PRIVACY POLICY

YOUR PERSONAL DATA

"Personal Data" means any information about you which is personally identifiable, including, without limitation, your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, registration name, password and other information from which you can be identified and which you disclose to us at any time.

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We store or update your Personal Data when:

1. You register on our site;
2. Update or change your information;
3. Contact us either via web form or email;
4. Contact any other member of the site;
5. Log in or out of the site;

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may use your Personal Data when:

1. Developing and improving the site or our services;
2. Processing and administering your registration as a member;
3. Processing and dealing with any complaints or enquiries made by or about you;
4. Processing and dealing with any messaging between yourself and any other member;
5. Investigating any suspected breach of our Terms and Conditions;
6. Sending you newsletters by email to keep you updated with events, services and/or offers from us;
7. Including information from your profile in the random profiles section of the site, or in searches made by other users of the site where you have voluntarily elected to disclose such information;

COOKIES

When you visit the site, we may place small pieces of information on your computer known as "cookies", which are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, though you do not have to. If you wish to disable cookies then you can do so by adjusting your browser settings. Please note that by disabling cookies you may not be able to register with or use features of our site. For more information on cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information provided by the Interactive Advertising Bureau at www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that we do not control the use of cookies by third parties.

1. We use cookies as part of our site process. No information is stored in these cookies beyond what is necessary to authenticate a member, and no additional information is collected from these cookies;

PASSING YOUR DATA TO THIRD PARTIES

We will not pass on any information about you to a third party except:

1. General statistical information about the site user base, broad demographics, traffic volumes and related matters. Nothing we make available will identify an individual member, and we will never provide third parties with a method of contacting you;
2. Where required to by law. We may disclose your data to the police, regulatory bodies or legal advisers in connection with any alleged criminal offence or suspected breach of the Terms and Conditions;
3. Any member of our Group, which means our subsidiaries and our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, solely for the purposes of processing and administering your account and/or membership;

LOCATION OF YOUR DATA

We hold your Personal Data on webservers and in backups in various locations around the world. Our webservers are dedicated and controlled by our Group, which means our subsidiaries and our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries. Our webservers are not shared with any third party businesses or other legal entities. Our webservers are located in North America. Backups are stored in locations seperate to our webservers and are strictly controlled.

GENERAL

1. It is your responsibility to control the extent of information you provide in your profile to help us ensure your privacy is protected;
2. We provide options to allow you to restrict visibility of your profile and visibility of any photos you upload, use of these options is entirely at your discretion;
3. Due to the nature of the Internet, any publicly displayed information should be considered publicly available, we do not exercise any control over other websites or their content;

If you have any comments or queries in connection with our privacy policy, please contact us by email at webmaster@gay.co.nz.