Privacy & Cookie Policy

 


 

What This Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use our websites, mobile applications and any products and services that are available on or through our websites and/or our mobile applications. Throughout this Privacy Policy, we’ll refer to our website and other products and services collectively as “Services.”

 

Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

 

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so; for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect information in three ways: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

 

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us. The amount and type of information depend on the context and how we use the information. Here are some examples:

 

  • Registration Information: We ask for basic information from you in order to set up your account, e.g. your name and email address.
  • Transaction and Billing Information: If you buy something from us, you will provide additional personal and payment information that is required to process the transaction and your payment, such as your name, payment information, and contact information.
  • Content Information: In connection with using the Services, you may generate content that provides us with additional information about you.
  • Credentials: In connection with using the Services, you may provide us with credentials for your website (like SSH, FTP, and SFTP username and password).
  • Communications with Us: You may also provide us with information when you respond to surveys or communicate with us about a support question.

 

Information We Collect Automatically


We also collect some information automatically:

 

  • Log Information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services.
  • Usage Information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. For example, we collect information about the actions that site administrators and users perform on a site–in other words, who did what, when and to what thing on a site (e.g., [username] deleted “[content]” at [time/date]). We also collect information about what happens when you use our Services along with information about your device (e.g., mobile screen size, name of cellular network, and mobile device manufacturer). We use this information to, for example, provide our Services to you, as well as get insights on how people use our Services, so we can make our Services better.
  • Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address or GPS coordinates. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions. We may also collect information about your precise location via our mobile apps (when, for example, you save tracking activity with the name of the Climbing gym). Also, this information is stored in your electronic climbing log, for example, a name of a climbing centre, name of a climbing area including the name of a crag or a boulder sector and the route or a problem you have climbed. If you allow us to do so through your mobile device operating system’s permissions.
  • Information from Cookies & Other Technologies: 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. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and e-mails. We use cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services. You can block all cookies (including functional cookies) by activating the setting within the internet browser on your computer that allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you do this you may not be able to access some parts of our site.

 

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We may also get information about you from other sources. For example, if you connect your account to a third-party service provider, we may receive information from that service. The information we receive depends on which services you authorize and any options that are available. We may also get information from third party services about individuals who are not yet our users (…but we hope will be!), which we may use, for example, for marketing and advertising purposes.

 

How We Use Information

We use information about you as mentioned above and as follows:

  • To provide our Services – for example, to set up and maintain your account, backup and restore your content, charge you for any of our paid Services, and provide you support for the Services;
  • To further develop our Services–for example by adding new features that we think our users will enjoy or find useful;
  • To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with our Services, which helps us improve our Services and make them easier to use;
  • To monitor and protect the security of our Services, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, fight spam, and protect the rights and property of the Rock & Wall and others; and
  • To communicate with you about offers and promotions offered by the Rock & Wall and others we think will be of interest to you, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date on the Rock & Wall and our products.
  • Your email address may be shared with other participants within the league to allow matches to be rescheduled and / or to be assigned to others who are seeking to join or form a team. 


How We Share Information

 

We do not sell our users’ private personal information.

 

We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelt out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:

  • Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our Services or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.
  • Third-Party Vendors: We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us. This group includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like payment providers that process your credit and debit card information) and those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers).

 

As Required by Law: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests.

 

To Protect Rights and Property: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of the Rock & Wall, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.

 

Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that the Rock & Wall goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.

 

With Your Consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with third parties with which you authorize us to do so.

 

Aggregated and De-Identified Information: We may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Services.

 

Published Support Requests: And if you send us a request (for example, via a support email or one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish that request in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.

 

Information Shared Publicly

Information that you choose to make public is–you guessed it–disclosed publicly. That means, of course, that information like any content that you make public on our website is all available to others. Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties. Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.

 

Other Things You Should Know (Keep Reading!)


Transferring Information

The Rock & Wall is a worldwide service. By accessing or using the Services or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing, transfer, and storage of information in and to the UK and other countries, which may have rights and protections that are different from those in your home country.

 

Third-Party Software

If you’d like to use third party software/services with our Services, please keep in mind that when you interact with them you may provide information about yourself to those third parties. We don’t own or control these third parties and they have their own rules about collection, use and sharing of information. You should review their rules and policies when installing and using any third party software/services.

 

Opting Out of Electronic Communications

You may opt-out of receiving promotional messages from us. Just follow the instructions in those messages. If you opt-out of promotional messages, we may still send you other messages, like those about your account and legal notices.

 

Our Commitment to Protecting Your Data

Our customers may benefit from a number of rights in relation to their information that we process. Some rights apply only in certain limited cases, depending on your location. If you would like to manage, change, limit, or delete your personal information, you can do so via your the Rock & Wall account settings or by contacting us. Upon request, the Rock & Wall will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. By visiting your account settings, you can access, correct, change, and delete certain personal information associated with your account. In certain cases where we process your information, you may also have a right to restrict or limit the ways in which we use your personal information. In certain circumstances, you also have the right to request the deletion of your personal information, and to obtain a copy of your personal information in an easily accessible format.

 

If we process your information based on our legitimate interests as explained above, or in the public interest, you can object to this processing in certain circumstances. In such cases, we will cease processing your information unless we have compelling legitimate grounds to continue processing or where it is needed for legal reasons.

 

For more information about our commitment to data protection, please see our Data Protection Policy.

 

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, the Rock & Wall may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. The Rock & Wall encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification through e-mail or your dashboard). Your continued use of the Services after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your consent to such change.

 

Changelog

May 20, 2018: Adopted entirely new policy, primarily in response to GDPR.

This privacy policy is a heavily modified version of the Privacy Policy made available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license by Automattic. You, in turn, are therefore allowed to copy it, adapt it, and repurpose it for your own use as permitted under the terms of that license. Just make sure to revise the language so that your policy reflects your actual practices.