Cookie policy
The Dinner Circle manages www.thedinnercircle.be and operates other related websites. It is The Dinner Circle’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Like most website operators, The Dinner Circle collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Dinner Circle’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use its website. From time to time, The Dinner Circle may release non-personally identifying information in aggregate, for example by publishing a report on trends in website usage.
The Dinner Circle also collects potentially personally identifying information such as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on blog or site content. The Dinner Circle only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Collection of Personally Identifying Information
Certain visitors to The Dinner Circle’s websites choose to interact with The Dinner Circle in ways that require The Dinner Circle to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Dinner Circle gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who request a quote via www.thedinnercircle.be to provide a name and email address.
Those who engage in transactions with The Dinner Circle may be asked to provide additional information, including personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, The Dinner Circle collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Dinner Circle.
The Dinner Circle does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally identifying information, with the understanding that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
The Dinner Circle may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. The Dinner Circle may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Dinner Circle does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally Identifying Information
The Dinner Circle discloses potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Dinner Circle’s behalf or to provide services available on The Dinner Circle’s websites, and (ii) have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Dinner Circle’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
The Dinner Circle will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Dinner Circle discloses such information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request, or when The Dinner Circle believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Dinner Circle, third parties, or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of a The Dinner Circle website and have supplied your email address, The Dinner Circle may occasionally send you an email to inform you about new features, request your feedback, or keep you up to date with developments related to The Dinner Circle and our services. If you send us a request (for example via email or one of our contact forms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help clarify or respond to your request or to support other users.
The Dinner Circle takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Dinner Circle uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of the website, and their website access preferences.
Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Dinner Circle’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.