Privacy Policy

Gay Line recognises the importance of protecting the privacy of visitors to our web site while at the same time enabling us to provide services, information and opportunities for contact through email and various contact forms.

Collection and Storage of Information

Various forms on this site enable the collection of certain information, including your name, and e-mail address. You can choose what information you provide at any stage. We maintain this information in our files.

"Cookies" are not used on this site to gather information about you. We do not track users of our site. We do record page visits for statistical purposes, but this information tells us only how many times and when pages have been visited, as well as the domain page requests were made from. We cannot identify individual users from this information.

Use of Information

The information you provide is used to provide the service requested; to enable us to contact you back in order to provide you with information you have requested, to improve our Web site and for the development of new services.

Confidentiality

All messages will in the first instance be dealt with by a qualified gay male counsellor who is a member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors. Messages you mark as confidential or which appear to be of a counselling nature will be dealt with personally by him.

The information you provide us will not be forwarded to any third party. It is strictly available only to full members of Gay Line who are required to keep that information confidential within Gay Line. We keep it confidential and secure. We undertake not to abuse your trust in us.

Disclaimer

Gay Line is not responsible for the privacy and content policies of Web sites to which this site may link. While we periodically visit every Web site we link to to ensure its continued relevance and suitability we cannot guarantee that linked web sites will not change after we visit.