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I just receieved a reply:

Good afternoon Mr Brian. My name is JH, I am PA to the owner of B***** Bar who has asked me to respond to your complaint. IT, the B***** Bar Manager, is on holiday and does not get back to work until this evening.

We are sorry to hear you were unhappy with the newly installed Clubscan equipment being used at the club, we can tell you that the other nightclubs in town are also applying to have the equipment installed and it comes recommended by Southend Police and is fully endorsed by the ICO, ((nformation Commissioner’s Office) and is in use in many of the London venues.

I have investigated your complaint personally and can confirm to you that your details were deleted by IT that evening as you did not enter the building. There is no record of you having asked to see the Manager at the time of your visit, he would have deleted your information whilst you were present and explained the process to you. The equipment is password controlled and can only be accessed with a USP dongle, which is held by Ian Thomas and no other member of staff has access to the data.

At present we do not use Clubscan as a data mailing system merely a door entry/security safety system in our continuing efforts to keep troublemakers out of the premises as the Southend Police’s “Behave or Be Banned” records are stored and allow the system to highlight people banned by the Police so that in accordance with the agreement we have with the Police, they are refused entry.

I hope this answers your concerns and should you decide to revisit B***** Bar please make your presence known to the Manager if you wish to talk to him further.

Yours sincerely JH

What you reckon I should do?

Myself and Katie arrived home safe from Cyprus after a nice refreshing holiday. The sun was hot and we had nice tans but unfortunately Katie was pretty poorly for a lot of the holiday so we couldnt stay out all day in the heat. We enjoyed some good food and both got tattoo’s out there, but we decided that we would never go back to that part of Cyprus. We felt that the hotel food was poor, the entertainment non-entertaining and it was dusty and pretty non-eventful in the town.

We did however love being away and being just us, you can’t beat spending time with Katie

Here are the pictures: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/m4ttbrian/HolibobsCyprus07

I emailed the club in question and found out the right person to talk to. Please find below the email I sent to the manager of the club (this was after initial emails asking whether my complaint would be emailable):

Ian,

Thanks for the confirmation.

My complaint is that of identity and the processes B***** Bar employ on their doors. On Saturday night I escorted my fiancée (who was out to celebrate her 21st birthday) to Bakers Bar and entered the queue, I waited and when I got to the head of the queue, I was then asked for my identification.

I am twenty three years of age and was a bit shocked to be asked for my identification but not wanting to cause a disturbance, I gave my UK drivers license to the doorman who asked for it in the first place. Expecting him to just check it and give it back to me, being satisfied about my age, he then continued to pass my identification through a card scanner.

This is the part I wish to complain about.

As the doorman swiped my card, I immediately asked him what this was for, I was told that it was so they had my details if I was to get into trouble. Not satisfied with this answer I said to the doorman that I didn’t wish for him to do so and to do so he would need my permission (which was irrelevant now he passed my card through the scanner). His reply was that of “Thousands of people pass through these doors and you are the only one with a problem about it”. At this moment, my fiancée, who was by now very disturbed by the fact she had her card scanned too, removed herself from the queue and asked me to accompany her to another nightclub.

I feel as if this is a breach of data protection and confidentiality. My details are now on your system even though I can quite honestly say I haven’t entered your club on that night. Under no circumstances whatsoever did I authorise this person to scan my card or even relinquish my details other than to have my age checked visually.

B***** Bar have no data policy from which I can assess what will happen with my details if I had authorised this, I have no guarantee that you will not use these details to fraudulently clone my identity or sell my details onto another third party.

I feel obligated to obtain legal advice regarding this matter, not only do I feel as if I have had my details taken without a need to (or with permission), my fiancée also missed out of going to the venue which she chose to celebrate her 21st birthday because of what seems to be a very dark area regarding identification. I also do not now feel I cannot return to this club and feel compelled to warn my friends and family about the measures you take in order to gain entry to the club.

Does B***** Bar have a data protection policy? If so, may I have a copy of this?

I appreciate any response you have to this matter.

Yours Faithfully,

Me

I am awaiting a reply from the guy, again, I will let you know what happens.

At the weekend, it was Katie’s birthday. We had a lovely day on the Saturday, people came over for a BBQ and we sat and drunk most of the afternoon. Around 10:30pm we headed for the town centre and the nightclubs. Whilst waiting in the queue, the bouncer walks upto me and asks for my I.D…….I mean I may look only a tad over 18, but hand it over to him anyway. Next thing he is scanning my driving license through a scanner and I’m like WTF?!

Here’s how it went:

Me: Excuse me, what you think your doing?
Bouncer: Scanning it just in case you get in trouble, then we have your details.
Me: I don’t want you having my details thank you very much, thats my information to give you, for a start you didnt even ask for my permission.
Bouncer: Thousands of people come through these doors every night and your the only one with a problem, I’m not going to explain to each and every person why I’m doing it.

I get dragged out of line and we don’t head into the club.

Having time to think about it and decide what to do, I will try and take action. People were handing over bank cards and other pieces of identification, who knows what they will do with it, they sure could clone my card and clone my identity, for some people clone their bank cards and spend their hard earned dinero’s.

I will be writing to them and requesting information and possible compensation.

Stay tuned.