Welcome to gayNOLA!
Thank you for choosing to use our services. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, process, and disclose your information, including personal information, in conjunction with your access to and use of the gayNOLA services.

Effective as of 01/01/2019

1. Definitions –

The following terms shall have the following meaning:

"Service" or "Services": access to our site www.gayNOLA.com and the Application as well as, to the extent applicable, any Order of our services, products, applications, tools, offline components and features (individually the "Service" or collectively, the "Services") provided by our company Barcode Media LLC, together with its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents and subsidiaries (hereinafter "gayNOLA", "we", "our" or "us").

“Application”: mobile application created by gayNOLA and made available to the public for download from a third-party platform or accessible from a web browser

“End User”: Any person or entity who actually uses our Service(s). It can be users, visitors and customers of our Website or Mobile Application.

"Website User": Any person visiting our website.

Any other capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meanings in our Terms of Use.

2. Information we collect -

2.1 Information you voluntarily provide to us

When you use the Services, consult with our customer service team, send us an email, post on our blog or communicate with us in any way, you are voluntarily giving us information that we collect. That information may include either you or your End Users’ name, physical location, email address, and IP address. If you use our Services, you consent to this information being collected, used, disclosed and stored by us, as described in our Terms of Use and in this Privacy Policy.

2.2 Information collected automatically

When you use the Services we may collect information about your visit to our website or application, your usage of the Services, and your web browsing. That information may include your IP address, your operating system, your browser ID, your browsing activity, and other information about how you interacted with our Website. We may collect this information as a part of log files as well as through the use of cookies or other tracking technologies.

2.3 Information from your use of the Service

We may receive information about how and when you use the Services, store it in log files or other types of files associated with your account, and link it to other information we collect about you. This information may include, for example, your IP address, time, date, browser used, and actions you have taken within the Services. This type of information helps us to improve our Services for both you and for all of our users.

2.4 Cookies and tracking

We and our partners may use various technologies to collect and store information use our Services, and this may include using cookies and similar tracking technologies on our Website and application, such as pixels and web beacons, to analyze trends, administer the website and application, track users’ movements around the website and application, serve targeted notifications and advertisements, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level and on their mobile device. Our third party partners may use cookies or similar tracking technologies in order to provide you other content based upon your browsing activities and interests.

2.5 Information from the use of our Application

When you use our Services, we may collect certain information in addition to information described elsewhere in this Policy. For example, we may collect information about the type of device and operating system you use. We may ask you if you want to receive push notifications about activity in your account. If you have opted in to these notifications and no longer want to receive them, you may turn them off through your operating system. We may ask for, access or track location-based information from your mobile device so that you can test location-based features offered by the Services or to receive targeted push notifications based on your location. If you have opted in to share those location-based information, and no longer want to share them, you may turn sharing off through your operating system. We may use mobile analytics software (such as amplitutde.com) to better understand how people use our Services. We may collect information about how often you use the Services and other performance data.

3. How we use collected information -

You agree that we may use and disclose your information for the following purposes:

3.1

To promote use of our Services to you and others. For example, if we collect your information when you visit our Website and do not sign up for any of the Services, we may send you an email inviting you to sign up. If you use any of our Services and we think you might benefit from using another Service we offer, we may send you an email about that. You can stop receiving our promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in every email we send. In addition, we may use information we collect in order to advertise our Services to you or suggest additional features of our Services that you might consider using.

3.2

To send you messages related to your use of the Services. For example, we may inform you of temporary or permanent changes to our Services, such as planned outages, new features, version updates, releases, abuse warnings, and changes to our Privacy Policy.

3.3

To communicate with our Users about their account and provide customer support

3.4

To enforce compliance with our Terms of Use and applicable law. This may include developing tools and algorithms that help us prevent violations.

3.5

To protect the rights and safety of our Users and third parties, as well as our own.

3.5

To meet legal requirements, including complying with court orders, valid discovery requests, valid subpoenas, and other appropriate legal mechanisms. To respond to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

3.6

To meet legal requirements, including complying with court orders, valid discovery requests, valid subpoenas, and other appropriate legal mechanisms. To respond to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

3.7

To provide information to representatives and advisors, including attorneys and accountants, to help us comply with legal, accounting, or security requirements.

3.8

To provide, support, and improve the Services we offer. This includes our use of the data that our Users provide us in order to enable our Users to use the Services to communicate with their End Users. This also includes, for example, aggregating information from your use of the Services or visit to our Websites or Applications created with our Service and sharing this information with third parties to improve our Services. This might also include sharing your information or the information you provide us about your End Users with third parties in order to provide and support our Services or to make certain features of the Services available to you. When we do have to share information with third parties, we take steps to protect your information by requiring these third parties to enter into a contract with us that requires them to use the information we transfer to them in a manner that is consistent with this policy.

4. Data Collected for and by our Users -

We will retain Personal Information we process on behalf of our Users for as long as needed to provide our Services or to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and enforce our agreements.

5. Data controller and Data processor -

gayNOLA as the Data Controller and Data Processor

gayNOLA is responsible for the personal information collected about End Users, and therefore, gayNOLA is the Data Controller and the Data Processor.

We comply with any laws and regulations that apply to the collection and use of our End Users’ information, including personal information we collect about them using the Services or cookies or similar technologies.

6. Your Rights -

You (in particular, European users) may have certain legal rights to obtain information about whether we hold personal information about you, to access personal information we hold about you, and to obtain its correction, update, amendment or deletion in appropriate circumstances. Some of these rights may be subject to some exceptions or limitations. We will respond to your request to exercise these rights within a reasonable time (and in all cases within 30 days of receiving a request).

Rights that you may be entitled to are:

  • Data access rights
  • Right to restrict processing
  • Right of Rectification
  • Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten)
  • Right to object to processing
  • Right to withdraw consent; and
  • Data portability rights

Where applicable law requires (and subject to any relevant exceptions under law), you may have the right to access, update, change or delete personal information.

If you are a User

You can access, update, change or delete personal information by contacting us at info@gayNOLA.com to request the required changes. You can exercise your other rights (including deleting your Account) by contacting us at the same email address.

Please note that, for technical reasons, there is likely to be a delay in deleting your personal Information from our systems when you ask us to delete it. We also will retain personal Information in order to comply with the law, protect our and others’ rights, resolve disputes or enforce our legal terms or policies, to the extent permitted under applicable law.

7. How we protect your information -

While no service is completely secure, we are dedicated to keeping personal information safe. We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards that are intended to appropriately and reasonably protect against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse and any other unlawful form of processing of, the personal information in our possession. We employ security measures such as using firewalls to protect against intruders, building redundancies throughout our network (so that if one server goes down, another can cover for it) and testing for and protecting against network vulnerabilities.

8. Public information and Third parties -

8.1 Blog

We have public blogs on our Website and on the Application. Any information you include in a comment on our blog may be read, collected, and used by anyone. If your Personal Information appears on our blogs and you want it removed, contact us at info@gayNOLA.com. If we are unable to remove your information, we will tell you why.

8.2 Social media platforms and widgets

Our Website and the Application may include social media features. These features may collect information about your IP address and which page you are visiting on our Website, which screen you are visiting on our mobile application and they may set a cookie to make sure the feature functions properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Website and mobile application. We also maintain presences on social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram. Any information, communications, or materials you submit to us via a social media platform is done at your own risk without any expectation of privacy. We cannot control the actions of other users of these platforms or the actions of the platforms themselves. Your interactions with those features and platforms are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them.

8.3 Links to third-party websites

Our Website and the Application include links to other websites, whose privacy practices may be different from ours. Any information that you submit to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any websites that you visit, including any websites whose links we may include on our Website and the Application. We have no control over, or responsibility regarding, the information that you provide on other websites or mobile applications. You understand and agree that you do so at your own risk and that we are free from any liability concerning the use of your information on those websites or any other activity coordinated by those websites.

8.4 Service Providers

Sometimes, we share your information with our third party Service Providers, who help us provide and support our Services. For example, if it is necessary to provide you something you have requested (like enable a feature such as Social Profiles), then we may share your information with a Service Provider for that purpose. Just like with the other third parties we work with, these third-party Service Providers enter into a contract that requires them to use your information only for the provision of services to us and in a manner that is consistent with this policy.

8.5 Advertising partners

We may partner with third party advertising networks and exchanges to display advertising on our Website or the Application or to manage and serve our advertising on other sites and may share your information with them for this purpose. All third parties with which we share this information are required to use your Personal Information in a manner that is consistent with this policy. We and our third-party partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies, such as pixels and web beacons, to gather information about your activities on our Website or the Application and other sites in order to provide you with targeted advertising based on your browsing activities and interests.

9. Changes to this privacy policy -

gayNOLA has the discretion to update this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do, we may revise the updated date at the top of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

10. Your acceptance of these terms -

By using our Services, you signify your acceptance of this policy and Terms of Use. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Services. Your continued use of the Services following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

11. Contacting us - Data Protection Officer (DPO)

To the extent required by GDPR, gayNOLA designates Blake Robertson as Data Protection Officer.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at: info@gayNOLA.com.

All Legal notices to gayNOLA shall be sent to: Barcode Media LLC, 1000 Bourbon St. STE B-408, New Orleans, LA 70116 (for updated contact go to: www.gayNOLA.com)