ABOUT THE GREAT NORTHERN

THE GREAT NORTHERN IS AN INDEPENDENT PUB AND KITCHEN, SERVING A MENU OF LOCALLY SOURCED & SEASONAL MODERN EUROPEAN FOOD, COMPLEMENTED BY A GREAT SELECTION OF WINES, ALES AND CRAFT BEERS.

OUR SMALL MENU, WHICH CHANGES REGULARLY, CONTAINS OF INNOVATIVE DISHES INSPIRED BY LOCAL SEASONAL PRODUCE, ALONG WITH MORE TRADITIONAL BRITISH CLASSICS. ROASTS ARE SERVED ON SUNDAYS ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE MENU, AND PRE-CINEMA DINING IS AVAILABLE FOR THE ODYSSEY NEXT DOOR.

GUESTS ARE WELCOME TO DINE IN OUR WARM AND RELAXED RESTAURANT AREA, “THE SNUG”, IN THE BAR AREA, OR IN OUR SPACIOUS GARDEN.

FOR LARGE BOOKINGS OR PRIVATE PARTIES, PLEASE CONTACT OUR GENERAL MANAGER, SHERI EDWARDS ON CONTACT@GREATNORTHERNPUB.CO.UK, OR GIVE US A CALL ON 01727 730867. WE CAN CATER FOR SPECIAL DIETARY REQUIREMENTS, INCLUDING GLUTEN FREE AND SCD DIETS

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ABOUT THE PEOPLE

THREE FRIENDS TOOK OVER THE GREAT NORTHERN IN 2015, PROVIDING THE OLD PUB WITH SOME MUCH NEEDED CARE AND ATTENTION, RENOVATING THE BUILDING & GARDEN AND INSTALLING A NEW KITCHEN.

THE TEAM IS LED BY GENERAL MANAGER SHERI EDWARDS AND ASSISTANT MANAGER EMMA PARKHOUSE. SHERI, PREVIOUSLY MANAGER OF THE AMBLE INN, HARPENDEN, PRIDES HIMSELF ON CREATING A WARM ENVIRONMENT, A GREAT TEAM AND A PERFECT WELL-KEPT PINT.

AS WELL AS SHERI AND EMMA, WE HAVE A FANTASTIC TEAM OF FRIENDLY AND ATTENTIVE STAFF WHO ENJOY SERVING YOU AS MUCH AS YOU’LL ENJOY BEING SERVED!

WELCOME TO YOUR FAVOURITE NEW LOCAL RESTAURANT & PUB!

WE SELECT THE FINEST, FRESH, LOCALLY SOURCED AND SEASONAL INGREDIENTS

NO SHOW POLICY

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO RECEIVE BOOKINGS TO OUR RESTAURANT, HOWEVER WE ARE EXPERIENCING QUITE A FEW RESERVATIONS WHO CAN’T BE CONTACTED WHEN WE CALL TO CONFIRM AND DON’T TURN UP ON THE DAY, WITHOUT GIVING NOTICE

WHEN WE HOLD A TABLE FOR THOSE WHO DON’T TURN UP IT OFTEN CAUSES US TO HAVE TO TURN AWAY CUSTOMERS WHO WALK IN, BECAUSE WE ARE SAVING THE TABLE, OR TO DENY BOOKINGS TO PEOPLE WHO WE WOULD HAVE OTHERWISE BEEN ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE

LARGE NO-SHOWS ARE THEREFORE UNFAIR TO OUR OTHER CUSTOMERS AND ALSO COST US A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT AND FRESH FOOD WASTAGE, AS WE HAVE TO LEAVE AN EMPTY SPACE IN OUR SMALL RESTAURANT AND THROW AWAY FOOD

AS A RESULT WE ARE HAVING TO INTRODUCE A NO-SHOW CHARGE FOR LARGER BOOKINGS AND A RECONFIRMATION POLICY

WE HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND!

NO SHOW CHARGE

BOOKINGS OF OVER 6 PEOPLE MUST NOW BE SUPPORTED BY THE RETENTION OF CREDIT CARD DETAILS

YOUR CARD DETAILS WILL BE KEPT SECURELY AND WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CHARGE YOUR CARD A ‘NO-SHOW’ FEE OF £10 PER PERSON IF THE ENTIRE PARTY FAILS TO TURN UP WITHOUT GIVING AT LEAST TWO HOURS’ NOTICE OF CANCELLATION

THIS WILL NOT AFFECT YOUR ABILITY AMEND OR CANCEL YOUR BOOKING AT ANY POINT BEFORE THEN

YOUR CARD DETAILS WILL BE DESTROYED FOLLOWING THE BOOKING

RESERVATION RECONFIRMATION POLICY

WE WILL ENDEAVOUR TO CONTACT ALL BOOKINGS VIA PHONE AND/OR EMAIL IN THE 24-48 HOURS AHEAD OF YOUR TABLE RESERVATION TO RECONFIRM THE BOOKING

IF WE ARE UNABLE TO RECONFIRM YOUR BOOKING AFTER TWO ATTEMPTS AND NOTHING IS HEARD FROM YOU, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REASSIGN YOUR TABLE TO ANOTHER PARTY

IF YOU DO TURN UP FOR YOUR BOOKING, AND HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO RECONFIRM YOUR TABLE FOR GOOD REASON, WE WILL OF COURSE ENDEAVOUR TO ACCOMMODATE YOU AS SOON AS PRACTICAL UPON YOUR ARRIVAL.

Privacy Policy

Introduction

1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; in this policy we explain how we will treat your personal information.

1.2 By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

2 Collecting personal information

2.1 We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths);

(b) information that you provide to us when registering with our website (including your email address);

(c) information that you provide when completing your profile on our website (including your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details and employment details);

(d) information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address);

(e) information that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services (including the timing, frequency and pattern of service use);

(f) information relating to any purchases you make of our services or any other transactions that you enter into through our website (including your name, address, telephone number, email address);

(g) information that you post to our website for publication on the internet (including your user name, your profile pictures and the content of your posts);

(h) information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through our website (including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication); and

(i) any other personal information that you choose to send to us.

2.1 Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

Using personal information

3.1 Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.

3.2 We may use your personal information to:

(a) administer our website and business;

(b) personalise our website for you;

(d) send you goods purchased through our website;

(e) supply to you services purchased through our website;

(f) send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;

(g) send you non-marketing commercial communications;

(h) send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;

(i) send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);

(j) send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);

(k) provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);

(l) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;

(m) keep our website secure and prevent fraud; and

(n) verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service).

3.3 If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.

3.4 Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website, and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.

3.5 We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

Disclosing personal information

4.1 We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

4.2 We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

4.3 We may disclose your personal information:

(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b) in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;

(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and

(e) to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

4.4 Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

International data transfers

5.1 Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

5.2 Personal data shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the European Union unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the ‘rights and freedoms’ of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.

The transfer of personal data outside of the EU is prohibited unless one or more of the specified safeguards or exceptions apply;

Binding corporate rules
Model contract clauses in place

5.3 Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

5.4 You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 6.

Retaining personal information

6.1 This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.

6.2 Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

6.3 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b) if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and

(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

Security of personal information

7.1 We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

7.2 We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.

Amendments

8.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

8.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

Your rights

9.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:

– the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

9.2 We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

9.3 You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

9.4 In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

Third party websites

10.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.

10.2 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

Updating information

11.1 Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Data protection registration

12.1 We are registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

12.2 Our data protection registration number is [ZA399245]

Our details

13.1 This website is owned and operated by Pangea Strategies Ltd;

13.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 09057674, and our registered office is at 7 Beaconsfield Rd, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3RD;

13.3 Our principal place of business is at Great Northern, 172 London Road, St Albans, Herts, AL1 1PQ;

13.4 You can contact us:

(a) by post, using the postal address;

(b) by telephone, on 01727 730867; or

Cookie Policy

This website uses cookies. By using this site you agree to this policy and consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this policy.

We want to ensure that your use of our website is user friendly, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your computer or other device such as your mobile phone. These include small files known as “cookies”. We do not use these to identify you personally, or to hold any personal data.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

Enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task

Recognising that you may already have provided a username and password so that you don’t need to keep repeating these for every web page requested

Measuring how many people are using services so they can be improved and there is enough capacity to ensure they are responsive

Cookies are small files, containing an ‘identifier’ given to your browser by a website which may be stored as text files (letters and numbers) in the cookie directory of your computer. Cookies are not programmes and cannot collect information from your computer. They do not damage your computer and are defined as ‘a piece of text stored on a computer by a web browser, a cookie can be used for authentication, storing site preferences, shopping cart contents, the identifier for a server-based session, or anything else that can be accomplished through storing text data’.

Our website may send cookie data to your browser, which may save it if your browser’s preferences allow it to do so. To protect your privacy your browser only returns a cookie to the website that sent you the cookie and does not send it to any other website. A website cannot access your cookie directory or information on your computer, instead relevant cookies are included by your browser within each request you make to the website. A website can only obtain cookie data that your browser sends to it. Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you. There are two types of cookie used:

Persistent cookies remain on your computer for a specified time and so are saved to your computer’s hard disk. We use persistent cookies to:

Identify that a registered user has returned
Securely remember your login User ID – if you have asked us to do so
Understand how you use our site and obtain information on website usage (as described above)

Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser and are not usually saved to your computer’s hard disk. We use session cookies to:

Identify that you have logged in to the site
Hold your search criteria while you are carrying out a search of the website
Collect information on website usage – as described above

In particular, we use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. This generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated, relating to our website, is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. (Google’s privacy policy is available at http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html).

You do not have to accept cookies and you can change the settings within your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, reject cookies from certain websites, notify you if a site is requesting to set a cookie, and set various other options. You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer, although this may have a negative effect on the use of websites. Please see your browsers settings to do so.

Switching off cookies will still allow you to view the majority of content on our website. However, it will prevent you logging in and so accessing personalised information. It will also stop us remembering your login User ID, if you ask us to do so, and may restrict your use of our interactive tools and of some services available.

For further information or if you have any questions about the cookies we use or this policy please contact us.