Gloucester Boxing Club

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 19, 2026

Gloucester Boxing Club is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the sport of boxing and the development of our community members. We are committed to protecting the privacy of everyone who trains with us, visits our website, or uses our membership platform. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding your personal data.

1. Who We Are

Gloucester Boxing Club is a nonprofit boxing club based in Gloucester, Massachusetts. We operate a simple informational website hosted on Squarespace and use PushPress as our member management platform to handle memberships and billing.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at:

2. Information We Collect

A. Website (Squarespace)

Our website is a simple informational site hosted on Squarespace. We do not use advertising, marketing trackers, or analytics tools to monitor your browsing behavior. Squarespace, as our hosting provider, may collect certain standard technical information as part of its platform operations, such as IP addresses and basic server logs. Please refer to Squarespace's own Privacy Policy for details on their data practices.

We do not knowingly deploy cookies for tracking or targeting purposes. If Squarespace places any cookies on our site as part of its standard hosting service, these are functional in nature and are not used by Gloucester Boxing Club to track, profile, or advertise to visitors.

B. Membership & Billing (PushPress)

When you sign up for a membership, we collect information through PushPress, our membership management platform. This may include:

• Full name
• Email address
• Phone number
• Billing address
• Date of birth
• Membership type and history
• Emergency contact information (if provided)

Payment processing is handled by Square through PushPress. We do not have access to your full credit card number. Gloucester Boxing Club only sees the last four digits of your card and basic billing confirmation details. Full payment card data is processed and stored securely by Square in accordance with their security standards.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect solely to operate the club and serve our members. Specifically, we use it to:

• Process and manage your membership
• Handle billing and payment processing
• Communicate with you about your membership, class schedules, or club news
• Maintain accurate records as required for nonprofit operations
• Ensure safety and emergency contact capability during training

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes. We do not run any advertisements, on our website or elsewhere, and we do not use your data to target you with ads.

4. How We Share Your Information

We only share your information with the third-party service providers necessary to run the club:

• PushPress – our member management platform, which stores membership and profile data
• Square – our payment processor, which handles credit card transactions
• Squarespace – our website host, which processes basic visitor data as described above

Each of these providers has their own privacy policy and security practices. We encourage you to review them if you have questions about how they handle data:

• PushPress: https://www.pushpress.com/privacy
• Square: https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/privacy
• Squarespace: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy

Beyond these service providers, we do not disclose your information to any other third parties unless required to do so by law (for example, in response to a valid legal request).

5. Cookies

Gloucester Boxing Club does not intentionally use cookies for tracking, analytics, or advertising. Our website is a simple informational site, and we do not have any cookie-based tracking in place to our knowledge. Squarespace, as our hosting provider, may set certain functional cookies as part of its standard hosting service. These are not used by us for any marketing or behavioral tracking purposes.

Because we do not use advertising or tracking cookies, we do not display a cookie consent banner. If you have concerns about cookies set by Squarespace, you may refer to their Cookie Policy or adjust your browser settings to manage cookies.

6. Data Retention

We retain member records for as long as you are an active member and for a reasonable period thereafter, as needed for our nonprofit recordkeeping obligations. If you would like us to delete your information, please contact us directly and we will do our best to accommodate your request consistent with any legal or operational requirements.

7. Children's Privacy

We welcome members of all ages, including minors. When a minor joins the club, we collect information about them (such as date of birth and emergency contacts) with the understanding that a parent or legal guardian is authorizing enrollment. If you are a parent or guardian and have concerns about the data we hold for your child, please contact us directly.

We do not knowingly collect information from children through our website. Our site does not include interactive features designed to collect data from minors.

8. Security

We take reasonable steps to protect the information we hold. Billing and payment data is handled by PushPress and Square, which maintain industry-standard security practices including PCI-DSS compliance for payment card data. We do not store full credit card numbers; only the last four digits are visible to us.

No method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we are committed to using appropriate safeguards and working with reputable, security-conscious service providers.

9. Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data, including the right to access, correct, or request deletion of your information. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the information listed in Section 1. We will respond to your request as promptly as possible.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make significant changes, we will post the updated policy on our website with a revised effective date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests related to this Privacy Policy, please don't hesitate to reach out:

Last updated: April 19, 2026