Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 2025/02/16

At Gay Life ZA, accessible from https://www.gaylife.co.za, your privacy is one of our top priorities. This privacy policy outlines the types of personal information we collect, how it is used, and your rights regarding that information.

1. Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

2. Information We Collect

We collect the following types of personal information from you:

• Contact Forms: Name, email address, and IP address when you use our contact forms.
• Comments: If you leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form along with your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
• Cookies: Information related to cookies, including your preferences, analytics data, and ad-related data.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To respond to inquiries submitted via our contact forms.
• To analyze user behavior and improve our website using tools like Google Analytics.
• To display personalized advertisements via Google Ads and other ad networks.
• To manage comments and user interaction through WordPress and Gravatar.
• To send email updates and newsletters via Brevo (formerly SendinBlue), if you have subscribed.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience. Cookies are small text files stored on your device. The cookies we use include:

• Google Analytics Cookies: To gather anonymized data about website usage and traffic.
• Google Ads Cookies: To display personalized advertisements based on your interests.
• Other Ad Cookies: To support additional advertising platforms.

You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the website.

5. Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services, which may collect and process your data:

• Google Analytics: For website traffic analysis. (Learn more)
• Google Ads: For personalized advertising. (Learn more)
• Brevo (Email Service): For email marketing campaigns and newsletters. (Learn more)
• WordPress and Gravatar: For managing comments and user interactions. (Learn more)

These third-party services adhere to their own privacy policies.

6. How We Protect Your Information

We take reasonable precautions to protect your personal data from unauthorized access or misuse through secure hosting and encryption technologies. However, no system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Your Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Depending on your location, every user may be entitled to the following:

• Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Correction: Request corrections to inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
• Deletion: Request the deletion of your personal data, subject to legal or contractual obligations.
• Restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• Objection: Object to the processing of your data for certain purposes, such as direct marketing.
• Data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. To exercise these rights, please contact us via our contact page.

8. International Visitors

Gay Life ZA is based in South Africa, but we welcome international visitors. By using our site, you consent to the collection, processing, and storage of your information in accordance with South African laws.

9. Comments and User Interactions

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. If you use Gravatar, an anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you have a profile.

10. Log Files

Gay Life ZA follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

11. Third-Party Privacy Policies

Gay Life ZA’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

12. Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Gay Life ZA does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

13. Updates to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with a revised “Effective Date.”

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us via our contact page.

Thank you for trusting Gay Life ZA with your personal information.