Visit Altrincham App

Visit Altrincham in the Palm of Your Hand

Your essential app for events, offers and everything local

Download the Visit Altrincham App and unlock everything that’s great about our town, all in one place. Whether you live locally or are just visiting, the app is your essential guide to what is happening in Altrincham right now.

The Visit Altrincham app brings together events, exclusive offers, local food and drink, shopping, services and experiences straight to your phone. Be the first to discover special promotions, events, competitions and updates, including exclusive deals during A Taste of Altrincham.

With easy access to what is on, where to go and what to try next, the app helps you make the most of every visit while supporting the local businesses you love. Download the Visit Altrincham App and stay connected to the town, wherever you are.

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General FAQs

Visit Altrincham is a Digital Town Hub which helps local organisations and businesses to communicate more effectively with residents and visitors. Digital Town Hubs are owned and managed by local people. They provide a community-powered alternative to social media, delivery and large ecommerce platforms.

The App has been installed specifically for Altrincham. Residents and visitors download the Visit Altrincham app for Apple and Android smartphones for free and sign-up. Meanwhile, businesses and local organisations receive an email invite from Visit Altrincham to register for access to their business dashboard. The dashboard allows businesses to add content to the app and participate in the hub. Business users can also login to the app to receive additional business-related content.

The Visit Altrincham App is funded by Altrincham BID. Local businesses and organisations that are BID members receive access to their business dashboard for free

Digital Town Hubs push personalised content to residents and visitors to keep them informed about everything going on in their town. They keep marketing and sales costs low for businesses, keeping more money within the local area to benefit the local economy.

Yes. Digital Town Hubs can be found elsewhere in England and Scotland. It’s best to check the Loqiva website for the latest information.

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App FAQs

Yes, the Visit Altrincham app is completely free to download.

The Visit Altrincham Digital Town Hub needs to collect personal data to make local recommendations to you. When you sign up, you are asked for your name, age, title and postcode together with some information about your interests. From time-to-time, the app checks your location. You can opt to turn location monitoring off in the normal way on your phone but this will limit some of the features of the app.

The data is owned by Altrincham BID on behalf of the local community. Loqiva, the company that provides the digital town hub, processes the data on behalf of Altrincham BID.

The platform has been developed around the principle of using data ethically. All data is stored securely in the UK. The data that’s displayed on the Visit Altrincham app is aggregated and anonymised. We encrypt data in transit, and all processes undertaken by the platform to serve you personalised content are done so privately and autonomously.

We hope you won’t, but of course if you feel the need to delete your account, you can do so on the app at any time. When you delete your account then all the data personally identifiable to you is instantly erased from Visit Altrincham.

Yes, we will be regularly updating the smartphone app with fixes and new features. Please download the latest version to enjoy the best experience.

If you are experiencing a technical issue with the app, please email support@loqiva.com, sending screenshots of the issue you’re experiencing if possible. For a listing which you think is incorrect or out of date, please email info@altrinchambid.com

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