Date of last revision: 6 July 2021
We at Thelma and Louise Club Limited ("we" or "Thelma & Louise") have created this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your personal information and informing you about how we handle it. This privacy policy only applies to transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered, on the Thelma & Louise Site, including private messaging and email communications between Thelma & Louise members (collectively hereafter, "this Site" or "the Site" or "our Site") but does not apply to any other website or offline point of contact between Thelma & Louise, or any other organisation, and members. Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time without notice. This privacy policy was last revised on 5 July 2010. Each time you visit the Site or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy at that time. Any significant changes to this policy will be clearly indicated on this Site. Regardless of any changes we make to our privacy policy statement, we will always use your personal information in accordance with the version of the privacy policy in place at the time you provided your information, unless you give your written consent for us to do otherwise.
Thelma & Louise takes the privacy of its members and other users seriously. We fully comply with all aspects of the Data Protection Act 1998. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our members and users while providing a personalised and valuable service. This privacy policy statement explains the data processing practices of Thelma & Louise.
By using our Site you consent to the collection and use of your personal information for the purposes set out in this statement. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices, please contact our Privacy Officer by email at privacy@thelmandlouise.com [1].
Please note that the Site contains links to other websites and that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those websites.
Privacy controls
The Site incorporates various controls to protect your privacy, including:
You should also adopt a common sense approach and take sensible precautions to protect your privacy when using the Site, including but not limited to, the following:
Your IP address
Like most websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimise the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.
Cookies
Like most websites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and other activities on the Site and to enhance your experience on the website. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password, and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit the website. Third party providers and advertisers on the Site may also place or read cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to do this. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas on the website.
Information we collect from you
In order to operate the Site and to provide you with information about products or services that may be of interest to you, we may collect "personal information" (i.e. information that could be used to contact you directly (without using the Site) such as full name, postal address, phone number or email address) or "demographic information" (i.e. information that you submit, or that we collect, that is neither personal information nor financial information; this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, town/city, country, username, date of birth, purchase history information, browsing history information, searching history information, registration history information, and the content of communications between you and other members over the Site), subject to the rest of this paragraph. Demographic information is divided into two categories: 1) "non-public information", which consists of purchase history information and one-on-one communications between you and other members; and 2) "public information", which consists of all other demographic information. We ask that you do not enter certain personal information into your "Edit Profile" "Edit Account" (for example, do not use your address or password as your username, or include your password or address in your written responses), because if you do then it may be posted publicly on the Site, and the information will then be treated as "demographic information" that is "public information." Please note that nowhere on the Site do we knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18, as we require that all members represent and warrant to us that they are at least 18 years old.
Information other websites collect from you
On our Site, we place links to other websites operated by third parties. Some of these other websites contain our brand names and trademarks and other intellectual property that we own; others do not. When you click on these links and visit these other websites, regardless of whether or not they contain our brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property, you need to be aware that we do not control these other websites or these other websites business practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other websites. Consequently, the operators of these other websites may collect different kinds of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage you to review their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.
How we use personal information
Your real name is used on the Site to allow your friends to find you. You can decide whether or not to add your full name as it is not mandatory. We use your email address and your other personal information to help us efficiently operate the website, to contact you in connection with your transactions and other activities on the website (including, but not limited to, confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship with Thelma & Louise), and to forward messages to you from other Thelma & Louise members. These types of communications are known as "operational communications." In some cases, operational communications may also contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers.
We may also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials relating to goods and services displayed on the Site. We attempt to send you the offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. When posting or modifying a profile on the Site, you can opt to not receive these communications from us (other than those contained in operational communications).
To operate the Site, including processing your transactions and supporting your activities on the Site, we may share your personal information with our agents, associates, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with support services such as authorisation of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or support services, customer relationship management services, order fulfilment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfilment. We require these third parties not to use your information for any other purpose.
By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or services offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing to receive communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions) or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes or other programs (such as discount or rewards programs), offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site or on their websites, you consent to us providing your personal information to those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us. Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal information is authorised to use your personal information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.
Please read the information below under the heading "Special cases in which we share personal and financial information" to learn more ways in which we may share your personal information.
How we use financial information
We use your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you for products and services purchased directly from us and to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and similar programmes in which you may elect to participate. By making a purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial information, on the Site, you consent to our providing your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine are necessary to support and process your activities and transactions, as well as to your credit card issuer for their purposes. These third parties may include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process and support the transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or services of third parties offered on the Site, or by participating in programmes offered on the websites that are administered by third parties and that require you to submit financial information in order to use them, you also consent to our providing your financial information to those third parties. Additionally, if the page on which you submit information is a co-branded page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a co-branded page, then we may share your financial information with the associated co-branded company. Any of these various third parties (including co-branded companies) may be authorised to use your financial information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information that you submit to us. Please read the information below under the heading "Special cases in which we share personal and financial information" to learn more ways in which we may share your financial information.
Special cases in which we share personal and financial information
Your personal information or financial information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a liquidation or bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal information or financial information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of Thelma & Louise or other members or visitors to the Site. We also may disclose your personal information or financial information to our subsidiary and parent companies and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with which we are under common corporate control. We also may disclose your personal information or financial information to our Site developers during times of Thelma & Louise Site development. Whenever personal information or financial information is disclosed under this paragraph, we may also disclose your demographic information along with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive your personal information, financial information, or non-anonymous demographic information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with respect to their use and disclosure of such information.
How we use public information and other demographic information
We may review all demographic information. We may use public information to enable other members to find your profile, to determine whether they are a match for you and to communicate with you. We may use demographic information to tailor the Site and communications to your interests. We may also share demographic information with advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated basis (i.e., without telling the advertisers your identity). One of the reasons we may do this is to increase the likelihood that our advertisers` goods and services will appeal to Thelma & Louise`s members, so that we may target specific ads at specific demographic groups. Our sharing of demographic information with advertisers is anonymous (i.e. we do not tell advertisers which particular Thelma & Louise members are members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of this privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement, however, we ask you to remember that if that ad is targeted to a demographic group and you decide to give the advertiser your personal information, then the advertiser may be able to identify you as being a member of that demographic group. Please also be aware that when we disclose your financial information or personal information to a co-branded company, as described above, we may also disclose to that co-branded company your demographic information, other than the content of one-on-one communications between you and other members. Please also be aware that we may disclose your demographic information on a non-anonymous basis as described above in the paragraph titled "Special cases in which we share personal and financial information." Also, to read further details about how we may use your public information, see our Terms and Conditions of Use.
Our security precautions
The Site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computer networks which may be located outside of the country, state, province, or other governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and the country or jurisdiction in which these computer networks are located may not have privacy laws as protective as the laws in your country or jurisdiction.
Changing our privacy policy for previously gathered information
If at any point we decide to use particular personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify members by way of an email or by providing 30 days notice on the Site and we will not use such information in a different manner unless and until we will have your permission to do so. Please note that we will continue to have the right to change our privacy policy and practices, and how we use your personally identifiable information, without notice, as described in the first paragraph of this privacy policy, provided that such changes shall only apply to information gathered on or after the date of the change.
How you can access and update your email/private messaging preferences, personal information and public information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications through our messaging system and you can modify personal information or demographic information you have provided to us at anytime by going to the "Edit Account and Edit Profile" section of the Site. Please be aware that it may take several hours for the changes you make to take effect on the public areas of the Site. We thank you for your patience. Please note that changing or deleting your information through the "Edit Account and Edit Profile" section of the Site, or otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications from Thelma & Louise, will only change or delete the data in our database for purposes of future activities on the Site and for managing future communications from Thelma & Louise. These changes and deletions will not change or delete email/private messaging or information that we may have already forwarded to other members or credit card companies or any other third parties, all as provided above in this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can contact us at info@thelmandlouise.com [2].
Links:
[1] mailto:privacy@thelmandlouise.com
[2] mailto:info@thelmandlouise.com.