About this Cookie Policy

youRest ("Platform")provides technology that enables restaurants, cafés, bakeries and other food businesses (“Restaurants”) to display menus, receive orders and manage delivery or collection.

This Cookie Policy explains how Platform uses cookies and similar technologies on yourest.eu, what each category is for, and how you can control them.

The operator responsible for these technologies is Nataliia Kirejeva, a sole trader established in Ireland, trading as NK Platform Studio (“we”, “us” or “our”). You can contact us about anything in this Policy at admin@bbqr.site.

Operator business address

The business address of the operator is Main Street, Enniscorthy, Wexford, Y21 WYK5, Ireland.

Written requests about cookies and consent may be sent to that address, although email to nataliaki@nataliaki.eu is the fastest route.

What cookies and similar technologies are

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. When you return, the browser sends the file back, which lets the site recognise the session and remember certain choices.

Similar technologies achieve comparable results by other means. Local storage and session storage keep small amounts of information in the browser itself. Pixels and scripts loaded by a page can record that a page was viewed. Throughout this Policy the word cookies covers all of these.

Cookies set by us under our own domain are first-party. Cookies set by another organisation whose service is loaded on our pages are third-party.

Who is responsible for cookies on a Restaurant’s page

We are responsible for the technologies we set to operate, secure and measure the platform, as described in this Policy. A Restaurant is responsible for any additional technologies it chooses to add to its own page or website and for its own notice about them.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the platform to work and are set without consent, because the service you asked for cannot be provided without them.

They are used to maintain your session while you move between pages, to keep your shopping cart, to keep Restaurant owners and authorised staff signed in to the partner area, to protect forms and requests against cross-site request forgery, to enforce security and rate limits, and to distribute traffic correctly across our servers.

The session cookie used by our authentication system belongs to this category. If you block strictly necessary cookies in your browser, signing in, keeping a cart, placing an order and paying will not work.

Functional cookies and local storage

Functional technologies remember choices you have made so that the platform behaves the way you expect.

We use browser storage to remember your language selection, so the site opens in the same language next time, and to keep the state of your order, so that the items, options and details you entered are not lost if you navigate away or reload the page. We also store your cookie consent choice so that the banner is not shown to you repeatedly.

These are stored locally in your browser. Clearing your browser storage removes them, and the platform then falls back to its defaults.

Analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics to understand how the platform is used in aggregate: which pages are visited, how users move through the ordering flow, and where problems occur.

Google Analytics sets cookies to distinguish one browser from another across visits. We do not use analytics to identify you personally, and we do not combine analytics data with order records to build a profile of you.

Analytics cookies are set only if you consent through the cookie banner. If you refuse or ignore the banner, they are not set, and the platform works normally without them.

No advertising or profiling cookies by default

We do not set advertising, retargeting or behavioural profiling cookies, and we do not sell or share cookie-derived data for the advertising purposes of third parties.

If we ever introduce such technologies, they will be presented as a separate category in the cookie banner, they will be switched off unless you actively consent, and this Policy will be updated before they are used.

The absence of advertising cookies does not affect your ability to use any part of the platform.

Consent: how we ask for it

When you first visit the platform, a cookie banner explains the categories in use and lets you accept or refuse the non-essential ones. Strictly necessary cookies are listed for transparency but are not subject to consent.

Refusing is as easy as accepting: the banner offers a clear option to reject non-essential cookies, and closing the banner without accepting does not amount to consent. Non-essential cookies are not set before you have made your choice.

We record your choice so that we can honour it and demonstrate that it was given, and we ask again if the categories change materially.

How to manage or withdraw consent

You can change your mind at any time. Open the cookie settings from persistent cookie-settings control, e.g. the link in the site footer, adjust the categories and save. The new choice applies immediately, and cookies from a category you have switched off are no longer set.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out while the consent was valid, and it does not delete data that was already collected. If you want previously collected analytics data deleted, contact us at admin@bbqr.site.

Cookies already stored on your device can be removed through your browser at any time.

Browser-level controls

Every major browser lets you view, block and delete cookies, and offers a private browsing mode that discards them at the end of the session. The controls are usually found under privacy or site settings, and the help pages of your browser explain the exact steps for your version.

Blocking all cookies, including strictly necessary ones, will break sign-in, the cart, checkout and payment. Deleting cookies also deletes your stored cookie choice, so the banner appears again on your next visit.

How long cookies last

Cookies are either session or persistent. Session cookies exist only while your browser session lasts and are discarded when you close the browser; they are what keeps a sign-in or an order coherent from one page to the next. Persistent cookies remain on your device until they expire or until you delete them, and they are what lets the site remember a preference between visits.

As a general guide, authentication and security cookies are session-based or short-lived; preference and consent items persist until changed or cleared; analytics identifiers persist across visits so that repeat use can be measured.

We do not publish exact durations for third-party cookies here, because they are set by the third party and can be changed by it without notice. Current durations can always be inspected in your browser and in the documentation of the provider concerned.

Third parties whose technologies we use

The following organisations may set or read cookies and similar identifiers when their services are loaded on our pages:

• Google Analytics, for aggregated usage measurement, loaded only after you consent;
• Stripe, for payment processing and payment fraud prevention, loaded on checkout and payment pages;
• Cloudinary, for the delivery of menu and venue images;
• Google Maps, for address lookup and suggestions when you enter a delivery address;

Each of these organisations processes the data it receives in accordance with its own privacy documentation. Stripe, Cloudinary and Google Maps are used where they are necessary to provide a function you have requested, such as paying or entering an address.

International transfers

Some of the providers named above are established outside the European Economic Area or process data outside it, including in the United States.

Where cookie-related data is transferred outside the EEA, we rely on a lawful transfer mechanism. Google is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which the European Commission recognised as providing adequate protection in its adequacy decision of 10 July 2023; this is the mechanism relied on for Google Analytics and Google Maps. For providers not certified under that framework, we rely on the European Commission standard contractual clauses together with appropriate additional safeguards.

You may ask us at nataliaki@nataliaki.eu which mechanism applies to a particular provider.

Changes to this Policy

We update this Policy when we add or remove a technology, when a provider changes, or when the law or the guidance of the supervisory authorities changes.

The current version is always available on the platform and the effective date is shown on the published page. If a change introduces a new non-essential category, we will ask for your consent again before that category is used.

Relationship with the Privacy Policy

This Cookie Policy describes the technologies themselves. The youRest Privacy Policy describes the wider picture: the personal data we process, the legal bases, the recipients, the retention periods and your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

The two documents are intended to be read together. Where cookie data constitutes personal data, the rights and procedures set out in the Privacy Policy apply to it, including the right to object and the right of access.

The Privacy Policy is published on the platform alongside this Policy.

Contact and version

For any question about cookies, consent or this Policy, write to admin@bbqr.site.

The operator is Nataliia Kirejeva, a sole trader established in Ireland, trading as NK Platform Studio, operating the Platform at yourest.eu.

The effective date of this version is shown on the published page on the platform.