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Affinity Terms and Conditions
Affinity Terms and Conditions
For Gayther.life
Welcome to the Terms and Conditions for Gayther.life, also known as Gayther Affinity. This document describes the terms and conditions applicable to your use of our services available under the domain and sub-domains at www.gayther.life (the “website” or “site”) and should be read in conjunction with the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms, you may not use or access our services. Please take your time to carefully read these terms and conditions as they form a legal agreement between you and Ovester Limited (trading as Gayther).
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.
1.2 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.
1.3 If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.
1.4 You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.
1.5 Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy policy.
1.6 You will be asked to give your express agreement to these terms and conditions before you create an account or order on our website.
2. INTERPRETATION
2.1 In these terms and conditions:
2.1.1 “we” means Ovester Limited registration number 06250776 trading as Gayther (and “us and “our” should be construed accordingly);
2.1.2 “you” means a visitor, our customer or prospective customer under these terms and conditions (and “your” should be construed accordingly);
2.1.3 “website” means the website or any part thereof which is accessible from https://www.gayther.life (and “site” should be construed accordingly);
3. COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK NOTICE
3.1. COPYRIGHT
3.1.1. Copyright (c) 2019 Ovester Limited, trading as Gayther.
3.1.2. Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:
(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and
(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.
3.2. TRADEMARKS
3.2.1. Gayther and Ovester trade marks, our logos and our other registered and unregistered trade marks are trade marks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trade marks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.
3.2.2. The third party registered and unregistered trade marks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners and, unless stated otherwise in these terms and conditions, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.
4. LICENCE TO USE WEBSITE
4.1 You may:
(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;
(b) download pages for caching in a web browser;
(c) download any content that has been clearly indicated as available to download from our website to your personal computer or device;
(d) stream audio and video files from our website; and
(e) use our website services of which include the directory listings, specialist content and guides by means of a web browser,
subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.
4.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.
4.3 You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes, and you must not use our website for any other purposes.
4.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.
4.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:
(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
(c) show any material from our website in public;
(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
(e) redistribute material from our website.
4.6 Notwithstanding Section 4.5, you may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person
4.7 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.
5. RSS FEED
5.1 You may access our RSS feed using an RSS reader or aggregator from any of the Gayther websites.
5.2 By accessing our RSS feed, you accept these terms and conditions.
5.3 Subject to your acceptance of these terms and conditions, we grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable licence to display content from our RSS feed in unmodified form on any non-commercial website owned and operated by you, providing that you must not aggregate our RSS feed with any other feed when displaying it in accordance with this Section 5.3.
5.4 It is a condition of this licence that you include a credit for us and hyperlink to our website on each web page where the RSS feed is published (in such form as we may specify from time to time, or if we do not specify any particular form, in a reasonable form).
5.5 We may revoke any licence set out in this Section 5 at any time, with or without notice or explanation.
6. NEWS
6.1 Our website represents a range of different viewpoints, and a particular articles published on our website may not reflect our own views and opinions.
7. OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
7.1 Our website includes features that enable users to interact with other social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Telegram and WhatsApp directly from our website.
7.2 Using the social media features on our website, you may:
(a) share data or content from our website; and
(b) like or upvote content from our website; and
(c) like or upvote content from our website.
7.3 You acknowledge that the use of the social media platforms is subject to the terms and conditions of the relevant platform operator and that the use of any personal data transferred to the platforms is subject to the privacy policy or notice of the relevant platform operator.
7.4 Subject to Section 19.1, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage arising out of:
(a) your use of any third party social media platform; and
(b) any act or omission of any third party social media platform operator.
7.5 When using social media features on our website, the social media platforms may collect information about you and your use of our website and those feature, including by means of cookies. For more information about these cookies and the use of personal data collected by us and by the platforms, see our privacy notice .
8. ACCEPTABLE USE
8.1 You must not:
(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;(c) hack or otherwise tamper with our website;(d) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;(e) circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;(f) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;(g) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;(h) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;(i) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;(j) impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);(k) decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;(l) use our website except by means of our public interfaces;(m) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or(n) do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.8.2 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.8.3 You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.
9. USE ON BEHALF OF ORGANISATION
9.1 If you use our website or expressly agree to these terms and conditions in the course of a business or other organisational project, then by so doing you bind both:
(a) yourself; and
(b) the person, company or other legal entity that operates that business or organisational project, to these terms and conditions, and in these circumstances references to “you” in these terms and conditions are to both the individual user and the relevant person, company or legal entity, unless the context requires otherwise
10. REGISTRATION AND ACCOUNTS
10.1 To be eligible for an account on our website under this Section 10, you must 18 years old or older.
10.2 You may register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you.
10.3 You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website.
10.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.
10.5 You must not use any other person’s account to access the website, unless you have that person’s express permission to do so.
11. USER LOGIN DETAILS
11.1 If you register for an account with our website, you will be asked to choose a user ID and password.11.2 Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 24; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.11.3 You must keep your password confidential.11.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.11.5 You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.
12. ACCOUNT SUSPENSION OR CANCELLATION
12.1 We may:
(a) suspend your account;
(b) cancel your account; and/or
(c) edit your account details, at any time in our sole discretion with or without notice to you.
12.2 We will usually cancel an account if it remains unused for a continuous period of 12 months.
12.3 You may cancel your account on our website using your account control panel on the website.
13. SOCIAL NETWORKING
13.1 Registered users will have access to such additional features on our website as we may from time to time determine, which may include:
(a) facilities to complete a detailed personal profile on the website, to publish that profile on the website, and to restrict the publication of that profile to particular groups or individuals registered on the website;
(b) facilities to create groups, manage groups that you have created, join and leave groups, and share information amongst group members;
(c) the facility to send private messages via the website to particular groups or individuals registered on the website; and
(d) the facility to post and publish text and media on the website.
13.2 You acknowledge that we cannot be held responsible for the behaviour of our users, either on or off the website, and we cannot guarantee that any information provided by a user is true, accurate, complete, current and not misleading; and subject to Section 19.1 you will not hold us liable in respect of any loss or damage arising out of any user behaviour or user information.
13.3 You agree to the publication of posts relating to you, by others, on our website; you acknowledge that such posts may be critical or defamatory or otherwise unlawful; and, subject to Section 19.1, you agree that you will not hold us liable in respect of any such posts, irrespective of whether we are aware or ought to have been aware of such posts.
14. PERSONAL PROFILES
14.1 All information that you supply as part of a personal profile on the website must be true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.
14.2 You must keep your personal profile on our website up to date.
14.3 Personal profile information must also comply with the provisions of Section 8 and Section 16.
15. YOUR CONTENT: LICENCE
15.1 In these terms and conditions, “your content” means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.
15.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to reproduce, store and publish your content on and in relation to this website and any successor website.
15.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 15.2.
15.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 15.2.
15.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
15.6 You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website.
15.7 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.
16. YOUR CONTENT: RULES
16.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.16.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).
16.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:
(a) be libellous or maliciously false;(b) be obscene or indecent;(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;(g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;(i) be blasphemous;(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;(l) depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;(m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;(p) constitute spam;(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.16.4 Your content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.16.5 You must not use our website to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on our website, breach the provisions of these terms and conditions.16.6 You must not submit to our website any material that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
17. REPORT ABUSE
17.1 If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on our website, or any material or activity that breaches these terms and conditions, please let us know.17.2 You can let us know about any such material or activity by email (dpo@ovester.com) or using our abuse reporting form.
18. LIMITED WARRANTIES
18.1 We do not warrant or represent:
(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;
(b) that the material on the website is up to date;
(c) that the website will operate without fault; or
(d) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.
18.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.
18.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 19.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.
19. LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY
19.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
19.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 19 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:
(a) are subject to Section 19.1; and
(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.
19.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
19.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
19.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
19.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.
19.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.
19.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).
20. INDEMNITY
20.1 You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute) incurred or suffered by us and arising directly or indirectly out of your use of our website or any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.
21. BREACHES OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
21.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:
(a) send you one or more formal warnings;
(b) temporarily suspend your access to our website;
(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;
(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;
(e) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;
(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or
(g) suspend or delete your account on our website.
21.2 Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).
22. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
22.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.22.2 We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and subject to Section 19.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
23. COMPETITIONS
23.1 From time to time we may run competitions, free prize draws and/or other promotions on our website.
23.2 Competitions will be subject to separate terms and conditions (which we will make available to you as appropriate).
24. VARIATION
24.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.
24.2 We will give you written notice of any revision of these terms and conditions, and the revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date that we give you such notice; if you do not agree to the revised terms and conditions, you must stop using our website.
24.3 If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on the website, and you must stop using the website.
25. ASSIGNMENT
25.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
25.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
26. SEVERABILITY
26.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.26.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
27. THIRD PARTY RIGHTS
27.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
27.2 The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
28. ENTIRE AGREEMENT
28.1 Subject to Section 19.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.
29. LAW AND JURISDICTION
29.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.29.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
30. STATUTORY AND REGULATORY DISCLOSURES
30.1 We will not file a copy of these terms and conditions specifically in relation to each user or customer and, if we update these terms and conditions, the version to which you originally agreed will no longer be available on our website. We recommend that you consider saving a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference.
30.2 These terms and conditions are available in the English language only.
31. OUR DETAILS
31.1 This website is owned and operated by Ovester Limited registration trading as Gayther.
31.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 06250776, and our registered office is at 2 Ambleside Avenue, London, SW16 6AD, United Kingdom.
31.3 Our principal place of business is at Gayther, 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom.
31.4 You can contact us:
- by post, using the address Gayther, 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom, United Kingdom;
- using our website contact form (found in the main or footer menus);
- by email, using info@gayther.com;
- by telephone on +44 (0)20 7043 9820.
If you have any questions in relation to the Affinity Terms and Conditions, please contact us
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IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The information displayed on this page is for illustrative purposes only and does not constitute advice. It is essential that before travelling that you independently establish information relating specifically to your requirements and circumstances. Though we endeavour to keep all information across the site updated, we do not guarantee the accuracy and completeness of any information displayed. The languages and terms featured on this page are literal translations and have not been validated or verified. The service is provided free of charge, and by using it, you accept that you are doing so at your own risk. This page may contain external links to third party websites; Gayther provides these links for your convenience and does not endorse, warrant or recommend any particular products or services. By clicking on any external links, you will leave Gayther and be taken to the third-party website, which you do so at your own risk and by accessing the site, you will be required to comply with the external third party’s terms and conditions of use and privacy policies
Privacy Policy – how we manage your data
Privacy Policy
For Gayther.com, Gayther.care, Geo.Gayther.com, Gayther.life and Gayther.lgbt
Below we set out our privacy policy which will govern the way in which we process any personal information that you provide to us. Gayther treats the personal information of users with the utmost respect and confidentiality and takes reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is stored securely. The privacy policy should be read in conjunction with the general terms and conditions and affinity terms and conditions
BY USING OR ACCESSING OUR WEBSITES OR BY PROVIDING PERSONAL INFORMATION TO US ON OR THROUGH THESE WEBSITES, YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, USE AND DISCLOSURE OF THAT INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND APPLICABLE LAW.
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CONTENTS
1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1.1. In this privacy policy:
1.1.1 “we“, “Us” and “Our” means Ovester Limited registration number 06250776 trading as Gayther (and “us and “our” should be construed accordingly);
1.1.2 “you” means our website visitor, customer or prospective customer under this privacy policy (and “your” should be construed accordingly);
1.1.3 “website” means the website or any part thereof which is accessible from www.gayther.com, www.gayther.care, www.gayther.life, geo.gayther.com or www.gayther.lgbt (and “site” should be construed accordingly);
1.1.4 “consent” means any voluntary, specific and informed expression of will in terms of which permission is given by or on behalf for the processing of your personal information;
1.1.5 “personal information” means any personal information or information relating to you used in relation to any services or sales used or acquired through the website, including but not limited to:
1.1.5.1 contact information such as name, email address, physical address, and contact telephone numbers;
1.1.5.2 session information such as your location information and IP address;
2. INTRODUCTIONS
2.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users.
2.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of such persons; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
2.3 We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website.
2.4 Our website incorporates privacy controls which affect how we will process your personal data. By using the privacy controls, you can specify whether you would like to receive direct marketing communications and limit the publication of your information. You can access the privacy controls by selecting the “Privacy Preferences” button located within the Privacy Policy page on Gayther.com, Gayther.care, Gayther.life, Geo.Gayther.com, or Gayther.lgbt
2.5 We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
3. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
3.1 In this Section 3 we have set out:
(a) the general categories of personal data that we may process;
(b) in the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of that data;
(c) the purposes for which we may process personal data; and
(d) the legal bases of the processing.
3.2 We may process data about your use of our website and services (“usage data“). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is consent.
3.3 We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services (“enquiry data“). The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods and/or services to you. The legal basis for this processing is consent.
3.4 We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or through our website (“transaction data“), The transaction data may include your contact details and the transaction details. The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and services and keeping proper records of those transactions. The legal basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract and our legitimate interests, namely our interest in the proper administration of our website and business.
3.5 We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (“notification data“). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is consent.
3.6 We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us (“correspondence data“). The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business and communications with users.
3.7 We may process data enabling us to get in touch with you (“contact data“). The contact data may include your name, email address, telephone number, postal address and/or social media account identifiers. If you log into our website using a social media account, we will obtain elements of the contact data from the relevant social media account provider.
3.8 We may process your website user account data (“account data“). The account data may include your account identifier, name, email address, business name, account creation and modification dates, website settings and marketing preferences. The primary source of the account data is you and/or your employer, although some elements of the account data may be generated by our website. If you log into our website using a social media account, we will obtain elements of the account data from the relevant social media account provider.
3.9 We may process your information included in your personal profile on our website (“profile data“). The profile data may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details and employment details. The source of the profile data is you and/or your employer. If you log into our website using a social media account, we will obtain elements of the profile data from the relevant social media account provider.
3.10 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.
3.11 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks.
3.12 In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section 3, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
3.13 Please do not supply any other person’s personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.
4. PURPOSES OF PROCESSING AND LEGAL BASES
4.1 In this Section 4, we have set out the purposes for which we may process personal data and the legal bases of the processing.
4.2 Operations – We may process your personal data for the purposes of operating our website and providing our services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website, services and business.
4.3 Publications – We may process account data, profile data and/or service data for the purposes of publishing such data on our website and elsewhere through our services in accordance with your express instructions. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the publication of content in the ordinary course of our operations.
4.4 Relationships and communications – We may process contact data, account data and/or communication data for the purposes of managing our relationships, communicating with you (excluding communicating for the purposes of direct marketing) by email, SMS, post, fax and/or telephone, providing support services and complaint handling. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely communications with our website visitors and service users, the maintenance of relationships, and the proper administration of our website, services and business.
4.5 Personalisation – We may process account data, service data and/or usage data for the purposes of personalising the content and advertisements that you see on our website and through our services to ensure that you only see material that is relevant to you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely offering the best possible experience for our website visitors and service users.
4.6 Direct marketing – We may process contact data, account data and profile data for the purposes of creating, targeting and sending direct marketing communications by email, SMS, post and/or fax and making contact by telephone for marketing-related purposes. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely promoting our business and communicating marketing messages and offers to our website visitors and service users.
4.7 Research and analysis – We may process usage data and/or service data for the purposes of researching and analysing the use of our website and services, as well as researching and analysing other interactions with our business. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring, supporting, improving and securing our website, services and business generally.
4.8 Record keeping – We may process your personal data for the purposes of creating and maintaining our databases, back-up copies of our databases and our business records generally. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely ensuring that we have access to all the information we need to properly and efficiently run our business in accordance with this policy.
4.9 Security – We may process your personal data for the purposes of security and the prevention of fraud and other criminal activity. The legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection of our website, services and business, and the protection of others.
4.10 Insurance and risk management – We may process your personal data where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks and/or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks.
4.11 Legal claims – We may process your personal data where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.
4.12 Legal compliance and vital interests – We may also process your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
5. PROVIDING YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO OTHERS
5.1 We may disclose your personal data to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the legal bases, set out in this policy.5.2 We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.5.3 Financial transactions relating to our website and services are handled by our payment services providers, PayPal and Stripe. When selecting your preferred payment method you will directed to the payment services providers website. The information you share with the payment services provider is secure and not shared with us. The payment information required through our payment services providers are necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers’ privacy policies and practices at PayPal or Stripe.5.4 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 5, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
6.1 In this Section 6, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to countries outside the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area (EEA).
6.2 We and our other group companies have offices and facilities in the United Kindgom. The competent data protection authorities have made an “adequacy decision” with respect to the data protection laws of each of these countries.
6.3 The hosting facilities for our website are situated in the United Kingdom. The competent data protection authorities have made an “adequacy decision” with respect to the data protection laws of each of these countries.
6.4 You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
7. RETAINING AND DELETING PERSONAL DATA
7.1 This Section 7 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.
7.2 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
7.3 We will retain your personal data as follows:
(a) Usage Data will be retained for a minimum period of 12 months following the date you visited the website, and for a maximum period of 36 months following the date you visited the website;
(b) Enquiry Data will be retained for a minimum period of 36 months following the date the enquiry was received, and for a maximum period of 84 months following the date the enquiry was received;
(c) Transaction Data will be retained for a minimum period of 36 months following the date the goods or services were purchased, and for a maximum period of 84 months following the date the goods or services were purchased;
(d) Correspondence Data will be retained for a minimum period of 36 months following the date of the communication or when you visited the website, and for a maximum period of 84 months following the date of the communication or when you visited the website;
(e) Notification Data will be retained for a minimum period of 36 months following the date the request for email subscription or notification was received, and for a maximum period of 84 months following the date the email subscription or notification was received;
(f) Contact Data will be retained for a minimum period of 36 months following the date of the most recent communication between you and us, and for a maximum period of 84 months following that date;
(g) Account Data will be retained for a minimum period of 12 months following the date of closure of the relevant account, and for a maximum period of 26 months following that date; and
(h) Profile Data will be retained for a minimum period of 12 months following the date of deletion of the profile by you, and for a maximum period of 24 months following that date;
7.4 In some cases it is not possible for us to specify in advance the periods for which your personal data will be retained. In such cases, we will determine the period of retention based on the following criteria:
(a) the period of retention of notification data will be determined based on the ongoing consent received from you.
7.5 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
8. SECURITY OF PERSONAL DATA
8.1 We will take appropriate technical and organisational precautions to secure your personal data and to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data.
8.2 We will store all your personal data on secure servers, personal computers and mobile devices, and in secure manual record-keeping systems.
8.3 The following personal data will be stored by us in encrypted form: your name and contact information.
8.4 Data relating to your enquiries and financial transactions that is sent from your web browser to our web server or payment service provider, or from our web server or payment service provider to your web browser, will be protected using encryption technology.
8.5 You acknowledge that the transmission of unencrypted (or inadequately encrypted) data over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
8.6 You should ensure that your password is not susceptible to being guessed, whether by a person or a computer program. You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential and we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
9. AMENDMENTS
9.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
9.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
9.3 We may notify you of changes to this policy by email.
10. YOUR RIGHTS
10.1 In this Section 10, we have summarised the rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.
10.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:
(a) the right to access – you can ask for copies of your personal data;
(b) the right to rectification – you can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data and to complete incomplete personal data;
(c) the right to erasure – you can ask us to erase your personal data;
(d) the right to restrict processing – you can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data;
(e) the right to object to processing – you can object to the processing of your personal data;
(f) the right to data portability – you can ask that we transfer your personal data to another organisation or to you;
(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority – you can complain about our processing of your personal data; and
(h) the right to withdraw consent – to the extent that the legal basis of our processing of your personal data is consent, you can withdraw that consent.
10.3 You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.
10.4 You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
10.5 In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
10.6 In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.
10.7 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
10.8 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
10.9 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
10.10 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:
(a) consent; or
(b) that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract, and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
10.11 If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
10.12 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
10.13 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us, in addition to the other methods specified in this Section 10.
11. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
11.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
11.2 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
12. PERSONAL DATA OF CHILDREN
12.1 Our website and services are targeted at persons over the age of 18.
12.2 If we have reason to believe that we hold personal data of a person under that age in our databases, we will delete that personal data.
13. UPDATING INFORMATION
13.1 Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
14. ABOUT COOKIES
14.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.14.2 Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.14.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.14.4 Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.
15. COOKIES THAT WE USE
15.1 We use cookies for the following purposes:(a) authentication and status – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website, and to determine if you are logged into the website (cookies used for this purpose are: phpsessid); we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website,(b) shopping cart – we use cookies to maintain the state of your shopping cart as you navigate our website (cookies used for this purpose are: eStore_gateway, cart_in_use);(c) personalisation – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise our website for you (cookies used for this purpose are: gdpr(consent_types), gdpr%5Bprivacy_bar%5D, gadwp_wg_default_swmetric, wp-settings-1, wp-settings-time-1);(d) security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally (cookies used for this purpose will be unique and will contain a combination of unique numbers and letters);(e) analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services (cookies used for this purpose are: collect, _ga, _gat, __utma, __utmt, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz and __utmv, gadwp_wg_default_dimension, gadwp_wg_default_metric); and(f) cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally (cookies used for this purpose are: gdpr(allowed cookies)).
16. COOKIES USED BY OUR SERVICE PROVIDERS
16.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.16.2 We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available by clicking here . The relevant cookies are: collect, _ga (term 2 years), _gid (term 24 hours), _gat (term 1 minute), __utma (term 2 years), __utmt (term 10 minutes), __utmb (term 30 minutes), __utmc (term session), __utmz (term 6 months) and __utmv (term 2 years).16.3 We publish Google AdSense advertisements on our website, together with advertisements from the following advertisers and advertising networks that are distributed by Google: identify and provide links to advertisers and networks. The advertisements may be personalised to reflect your interests. To help determine your interests Google and its partners use cookies. The relevant cookies served from our website are 1P_JAR (term 30 days) and NID (term 6 months). The cookies are used to track your previous visits to our website and your visits to other websites. You can opt out of Google’s personalised advertising by visiting https://www.google.com/settings/ads and you can opt out of third party cookies use for personalised advertising by visiting http://www.aboutads.info. You can review Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.16.4 We use a Facebook pixel on our website. Using the pixel, Facebook collects information about the users and use of our website. The information is used to personalise Facebook advertisements and to analyse the use of our website. To find out more about the Facebook pixel and about Facebook’s use of personal data generally, see the Facebook cookie policy at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ and the Facebook privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy. The Facebook cookie policy includes information about controlling Facebook’s use of cookies to show you advertisements. If you are a registered Facebook user, you can adjust how advertisements are targeted by following the instructions at https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217.
17. MANAGING COOKIES
17.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);(c) https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera);(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);(e) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).17.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.17.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
18. COOKIE PREFERENCES
18.1 You can manage your preferences relating to the use of cookies on our website by visiting: Gayther.com (https://gayther.com/privacy-policy), Gayther.care (https://gayther.care/privacy-policy), Gayther.life (https://gayther.life/privacy-policy), Geo.Gayther.com (https://geo.gayther.com/privacy-policy), or Gayther.lgbt (https://gayther.lgbt/privacy-policy) and by selecting the “privacy preferences” button found on the privacy policy page.
19. OUR DETAILS
19.1 This website is owned and operated by Ovester Limited trading as Gayther.19.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 06250776, and our registered office is at 2 Ambleside Avenue, London, SW16 6AD, United Kingdom.19.3 Our principal place of business is at Gayther, 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom.19.4 You can contact us:(a) by post, using the address Gayther, 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom;(b) using our website contact form;(c) by telephone, on +44 (0)20 7043 9820; or(d) by email, using info@gayther.com.
20. DATA PROTECTION REGISTRATION
20.1 We are registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
20.2 Our data protection registration number is ZA383172.
21. DATA PROTECTION OFFICER
21.1 Our data protection officer’s contact details are:
Mr Peter Williams
Data Protection Officer
Ovester
124 City Road
London
EC1V 2NX
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7043 9820
Email: dpo@ovester.comIf you have any questions in relation to the Privacy Policy, please contact us
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