Privacy/Data Policy and Terms & Conditions
By using this website, and/or by signing up for a subscription, you accept these Terms and Conditions.
1. Privacy & Data Protection
The GAAC website collects user information to manage subscriptions, monitor website traffic and serve adverts. By your continuing use of this website you agree to the processing of your information as outlined below:
Website Visitors
This website collects the non-personal identifying information that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is so that the website can analyse traffic trends.
This website also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The website does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to this website choose to interact in ways that require the website to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that this website gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who subscribe to one of our membership levels, or sign up for the newsletter to provide their name, a username and email address. We also ask for this information if you wish to comment on a post on this website.
In each case, the website collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with the website. If you provide your name when making a comment on a web post, your name will be publicly displayed on the website. Other than this, the website does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Protection of Certain Personal Identifying Information
The website will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organisations, the website discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when the website believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of the website, third parties, or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of the website and have supplied your email address, we may occasionally send you an email to tell you news of new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with the website. The website takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personal identifying information.
When making a donation, this website will transmit your user information to our payment gateway companies (PayPal) to process your payment. This information will be processed securely. This website does not process your payment data itself, and your payment data is not shared with this website, as your payment will be processed securely by PayPal.
GAAC uses an email marketing service provided by Mailchimp to process our email interactions with you. Your personally identifiable information, such as your email address and name will be transmitted to Mailchimp, in order that it can transmit emails on this website’s behalf. Mailchimp may collect information, such as when emails are opened, and what links are followed, in order to assist this website in understanding user behaviour.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. This website uses cookies to help it identify and track visitors, their usage of the website, and their website access preferences. Website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the website, with the drawback that certain features may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Adverts
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve adverts based on a user’s previous visits to this and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads on this website based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting settings.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, the website may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and your are encouraged to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Withdrawing consent for the use of personal information & data
Users of this website can contact the administrator at any time. Should you wish to withdraw consent for the use of your personal data and information, then please contact us here, specifying your request. We will then contact you to discuss your request if necessary, or confirm the deletion of your data.