Privacy
policy

1.Who we are

The Barmen X is the adults-only side of The Barmen, operated by [TO CONFIRM: full legal entity name], ABN [TO CONFIRM: ABN]. In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” mean that business.

We handle personal information in line with the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) as a matter of practice.

2.What this policy covers

This is one policy for both of our sites, because the same people handle your enquiry in the same way using the same services whichever one you came through:

• x.thebarmen.net.au — The Barmen X: hens parties, hosted games and male topless waiters. Strictly 18 and over.
• www.thebarmen.net.au — mobile bar hire, bartenders and cocktail masterclasses for weddings, corporate events and private parties.

Where something is true of only one site, we say which.

3.What we collect

We collect what you type into our booking form, and nothing else about you. On this site that is your name, email address and phone number, and then when and where the party is, how many guests, which package and add-ons you want, the venue, and any message you choose to add.

Our other site asks a longer set of questions about event type, guest numbers, region, timing, packages and glassware. Either way, it is only ever what you typed.

Our other site also has a wholesale garnish form, for venues and bars opening a trade account. That one is a business-to-business account rather than a personal enquiry, so it asks for the business or venue name, an ABN, a contact name and role, an email address and a phone number, and optionally the venue type, suburb and state, and current garnish volumes. It has nothing to do with this site, and the ABN and business details are used to set up and price a trade account and for nothing else.

4.What we do not collect

The absence of things is worth stating plainly, and on this site more than most:

• We do not ask for, and never receive, payment card details through this website.
• We do not record your IP address or your browser’s user agent against your enquiry.
• We do not create an account or a profile for you. There is nothing to log in to.
• We do not buy contact lists, and we do not sell, rent or trade your information to anybody.
• We run no advertising, remarketing or conversion-tracking tags of any kind — no Google Ads tag, no Meta pixel, no Google Analytics, no tag manager. Nothing you do on this site follows you to another one.

5.Why we collect it

To answer you, to quote the party, and to run the booking if you go ahead. That is the whole purpose. We do not use your enquiry for anything you did not contact us about.

6.The email you get back

When you submit the form, we send an automatic email to the address you gave us confirming we have it, with a copy of your own answers so you can see exactly what reached us.

Because it repeats what you sent, it will contain whatever you put in the form — the venue, the package, your phone number. If you share a mailbox, or you are organising a surprise, that is worth knowing before you submit. Use an address only you read if that matters.

It is sent once, in response to your enquiry. It is not marketing and there is nothing to unsubscribe from.

7.Who else handles it

Your enquiry is handled by three services on our behalf. We name them, because “trusted third parties” tells you nothing:

• Vercel hosts this website and runs the code that receives your enquiry.
• Resend sends the enquiry to our team, and sends you the copy described above.
• LINK Marketing, our marketing agency, operates the enquiry records system where your enquiry is stored so we can find it and act on it, in a database hosted by Supabase. Access is restricted to our team and to the LINK Marketing staff who maintain it.

They handle your information to provide those functions to us and for nothing else. We do not disclose your enquiry to anyone else unless you ask us to, or unless we are required to by law.

8.Information held overseas

Some of those services store or process information outside Australia. Vercel and Resend are both based in the United States, and our enquiry records are held in a Supabase database in Singapore.

Where your information goes overseas, we take steps that are reasonable in the circumstances to see that it is handled to the standard it would have to meet here, and we stay responsible for it. We do not ask you to waive that protection as the price of sending us an enquiry.

9.Cookies

This website does not use cookies — none at all. No tracking cookies, no advertising cookies, no analytics cookies, not even “essential” ones. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.

There is one thing we keep in your browser while you are here: when you first arrive we note how you got here — the site that linked you, the page you landed on, and any campaign tag already in the address. It is held in session storage, which means it is erased the moment you close the tab. It is not a cookie, no third party can read it, and it is only ever read if you choose to send us a booking enquiry.

We know discretion matters on this site, so here is the honest position: once the tab is closed, nothing we put there remains. What does remain is your browser’s own history and address-bar suggestions, which every website you visit leaves behind and which we have no control over. If you are using a shared computer, a private window is the way to leave no trace — and that works for us too, because everything above is erased with it.

10.Website analytics

We use Vercel Web Analytics to count which pages people read. It works without cookies and without storing anything on your device.

It reports to us in aggregate: which page was viewed, the country, the type of device, the browser and operating system, and the site that referred the visit. We cannot identify you from it and we cannot connect it to your enquiry. Vercel processes your request — including your IP address, which any website necessarily receives in order to answer you — to produce those totals, and assigns a short-lived identifier so one person reading four pages is not counted as four people.

That is the only measurement on either site. No session recording, no heatmaps, no scroll tracking.

11.Automated decisions

Nothing on this website makes an automated decision about you.

Software does check that the form is filled in and turn your answers into an email, with the city, the date and the guest count in the subject line so our team can see at a glance what it is. None of that decides anything about you. It does not price your party, approve or decline you, rank you against anybody else, or change what you are offered. A person reads your enquiry and a person writes your quote.

If that ever changes, we will say so here before it does.

12.Fonts and embedded content

On this site the typeface is served from our own domain, so no third party is involved in loading it. (Our other site loads two typefaces from Google Fonts, which means Google receives that request, including the IP address, as it would for any file on the internet. No cookie is set.)

There is no third-party content on these pages at all. No embedded videos, maps, social feeds, chat widgets or comment systems — nothing loads in a frame and nothing watches you read. Links out to Instagram or Facebook are ordinary links: nothing is sent to them unless you click.

13.Marketing

We do not send marketing emails to people who enquire. If that ever changes we will ask you to opt in first, and every message will carry a working unsubscribe link. Asking us for a quote is not consent to a newsletter.

14.How long we keep it

We keep your enquiry for as long as we are in business. We do not delete it on a timer, and that is a deliberate choice rather than an oversight: people come back to us years after they first got in touch — a hens party becomes a wedding, a birthday becomes an annual thing — and having the original conversation to hand is how we pick up where we left off instead of starting you from scratch.

So your information stays with us until you ask us to remove it. Whenever you ask, we will. There is no window you have to act inside and no reason you need to give us. Where we have carried out work for you, we keep what we need to meet our tax and record-keeping obligations, and no more.

See section 15 for how to ask.

15.Getting a copy, or having it deleted

Email owner@thebarmen.net.au and ask. You can ask us to:

• send you a copy of what we hold about you;
• correct anything that is wrong; or
• delete your enquiry.

We will reply within [TO CONFIRM: response period] and will not charge you for asking. We may need to confirm you are who you say you are first — if we did not, anyone could ask for your details. If we cannot do what you asked, we will tell you why.

16.Keeping it secure

This website is served only over an encrypted connection, and your enquiry is sent to us over that same encrypted connection. Our enquiry records are not publicly readable: the database refuses access by default, and only our own server-side code, holding a key that is never sent to your browser, can read or write it.

No system is perfect, and we would rather say so than claim otherwise. If we ever had a data breach likely to cause you serious harm, we would tell you and the relevant authorities.

17.Strictly 18 and over

This is an adults-only service. Bookings are made by adults, for adults, and our hosts are RSA-trained.

We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18 and we have no reason to. If you believe someone under 18 has sent us an enquiry, email owner@thebarmen.net.au and we will delete it.

18.Discretion

People book this service for a friend’s hens party and they would rather it stayed between them. We treat an enquiry to The Barmen X as private: we do not publish it, we do not post about it, and we do not use your name or your party in our marketing unless you have told us we may.

Our booking terms separately describe how we handle photographs taken at events. If you would rather no photographs were taken at yours, tell us when you book.

19.Complaints

If you think we have mishandled your information, email owner@thebarmen.net.au. Tell us what happened and we will look into it and come back to you.

If you are not satisfied with how we deal with it, you may be able to take the matter to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, which publishes how to complain at oaic.gov.au.

20.Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle your information we will update this page and change the date below. If the change is significant and we hold your email address, we will tell you.