Privacy Statement

This privacy statement was last updated on 29 April 2025.

At Gates to Pleasure, we hold confidentiality and privacy in the highest regard. Recognizing the
importance of your personal and sensitive data, we are committed to protecting and respecting your
privacy at all times.
This Privacy Statement describes how Gates to Pleasure processes individuals’ personal data when
using the website (hereinafter “the Website”) and offering our products and services.
This Privacy Statement outlines the types of personal data we may collect about you, how we plan to
use and protect that data, and your rights regarding our use of your data. Our aim is to be
transparent about our data practices and to ensure you feel secure and informed when engaging
with us.

Personal Data

Personal data is information that can be traced back to you as a person. For example, your name,
your home address or your e-mail address. On the website of the Personal Data Authority, you can
find more information about the definition of personal data.
Gates to Pleasure processes the following personal data:
 Name;
 (E-mail)address;
 Phone number;
 Gender;
 IP-address;
 Information obtained through cookies;
 Financial information, e.g. bank account number.

We firmly adhere to the principle of data minimization, ensuring that no more personal data than is
necessary will be collected or used for their respective purposes. Our dedication to this principle not
only complies with legal standards but also reflects our respect for your privacy, by limiting data
collection and usage to what is strictly necessary.

Gates to Pleasure collects and processes personal data when individuals provide it to us, contact
Gates to Pleasure, place orders, or use our products, services, and website, including through
cookies. This allows us to tailor our offerings and enhance the overall experience with our brand.
In adherence to our commitment to privacy and confidentiality, we wish to inform our clients that
any processing of special categories of data, specifically health-related information, is conducted
strictly with your explicit consent. This sensitive data is handled with the utmost care and respect,
ensuring that it is used solely for the purposes for which you have given permission. We understand
the importance of such information and assure you that it is processed in accordance with the
highest privacy standards and legal requirements. Your trust in us to manage this information
responsibly is paramount, and we invite you to contact us should you have any questions or concerns
about how your health data is used.

Purposes and grounds for processing personal data

Gates to Pleasure processes personal data on the basis of one or more processing grounds from the
General Data Protection Regulation:
– Consent;
– Performance of an agreement to which the data subject is a party;
– Compliance with a legal obligation;
– Legitimate interest of Gates to Pleasure.

Where Gates to Pleasure processes personal data on the basis of a legitimate interest, such
processing relates to: marketing, advertising, conducting research on its own products or services, IT
management and security.

Purpose Processing ground
Contact management and customer service: Consent

Performance of a contract
Legitimate interests

E-mail marketing / newsletters: Consent

Legitimate interests

Social media marketing: Consent

Legitimate interests

Website analysis: Consent

Legitimate interests

CRM system: Consent
Event management: Legitimate interests
Performance of a contract
Payments: Performance of a contract
Managing telephone calls: Performance of a contract
Legitimate interests
Product and/or services: Performance of a contract
Financial administration: Legal obligation

Provision of personal data to third parties
Gates to Pleasure will not provide the personal data to third parties, unless:
 they are provided to a processor engaged by Gates to Pleasure, which will process the
personal data on behalf of Gates to Pleasure in accordance with this privacy statement
and the purposes set out therein. Gates to Pleasure will then conclude an agreement
with the processor requiring it to take sufficient technical and organisational measures in
order to provide adequate guarantees for the intended data processing; or
 Gates to Pleasure is obliged on the basis of a legal obligation to hand over the data to an
authorised body; or
 Gates to Pleasure needs to be passed on to third parties because Gates to Pleasure needs
to perform an contract with you or if it is necessary to fulfil agreements with you; or
 Gates to Pleasure provides your data to other parties we need in the context of our
services, for example lawyers or bailiffs.

Gates to Pleasure may also offer services in partnership with other parties. To deliver your orders in
accordance with your chosen delivery method and send email notifications on the status of delivery, your contact details and delivery address will be provided to the relevant delivery service. The
delivery service is involved in the performance of the agreement with you as an independently
responsible party. For more information on the processing of personal data by the relevant delivery
service, please consult the privacy statement on the PostNL and DHL websites. [Payment method e.g.
Stripe] is also an independent data controller for processing your payment data via your chosen
payment method as payment provider. For more information on processing of personal data by
[https://stripe.com], please consult the privacy statement on Company’s website. Other parties may also be
involved in the performance of an agreement with you as an independent data controller or as a
joint data controller with Gates to Pleasure. You will be informed of this at the time you use such a
service.

Third-Party Websites

This privacy statement does not apply to third-party websites connected by links on our website. We
cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner.
We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites prior to making use of these
websites.

Cookies

Cookies uses so-called ‘cookies’. These are small text files that can be placed on a data subject’s
computer, smartphone or tablet. With these cookies, Gates to Pleasure – in accordance with the
preferences specified by the data subject – automatically collects data about the data subject’s
surfing behaviour and online activities. This may include personal data. The automatically collected
data may be combined by Gates to Pleasure with data about the data subject’s device (e.g. an IP
address). If consent of the data subject is required for this, Gates to Pleasure will ask for it in
advance. You have the option to manage or disable cookies through your browser settings, though
this may affect the website’s functionality and your user experience.

Rights of the data subject
If Gates to Pleasure processes personal data about you, you have a number of rights as a data
subject:

• Right to information: You have the right to receive information about how and why Gates to
  Pleasure processes your personal data.
• Right to access: You have the right to inspect and obtain a copy of the personal data that
  Gates to Pleasure processes about you.
• Right to rectification: You have the right to rectify and/or supplement the personal data
  relating to you if such data is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to restrict processing: You have the right to request Gates to Pleasure to (temporarily)
  restrict the processing of your personal data if any of the following situations occur:
   you dispute the accuracy of the personal data relating to you. The processing will be
  restricted for the period Gates to Pleasure needs to verify the accuracy of your personal
  data;
   the processing of your personal data is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of your
  personal data and instead request that the processing of the personal data be restricted;
   Gates to Pleasure no longer needs the personal data for the processing purposes, but
  you need them for the establishment, exercise and support of a legal claim.
   you have objected to the processing and are awaiting an answer as to whether the
  legitimate grounds of Gates to Pleasure outweigh yours.
• Right to data portability: you have the right to obtain your personal data processed by Gates
  to Pleasure, in structured and commonly used (digital) format, in order to transfer it to
  another controller without interference.
• Right to object: you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, if the
  processing rests on one of the following processing grounds: ‘performance of a task carried
  out in the public interest’ and/or ‘representation of the legitimate interests of Gates to
  Pleasure’. Gates to Pleasure will cease processing personal data if it cannot provide
  legitimate grounds for the processing which outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of
  the data subject.
• Right to data erasure: You have the right to request Gates to Pleasure to delete your
  personal data. Gates to Pleasure will comply with this request if any of the following
  situations arise:
   your personal data is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected or
  otherwise processed;
   you have withdrawn your consent to the processing of your personal data and there is no
  other legal basis for the processing;
   you have raised legitimate objections to the processing of your personal data;
   your personal data have been processed unlawfully.
  
  If the you have consented to the processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw
  this consent at any time. All processing of personal data that took place prior to the withdrawal of
  consent shall be deemed to have taken place validly.
  You may unsubscribe from our newsletter by sending an e-mail to: or
  by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the newsletter.
  You can submit your request to exercise the above rights or powers in writing to Gates to Pleasure
  via the contact details at the bottom of this privacy statement. Gates to Pleasure will process your
  request within one month. If the requests are complex or numerous, Gates to Pleasure may choose
  to extend this period by two months.
  If you have a complaint about the processing of your personal data, you can report it to us using the
  contact details at the bottom of this privacy statement. You can also submit your complaint to the
  Personal Data Authority:
  Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens
  Postbus 93374
  2509 AJ Den Haag
  www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl

Retention period

Gates to Pleasure will retain the personal data for the period for which it needs it to fulfil the
purpose for which the personal data was initially collected, unless Gates to Pleasure is required by a
statutory provision to retain the personal data longer.

Security

We are committed to the security of personal data. The transmission, storage and processing of
personal data obtained through the Website, are secured by means of up-to-date, prevailing
technical measures. Gates to Pleasure takes appropriate security measures to prevent misuse of, and
unauthorised access to, your personal data limit. This ensures that only the necessary persons have
access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly
reviewed.

Amendments to this Privacy Statement
We reserve the right to make amendments to this privacy statement. It is recommended that you consult this privacy statement regularly in order to be aware of any changes. In addition, we will actively inform you wherever possible.

Accessing and modifying your data

If you have any questions or want to know which personal data we have about you, please contact us. You can contact us by using the contact form. You have the following rights:

• You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained.
• Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
• Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, delete, or block your personal data whenever you wish.
• If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
• Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
• Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this unless there are justified grounds for processing.

Please make sure to always clearly state who you are, so that we can be certain that we do not modify or delete any data of the wrong person.

Contact details

Gates to pleasure
Address: Keizersgracht 391A, 1016EJ Amsterdam – Netherlands
Website: gatestopleasure.com
Email:

Our business details:

Name: Gates to pleasure
Chamber of Commerce: 89548736
VAT number: NL004741021B20
Business address: Keizersgracht 391A, 1016EJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0) 6 17 22 49 03
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