Privacy policy
Cookie Policy
We ask that you read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and our use of cookies or similar technologies on our website. This policy should be read together with our Website Privacy Policy below which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
Who we are
This website is operated by BBME LIMITED (Company number 14761932) trading as BeBeMe. We are the owners of several wine bars in central London and for more information see our about us section.
Our website
This cookie policy only relates to your use of our website, bebeme.co.uk.
[Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties, namely vineyards and wineries. These other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate cookie policies. For privacy information relating to these other third-party websites, please consult their cookie policies as appropriate.]
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (eg computer, smartphone or another electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies and other similar tracking technologies such as web beacons, action tags, single-pixel gifs on our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of a user’s internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
[You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the websites below tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, some of our website features may not function as a result.]
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.
Our use of cookies
We use cookies [and other similar tracking technologies such as [specify, e.g. web beacons, action tags, single-pixel gifs]] on this website to:
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- recognise you whenever you visit this website (this speeds up your access to the website as you do not have to log in each time);
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- obtain information about your preferences and use of our website;
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- [keep track of the items stored in your shopping basket and take you through the checkout process;]
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- carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, [products and services] and to help us better understand our users’ requirements; and
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- target our marketing and advertising campaigns [and those of our partners] more effectively by providing interest-based advertisements that are personalised to your interests; and
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- make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.
For further information on cookies generally visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Types of cookies
The cookies we place on your device fall into the following categories:
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- Session cookies—these allow our website to link your actions during a particular browser session. These expire each time you close your browser and do not remain on your device afterwards
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- Persistent cookies—these are stored on your device in between browser sessions. These allow your preferences or actions across our website to be remembered. These will remain on your device until they expire, or you delete them from your cache
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- Strictly necessary cookies—these cookies are essential for you to be able to navigate our website and use its features. Without these cookies, the services you have asked for could not be provided. They include, for example, Stripe and Paypal.
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- Performance/ analytical cookies— these allow us to assess site visitor behaviour, for example, recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our site, how they reached our site, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows, which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website.
[We also use MonsterInsights to collect information about how users interact with the website. These tools use cookies to collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, from where visitors have come to the site and the pages they visited. We use the information generated by these tools to prepare reports and improve the customer experience of the website.
We have enabled Google Analytics Demographics on the website to allow us to review information about users of the website, including identifiers such as age, location. We may use this information to enable us to make decisions about what information to include on the website and how to present it. We have also enabled Google Display Network Impression Reporting on the website to allow us to track how advertising interactions are related to site visits to the website.
[We and our third-party suppliers, including Google, use first-party Google Analytics cookies and third-party DoubleClick cookies together to collect the data for the Google Display Network Impression Reporting functionality.
You may opt-out of tracking from Google Analytics and/or the Google Analytics Advertising features enabled on the website by refusing the use of cookies (see below), through configuring the Google Ad settings or by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.]
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- Functionality cookies—these cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make (such as your user name, language, last action and search preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information collected by these cookies is anonymous and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites
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- [Targeting cookies—also known as advertising cookies, these cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement on our website and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.]
The cookies we use
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
| The cookies we use | What they do | Purpose | Duration |
| Google Analytics | This is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc which uses cookies to show us how visitors found and explored our site, and how we can enhance their experience. It provides us with information about the behaviour of our visitors (eg how long they stayed on the site, the average number of pages viewed) and also tells us how many visitors we have had. | [The ICO see it as key to confirm the duration the cookies will be retained in the visitors device, for transparency] |
Consent to use cookies
We will ask for your permission (consent) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where these are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested (eg to enable you to put items in your shopping basket and use our check-out process).
There is a notice on our home page which describes how we use cookies and requests your consent to place cookies on your device.
How to turn off cookies
If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.
How to contact us
Please contact us at mayfair@bebeme.co.uk requesting our Data Protection Officer, if you have any questions about this cookie policy or the information we hold about you.
Changes to this policy
This policy was published on 12th April 2023 and last updated on the same day.
We may change this policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via the homepage banner, which will show when you next visit this website.
Do you need extra help?
If you would like this notice in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille) please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ above).
