking details are anonymised automatically about 12 months after the booking date. To have your data removed sooner, contact privacy@tripsora.com. The cancel link in your emails is private to you: anyone who has it can view and cancel the booking.

We count presses of a restaurant's website or phone link, so we can see what is useful; this count is not linked to you unless you are signed in.

Our own visitor statistics. We count page views on our own server with no cookie and no local storage. For each view we store the page address, the website you came from, whether your device is a phone or computer, and a short one-way code made from your IP address and browser type that changes every day, so it cannot follow you from one day to the next. We do not store your IP address in these statistics. Visits from signed-in admins are not counted, and we skip the count if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. This data is deleted after 90 days. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in knowing whether the site is being used.

Booking reminder. If you create a guest account and, two days after confirming your email, have not pressed a restaurant link while signed in or made a booking, we send you one reminder email. Every reminder has a link to stop it, and we send no second reminder. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in helping you finish what you started.

Searches. When you use a search box we store the words you typed (in lower case), how many results they found, the day, and the same short one-way daily code as above, so we can see what visitors look for and which places we do not cover yet. We do not store your IP address with it, and we skip it if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. Please do not type personal details into a search box. Searches that look like an e-mail address, a web address or a long number are not stored. This data is deleted after 12 months. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in improving the service.

Restaurants listed from OpenStreetMap

Listings of restaurants that have not joined Tripsora Dining come from OpenStreetMap, a public community map (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). For each we hold what the map publishes about the business: its name, address, location, phone number, website, opening hours, cuisine and sometimes a business email address. For a sole trader this can be personal data. We use it to show a useful listing and, where an email is published, to tell the business about Tripsora Dining. The email address is never shown on the site. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in helping people find restaurants. If you run one of these businesses you can ask us to correct or remove the listing, or object to its use, at any time: write to privacy@tripsora.com or cs@tripsora.com.

Tripsora Dining: restaurant owners

We store the details you give us: your name, email, password (as a one-way hash), phone number, languages, city, business name, team members, and your restaurants, descriptions, photos, addresses and map locations, contact details, tables, opening times and closed days (the opening hours and closed days you set are used to show guests free times), and the bookings you receive. We also keep billing records from Stripe (plan, invoices, any verification payment) but never your card number. Your restaurant pages, including the name, address, photos, description, hours and the contact details you choose to publish, are public; your account email and password are not. Guests' names, emails, phone numbers and notes are shared with you when they book.

When you ask to claim a listing we hold your name, email, phone, role and message so that we can check the claim. We use this data to run your account and listings, to bill you, and to email you about bookings and your account. Our legal bases are performing our contract with you, our legitimate interests (security, preventing abuse, improving the service) and, where the law requires it, legal obligation (accounting records are kept for up to 7 years). You can download all of your data or delete your account at any time from Dashboard → Privacy. Deleting removes your profile, restaurants, photos and team accounts; bookings are anonymised about 12 months after the booking date, and invoices and audit records may be kept as required by law.

Prospective restaurant owners (outreach)

If you run a restaurant, we may email you once or twice to invite you to claim or list it on Tripsora Dining. Who: Tripsora Capitals Ltd, 124 City Road, London EC1V 2NX. What we hold: your business name, the business email address and website published by your business or on the public map, the place and country you operate in, and a record of what we sent you, whether you replied, joined or opted out. We only use email addresses that your business publishes. Where we got it: your own public website, public web search results and OpenStreetMap; each email says where. Why and legal basis: our legitimate interest in telling relevant businesses about a service for them (UK PECR permits business-to-business email to corporate subscribers if there is a clear way to opt out; sole traders are only contacted at a business address). Who sees it: our staff and our email provider; we do not sell or pass it on. How long: we delete a prospect's record when they ask us to, and routinely remove prospects who have not replied after about 12 months. The sign-up link in our email carries a reference code, so that if you create an account we know it came from our email. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and you can also write to privacy@tripsora.com; we then add you to a suppression list so you are not contacted again.

Tripsora Dining: cookies and partners

Cookies that Tripsora Dining needs to work (sign-in) are always on. Everything else, including Google AdSense advertising, ShareThis share buttons and cookie-based Google Analytics, starts only if you choose Accept all in the cookie banner; Reject non-essential keeps it off. You can change your choice at any time with Cookie settings in the footer, and a browser Global Privacy Control signal counts as Reject. The full list is in the Cookie Policy.

Maps showing where a restaurant is come from OpenStreetMap. The map loads only when you press its button (or have chosen Accept all), and then OpenStreetMap receives your IP address and may set cookies; its own privacy policy applies from then on.

Who we share data with and transfers abroad

We use providers to run Tripsora Dining: our web hosting and backups; email delivery (our mail server at mail.tripsora.com); Stripe (owner payments); Google (AdSense and Analytics, only if you accept cookies); ShareThis (share buttons, only if you accept cookies); and OpenStreetMap (maps and listing data). Some of these are outside the UK/EEA, including in the United States. Where they are, we rely on adequacy decisions, the UK/EU data-transfer safeguards or standard contractual clauses. We share data with authorities where the law requires it. We do not sell personal data.

How long we keep data

Prospective owners: as set out above. Bookings: anonymised about 12 months after the booking date. Accounts: until you delete them. Owner billing and invoice records: up to 7 years. Server and security logs: a short period, then deleted.

Your rights

Under UK and EU GDPR you can ask for access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data, and you can object to processing. Contact privacy@tripsora.com.

Privacy Policy of Tripsora Capitals Ltd

This policy covers all Tripsora services, including Tripsora Dining. For Tripsora Dining, the details above apply first.