Joyful Day OutTable & seat reservations
Your name, a phone number or email, party size, and the date and time you want. If you mention an allergy or a birthday, we jot that down too so the kitchen's ready.
Your details, our housekeeping
Privacy,
Privacy,
in plain English
When you book a table, email us, or sign in for a poker night at 84 Thames Street, you hand us a few details. This page spells out what we keep, why we keep it, and where it never ends up.
No data sold
here, ever
here, ever
01 / What we collect
The details you hand us, and where they come from
There's no clever harvesting going on. Everything we hold about you, you typed into a form, wrote in an email, or told us across the bar.
name, number, party size: that's the shape of it
Emails & enquiries
Whatever you write through the contact form or straight to our inbox: your name, your address, and the question itself. Private poker evening enquiries land here too.
Cookies & basic stats
A cookie remembers whether you've dismissed the banner, and that's the whole tracking story. The full rundown sits on the cookie policy.
Poker bookings work the same way: a name and a way to reach you. There's no account, no profile, no player database behind the curtain.
02 / What it's for
Your details do exactly one job: looking after you
1
Holding your spot
We write your name in the diary, keep your table or your poker seat free, and ring you if plans shift on either side.
2
Replying to you
You asked a question, we answer it. Confirmations, changes, the odd "are you still open?", that kind of thing.
3
Feeding you properly
Allergy notes and dietary requests go straight to the kitchen pass so the right plate lands in front of the right person.
4
The boring legal bit
Till receipts and transaction records get kept for tax, same as every business in the country.
the diary — where your name actually lives
03 / The short list
Things your details will never be used for
We run a grill and a card room. That's the whole business model. There's no side hustle in your information.
- We don't sell, rent or trade your details to anyone. Ever.
- We don't pass them around beyond what it takes to run the venue: the booking diary, the till, the card room door sheet.
- We don't send marketing blasts. If you hear from us, it's because you wrote first.
- We don't run online poker accounts, loyalty apps or tracking profiles.
"If you wouldn't want it done with your name, assume we don't do it. That's genuinely the policy."
One exception, the legal kind: if New Zealand law ever required us to hand something over, say a court order, we'd have to comply. It hasn't happened yet.
04 / Upstairs
The poker room's own little ritual
The poker room is strictly 18+, so there's a sign-in sheet at the door. It's an actual clipboard with an actual pen: your name, your signature, the date. It proves everyone upstairs is old enough to be there and gives us a headcount for the night.
- The sheet lives in a locked drawer upstairs between poker nights
- Nothing on it goes online, gets scanned, or feeds a mailing list
- Wins, losses and table talk are nobody's record. We don't track them
No online poker, full stop: poker at Joyful Day Out is in-person, social and venue-based only. No accounts, no deposits, nothing to log into. If a website offers that under our name, it isn't us.
05 / Where it lives
Kept safe, kept briefly, then shredded
New Zealand's Privacy Act 2020 sets the rules we follow: collect for a clear purpose, keep it secure, and don't hang on to it longer than needed.
In practice that means the bookings diary stays at the host stand, emails sit in one inbox, and the poker room door sheets stay in that locked drawer. We're on Thames Street; your details are too, physically, most of the time.
Nothing here needs a data centre. A diary, an inbox and a drawer cover it.
Booking details
Until the season turns
Diary pages and booking emails stick around a few months in case of disputes or no-show patterns, then they're gone.
Poker room sign-in sheets
About twelve months
Kept for age-compliance checks, then shredded. The pile never gets big.
Messages & emails
As long as the conversation needs
We clear the inbox properly once a year. Old enquiries and private-event threads go with it.
Cookie preferences
On your own browser
Those live on your device, not with us. Change them any time (details on the cookie page).
06 / Your rights
It's your information. You get the final say
Under the Privacy Act 2020 you can ask us for a few specific things, and we'll sort it quickly, usually the same week, and it's free.
- See it. Ask what we hold about you (bookings, poker sign-ins, emails) and we'll show you. It'll fit on one page.
- Fix it. Wrong number, misspelled name, outdated detail? Tell us and we'll correct it on the spot.
- Bin it. Ask us to delete what we hold and we will, as far as the law allows (tax records have to stay a while).
- Complain. If you think we've mucked something up, you can go to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. Tell us first and we'll try to make it right.
One email, one human
Write to joyfuldayout@gmail.com, ring +64 3 366 2941, or ask for one of us at the bar. Joyful Day Out Limited, 84 Thames Street, Oamaru 9400. NZBN 9429048761358.
07 / Keeping it current
This page changes when we do
Last reviewed and updated February 2026. If we ever add something that touches your information (a new booking tool, a mailing list, anything), this page gets rewritten first and the date moves with it.
Questions, corrections or a privacy request? The fastest route is a person: email joyfuldayout@gmail.com or come find us at the bar between Wednesday and Sunday.
