Privacy policy
This page was written by us, in the same plain English we use at the door. It covers what we collect when you book a table, hold a poker seat or just browse the site, and what you can ask us to do with it.
The whole list, and it's short
Three buckets. If something doesn't fit in one of these, we don't have it.
Messages you send us
When you write through the contact form or email us directly, we get your name, your email or phone number and whatever you typed. Card room enquiries land in the same inbox as everything else.
Bookings
Dinner tables and poker night bookings both need a name, a way to reach you, a date and a head count. For poker seats we might also note it's your first night, so the dealer knows to look after you.
Site crumbs
Cookies plus a basic page counter: what gets read, roughly how long for, what sort of device you're on. It reaches us as totals, not a list of names.
What we don't take: card numbers (the till handles payment in the room), ID scans, or notes on how anyone played. Who won the poker pot on Thursday stays at the table.
in-house
So the night actually happens
To hold your chair
A booking is us promising to keep a seat. Your details let us confirm it and call you if plans change: a full kitchen, a dealer down sick, that sort of thing.
To answer you properly
Questions about menus, private nights or what happens when you book a poker seat for the first time. We reply to the address you gave us and the conversation stays there.
To keep the site honest
Page stats tell us what people actually read. If the poker page gets skipped, that's on us to rewrite. We don't run ads that chase people around the internet.
A very short guest list
Your details pass through two pairs of hands and two pieces of software. That's the whole list.
Us, mostly
The person on the phone and the floor manager running the poker night see the booking sheet, because they're the ones who seat you.
The tools that carry it
Form entries and poker seat holds travel by ordinary email, so our mail provider technically touches them, and the form tool does too. Neither does anything else with them.
Nobody else
We don't sell lists, rent lists or swap lists. A room full of people who trust us with their Friday night is worth more than anything a data broker would offer.
If a court or the law ever required us to hand something over, we'd have to comply. We'd tell you about it unless we were legally barred.
The biscuit tin, quickly
A handful of cookies keep things working: remembering you've already closed the banner, and counting which pages get visits (dining menu, poker nights, whatever people click).
- No ad networks run on this site, so nothing follows you around other websites.
- Say no in the banner or clear them in your browser; the site still works fine.
What the law already gives you
Under the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 your personal information stays yours. We just borrow it to run bookings: dinner, poker, private nights.
You don't need a form or a lawyer for any of this. One email does it.
How long things stick around
The honest version: small venue, short memory.
The booking book
Dinner reservations and poker seat holds live in the diary until the season's done, then get cleared out. Regulars' names stay while they keep coming. Handy, since it means we remember that you like the corner table.
Emails and messages
Once a conversation's finished it sits in the inbox archive; we don't file it anywhere clever. Old threads get purged when we do a clean-out, a couple of times a year.
Security, honestly: the booking book lives behind the bar, the office stays locked, and the inbox runs a proper password with two-factor on. Small venue doesn't mean sloppy.
anything
Talk to a human about your data
Anything on this page — seeing what's held, fixing it, deleting it, or a gripe about how a poker booking was handled — goes to the people who can actually do something about it.
- Email: happymoodclub@gmail.com. Put "privacy" in the subject and it lands with the manager.
- Phone: +64 3 442 7196. Kitchen hours are best, someone always picks up.
- In person: 17 Towey Street, Holmes Hill, Oamaru 9400. Ask at the bar.
Or use the form on the contacts page for anything, poker bookings included; it reaches the same people.
While you're reading the boring bits
The rest of the house rules sit on two short pages, written just as plainly as this one.