The Gym Peoples respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose personal data when you visit our website or make a purchase.
Please review this policy before using our site or submitting any personal data. By using our site or providing personal data to us, you agree to the practices described in this privacy policy.
Who We Are
The Gym Peoples operates the website thegympeoples.com and related mobile applications. References to “we” or “us” mean The Gym Peoples.
Our mailing address is:
The Gym Peoples
123 Fitness Lane
Columbus, OH 43210
Our data protection officer can be reached at privacy@thegympeoples.com.
What Data We Collect
Personal data means information that can directly or indirectly identify you as an individual. We only collect personal data that helps us achieve the purposes set out in this policy or that is required by law.
Categories of personal data we collect include:
- Contact Data: Full name, mailing address, email, phone number
- Account Data: Account username, login credentials, order history
- Purchase Data: Product selections, order details, payments, billing address
- Marketing Data: Preferences, survey responses, contest entries
- Usage Data: How you interact with our website, products, and services
We also collect anonymous Aggregated Data such as statistical data regarding the use of our services. Aggregated Data does not directly identify you.
How We Get Personal Data
We collect personal data when you:
- Place orders or purchase products
- Create or login to an online account with us
- Sign up for our email newsletters or text alerts
- Participate in surveys, contests, or promotions
- Interact with us on social media platforms
- Communicate with our customer service team
We also receive data from third party sources, including:
- Payment processors and credit agencies to prevent fraudulent transactions
- Marketing partners and advertising services to deliver and measure relevant ads
- Analytics providers to analyze use of our services
- Government agencies as required by law
How We Use Personal Data
We use personal data to pursue our legitimate interests in operating, growing, and improving our business. This includes:
- Provide, operate, and improve our website, products, and services
- Process payments, deliver products, send order and shipping confirmations
- Communicate about orders, products, services, accounts, programs, and promotions
- Create and manage customer accounts
- Personalize content such as product recommendations
- Notify you about changes to website terms, policies, etc.
- Operate contests, sweepstakes, surveys, or other promotions
- Administer loyalty reward programs
- Detect, prevent, and respond to fraud, intellectual property infringement, violations of terms or policies, and other harmful activity
- Analyze use of our website and services to improve the overall user experience
- Maintain legal and regulatory compliance
We only retain personal data as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by law. Ongoing retention is subject to periodic internal review.
How We Share Personal Data
We do not sell personal data to third parties. We only share data with third parties assisting us in pursing the purposes outlined above, including:
- Service providers that help operate our website, process orders, and provide customer service. Our contracts prohibit them from using data for their own purposes or sharing data with others.
- Advertising partners to deliver personalized ads you might find valuable. They may collect browsing data through their own cookies, web beacons, tags, etc.
- Payment processors to authorize payments, detect fraud, and help secure transactions.
- Government agencies as required by law, such as consumer protection authorities.
We may also share personal data if required for legal reasons such as subpoenas, court orders, litigation, or other judicial or administrative process.
Your Data Rights and Choices
You have certain rights with respect to personal data we hold about you. These include:
- Obtain a copy of your personal data
- Request changes, updates, or corrections to data
- Object to use of personal data or demand it be deleted
- Restrict how we use personal data
- Take personal data with you to another provider
- Lodge a complaint with the applicable regulator
We will respond to all valid requests within the time periods stated in our policies. If you wish to exercise data rights, please contact us as indicated below with details regarding your request.
Advertising and Online Tracking
We participate in interest-based advertising and use third party tracking tools like pixels and cookies to provide relevant offers to you.
You can opt-out of receiving interest-based ads served by most ad networks by visiting opt-out pages operated by advertising industry groups such as aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.eu.
Disabling cookies may interfere with proper functioning of our website. Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” settings that enable you to exercise choices about the collection of cross-app data for interest-based advertising and personalization. Our website does currently respond to your browser’s do not track request.
International Data Transfers
The Gym Peoples operates globally, which means personal data we collect may be transferred to and accessible by our affiliate companies and third party service providers internationally. We utilize safeguards such as standard contractual clauses to enable secure data transfers where legally required. Contact us for information on the specific mechanisms employed.
Data Retention and Security
We retain personal data in compliance with legal obligations and only as necessary for the purposes outlined in this policy. Where allowed, we will honor requests to delete personal data unless retention is required for legitimate interests or legal purposes.
We employ reasonable physical and technical safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of personal data. This includes limiting access to authorized personnel only on a need to know basis.
While we follow generally accepted standards to protect data, no security method is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee absolute security of personal information.
Changes to this Policy
We may occasionally update this privacy policy such as to reflect changes in data practices or relevant laws. We encourage you to review this policy periodically. If we make significant changes, we may provide additional notice or require renewed consent.
How to Contact Us
Please direct any questions or concerns about this policy or our privacy practices to our data protection officer by email or postal mail:
Email: privacy@thegympeoples.com
Mail: The Gym Peoples, Attn: Privacy Officer
123 Fitness Lane
Columbus, OH 43210
Thank you for being a customer of The Gym Peoples!