Privacy Policy
StrictlySailing.com
Effective and Last Updated: 01 April 2011
This website is owned and operated by Strictly Sailing Media. We are committed
to protecting the privacy of our visitors while they interact with the content,
products and services on this site (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy
applies to the Site only. It does not apply to other websites to which we link.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we want you to
understand what information we collect about you, how we collect it, how that
information is used, and how you can control our disclosure of it. You agree that
your use of the Site signifies your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not
agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site.
1) Information Collected
We collect two types of information from you: i) information that you voluntarily
provide to us (e.g. through a voluntary registration process, sign-ups or emails);
and ii) information that is derived through automated tracking mechanisms.
• Voluntary Information for Services and Features
We collect personally identifiable information when you choose to use certain
other features of the Site, including: i) posting classified ads, ii) consenting
to receive email or text messages about upcoming promotions or events, iii) consenting
to receive email, iv) participating in our forum, iv) commenting on articles,
and others. When you choose to use these additional features, we require you to
provide your “Contact Information” in addition to other personal information
that may be required to complete a transaction such as your phone number, billing
and shipping addresses and credit card information. Occasionally, we may also
request information such as your shopping preferences and demographics which will
help us better serve you and our others users in the future.
• Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information
about the user. StrictlySailing.com uses cookies to store visitor’s
preferences and to record session information. We do not and will not use cookies
to collect private information from any user that such user did not intentionally
submit to us.
Third-Party Cookies: In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our
third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on
your browser.
2) How We Use Your Information
StrictlySailing.com only uses your personal information for the original purposes
it was given. Your personal information will not be sold or otherwise transferred
to unaffiliated third parties without your approval at the time of collection.
StrictlySailing.com will not disclose, use, give or sell any personal information
to third parties for any purposes other than to our suppliers and other third
parties who need to know in order to deliver services on behalf of StrictlySailing.com
unless required to do so by law. Further, StrictlySailing.com reserves the right
to contact you regarding matters relevant to the underlying service provided and/or
the information collected.
Please note that personally identifiable information is used only to provide you
with a more enjoyable, convenient online experience and to help us identify and/or
provide information, products or services that may be of interest to you. We use
your personally identifiable information to support and enhance your use of the
Site and its features, including without limitation: fulfilling your order; providing
customer service; tracking email invitations you send; and otherwise supporting
your use of the Site.
StrictlySailing.com may use your personal information for target advertising toward
you based on things such as region, gender, interests, goals, habits, etc.
We may permit certain trusted third parties to track usage, analyze data such
as the source address that a page request is coming from, your IP address or domain
name, the date and time of the page request, the referring Web site (if any) and
other parameters in the URL. This is collected in order to better understand our
Web site usage, and enhance the performance of services to maintain and operate
the Site and certain features on the Site. We may use third parties to host the
Site; operate various features available on the Site; send emails; analyze data;
provide search results and links and assist in fulfilling your orders.
Also, we may share personally identifiable or other information with our parent,
subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliates.
We may transfer personally identifiable information as an asset in connection
with a proposed or actual merger or sale (including any transfers made as part
of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving all or part of our business
or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock sale or other change in control.
StrictlySailing.com may disclose Contact Information in special cases where we
have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our terms and
conditions of use or may be causing injury or interference with our rights, property,
our customers or anyone who could be harmed by such activities.
WE ARE NOT LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE OR OTHER INFORMATION
YOU CHOOSE TO SUBMIT IN FORUMS SUCH AS A BULLETIN BOARD, CHAT ROOM OR ANY OTHER
PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE AREA OF THE SITE.
You will receive notice when your personally identifiable information might be
provided to any third party for any reason other than as set forth in this Privacy
Policy, and you will have an opportunity to request that we not share such information.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website
and for business and administrative purposes. We may also use or share with third
parties for any purpose aggregated data that contains no personally identifiable
information.
4) How We Protect Your Information
We are committed to protecting the information we receive from you. We take appropriate
security measures to protect your information against unauthorized access to or
unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. To prevent unauthorized
access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we
maintain appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard
and secure the information and data stored on our system. While no computer system
is completely secure, we believe the measures we have implemented reduce the likelihood
of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.
5) Third Party Advertising
Advertisements appearing on this Site may be delivered to you by StrictlySailing.com
or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies.
Doing this allows the advertising partners to recognize your computer each time
they send you an advertisement. In this way, they may compile information about
where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and
determine which advertisements are clicked. This information allows an advertising
partner to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest
to you. StrictlySailing.com does not have access to or control of the cookies
that may be placed by the third party advertising servers of ad partners.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by StrictlySailing.com
and does not cover the use of cookies by any of its advertisers.
6) Accessing and Updating Your Personal Information and Preferences
We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personal information for
many of our services. You may modify or remove any of your personal information
at any time by logging into your account and accessing features such as edit and
account.
7) Email Choice/Opt-out
If any user who receives an email from the Site and would prefer not to receive
such communications in the future, [he or she] may send an email to kirk@strictlysailing.com.
We will make commercially reasonable efforts to implement your opt-out requests
promptly, but you may still receive communications from us for up to ten business
days as we process your request.
8) Children's Privacy and Parental Controls
We do not solicit any personal information from children. If you are not 18 or
older, you are not authorized to use the Site. Parents should be aware that there
are parental control tools available online that can be used to prevent children
from submitting information online without parental permission or from accessing
material that is harmful to minors.
9) Disclaimer to Security
By consenting to the Terms and Conditions of the Site and hence the Privacy Policy,
you consent that no data transmission over the Internet is completely secure.
We cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you provide to
us and you transmit such information to us at your own risk.
10) Notification of Changes
StrictlySailing.com reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from
time to time at its sole discretion. If at some point in the future, there is
a change to our Privacy Policy, unless we obtain your express consent, such change
will only apply to information collected after the revised Privacy Policy took
effect. Your continued use of the Site indicates your assent to the Privacy Policy
as posted.
