Who we are

Our website address is: https://ploughmans-lunch.co.uk.

This site is the property of Roaming the Paths. Currently this is not a financial endeavour rather an extensive personal blog.

Accuracy, representation and review criteria

No offense or infringements intended. Please contact us to correct any inaccuracies or perceived misrepresentation.

Our aim is to support the hospitality businesses and local producers in the United Kingdom. We aim to promote good food, local produce, local producers, independent businesses, seasonal produce and communities.

We have a strict set of criteria to produced balanced reviews however, we encourage our contributors to have their say in their voice with only light editing.

We will highlight bad service, low quality produce, poor value for money. If a review is truly appalling, we would aim to verify the review and in the first instance give right to reply prior to publication. However, if this is ignored or dismissed we will publish our findings. If any issues highlighted are resolved we will upon notification review the review.

Timescales

These reviews are a snapshot in time. Some reviews may be several years old, so no longer extant either partially or wholly. We would advise that potential visitors to establishments check beforehand weather the establishment is operation at the time of a planned visit. Unfortunately some of the establishments no longer exist, or have changed ownership since the review. It should also be noted that some establishments have seasonal menu’s.

We encourage people to update reviews where possible.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

All media on the site is owned by ploughmans-lunch.co.uk. The exception is submitted work where the reviewer retains rights over the media and copy.

Any third party media or intellectual property will be attributed to them. If there is media or other items on the site that you claim ownership of, and has not been attributed to you, or that you would like removing, please contact us. Exception. We will not remove media that we or reviewers have produced that is in areas of the public realm or public domain that is not the property of a third party: this includes claims of poor representation, except where the quality of the image is in question, rather than the subject. We will always look to improve quality where-ever possible, but will not remove accurate representation even if it does not have a positive image (i.e. if it’s accurate, but you don’t like it).

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Where your data is Stored

All data is securely store, passwords encrypted. We are fully GDPR compliant.

We do not aim to collect any sensitive data nor ask about any protected characteristics. Comments may extend as far as those meaningful regarding physical access to properties or venues.

Any financial transactions are dealt with securely by recognised third party providers: for online payments we use Stripe and for POS or in person card transaction we use Square. All others pay cash.

The website is securely hosted with, and data backed up by Fasthosts

MailPoet newsletter & emails

If you have subscribed to our newsletter or if you are a member of our website (you can log in) or if you have purchased on our website, there is a good chance you will receive emails from us.

We will only send you emails which you have signed up to receive, or which pertain to the services we provided to you.

To send you emails, we use the name and email address you provide us. Our site also logs the IP address you used when you signed up for the service to prevent abuse of the system.

This website can send emails through the MailPoet Sending Service. This service allows us to track opens and clicks on our emails. We use this information to improve the content of our newsletters.

No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside this website except for the email address.