GatherTeam Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of August 15, 2024
Welcome to GatherTeamOnline!
This Privacy Statement describes the personal data we collect and/or process (which may include collecting, organizing, structuring, storing, using, or disclosing) to provide products and services offered directly by GatherTeamOnline Inc., including GatherTeam’s team-building activities, business simulations, and automated corporate gift giving solutions.
- What Personal Data Do We Receive?
- How Do We Use Personal Data?
- How Do We Share Personal Data?
- Information Security
- Privacy Rights and Choices
ii. Your Rights under the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR)
iii. Your Rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
What Personal Data Do We Receive?
In connection with your use of the Site and Services, we may receive various types of information related to you, as well as information you provide us about others. Sometimes you provide us with this data and sometimes data about you is collected automatically. To the extent data is associated with an identified or identifiable natural person and is protected as personal information (or substantially equivalent terms) under applicable data protection laws, it is referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Personal Data.” You acknowledge and agree we may collect, process, store, access, and disclose Personal Data disclosed by you to facilitate the provision of the Site and Services and related support for the Services in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.
Types of Personal Data we collect includes:
In connection with your use of the Site and Services, we may receive various types of information related to you, as well as information you provide us about others. Sometimes you provide us with this data and sometimes data about you is collected automatically. To the extent data is associated with an identified or identifiable natural person and is protected as personal information (or substantially equivalent terms) under applicable data protection laws, it is referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Personal Data.” You acknowledge and agree we may collect, process, store, access, and disclose Personal Data disclosed by you to facilitate the provision of the Site and Services and related support for the Services in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.
Types of Personal Data we collect includes:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- The nickname or other information you might provide use of the Site and Services
- Information that you provide when you contact our sales team via the Contact Form on the Site
- Usage, location and cookie data
How Do We Use Personal Data?
GatherTeam reserves the right to use your Personal Data for any legitimate business purpose as set forth in the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”). Specifically, we use Personal Data:
GatherTeam reserves the right to use your Personal Data for any legitimate business purpose as set forth in the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”). Specifically, we use Personal Data:
- Provide GatherTeam Products and Services: To provide, maintain and improve our Site and Services
- Support: To provide customer support. And also to detect, prevent, and address technical issues in connection with our Site and Services
- Communicate with You: We use personal data (including contact information) to communicate with you about GatherTeam Products, features, and services, including product updates, your account, and changes to our policies and terms. We also use your information to respond to you when you contact us.
- Marketing, Promotions and Third-Party Advertising: To send you promotional email offers or email you about updates to the Services or your use of the Services. Also, we may receive confirmation when you open an email from us. This confirmation helps us make our communications with you more interesting and improve our services. We may also use cookies or similar technology, including from third-party advertising partners, to show you ads within GatherTeam Products about products, services, or causes from third parties.
How Do We Share Personal Data?
GatherTeam provides personal data to third parties only with consent or in one of the following circumstances (subject to your prior consent where required under applicable law):
2) enforce or investigate potential violations of its Terms of Service or policies;
3) detect, prevent, or investigate potential fraud, abuse, or safety and security concerns, including threats to the public;
4) meet our corporate and social responsibility commitments;
5) protect our and our customers’ rights and property; and
6) resolve disputes and enforce agreements.
GatherTeam provides personal data to third parties only with consent or in one of the following circumstances (subject to your prior consent where required under applicable law):
- Vendors: GatherTeam works with third-party service providers to provide, support, and improve GatherTeam Products and technical infrastructure, and for business services such as payment processing. GatherTeam may also work with third-party service providers to provide advertisements and business analytics regarding GatherTeam Products. These vendors can access personal data subject to contractual and technical requirements for protecting personal data and prohibiting them from using personal data for any purpose other than to provide services to GatherTeam or as required by law.
- For Legal Reasons: GatherTeam may share personal data as needed to:
2) enforce or investigate potential violations of its Terms of Service or policies;
3) detect, prevent, or investigate potential fraud, abuse, or safety and security concerns, including threats to the public;
4) meet our corporate and social responsibility commitments;
5) protect our and our customers’ rights and property; and
6) resolve disputes and enforce agreements.
- Marketing, Advertising, and Analytics Partners: GatherTeam uses third-party marketing, advertising, and analytics providers: to provide statistics and analysis about how people are using GatherTeam Products and our website; to provide advertising and marketing for GatherTeam Products, including targeted advertising based on your use of our website; and to show you third-party advertising within GatherTeam Products. These third-party partners may receive information about your activities on GatherTeam’s website through third-party cookies placed on GatherTeam’s website. To opt out of our use of third-party cookies that share data with these partners, visit our cookie management tool, available Cookie Preferences. Where required by law, GatherTeam will first obtain your consent before engaging in the marketing or advertising activities described.
- Resellers: If an account owner licensed or purchased GatherTeam Products from a third-party reseller of GatherTeam Products, the reseller may be able to access personal data and content for users, including meetings, webinars, and messages hosted by the account owner.
- Change of Control: We may share personal data with actual or prospective acquirers, their representatives and other relevant participants in, or during negotiations of, any sale, merger, acquisition, restructuring, or change in control involving all or a portion of GatherTeam’s business or assets, including in connection with bankruptcy or similar proceedings.
Information Security
The security of your data is important to us, and we use industry standard methods for data encryption and key management to protect data transmitted over public networks and when stored on our systems. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security, as no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
The security of your data is important to us, and we use industry standard methods for data encryption and key management to protect data transmitted over public networks and when stored on our systems. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security, as no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
Privacy Rights and Choices
If you are a resident of the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, or the UK, or a resident of California, please refer to the respective dedicated sections below. Otherwise, at your request, and as required by applicable law, we will:
If you are a resident of the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, or the UK, or a resident of California, please refer to the respective dedicated sections below. Otherwise, at your request, and as required by applicable law, we will:
- Inform you of what personal data we have about you that is under our control;
- Amend or correct such personal data or any previous privacy preferences you selected, or direct you to
- applicable tools; and/or
- Delete such personal data or direct you to applicable tools.
i. Your Rights under the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). DNT is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.
In accordance with CalOPPA, we agree to the following:
We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). DNT is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.
In accordance with CalOPPA, we agree to the following:
- Site users can visit our site anonymously
- Site users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on our Privacy Policy page
- Site users are able to change their personal information (as defined by CalOPPA) by emailing us at hello@gatherteam.online
ii. Your Rights under the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA), GDPR affords you certain rights. These include:
To exercise any of the above rights, please send a request to hello@gatherteam.online. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
Additionally, you have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
If you are a resident of the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA), GDPR affords you certain rights. These include:
- The right to access, delete, or update the information we have on you
- The right to have your information rectified if that information is incomplete or incorrect
- The right to object to our processing of your data
- The right to request that we restrict the processing of your data
- The right to request a copy of your personal data in machine-readable and commonly-used format
- The right to withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on your consent to process your personal information
To exercise any of the above rights, please send a request to hello@gatherteam.online. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
Additionally, you have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
iii. Your Rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
If you are a California resident, you are afforded certain rights under the CCPA, such as the right to access what personal information (as defined by the CCPA) we collect about you, the right to ask us to delete your personal information, and the right to tell us not to sell your personal information.
You may ask us to provide you with what personal information we have collected up to two times in a rolling twelve month period. When you make this request, the information provided may be limited to the personal information we collected about you in the previous year.
Please note that Gather does not sell your personal information and we will not discriminate against you under any circumstances for exercising your rights in connection with the CCPA. To exercise your California data protection rights described above, please send a request to hello@gatherteam.online.
If you are a California resident, you are afforded certain rights under the CCPA, such as the right to access what personal information (as defined by the CCPA) we collect about you, the right to ask us to delete your personal information, and the right to tell us not to sell your personal information.
You may ask us to provide you with what personal information we have collected up to two times in a rolling twelve month period. When you make this request, the information provided may be limited to the personal information we collected about you in the previous year.
Please note that Gather does not sell your personal information and we will not discriminate against you under any circumstances for exercising your rights in connection with the CCPA. To exercise your California data protection rights described above, please send a request to hello@gatherteam.online.
Children’s Privacy
At GatherTeam we take children’s privacy very seriously. While the Services are designed for businesses and individuals over the age of 18, we recognize that the GatherTeam platform may be used by individuals who have not reached this age, especially in connection with educational institutions to create virtual spaces with events that include students under the age of 18 (each a “Child”). In such cases, the host institution is responsible for managing the Child data privacy and collecting consents as may be required by law. GatherTeam will never intentionally use Child personal data for its own purposes or to serve advertisements. Except as otherwise set forth in this section, GatherTeam does not knowingly collect Personal Information from Children under the age of 18. If you are under 13, you should not use or attempt to use the Services or send any information about yourself to GatherTeam. If we discover that we have directly collected information from a Child under the age of 13, we will take the appropriate measures to promptly remove that information from our Services.
If you believe that GatherTeam may have directly collected Personal Information about a Child under the age of 18 and wish to have us remove that Personal Information, please contact us at hello@gatherteam.online to let us know. We’ll work with you to make sure that information is removed from our Site and Services, as applicable.
At GatherTeam we take children’s privacy very seriously. While the Services are designed for businesses and individuals over the age of 18, we recognize that the GatherTeam platform may be used by individuals who have not reached this age, especially in connection with educational institutions to create virtual spaces with events that include students under the age of 18 (each a “Child”). In such cases, the host institution is responsible for managing the Child data privacy and collecting consents as may be required by law. GatherTeam will never intentionally use Child personal data for its own purposes or to serve advertisements. Except as otherwise set forth in this section, GatherTeam does not knowingly collect Personal Information from Children under the age of 18. If you are under 13, you should not use or attempt to use the Services or send any information about yourself to GatherTeam. If we discover that we have directly collected information from a Child under the age of 13, we will take the appropriate measures to promptly remove that information from our Services.
If you believe that GatherTeam may have directly collected Personal Information about a Child under the age of 18 and wish to have us remove that Personal Information, please contact us at hello@gatherteam.online to let us know. We’ll work with you to make sure that information is removed from our Site and Services, as applicable.
Changes to This Privacy Statement
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and by updating the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when posted.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and by updating the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when posted.
Contact Us
Questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or your Personal Data may be addressed by email at hello@gatherteam.online
Questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or your Personal Data may be addressed by email at hello@gatherteam.online