Privacy Notice
Effective Date: 14 October 2026 • Domain: bishopsgatetable.com
1. Identity and Contact Details of the Data Controller
The Bishopsgate Table (“we”, “us”, or “our”), operating the physical tabletop game café and reading room at The Broadgate Tower, 201 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 3AB, United Kingdom, acts as the data controller for personal data collected via bishopsgatetable.com and during table reservations or Club Pass administration. You can reach our privacy coordinator by email at hello@bishopsgatetable.com or by telephone on +44 7734 519280.
2. Scope of This Notice
This Privacy Notice explains how we process personal data under the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 whenever you browse our website, compile an enquiry ledger, request a table or group package quote, apply for a Club Pass, subscribe to our monthly broadsheet dispatch, or visit our premises at 201 Bishopsgate.
3. Categories of Personal Data We Collect
- Reservation & Enquiry Data: Name, email address, telephone number (where provided), preferred date and time window, party size, board game hold preferences, and voluntary dietary or accessibility notes.
- Membership Records: Club Pass holder contact details, membership cadence, guest pass usage logs, and assigned campaign locker number at 201 Bishopsgate.
- Correspondence Data: Messages submitted via our contact form or sent directly to
bookings@bishopsgatetable.comandhello@bishopsgatetable.com. - Technical & Consent Metadata: Browser local storage state for your enquiry ledger (
bgt_basket_ledger), Consent Mode record (bgt_cookie_state), truncated IP logs in server error diagnostics, and anonymised page visit metrics where analytics consent has been granted.
4. Lawful Bases for Processing (Article 6 UK GDPR)
- Performance of a Contract or Pre-Contractual Steps (Art. 6(1)(b)): Responding to table enquiries, preparing custom group quotes, reserving library games, and administering Club Pass memberships.
- Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)): Sending optional monthly broadsheet dispatches and storing non-essential preference or analytics cookies via Google Consent Mode v2. You may withdraw consent at any moment.
- Legitimate Interests (Art. 6(1)(f)): Maintaining IT security, preventing automated form abuse, and ensuring orderly table scheduling at our London parlour.
- Legal Obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)): Retaining statutory accounting and tax records required under United Kingdom law.
5. How We Use Your Information
We use your personal data strictly to confirm seating availability at 201 Bishopsgate, prepare requested tabletop titles ahead of arrival, accommodate food allergies communicated to our espresso kitchen, answer customer enquiries, and — only if you opt in — send monthly event notes.
6. Zero Automated Decision-Making or Profiling
The Bishopsgate Table does not carry out automated decision-making or behavioural profiling producing legal or similarly significant effects under Article 22 UK GDPR.
7. Recipients and Service Providers
We never sell or rent guest data. Access is restricted to authorised parlour staff at 201 Bishopsgate and vetted UK/EEA-compliant infrastructure processors (web hosting, business email, and statutory bookkeeping) bound by written Article 28 data processing agreements.
8. International Transfers
Our primary hosting and mailbox infrastructure operates within the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area. Should any ancillary technical provider process data outside the UK, transfers are safeguarded by the UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) or UK Addendum to EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
9. Data Retention Schedule
- Table & Group Enquiries: Retained for up to 12 months following your sitting date so we can answer follow-up questions, then securely erased.
- Club Pass Records: Retained for the duration of active membership plus 24 months, or 6 years for statutory accounting invoices under HMRC rules.
- Broadsheet Newsletter List: Retained until you click unsubscribe or email
hello@bishopsgatetable.com. - Browser Local Storage: Stored locally in your own browser until cleared by you or reset through our Cookie Preferences panel.
10. Security Measures
We enforce HTTPS/TLS transport encryption across bishopsgatetable.com, strict HTTP security headers, role-restricted mailbox access with multi-factor authentication, and physical lock-and-key controls at The Broadgate Tower.
11. Allergen & Accessibility Notes
Where you voluntarily share food allergy or mobility access details so our team can prepare suitable seating or clean kitchen utensils, we process that note solely for that single visit and delete it promptly afterwards.
12. Children & Family Visits
Daytime and early-evening family sittings are welcome when accompanied by a parent or guardian aged 18 or over. Online table enquiries and Club Pass agreements must be submitted by adults aged 18+.
13. Your Rights Under UK Data Protection Law
Subject to statutory conditions, you have the right to request access to your personal data, rectification of inaccuracies, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and objection to processing based on legitimate interests. To exercise any right, contact hello@bishopsgatetable.com. We respond within one calendar month.
14. Right to Lodge a Complaint With the ICO
If you remain dissatisfied with how we handle your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the United Kingdom supervisory authority for data protection, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), under Article 77 UK GDPR.
15. Links & Local Static Architecture
Our website avoids unnecessary third-party social trackers and keeps interactive basket state inside your own browser storage.
16. Updates to This Privacy Notice
Whenever we update our privacy practices, we revise the effective date at the top of this page and publish the updated text on bishopsgatetable.com/data-notice.html.