Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to our websites dedicated to Hotel De L’Europe BV for consumers, in the Netherlands and located at Nieuwe Doelenstraat 2-14 1012CP Amsterdam, available www.restaurantflore.com (the “Website”) where we, Hotel De L’Europe BV, collect certain personal information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as it contains important information to help you understand our practices regarding any personal information that you give to us or that we collect otherwise in the context of the Website (‘Personal Data’). Hotel De L’Europe BV (‘we’ or ‘us’) is the controller of the Personal Data collected and processed.

We respect your privacy, and we are committed to keeping your Personal Data secure and managing it in accordance with our legal responsibilities under applicable data protection laws.

This Privacy Policy is valid as of 26 November 2021 and will be updated as is necessary.

Latest update: 26 November 2021

1. What Personal Data We Collect and How We Use your Personal Data

You can use the majority of our Website without being required to provide any Personal Data to us. For certain services or activities, you will need to provide Personal Data for us to be able to provide you the requested service or product or for you to participate in the activity. Requested information on the Website marked with an asterisk is mandatory. If you do not provide the requested information, we will not be able to deliver the service or product to you or you cannot participate in the activity. In addition to information you are required to provide to us in order to participate in activities/campaigns, we collect certain information when you visit our Website. Requested information on the Website marked with an asterisk is mandatory. If you do not provide the requested information, we will not be able to deliver the service or product to you.

We have specified the Personal Data we collect, the purposes for which we use the Personal Data and how long we will generally retain your Personal Data:

1. Processing your reservation

To be able to accept your reservation and process your payment; We need your name, e-mail address, telephone number. In case we need to communicate to you about your order) and payment information, such as credit card details. This is also for our sales administration.

The use of this Personal Data is to perform our agreement with you or to comply with legal obligations, such as tax and accounting rules. Our online sales records will be retained by us for 7 years or longer if required by tax or corporate bookkeeping.

2. Customer services

For answering your questions if you have submitted a question via the Website, for product recalls or other service mails we process your e-mail address or phone number (depending on how you have contacted us) and the question or issue you have raised with us. We register your requests, questions and our responses and other actions to handle your request and to be able exceed your expectation every time you stay with us.
We will retain all information for 7 years after your stay with us or after question or complaint has been solved or the inquiry was closed, or after your last stay.

3. Sending newsletters

If you have subscribed for the newsletter, we use the email address you have provided to send you our newsletter. You will be added automatically to our customer database. If you no longer wish to receive any e-mails from us, you can unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe function in each e-mail message or you can contact us.

The use of your Personal Data is to process your subscription, so to perform our agreement with you. We will remove your email address once you have opted-out of receiving the newsletter, unless this is also used and retained for other purposes listed in this Privacy Policy.

4. Marketing

Information about your online searches (clicks and views), can be collected by us, or parties that we use to analyse website data. This information enables us to use different channels for relationship management and marketing of our products and services to you via e-mail or online advertising which may include personalising website content & advertisements. We measure the effectiveness of our campaigns.
You can always opt-out of receiving our newsletter or direct mail and you can always object to our use of your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes (for more information on how to do this, read the paragraphs 9. and 10. below on your right to object).

We use this Personal Data as it is necessary in our legitimate interests to be able to promote our products and services to our customers and website visitors, to enable us to attract more customers, to improve the sale of our products and services. We will retain the Personal Data as specified under the relevant purposes for which the Personal Data have been collected (e.g. newsletters, account information, processing orders and payments). The Personal Data shall generally be deleted or anonymised 50 months after your last use of our Website, except where we are legally required to retain the Personal Data or where it is kept for any of the other purposes.

5. Information about your visit to and use of our Website

We collect certain information when you visit our Website, such as your [IP address, which web pages you visit, what type of computer you use, and type of internet browser, clicks and views]. We also keep track of which links you click on in our newsletter, in order to monitor what content is popular. The information about your use of our Website and services enables us to build segments, which are groups of website visitors or customers with a number of common characteristics such as age group, gender or region. We will likely add you to one of our segments. Segments are used by us to customize the Website and to e.g. change the order of search results or where we place certain offers, so you are more likely to see these.

We use this Personal Data as it is necessary in our legitimate interests to do so to be able to promote our products and services to our customers and website visitors, to enable us to attract more customers, to improve the sale of our products and services. We will retain the Personal Data for 50 months after your last use of our website.

6. Maintenance and optimisation of our Website

Your Personal Data will also be used for maintenance and analysis of our Website to solve performance issues, and to improve the availability of the website. The analysis also enables us to check whether the online ordering process works efficiently so we can improve, where possible. We log all use of our Website
Our use of your Personal Data for these purposes is necessary in our legitimate interests and will be retained for a maximum period of 50 months. If, despite our legitimate interest, you would prefer us not to use your Personal Data for the purpose of maintaining you have the option to block the tracking by following the instructions via this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout (please be aware this will not only affect the websites of Hotel De L’Europe BV, it may also affect different websites.)

2. Third Party Service Providers

Restaurant Flore only provides personal data to third parties when it is lawful and done carefully. We may need to share Personal Data with third parties to help us provide services and products to you and to run our Website. These third parties are service providers where this is needed to provide us with a service or to (help us) provide or deliver the service or product ordered by you and to provide data analytics services.

All third parties we collaborate with are located in the Netherlands or the European Union, meaning that these third parties maintain the same standards of data protection as Hotel de L’Europe BV.

We may also need to provide Personal Data to law enforcement bodies in order to comply with any legal obligation or court order.

3. Security of Personal Data

We will take appropriate technical, physical and organizational measures to protect the Personal Data collected through the Website from misuse or accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure, acquisition or access, that are consistent with applicable privacy and data security laws and regulations. However, no internet-based site can be 100% secure and we cannot be held responsible for unauthorised or unintended access that is beyond our control.
Our Website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content or security used by such other websites, which shall not be governed by this Privacy Policy. We advise you to always carefully read the privacy policies on these other websites.

4. Retention of Your Personal Data

We will retain your Personal Data for as long as legally required or for as long as necessary to provide you with any requested services or for any of the other purposes listed in this Privacy Policy. The specific retention term is listed in this Privacy Policy for each of the relevant purposes. We will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify Personal Data we hold if it is no longer needed for the purposes set out above or after the expiration of the defined retention term.

5. Cookies

A major part of the information referred to in this Privacy Policy is collected via our use of cookies and similar techniques. Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded and may be stored on your user device, e.g. your computer, smartphone or table. Techniques we use that may be similar to cookies are tracking pixels & Java scripts. These cookies and similar techniques are sometimes necessary to remember your account settings, language and country, but also enable us to measure and analyse your behaviour on our Website and for showing you personalised advertisements on our Website or on third party websites. Where required, you will be asked for consent to our use of cookies.

6. Social media

You may choose to share information on our Website via social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn. This means that the information you share, with name and preferences, shall be visible to visitors of your personal pages. We advise you to carefully read the privacy policies of the social media parties as these are applicable to the processing of your Personal Data by these parties.

7. Children’s Privacy

The Website is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18 (or the applicable legal age for consuming the products in question). We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from individuals under the age of 18.

8. Your Rights to Access, Rectification, Deletion, Restriction and Data Portability

You may choose to share information on our Website via social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn. This means that the information you share, with name and preferences, shall be visible to visitors of your personal pages. We advise you to carefully read the privacy policies of the social media parties as these are applicable to the processing of your Personal Data by these parties.

9. Your Right to Object

You also have a right, in certain circumstances, to require us to stop processing your Personal Data, but where we have compelling legitimate grounds, we will continue processing your Personal Data. However, you have the right to object to our use of your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, including profiling, and when you do so, we will accommodate your request. Where you have provided consent to our use of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent without this affecting the lawfulness of our use of this Data before your withdrawal.

10. Updates

We will keep this Privacy Policy under review and make updates from time to time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on our Website page and to the extent reasonably possible, will be communicated to you.

11. Contact

If you wish to exercise any of your rights listed in paragraph 9. above, you can contact us at hotel@deleurope.com. Please note that we may request proof of identity. If you have any other question, objection to our use of your Personal Data or a complaint about this Privacy Policy or about our handling of your Personal Data, you can email us at hotel@deleurope.com.