Privacy Policy

We at The Olive Tree Restaurant respect your right to privacy and take your privacy seriously. Here are some things you should know about how we protect information which you ("you") provide when communicating with us, including when you visit our website located at www.olivetreegroup.com and how we use the information collected from you. By communicating with us, including when you email us at info@olive-tree.co.uk and when you access and use our website, you are accepting and agreeing to the information practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. What information is collected and how do we obtain it?
2. How do we protect your information?
3. How do we use the information we collect?
4. Collection of information by third party websites
5. Cookies
6. Disabling / Enabling Cookies
7. Revisions to this Privacy Policy

1. What information is collected and how do we obtain it?

We collect personally identifiable information relating to you, including name, address, phone number and e-mail address ("Personal Information") in the following situations: Information you provide: when you contact us (including by email, phone, SMS, via the website or otherwise), subscribe for e-mail newsletters and update services, order items from us, participate in market research initiatives or promotional events, complete a questionnaire or competition entry form or submit a job application form. Information collected automatically using "cookies": whenever you interact with the website (including when you browse the website or download information from it) we receive and store certain types of information about your visit using "cookies". We describe how we use "cookies" below. The information we collect using "cookies" includes information which identifies the computer you use to access the website, the date and time of your visit and the pages you visit. You are entitled to see the Personal Information that we hold about you. If you wish to do this, please contact us at info@olive-tree.co.uk. You may also ask us to make any necessary changes to ensure it is accurate and kept up-to-date. A small fee may be payable for either of these requests.

2. How do we protect your information?

We employ security measures to prevent unauthorized access to Personal Information we collect from you. All Personal Information is stored within a robust secure environment. Please note that email correspondence with us is in free format text and cannot be encrypted. Additionally, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Accordingly please do not send any sensitive information such as credit card details or passwords via email.

3. How do we use the information we collect?

We will only use your Personal Information for the purpose(s) for which you provide it to us including for example to:

• to ensure that contact from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer;
• respond to your enquiries, provide you with updates on our services and details of promotional events which we feel may interest you and communicate with you generally;
• process orders and payments and arrange delivery of items;
• communicate with you regarding orders, promotions and market research initiatives;
• update and maintain our records;
• prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website;
• enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf to make the website more useful to you;
• process job applications.

We only share your Personal Information with our appointed carriers, sub-contractors and distributors. We only share your Personal Information with other entities as described below. We ensure the parties with whom we share your Personal Information follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Policy:

Agents: from time to time we employ other companies to perform functions on our behalf including fulfilling order deliveries, sending customer communications, analysing data, providing marketing assistance, processing payments, manage and maintain our website and providing customer service. They have access to Personal Information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

Updates and Promotional offers: if you have consented in advance we send you updates and information on our promotional offers. These may include joint promotions with our business partners. If you no longer want to receive such offers, please notify us by writing to:

Marketing Department
The Olive Tree Restaurant
32 Queen’s Road
Aberdeen
AB15 4YF

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 and in the event that the Olive Tree Restaurant, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, Personal Information may be one of the transferred assets.

Fraud / Credit Risk: where necessary to prevent fraud or reduce credit risk, we may exchange your Personal Information with other companies and organisations.

Legal Requirement: where legally required to do so by law, we will release Personal Information.

With your consent: other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share your information.

We do not transfer your Personal Information to countries outside the European Union (the data protection laws of which may differ from those applying in the European Union).

If you do not want us to use your data in this way or to pass you details on to third parties, please let us know at info@olive-tree.co.uk or

Marketing Department
The Olive Tree Restaurant
32 Queen’s Road
Aberdeen
AB15 4YF

4. Collection of information by third party sites

Our website may contain links to other websites whose information practices may be different to ours. You should check the privacy notices of those third party websites as we have no control over information that is submitted to or collected by those third party websites.

5. "Cookies"

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 remember who you are. 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.

When you visit our website we send you a cookie to help us improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalised service. Cookies may be used in the following ways:

* to enable the personalisation features on our website (which give you the ability to recall recently viewed pages and see information which you have input on line); and
* 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.

Two types of cookies may be used on the website; "session" cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the website and "persistent" cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

6. Disabling / Enabling Cookies

You can accept or decline "cookies" by modifying the setting in your browser for further details on how to do this please visit "http://www.allaboutcookies.org". Please note that if you disable "cookies" you may not be able to use all the features of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our website will issue cookies when you visit our website.

7. Revisions to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update or revise all or any part of this Privacy Policy from time to time. A copy of the current Privacy Policy will be posted on our website and we encourage you to check it from time to time. The version of the Privacy Policy that is current at the time you supply Personal Information to us applies to our treatment of your Personal Information.

How to Contact us

Should you:

• have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we use your Personal Information;
• decide that you no longer wish us to hold or use any of your Personal Information;
• wish to change the use to which your Personal Information can be put;
• want to view or change the Personal Information we hold about you; or
• have any questions about this Privacy Policy

please write to us at:

Marketing Department
The Olive Tree Restaurant
32 Queen’s Road
Aberdeen
AB15 4YF

Information which you provide to us or which we gather from the website or in the course of providing services to you is controlled by The Olive Tree Restaurant. The Olive Tree Restaurant is the trading name of Easy Follow Limited (SC112559) registered office 15 Golden Square, Aberdeen, AB10 1WF. [VAT Number 552927817]