Privacy Policy
Data Security & Standards

1. Overview & Commitment

At grubmenus.co.uk, we are committed to upholding ethical digital standards and respecting the personal privacy of all food lovers across the UK. This policy explains our operational practices regarding data collection, analysis, and visitor protection in full compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018).

2. Information We Do NOT Collect

We do not mandate account registration, login credentials, payment details, or personal contact numbers to access any part of our UK restaurant menu database. You are completely free to browse menu prices, calories, and halal statuses with full anonymity.

3. Automatically Gathered Technical Telemetry

When you visit our site, our web servers and standard analytics services automatically log non-personally identifiable diagnostic details. These include:

• Browser type, language preferences, and operating platform.
• Aggregated geographic location data (e.g., regional queries across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow).
• Referring URLs, timestamp of access, and pages visited.
• Popular search queries to help identify missing restaurants or out-of-date menus.

4. Cookies and Cache Technology

We utilize lightweight browser cookies and local storage tokens solely to optimize your browsing journey. These cookies remember your interface preferences (such as recent restaurant searches) and help measure site performance. You can disable cookies at any time through your web browser preferences without affecting access to our menu indexes.

5. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising Cookies

We may partner with third-party advertising companies, including Google AdSense, to display relevant advertisements when you visit our website. Please review the following important notices regarding how advertising cookies operate:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to grubmenus.co.uk or other websites across the Internet.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our visitors based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings.
• Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info or Your Online Choices (UK).

6. Third-Party Services & Food Delivery Platforms

Our web pages may display direct links to food delivery aggregators (e.g. Deliveroo, Just Eat, Uber Eats) or official brand websites. Once you click an external link, you leave grubmenus.co.uk and enter an external platform governed by its own independent privacy terms. We do not transmit your personal data to these external vendors.

7. Zero Sale or Commercialization of Personal Data

We strictly do not sell, lease, rent, or distribute any user metrics or telemetry to commercial brokers or third-party marketing entities. All site telemetry is solely used internally for infrastructural stability, anti-abuse monitoring, and directory optimization.

8. Updates to This Policy

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect modifications in UK statutory regulations (UK GDPR & Data Protection Act 2018) or platform enhancements. Significant amendments will be communicated with an updated effective date on this page.