The Gym Dock
Privacy Policy



INTRODUCTION

At The Gym Dock we are committed to protecting your privacy.

We collect and process personal data about you to provide the services you use, operate our business, meet our contractual and legal obligations, protect the security of our systems and our customers, or fulfil other legitimate interests.

Our Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, share and protect your personal information. When we update this policy we will post any changes on our website.

In addition when visiting our website we will provide you with “just in time” notices at the moment of data collection.


Video and Audio Surveillance
(a)  For security purposes, The Gym Dock uses video and audio surveillance equipment to monitor the Club on a 24 hour basis.
(b)  By accepting this Agreement you acknowledge that by accessing the Gym Dock you will be subject to video and audio surveillance and recording.
(c)  Video and audio surveillance is limited to the floor area only, and is not within the walls of the bathrooms or assessment rooms.
 

IDENTITY OF DATA CONTROLLER

The Data Controller in respect of this Privacy Notice is The Gym Dock.

 

WHEN DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION?

We collect your personal information when you:

  • Complete an Online Membership Agreement
  • Register interest 
  • Ask us for more information about a product or service, or contact us with a question or complaint
  • Take part in a competition, prize draw or survey
  • Contact our team through telephone, email or online chat
  • Send an email to our account info@thegymdock.com
  • Enter your PIN number 
  • You have an accident in our gym or there was an incident where you were a witness or personally affected

We may also collect, match or acquire information about you from other organisations such as Google and Facebook.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

The information we collect is required for the purpose of creating your Member Account and for you to enrol in our gym. Such information allows you to be identified as a member of The Gym Dock and includes:

  • Name, date of birth, gender, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, health declaration and whether you require disabled access

  • Credit or debit card information, information about your bank account number and sort code or other banking information. Note that we do not store your bank or credit card details on our web servers

  • Your usage records and duration of visits

  • Your preferences for particular products or services or interests when you tell us what they are – or when we assume what they are, depending on how you use our products and services

  • Your membership information – such as dates of payment owed and received, the services you use and any other information related to your account

HOW DO WE USE THIS INFORMATION?

We will use your personal information to provide you with the services, products or information that you have requested, for administration purposes, to improve your website experience, and marketing. We may need to share your information with our service providers, associated organisations and agents for these purposes.  We may use your information to:

  • Process your membership application through gocardless or club right, our chosen membership software

  • Bill you for using our services as part of your membership

  • Keep you informed about our services including operational matters relating to your Membership

  • Provide relevant services to you

  • Confirm your attendance

  • To allow you to monitor your gym usage in your members area

  • To share gym event photos on our internal social media platform called workplace (Your permission will be asked first before a picture is taken)

  • Contact you with offers or promotions based on our analysis of how you use our services and what we think will be of interest to you (unless you choose not to receive our marketing messages)

  • Respond to any questions or concerns you might have about our services

  • Understand how you use our services, to help us develop relevant and updated services

  • Carry out research and statistical analysis to monitor how customers use our services

  • Prevent and detect fraud or other crimes

We’ll store your information for as long as you are a Member of The Gym Dock, or following cancellation and to meet legal requirements including financial audit, anti-fraud and money laundering regulations we will store your information for no more than 6 years from the last activity on the account. An ‘activity’ can be classified as access into a gym, a payment made on the membership account or a comment added to the membership following contact with The Gym Dock. We may contact you about The Gym Dock services during this 6 years if you haven’t opted out of receiving marketing communications from us.

WILL WE DISCLOSE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT TO OUTSIDE PARTIES?

We may share information about you with:

  • Service providers, agents and associated organisations to allow us to service your membership and communicate with you; for example, financial institutions to process payments, and freelance personal trainers when you sign up to classes
  • Law enforcement agencies, regulatory organisations, courts or other public authorities where we have a legal obligation to do so

We’ll release information if it’s reasonable for the purpose of protecting us against fraud, defending our rights or property, or to protect the interests of our customers.

If we’re reorganised or sold to another organisation, we may transfer any personal information we hold about you to that organisation. We will inform you if we do.

USE OF PERSONAL DATA FOR AUTOMATIC DECISION MAKING

We do not intend to use your personal data for automatic decision making.

COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S DATA

The Gym Dock does not collect or process children’s data.

YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

You have the following rights in relation to your data privacy: the right of access; the right of rectification; the right of erasure (the “right to be forgotten”); the right to restriction of processing; the right to be notified; the right to data portability; the right of objection; and the right to not be subject to automated profiling.

Access.  You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected. Please contact us through email.

Rectification.  If you believe we’re holding inaccurate information about you, or your personal details change, please update your profile on the members app. 

Erasure. You have the right to the erasure of the data we hold on you, when it is no longer needed for the purposes of your Membership, or when you withdraw your consent for our processing (and we have no other lawful basis to hold your data).

Restriction. You have the right to ask us to place restrictions on processing your data in certain circumstances.

Notification. You have the right to be notified of any rectification, erasure or restrictions in relation to your personal data.

Portability. You have a right to receive the data we hold on you electronically in a format that allows it to be easily transferred to another data controller.

Object.  You have the right to object to data processing of your personal data for direct marketing or profiling purposes.

Profiling.  You have the right not to be subject to any decision based on automatic processing of your personal data.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We will update this privacy notice to reflect the way in which we process and protect your data. If we do so, we will post notice of the change on our website and you will have the opportunity to adjust your communications preferences via your Member Profile within the Members app.