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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 26, 2026

Last Updated: July 26, 2026

GayJaxOnline.com respects the privacy of its members and visitors. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit, register for, or use GayJaxOnline.com, how that information is used, when it may be disclosed, and the choices available to you.

By accessing or using GayJaxOnline.com, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, you should not create an account or use the website.

1. About GayJaxOnline.com

GayJaxOnline.com is an independently operated online social community serving LGBTQ+ people, allies, organizations, businesses, and community members throughout Jacksonville, Duval County, Northeast Florida, and surrounding areas.

GayJaxOnline.com is not operated by, sponsored by, or officially affiliated with the City of Jacksonville, Duval County, the State of Florida, or any government agency.

2. Information Required to Create an Account

The only personal account-registration information GayJaxOnline.com requires from members is a valid email address.

Your email address may be used to:

Create and maintain your member account;
Verify your email address or account ownership;
Allow you to sign in to the website;
Provide password-reset and account-recovery services;
Send security or administrative notices;
Respond to support requests;
Investigate fraud, spam, abuse, or unauthorized access;
Enforce the Terms of Service and community rules; and
Comply with applicable legal obligations.

GayJaxOnline.com does not sell, rent, or trade members' email addresses.

3. Information You Voluntarily Provide

Although an email address is the only personal account-registration information required, members may voluntarily provide additional information through profiles, posts, groups, discussions, messages, comments, event listings, business listings, photographs, videos, links, or other community features.

Voluntarily provided information may include:

A display name or username;
A profile photograph or cover image;
Biographical or personal information;
General location information;
Interests, activities, or community affiliations;
Photos, videos, audio, posts, comments, or reactions;
Event, group, organization, or business information;
Messages sent to other members;
Reports submitted about content or member conduct; and
Information included in communications sent to the website operator.

You are not required to publish information that is unnecessary to use your account. You should not post information that you do not want other people to see, save, copy, or share.

4. Publicly Visible Information

Information posted to public profiles, activity feeds, groups, forums, discussions, event pages, business listings, comments, or public chat areas may be visible to other members or the general public.

Publicly shared content may be indexed by search engines, copied by other users, captured in screenshots, shared outside GayJaxOnline.com, or retained by people who viewed it.

Removing information from GayJaxOnline.com may not remove copies that were previously saved, indexed, reposted, or shared by other people or third-party services.

5. Private Messages and Member Communications

Private messages are intended for their selected recipients. However, no online messaging system can guarantee absolute confidentiality.

A recipient may save, copy, screenshot, report, or redistribute a message. Members should not send sensitive personal, financial, medical, or identifying information through the website unless they accept the risks associated with doing so.

GayJaxOnline.com may access or review reported messages when reasonably necessary to investigate harassment, threats, fraud, spam, illegal activity, security incidents, or violations of the Terms of Service.

6. Technical Information

Like most websites and online communities, GayJaxOnline.com and its hosting, security, and technical service providers may automatically process limited technical information when the website is accessed.

This information may include:

Internet Protocol address;
Browser type and version;
Device type and operating system;
Date and time of access;
Requested pages or website features;
Referring website or link;
Session and login activity;
General location derived from an Internet Protocol address;
Error, diagnostic, and performance records; and
Security events or suspected abusive activity.

Technical information may be used to operate, secure, maintain, troubleshoot, improve, and protect GayJaxOnline.com.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

GayJaxOnline.com may use cookies, local storage, session identifiers, or similar technologies to provide essential website functionality.

These technologies may be used to:

Keep members signed in;
Maintain secure account sessions;
Remember preferences and privacy settings;
Protect accounts from unauthorized access;
Prevent spam, fraud, and abuse;
Measure basic website performance;
Diagnose technical problems; and
Provide requested social and community features.

You may configure your browser to reject or delete cookies. Disabling essential cookies may prevent you from signing in or using certain website features.

8. How Information Is Used

GayJaxOnline.com may use information to:

Create, verify, and maintain member accounts;
Display profiles and Member Content according to selected settings;
Provide posts, groups, discussions, events, messaging, and social features;
Allow members to communicate and interact;
Process member reports and support requests;
Detect and prevent spam, fraud, harassment, and unauthorized access;
Moderate content and enforce community standards;
Maintain website security, reliability, and performance;
Diagnose and correct technical problems;
Protect the rights and safety of members and others;
Comply with applicable legal requirements; and
Operate and improve GayJaxOnline.com.

9. Email Communications

GayJaxOnline.com may send emails that are reasonably necessary to operate your account or provide requested services.

These emails may include:

Email-verification messages;
Password-reset instructions;
Login or account-security alerts;
Responses to support requests;
Account suspension or moderation notices;
Changes to important website terms or policies; and
Other essential service-related communications.

Essential account and security messages may still be sent even when optional notifications are disabled.

10. Social Sharing

GayJaxOnline.com may provide tools that allow members to share selected content with third-party social networks, messaging services, or other online platforms.

When you choose to use a social-sharing feature, the selected post, photo, video, event, link, or related information may be transmitted to the third-party service you select.

Information transmitted to another service becomes subject to that service's privacy policy, terms, visibility settings, data-retention practices, and security procedures.

GayJaxOnline.com does not control how third-party services use or retain information after you choose to share it. Deleting the original content from GayJaxOnline.com may not delete the copy sent to another service.

11. Third-Party Links and Embedded Content

GayJaxOnline.com may contain links to or embedded content from third-party websites, social networks, video platforms, maps, event services, local businesses, organizations, or other providers.

Third-party providers may collect technical information when their content or services are loaded or used. Their collection and use of information are governed by their own privacy policies.

GayJaxOnline.com is not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or data practices of independently operated third-party services.

12. Service Providers

GayJaxOnline.com may use hosting, email-delivery, backup, security, content-delivery, technical-support, or other service providers to operate and protect the website.

These providers may process limited information only as reasonably necessary to provide their services, maintain their systems, prevent abuse, or comply with applicable law.

GayJaxOnline.com does not authorize service providers to sell members' email addresses or use them for their own unrelated direct marketing.

13. Selling or Renting Personal Information

GayJaxOnline.com does not sell, rent, or trade members' email addresses or private account information.

GayJaxOnline.com does not provide members' email addresses to advertisers or unaffiliated organizations for their independent direct-marketing purposes.

14. Disclosure of Information

Information may be disclosed when reasonably necessary to:

Provide a service or feature requested by you;
Operate the website through contracted technical providers;
Investigate fraud, harassment, spam, threats, or security incidents;
Enforce the Terms of Service or community rules;
Protect the rights, property, privacy, or safety of GayJaxOnline.com, its members, or others;
Respond to a valid subpoena, court order, warrant, or other lawful request;
Report suspected exploitation, abuse, threats, or illegal conduct;
Establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim; or
Comply with applicable law.

GayJaxOnline.com may object to or limit a request for information when reasonably appropriate and legally permitted.

15. Business or Operational Changes

If GayJaxOnline.com is reorganized, transferred, sold, merged, or operated by a successor, account information and website records may be transferred as part of that transaction or operational change.

Any successor operator will remain subject to this Privacy Policy until it provides notice of a revised policy.

16. Content Moderation and Safety

GayJaxOnline.com may process account information, Member Content, messages, reports, and technical records when reasonably necessary to investigate:

Harassment, stalking, threats, or abuse;
Fraud, scams, spam, or deceptive conduct;
Unauthorized account access;
Malware or attacks against the website;
Suspected content involving a person under 18;
Nonconsensual intimate content;
Copyright or intellectual-property complaints;
Violations of the Terms of Service; or
Conduct that may endanger members or the public.

Relevant records may be preserved when reasonably necessary to complete an investigation, prevent repeated abuse, comply with law, or protect members and others.

17. Information Security

GayJaxOnline.com uses reasonable administrative, technical, and operational safeguards intended to protect account information from unauthorized access, loss, alteration, misuse, or disclosure.

These safeguards may include encrypted website connections, access controls, account authentication, software updates, security monitoring, backups, and server protections.

No website, internet transmission, server, database, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Members are responsible for using a strong and unique password and keeping their login information private.

18. Data Retention

A member's email address may be retained while the account remains active and for a limited period afterward when reasonably necessary for account management, security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, backups, or legal compliance.

Member Content may remain available until it is deleted by the member, removed by GayJaxOnline.com, or deleted as part of an account-deletion request.

Some information may remain temporarily in backups, security records, moderation records, or system logs after removal from the active website.

Information may be retained longer when reasonably necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation;
Respond to an active dispute or investigation;
Prevent fraud, abuse, or repeated Terms of Service violations;
Protect the safety or rights of another person; or
Establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim.

When information is no longer reasonably necessary, it may be deleted, anonymized, or securely disposed of.

19. Account and Privacy Choices

Depending on the features available through your account, you may be able to:

Edit your profile information;
Change profile or content visibility settings;
Delete posts, photographs, comments, or other content;
Control optional email notifications;
Block or mute other members;
Report inappropriate content or conduct;
Change your email address;
Change your password; or
Request deletion of your account.

20. Access, Correction, and Deletion Requests

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information associated with your account by contacting GayJaxOnline.com.

To protect member privacy and account security, GayJaxOnline.com may require verification that the requester owns or controls the affected account.

A request may be denied or limited when the requested action would:

Compromise another person's privacy or safety;
Interfere with a fraud, security, or abuse investigation;
Conflict with an applicable legal obligation;
Prevent the establishment or defense of a legal claim; or
Require disclosure of information that GayJaxOnline.com is legally prohibited from providing.

Where applicable law provides additional privacy rights, GayJaxOnline.com will process verified requests in accordance with those requirements.

21. Account Deletion

Members may request deletion of their accounts by using an available account-deletion feature or by emailing GayJaxOnline.com.

Account deletion may remove or anonymize the member's active profile and associated content. Some content may remain when:

Another member has independently shared or quoted it;
It is included in a continuing group discussion;
It is required for moderation or security records;
It is retained in temporary backups;
Retention is required by law; or
Retention is reasonably necessary to protect another person's rights or safety.

22. Adults-Only Service

GayJaxOnline.com is intended exclusively for adults who are at least 18 years old.

GayJaxOnline.com does not knowingly permit anyone under 18 to create an account or access members-only areas.

If GayJaxOnline.com learns that an underage person has created an account, the account and associated information may be suspended, restricted, or deleted.

Concerns about a potentially underage account should be reported promptly to GayJaxOnline.com.

23. Users Outside the United States

GayJaxOnline.com is operated in the United States. If you access the website from another country, information may be processed and stored in the United States or in another location used by a technical service provider.

Privacy and data-protection laws in those locations may differ from the laws of your country or region.

24. Changes to This Privacy Policy

GayJaxOnline.com may update this Privacy Policy when website features, technical services, data practices, or legal requirements change.

The updated policy will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. When appropriate, notice may also be provided through the website or by email.

Continued use of GayJaxOnline.com after an updated policy becomes effective constitutes acknowledgment of the revised policy to the extent permitted by applicable law.

25. Contact GayJaxOnline.com

Privacy questions, account requests, correction requests, deletion requests, safety concerns, and complaints may be submitted to:

GayJaxOnline.com
Email: mlnnflorida@gmail.com

Please include enough information to identify the affected account and explain the request. Do not include your password or unnecessary sensitive information in an email.

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