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Change Date of Privacy Policy: August 1, 2023

Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. The https://www.GatherHall.com website, the GatherHall application, software modules and/or mobile applications (collectively, “GatherHall”) are all subject to this Privacy Policy which governs data collection and usage. GatherHall is provided by Effortless Messaging LLC. When used herein, “us,” “we,” and “our” refer to Effortless Messaging LLC. GatherHall includes, but is not limited to, an Open Platform Chat App, News and Information and Ecommerce site. By using GatherHall, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered by GatherHall, Effortless Messaging LLC may collect Personally Identifiable Information, such as, but not limited to, your:

  • First and Last Name
  • Mailing Address
  • E-mail Address
  • Phone Number
  • Contact Book
  • Profile Picture
  • Text, Image(s) and/or Video(s) sent via, uploaded to, shared on and/or otherwise transmitted through the platform

If you purchase GatherHall’s products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. If you choose to make a purchase or subscribe to a feature or service of ours that requires a fee, you will be required to provide us with your payment information, including, without limitation, bank account numbers, credit card or debit card numbers, account details, ACH information, and similar data (collectively, “Payment Information”). Such Payment Information will be collected and may be processed by our third-party payment vendors pursuant to the terms and conditions of their privacy policies and terms of use, and, in some cases, we may elect to not obtain access to any Payment Information when everything is handled by a third-party payment vendor in connection with GatherHall’s purchases or subscriptions.

The purpose of using your address book is to enhance your experience with our app. By allowing us to access your contacts, you will be able to easily connect with your friends and family who are using our service. We will not use your contact information for any other purpose without your explicit consent.

We take your privacy very seriously, and we will never sell or share your contact information with third parties without your permission. We use industry-standard security measures to protect your data and keep it safe.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your address book, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We are always happy to help and provide more information.

By using our app, you consent to our use of your address book as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use our app.

Personally Identifiable Information

We collect Personally Identifiable Information about you as discussed herein. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These services may include:

  1.  registering for a GatherHall account;
  2.  entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners;
  3. signing up for special offers from selected third parties;
  4.  sending us an email message;
  5.  submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing GatherHall products and services.

In summary, Effortless Messaging LLC reserves the right to use your information for reasons including, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us.

Future Collection of your Personal Information

GatherHall reserves the right to collect or gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future. The types of personal or non-personal information that GatherHall reserves the right to collect or gather in the future include, but are not limited to: (1) birthdate, (2) biometric
data, (3) organizational associations, (4) personal interests/hobbies, (5) location data, (6) sales habits, and (7) shopping habits.

Use of your Personal Information

Effortless Messaging LLC collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information to operate its website and mobile application and deliver the services you have requested. “Personally Identifiable Information” includes, but is not limited to, e-mail, name, address, and telephone number.

Effortless Messaging LLC may also use your Personally Identifiable Information to inform you of other products or services available from GatherHall and its affiliates.

GatherHall may use your Personally Identifiable Information for any of the following:

  1. To identify you when you sign in to your account;
  2. To respond to your requests and to provide you with services;
  3. To respond to your inquiries and contact you about changes to GatherHall or services;
  4. To send you notices (for example, in the form of e-mails, mailings, and the like) regarding products or services you are receiving, and for billing and collection purposes;
  5. To send you information we think you may find useful or that you have requested from us;
  6. To enhance and improve GatherHall or services, such as through personalized features and content;
  7. To analyze the use of GatherHall and services and the people visiting to improve our content and GatherHall and services;
  8. To investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our policies, or as otherwise required by law;
  9. For any other purposes disclosed at the time the information is collected or to which you consent; and
  10. As otherwise specifically described in this Privacy Policy.

GatherHall also reserves the right to use your data for any lawful business purpose that does not involve disclosure to third parties, except as explicitly set forth below.

Location Data

Is information that is derived from your GPS (GPS coordinates), WiFi (approximate city location), IP address (country location), or public posts that contain location information (the location you geo-tag). Location Data will be disclosed (either to us, to other users, or both):

  • When you use location-based features and when you share your location with other GatherHall and/or Weixin users; and
  • When you access GatherHall, we automatically derive Location Data from your IP address, device, or internet service for security purposes including to prevent fraudulent log-ins and connections to your account.
  • You may disable the collection and use of your location data through device-level settings.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

GatherHall will not give, sell, rent, lease, or otherwise bestow its customer lists, which include your name, to any non-vendor third parties or to non Trusted Partners.

GatherHall may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique Personally Identifiable Information is not transferred to the third party.

“Trusted Partners” are other individuals or business entities with which GatherHall has established a contractual relationship. GatherHall may share data with Trusted Partners for a variety of functions including, but not limited to, helping perform statistical analysis, sending you email or postal mail, providing customer support, or arranging for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to GatherHall, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

If GatherHall becomes aware of improper storage then GatherHall will consider implementing additional restrictions on Third Party Technology Providers or changing Third Party Technology Providers. However, GatherHall will not be liable for any breaches of confidentiality by Third Party Technology Providers provided.
We and the third-party technology providers, ad exchanges, ad networks, advertisers, agencies, ad exchanges, and ad servers with which we work use third-party analytics services (e.g., Google Analytics) to evaluate your use of GatherHall, compile reports on activity, collect demographic data, analyze performance metrics, and collect and evaluate other information relating to GatherHall usage. These third parties use cookies and other technologies to help analyze and provide us the data. You consent to the processing of data about you by these analytics providers in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

GatherHall may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  1. conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on GatherHall or the site;
  2. protect and defend the rights or property of GatherHall; and/or
  3. act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of GatherHall, or the public.

Disclosures of your Personal Information to Law Enforcement

We may disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability.

Advertisers

We disclose aggregate information about our users to advertisers and for other marketing and promotional purposes. However, we do not disclose any personally identifying information to any of these entities.

GatherHall Interface

Throughout GatherHall, you are identified by your User ID. Unless you select a unique User ID, our system automatically sets your User ID as your e-mail address. In this situation, where you are identified on GatherHall by your User ID, you disclose your e-mail address to other users and third parties. As a result, other users and third parties might send you unsolicited e-mail and be able to personally identify all of your activities on GatherHall. Others may attempt to automatically collect your e-mail address from GatherHall. Even if your User ID is not your e mail address, your User ID can be used to identify you and your activities throughout GatherHall. Other people can see your activities on GatherHall, including any of your comments and postings on GatherHall, and so on.

Use Limited to GatherHall-Related Communications

Because of the nature of the services offered on GatherHall, GatherHall allows you to access other users’ contact information. You may use such information only for GatherHall related communications. GatherHall-related communication expressly excludes unsolicited commercial messages. Therefore, you must not post, upload, link, or otherwise use GatherHall in any manner for any commercial purpose or endeavor, including the offering for sale of any products or services, or otherwise engage in any commercial activity on GatherHall for any purpose, including, but not limited to, conducting raffles or contests, displaying sponsorship banners, soliciting goods or services, soliciting funds, advertisers, or sponsors. In all cases, you must give users an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances can you disclose Personally Identifiable Information about another user to any third party without our consent and the consent of such other user after adequate disclosure by you to such other user. Note that law enforcement personnel and other rights holders are given different rights with respect to information they access.

No Spam

GatherHall and our users do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add a GatherHall user to your mail list (e-mail or physical mail) without their express consent after adequate disclosure.

Tracking User Behavior

GatherHall may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within GatherHall to determine what GatherHall services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within GatherHall to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by GatherHall. This information can include, but is not limited to: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the GatherHall website. This information is compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis. This information may include the URL that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, and your IP address, among other things. This information will not be shared with third parties except as set forth in the section “Sharing Information with Third Parties” above.

Information about your mobile device hardware and software may also be automatically collected by GatherHall. This information may include, but is not limited to: type of mobile device; advertising Identifier (“IDFA” or “AdID”); operating system and version (e.g., iOS,Android or Windows); carrier; and network type (WiFi, 3G, 4G, 5G, LTE).

Use of Cookies

The GatherHall website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies are small files that can be used to track a user’s steps or automatically generate a user’s password. Some features of our website may only be available through the use of a cookie. Among other things, cookies allow you to enter your password less frequently during a session. Cookies can also help us provide information which is targeted to your interests. Cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on GatherHall.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell GatherHall that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize GatherHall pages, or register with GatherHall services, a cookie helps GatherHall to recall your specific information for a subsequent visit. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to GatherHall, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the GatherHall features that you customized.

First and Third Party Cookies

“First party Cookies” are cookies that belong to Effortless Messaging LLC and that Effortless Messaging LLC places on your device. “Third party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through GatherHall. GatherHall may contract with third party service providers to send e-mails to users who have provided us with their contact information. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the third party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these users.

Depending on what part of GatherHall you access, we use the following types of cookies:

“Persistent Cookies.” We use Persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using GatherHall. This includes recording your acceptance of our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you use the Sites.

“Session Cookies.” Session Cookies are temporary and deleted from your machine when your web browser closes. We use session Cookies to help us track internet usage as described above.

The data collected by GatherHall and through Cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned above. In any event, such information will not be kept for longer than one year.

Types of Cookies and Purposes

Our Cookies are used for the following purposes:

Cookie Type – Purpose

  1. Strictly Necessary/Technical – These Cookies are necessary to allow us to operate GatherHall so you may access them as you have requested. These Cookies, for example, let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access GatherHall content. They also include Cookies that enable us to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session and secure GatherHall.
  2. Analytical/Performance – These Cookies are used by us or third party service providers to analyze how the sites are used and how they are performing. For example, these Cookies track what pages are most frequently visited, and from what locations our visitors come from. If you subscribe to a newsletter or otherwise register with GatherHall, these Cookies may be correlated to you. These Cookies include, for example, Google Analytics cookies.
  3. Functionality – These Cookies let us operate GatherHall in accordance with the choices you make. These Cookies permit us to “remember” you in-between visits. For instance, we will recognize your user name and remember how you customized GatherHall and services, for example by adjusting text size, fonts, languages and other parts of web pages that are alterable, and provide you with the same customizations during future visits.
  4. Third Party Advertising – These Cookies collect information about your activities on these and other sites to provide you targeted advertising. We may also allow our third party service providers to use Cookies on GatherHall for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third party service providers that generate these Cookies, such as Adobe, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, have their own privacy policies, and may use their Cookies to target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to GatherHall.

Declining Cookies

You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of GatherHall. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our system will issue Cookies when you direct your browser to GatherHall.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects Personally Identifiable Information. GatherHall does not ensure or warrant that any links to other sites are vetted by GatherHall or are otherwise reviewed or approved by GatherHall.

Direct Disclosure of Personal Information

If you directly disclose Personally Identifiable Information or personally sensitive data through GatherHall’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. GatherHall does not ensure or warrant that any Personally Identifiable Information or personally sensitive data disclosed through GatherHall’s public message boards will remain private or unattainable by third parties.

Security of your Personal Information

GatherHall secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. GatherHall uses the following methods for this purpose:

– SSL Protocol

When Personally Identifiable Information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We take commercially reasonable steps to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed. As such, GatherHall DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY FOR USER INFORMATION THAT IS ACCESSED, USED, OR DISCLOSED BY UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTIES IN VIOLATION OF GatherHall SECURITY MEASURES.

Right to Access your Personal Information

You have the right to receive a copy of certain Personal Information we collect from you. This comprises any personal information we process on the basis of your consent (e.g., voluntarily provided profile data) or pursuant to our contract with you (e.g., profile data), as described in the section “Collection of your Personal Information”. You have the right to receive this information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You can exercise your right to export your data by contacting GatherHall directly using the information provided in the section “Contact Information” below.

Retention of Data

We may retain your Personally Identifiable Information. Should you or we terminate your account for any reason, we may take steps to ensure that your Personally Identifiable Information is no longer available through GatherHall or otherwise used by us (subject to technical limitations) after such account termination.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we may:

  • Delete your personal information from our records; and
  • Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
  • Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
  • Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
  • Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
    Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
    Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
  • Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Children Under Thirteen

GatherHall does not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information from children thirteen (13) years of age and younger. If you are under the age of thirteen (13), you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use GatherHall.

Third Party Log In

You will be able to connect your GatherHall account to third party accounts. If you sign in through a third party account, you are authorizing us to collect, store, and use, in accordance with this Privacy Policy, any and all information that you agreed that the third party would provide to us through the third party’s Application Programming Interface (“API”). Such information may include, without limitation, your first and last name, third party account username, third party account profile picture, headline, unique identifier and access token, and e-mail address.

Disconnecting your GatherHall Account from Third Party Websites

BY CONNECTING YOUR GatherHall ACCOUNT TO YOUR THIRD PARTY ACCOUNT, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THE CONTINUOUS RELEASE OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU TO OTHERS (IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS ON THOSE THIRD PARTY SITES). IF YOU DO NOT WANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU, INCLUDING PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION, TO BE SHARED IN THIS MANNER, DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE. You may disconnect your account from a third party account at any time. Users may learn how to disconnect their accounts from third-party websites by visiting their “My Account” page. Users may also contact us via email or telephone. GatherHall does not guarantee that Personally Identifiable Information revealed to third parties by use of this feature will be deleted upon disconnecting your GatherHall account from those third party accounts.

App Stores

Your app store (e.g., iTunes or Google Play) may collect certain information in connection with your use of the App, such as Personally Identifiable Information, Payment Information, locational information, and other usage-based data. We have no control over the collection of such information by a third-party app store, and any such collection or use will be subject to that third party’s applicable privacy policies.

Acquisitions and Mergers

In the event that we or all or substantially all of our assets are acquired, or Effortless Messaging LLC merges with another business entity, we expect that the information that we have collected, including personal Information, would be transferred along with our other business assets.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, GatherHall may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from GatherHall, you may opt out of such communications by Customers may unsubscribe from emails by “replying STOP” or “clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button..

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to this Statement

Effortless Messaging LLC reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time with sufficient notice. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Any of the above modes of providing notice will constitute sufficient notice, but other modes of providing notice may also be sufficient. Your continued use of GatherHall after such modifications will constitute your:

  1. acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and
  2. agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Governing Law

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of the State of Maryland without regard to its conflict of laws principles. Users agree to waive any objection for lack of personal jurisdiction over them in connection with any such disputes.

Contact Information

Messaging LLC welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that GatherHall has not adhered to its Privacy Policy, please contact Effortless Messaging LLC at:

Effortless Messaging LLC

PO Box 341372
Bethesda MD 20827,
USA

Email Address:

[email protected]

Telephone number:

(240) 810-2029

Calls may be monitored and recorded for quality control or training purposes.

Change Date of Privacy Policy: August 1, 2023