This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar
technologies are used on the Takeaway Scout™ website, associated local takeaway
directory websites and services (“the Website”).
**Takeaway Scout™ is a trading name of Brecon Take Aways
Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 17052659**,
whose registered office is:
21 Bryn de Winton, Brecon, Powys, LD3 9HL
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our **Privacy
Policy**.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small files placed on your device when you visit
a website.
Cookies and similar technologies can help websites function
correctly, maintain security, remember preferences and provide information
about how visitors use a website.
Cookies may be placed directly by Takeaway Scout™ or by
third-party services used to provide Website functionality.
Cookies can generally be divided into categories including:
- Strictly necessary cookies — required for essential Website functions;
- Functional cookies — used to remember choices and provide additional functionality;
- Analytics cookies — used to understand Website usage and measure performance; and
- Advertising or marketing cookies — used for advertising, promotion, campaign measurement or similar purposes where applicable.
2. Your Cookie Choices
When you first visit the Website, you may be presented with
a cookie consent banner or preference tool.
Where consent is required, **non-essential cookies will not
be placed on your device unless and until you provide the appropriate consent**.
You should be able to accept or reject non-essential cookies
through the consent mechanism provided.
Rejecting non-essential cookies should not prevent you from
using the essential functionality of Takeaway Scout™.
Strictly necessary cookies do not generally require consent
where they are required to provide essential Website functionality or a service
specifically requested by you.
3. How Takeaway Scout™ Uses Cookies
3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies and similar technologies may be
used for purposes including:
- basic Website operation;
- Website navigation;
- maintaining Website security;
- maintaining sessions;
- account login and authentication;
- processing forms;
- preventing spam;
- preventing fraud or misuse;
- protecting user and business accounts;
- processing requested services; and
- remembering essential information during a transaction.
Blocking these technologies through your browser may prevent
some parts of Takeaway Scout™ from functioning correctly.
4. Functional Cookies
Functional cookies may be used to remember information such
as:
- Website preferences;
- location or area selections;
- search preferences;
- display settings;
- accessibility settings;
- account preferences;
- previously selected options; and
- other choices designed to improve your experience.
For example, Takeaway Scout™ may use functionality that
remembers the area in which you have been searching for takeaway businesses.
Where consent is legally required for these technologies,
they will only be used after obtaining the appropriate consent.
5. Analytics Cookies
Takeaway Scout™ may use analytics services, such as Google
Analytics or similar technologies, to understand how visitors use the Website.
Analytics may help us:
- understand which pages are visited;
- measure Website traffic;
- understand how visitors navigate the Website;
- understand how search and directory features are used;
- identify technical problems;
- measure Website performance;
- understand interest in particular locations or categories;
- evaluate the effectiveness of Website features; and
- improve Takeaway Scout™ and the user experience.
Analytics services may process information including cookie
identifiers, Website interactions, device information and IP-related
information.
Where analytics technologies are not strictly necessary,
they will only be used after obtaining appropriate consent.
6. Accounts, Reviews and Business Profiles
Where Takeaway Scout™ provides user accounts, review
facilities or business-profile management, cookies and similar technologies may
be used to:
- keep users signed in;
- authenticate accounts;
- maintain account security;
- remember account preferences;
- process review submissions;
- operate claimed business profiles;
- manage business accounts;
- prevent duplicate or fraudulent submissions;
- prevent spam; and
- protect the integrity of the platform.
Some of these technologies may be strictly necessary to
provide functionality specifically requested by the user.
Non-essential technologies will be subject to appropriate
consent requirements.
7. Fraud, Fake Reviews and Platform Security
Takeaway Scout™ may use cookies and similar technologies
where reasonably necessary to protect the Website and help identify suspicious
activity.
This may include measures designed to identify:
- fake reviews;
- duplicate accounts;
- automated submissions;
- spam;
- fraudulent business-profile claims;
- attempts to manipulate ratings or Scout Scores;
- unauthorised account access;
- malicious Website activity; and
- other misuse of the platform.
Technologies genuinely necessary for security, fraud
prevention or delivery of a requested service may be treated differently from
analytics or marketing technologies under applicable law.
8. Payments and Subscriptions
Takeaway Scout™ may offer paid services to takeaway
businesses, including subscriptions, enhanced profiles, advertising, featured
placements or other commercial products.
Where online payments are available, they may be processed
by a third-party payment provider such as Stripe.
Payment providers may use cookies or similar technologies
for purposes including:
- processing transactions;
- authentication;
- maintaining payment security;
- detecting and preventing fraud;
- managing subscriptions; and
- providing payment functionality.
Some payment-related technologies may be necessary to
provide a payment service requested by you.
Further information about personal information processed in
connection with payments is contained in our Privacy Policy and the
relevant payment provider's privacy information.
9. Advertising and Promotional Technologies
Takeaway Scout™ may offer advertising, sponsored listings,
featured placements or other promotional services.
Where advertising or marketing technologies are used, they
may be used for purposes such as:
- measuring advertising performance;
- measuring promotional campaigns;
- understanding interactions with advertisements;
- limiting repeated advertising;
- measuring conversions; or
- providing relevant promotional content.
Where such technologies require consent, **they will not be
activated until the appropriate consent has been obtained**.
Takeaway Scout™ will not treat acceptance of general Website
Terms or continued browsing as consent to non-essential advertising cookies
where separate consent is legally required.
10. Sponsored and Featured Listings
Takeaway Scout™ may display paid promotional content,
sponsored listings or featured businesses.
The presence of a sponsored or featured listing does not
necessarily mean that tracking cookies are required.
Where technologies are used to measure interactions with
paid placements, those technologies will be classified and managed according to
their actual purpose.
Payment for advertising, featured placement or another
commercial service **does not purchase or alter a business's independent Scout
Score**.
11. Third-Party Cookies and Technologies
Takeaway Scout™ may use services provided by third parties.
These may include:
- Website hosting providers;
- analytics providers;
- payment providers;
- security and fraud-prevention providers;
- account or authentication providers;
- communications providers;
- mapping or location services;
- advertising technology providers;
- social-media services; and
- other Website technology providers.
These organisations may use cookies or similar technologies
in connection with the services they provide.
Where a third party independently determines how information
collected through its technology is processed, its own privacy and cookie
information may also apply.
12. Maps, Location and Local Search
Takeaway Scout™ is designed to help users find takeaway
businesses by location.
Where mapping, postcode searching, geolocation or similar
functionality is provided, cookies or related technologies may be used to:
- remember your selected location;
- provide local search results;
- remember postcode or area preferences;
- operate mapping functionality; and
- improve location-based Website features.
Where your device's precise location is requested,
additional permission may be requested through your browser or device.
You can normally control location permissions through your
browser or device settings.
13. Social Media and External Content
Takeaway Scout™ may contain links to or content provided by
social-media platforms and other third-party services.
Some embedded third-party content can cause the relevant
provider to place cookies or collect information about your interaction with
that content.
Where such technology is non-essential and requires consent,
it should not be activated before the appropriate consent has been obtained.
Simply linking to an external website does not necessarily
result in that website placing cookies through Takeaway Scout™.
14. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device
Cookies may be either:
Session cookies — these generally expire when your
browser session ends.
Persistent cookies — these remain on your device for
a specified period or until deleted.
The duration of a particular cookie depends upon its purpose
and the service that sets it.
Where our cookie preference tool provides details of
individual cookies, it may also provide information concerning their duration.
15. Managing or Withdrawing Consent
Where we rely upon consent for cookies or similar
technologies, you may change or withdraw your consent.
Where available, you can do this through the **cookie
settings or preference tool on Takeaway Scout™**.
You may also manage cookies through your browser settings.
Depending upon your browser, you may be able to:
- view stored cookies;
- delete cookies;
- block cookies;
- restrict third-party cookies;
- block cookies from particular websites; or
- receive notifications concerning cookies.
Blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect Website
functionality.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of
processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
16. Remembering Your Cookie Preferences
Where permitted, we may store information concerning your
cookie choices so that the Website can remember whether you accepted or
rejected particular categories.
A cookie or similar technology used solely to remember your
privacy choices may itself be necessary to respect those choices.
If you delete your cookies, change browser or use another
device, you may be asked to provide your preferences again.
17. Similar Technologies
Takeaway Scout™ and services used to operate it may employ
technologies other than conventional cookies that perform similar functions.
These may be used for:
- Website functionality;
- authentication;
- security;
- fraud prevention;
- analytics;
- advertising; or
- other permitted purposes.
Where applicable law requires consent for a technology, it
will be treated according to the same principles that apply to non-essential
cookies.
18. Personal Information and Cookies
Some information collected through cookies or similar
technologies may constitute personal information under UK data-protection law.
Where this occurs, Brecon Take Aways Limited will
process that information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable
data-protection requirements.
Our Privacy Policy provides further information concerning:
- the personal information we process;
- why we process it;
- our lawful bases;
- recipients of information;
- retention;
- international transfers; and
- your data-protection rights.
19. International Processing
Some technology providers used by Takeaway Scout™ may
process information outside the United Kingdom.
Where Brecon Take Aways Limited is responsible for an
international transfer of personal information, appropriate measures will be
taken in accordance with applicable UK data-protection law.
Further information is provided in our Privacy Policy.
20. Local Takeaway Scout Websites
Takeaway Scout™ may operate through the main Takeaway Scout
website and through local or regional websites and domain names forming part of
the Takeaway Scout network.
For example, a local website may provide takeaway listings
and search results specifically for a particular town or city.
Different local websites may use different functionality and
therefore may not necessarily use exactly the same cookies.
Where appropriate, the cookie information or preference tool
presented on the particular website will provide information concerning the
technologies used on that site.
21. Other Brecon Take Aways Limited Websites
Brecon Take Aways Limited also operates other brands and
websites, including Brecon Takeaways and Countryside Eats™.
Those websites provide different services and may use
different cookies and technologies.
You should review the Cookie Policy applicable to the
particular website you are using.
Cookie preferences selected on one website may not
automatically apply to another.
22. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to
reflect changes to:
- Takeaway Scout™;
- Website functionality;
- account or review features;
- advertising services;
- cookies and similar technologies;
- third-party providers; or
- applicable legal requirements.
The latest version will be published on the Website together
with the date it was last updated.
23. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of
cookies and similar technologies, contact:
Takeaway Scout™
A trading name of Brecon Take Aways Limited
Email: admin@takeawayscout.co.uk
Registered office:
21 Bryn de Winton
Brecon
Powys
LD3 9HL
Company number: 17052659
ICO registration number: ZC099121