Privacy Policy
Last updated: 12 June 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how YIBU by Janet collects, uses and protects your personal information when you visit our website, contact us, make a booking, or interact with us online.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refers to:
YIBU by Janet
3 Mercer Street Lower
Dublin 2
D02 TW61
Ireland
Email: Hi@yibu.ie
Phone: +353 87 701 4336
Website: yibu.ie
1. Information we collect
We may collect personal information when you:
- Visit our website
- Make a table booking
- Contact us by phone, email or through a contact form
- Sign up to receive updates or marketing
- Interact with us on social media
- Use our online booking or third party reservation tools
The information we collect may include:
- Your name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Booking details
- Message or enquiry details
- Dietary, allergy or accessibility information you choose to provide
- IP address and website usage information
- Cookie preferences
- Device, browser and general location information
We only collect information that is relevant to the way you interact with us.
2. How we use your information
We may use your personal information to:
- Respond to enquiries
- Manage bookings and reservation requests
- Provide customer service
- Send updates or marketing where you have agreed to receive them
- Improve our website and customer experience
- Understand how visitors use our website
- Protect our website from misuse or security issues
- Comply with legal, tax or regulatory obligations
3. Our legal basis for using your information
We process personal information only where we have a valid legal basis to do so. This may include:
- Consent, where you have agreed to receive marketing or accepted certain cookies
- Contract, where we need your information to manage a booking or respond to a request
- Legal obligation, where we are required to keep certain records
- Legitimate interests, where we need to operate, improve and protect our business, website and customer service
You can withdraw consent at any time where consent is the legal basis for processing.
4. Bookings and third party services
Our website may use third party tools, including OpenTable or other reservation platforms, to help manage bookings.
When you make a booking through a third party platform, your information may also be processed by that platform in line with its own privacy policy. We recommend reviewing the privacy information provided by the booking platform before completing your reservation.
5. Cookies and tracking technologies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to help the website work properly, remember preferences, measure website performance and understand visitor activity.
Some cookies are necessary for the website to function. Other cookies, such as analytics or marketing cookies, will only be used where required consent has been given.
You can control cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through the cookie settings shown on our website.
6. Marketing
If you sign up to receive marketing from us, we may use your contact details to send updates about menus, events, offers or news from YIBU by Janet.
You can unsubscribe or opt out of marketing at any time by using the unsubscribe link in our emails, where available, or by contacting us at Hi@yibu.ie.
We will not sell your personal information to third parties.
7. Social media
If you interact with us on social media platforms, those platforms may process your personal information in line with their own privacy policies.
We may see information you make publicly available, such as your username, comments, messages, likes, tags or reviews.
8. Reviews and public platforms
If you leave a review on Google, OpenTable, social media or another public platform, that review may be visible to the public. We may respond to reviews where appropriate.
The platform where you leave the review is responsible for how your review and account information are handled on that platform.
9. Who we share information with
We may share personal information with trusted service providers who help us operate our business and website, such as:
- Website hosting providers
- Booking and reservation platforms
- Email and marketing platforms
- Analytics providers
- Payment providers, where applicable
- Professional advisers, such as accountants or legal advisers
- Regulatory or legal authorities, where required
We only share information where necessary and where appropriate safeguards are in place.
10. How long we keep your information
We keep personal information only for as long as necessary for the purpose it was collected.
Booking and enquiry information may be kept for a reasonable period to manage customer service, business records and legal obligations.
Marketing information is kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove your details.
Cookie and analytics information is kept in line with the settings of the relevant cookie or analytics tool.
11. How we protect your information
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.
However, no website, email system or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
12. Your rights
Under data protection law, you may have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you
- Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information
- Ask us to delete your personal information
- Ask us to restrict how we use your information
- Object to certain uses of your information
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Request a copy of your information in a portable format
- Complain to the Data Protection Commission
To make a request, please contact us at Hi@yibu.ie.
13. Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we handle your personal information, please contact us first and we will do our best to resolve the issue.
You also have the right to contact the Data Protection Commission in Ireland.
Data Protection Commission
21 Fitzwilliam Square South
Dublin 2
D02 RD28
Ireland
Website: dataprotection.ie
14. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated date.
15. Contact us
For questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle personal information, please contact:
YIBU by Janet
3 Mercer Street Lower
Dublin 2
D02 TW61
Ireland
Email: Hi@yibu.ie
Phone: +353 87 701 4336