Cookie Policy – Eat Drink Meet
How we use cookies
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies and related technologies to understand and improve our websites, systems and your experience, including personalising content, adverts and social media features.
Essential Cookies
We are allowed to store cookies on your computer which are essential for our website to function. No permission is required for these cookies.
These are required for our website to function, and these cookies let you use all the different parts of our websites. Without them, services that you’ve asked for can’t be provided. Some examples of how we use these cookies are:
Signing into your account
Remembering actions you’ve already taken, such as text you’ve entered into an order or booking form, so it’ll still be there when you go back to the page in the same web session; and
Remembering security settings that affect access to certain content, for example, any payment details made for ordering or deposits
Non-Essential Cookies
For all non-essential cookies, we rely on your permission which is obtained by clicking “Allow All” on our cookie banner or via our “Manage Cookies” Page. Your cookie preference shall remain valid until either (i) your preference is updated by you, or (ii) 6 months has passed since your gave your consent; after such time the Cookies banner will appear on your next visit to our website, and you will be required to confirm your cookie preferences again. Furthermore, you can access the “Manage Cookies” page at any time to update your preference, by clicking here. Acceptance or withdrawal of consent for non-essential cookies above will change consent for all types of non-essential cookies.
The Non-Essential Cookies utilised on our website are as follows:
Experience
These cookies consist of functional and analytical cookies.
Functional cookies recognise you when you return to our website, enabling us to personalise content and remember preferences (e.g., your region).
Analytical cookies allow us to recognise and count visitor numbers and see how they navigate the website. This helps us identify improvements, e.g., speeding up searches.
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These cookies record your visit to our website (e.g., links followed, pages visited) and allow us to show you more relevant content and advertisements and to create a profile of what we think might interest you. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
By clicking to agree to our storage of cookies on your device and/or the continued use of our websites, you give us permission to use the types of cookies set out below, in the manner and for the purposes described; see “Cookies We Set”.
You may refuse to accept both essential and non-essential cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies; see “Manage Cookies” below for guidance. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue essential cookies when you log on to our site.
Most cookies store data in relation to the current brand/website which a user is interacting with. However, some cookies, which are identified belong as “global” cookies, have the facility to track data across the user’s use of the websites of our other M&B brands (a list of brands and outlets can be found at www.mbplc.com). Please be assured that such cross-brand tracking is only utilised if the user has provided cookie consent to each of the brands individually. More detail on the cookies with this facility and the purposes of such tracking is set out below.
Cookies we set
_ga
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Analytics
Description: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
Duration: 2 Years
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
_ga_D3CCML5027
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Analytics
Description: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used by Google to persist session state. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
Duration: 24 months
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
dtCookie
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Performance
Description: This cookie is set by the provider Dynatrace. This is a session cookie used to collect information for Dynatrace. It is a system to track application performance and user errors.
Duration: Session
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
DTSA
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Functional
Description: This cookie is set by the provider Dynatrace. This is a session cookie used for saving the user action such as Click on Login across different pages.
Duration: Session
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
rxvt
Domain: .doubleclick.net
Type: Performance
Description: This cookie is set by the provider Dynatrace. This is a session cookie used to store two timestamps.
Duration: Session
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
X-SEC-TOKEN
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Security
Description: Identifies a single particular session
Duration: Session
Essential or Non-Essential: Essential
DTPC
Domain: .doubleclick.net
Type: Performance
Description: This cookie is set by the provider Dynatrace. This is a session cookie used to collect information for Dynatrace. It is a system to track application performance and user errors.
Duration: Session
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
RXVISITOR
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Analytics
Description: This cookie is set by the provider Dynatrace. This cookie is used to store the visitor ID for the returning visitors.
Duration: Session
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
X-CSRF-TOKEN
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Security
Description: Used to help prevent Cross Site Request Forgery attacks
Duration: Session
Essential or Non-Essential: Essential
CE-Cookie
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Necessary
Description: Records the user's cookie consent
Duration: 6 Months
Essential or Non-Essential: Essential
edmbypass
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Security
Description: Allowed access to eatdrinkmeet.co.uk while site was in development
Duration: Session
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
MNB_MyAccount
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Security
Description: Allows access to My Account functionality.Duration: Session
Essential or Non-Essential: Essential
MNB_Resources
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Security
Description: Allows access to resources used in My Account functionality.
Duration: 24 months
Essential or Non-Essential: Essential
MNB_SPBC
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Security
Description: Allows access to My Account booking component functionality.
Duration: 24 months
Essential or Non-Essential: Essential
MNB_DeliveryAddress
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Security
Description: Allows access to Click & Collect / Takeaway / 3rd party delivery services.
Duration: 24 months
Essential or Non-Essential: Essential
_cm
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Analytics
Description: This cookie is installed by Clicks & Mortar, one of our technology providers, for the purpose of enhancing your experiences on this website. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. The cookie is used to persist session state. This cookie will also be utilised in order for the Refer a Friend and Spin To Win features to work and the cookie will track referrals (and acceptances) and/or the number of spins by a guest and will be used to identify guests to provide guest rewards.
Duration: 12 months
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
_cm_id
Domain: https://www.eatdrinkmeet.co.uk
Type: Analytics
Description: This cookie is installed by Clicks & Mortar, one of our technology providers, for the purpose of enhancing your experiences on this website. The cookie stores information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. The cookie is used to understand visitor, session, campaign data and to tailor and personalise website experiences for returning visitors. This cookie will also be utilised in order for the Refer a Friend and Spin To Win features to work and the cookie will track referrals (and acceptances) and/or the number of spins by a guest and will be used to identify guests to provide guest rewards.
Duration: 12 months
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
_cm_global_id
Domain: mab.api.uk.clicksandmortar-production.com
Type: Analytics
Description: This cookie is installed by Clicks & Mortar, one of our technology providers, to anonymously store a randomly generated number, facilitating the understanding of visitor, session, and campaign data. It enables personalised website experiences for returning visitors and overall user experience improvement. Additionally, the cookies allow tracking of preferences and online behaviour across M&B Brands and multiple devices, enhancing the ability to tailor experiences based on guests' preferences and online behaviour.
Duration: 12 months
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
Manage Cookies
If you wish to block or restrict cookies set by this or any other website, you can do so through your web browser's settings. The "Help" function (often in the main menu options at the top of your browser screen, and usually accessible by pressing the F1 key in Windows) should tell you how to do so.
Many browsers give a range of options for managing cookies, including obtaining consent for every cookie, blocking certain types of cookie and blocking cookies from unrecognised websites. You can set your browser to block all cookies; however, you should be aware that many sites will not work as smoothly as you are used to and some basic functionality that is dependent on cookies will not work at all.
The following links go to the relevant help sections for the major web browsers and explain how to manage your cookies:
Chrome - https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies
Safari OS X - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/5.0/en/9277.html
Safari iOS - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677
Internet Explorer - https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies;
Contact us
If you have any questions about how our website uses cookies, please contact our Data Protection Officer at any time using the following contact details:
Data Protection Officer
27 Fleet Street, Birmingham B3 1JP
Please also see our Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 10th April 2023
