Privacy and Cookie Policy

Classic Sailboats is committed to protecting your personal information. Classic Sailboats will gather and use information through Classic Sailboats Web site only in the ways disclosed in the following statement.

Classic Sailboats will be periodically updating it’s Privacy Policy to ensure you enjoy continued high standards of data protection and management. This is a part of Classic Sailboats compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into force on 25th May, 2018

THIS PRIVACY POLICY ONLY GOVERNS CLASSIC SAILBOATS USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. CLASSIC SAILBOATS DOES USE VCITA AND NEWS AT ME SERVICES FOR COLLECTION OF USER’S PERSONAL INFORMATION BY OPT IN AND OPT OUT SERVICES. THE USE OF USER’S PERSONAL INFORMATION BY THIRD PARTIES IS NOT CONTROLLED BY CLASSIC SAILBOATS, AND USER SHOULD REVIEW THIRD PARTIES PRIVACY POLICY INDEPENDENTLY. CLASSIC SAILBOATS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE AND WILL BEAR NO LIABILITY TO THIRD PARTIES PRIVACY POLICY OR TO THIRD PARTIES COMPLIANCE WITH IT. PLEASE REVIEW THIRD PARTY PRIVACY POLICYS HERE:

VCITA: https://www.vcita.com/about/privacy_policy
NEWS AT ME: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/639204

IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT PRIVACY OF PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 16

Classic Sailboats Services are not intended for use by persons under the age of 16. If you are not 16 years old or older, then you cannot use any of the Services and must not provide any of your personal details.

Classic Sailboats strongly encourages parents to monitor their children’s use of the Web. If Classic Sailboats learns that a child under the age of 16 years has provided personally identifiable information to Classic Sailboats without verifiable parental consent, Classic Sailboats will delete such information from Classic Sailboats databases.

To the extent that the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) apply to the processing of personal data under these Website Terms And Conditions,

WHY DOES CLASSIC SAILBOATS PROCESS YOUR DATA?

If you fill out a contact, or feedback form your data is processed to be able to reply to your comments or questions.
If you submit a request for program information your data is processed to be able to handle your request and for statistical purposes to see about which program information was requested.
If you are a member of the press and you would like to receive press realeses your data is processed to verify your request and to grant you access to press releases from the website.
Your data is also processed to be able to monitor and improve the services CLASSIC SAILBOATS provides through the Website.

WHAT DATA DOES CLASSIC SAILBOATS PROCESS?

If you submit a feedback form or a product information request form, Classic Sailboats processes the information necessary to contact you such as name, address, country, phone number and e-mail and the content of your request or feedback, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Press Releases

If you request access to Press Releases the data needed to create an account for you is processed. The data you provide shall also be used to verify you are an accredited member of the press.

Logon information is also stored for security reasons and to monitor and assess the use made of the website.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

Classic Sailboats uses cookies for various purposes, if you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. To collect information for statistical and analytical purposes, to verify information, and for information security purposes.

Some of the cookies can expire when the session ends, and you exit your browser. Other cookies can be stored on your computer’s hard drive. If you wish to block the cookies, then please use the help button in your browser and follow the necessary instructions. However, bear in mind that disabling cookies can complicate or even prevent your use of the Services or the Web-App, or certain features thereof.

Screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Classic Sailboats can also share personally identifiable information with sub-contractors and other companies or organizations connected, or affiliated with Classic Sailboats, such as subsidiaries, sister-companies and parent companies.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Classic Sailboats does not sell, rent or lease your personally identifiable information to third parties. Classic Sailboats shares personally identifiable information with others only in any of the following instances, or otherwise subject to your explicit consent:

Classic Sailboats will not share your e-mail address or any other personally identifiable information with online advertisers and advertising networks, without your explicit consent;

Your contact information

To contact you. For example, Classic Sailboats uses a vCita and News at Me mailing platforms to send you messages and updates from time to time;

Where is my personal information processed?

Classic Sailboats stores and processes the information through third party hosting services in the USA or in other jurisdictions, at its discretion. If you are in the European Economic Area, or in any other jurisdiction that regulates the transfer of personal information outside that jurisdiction, then you hereby grant Classic Sailboats your explicit and unambiguous consent to transfer your personal information to the USA or to any other jurisdiction where Classic Sailboats hosting services operate, for the purposes described in this privacy policy.

Your rights under the GDPR

Please note that under the GDPR Classic Sailboats processes personal data as a data processor. As such, Classic Sailboats is committed to assist Classic Sailboats data controllers to fulfill individuals’ rights under the GDPR.

If you wish to exercise your rights under the GDPR or have any questions in this matter, please contact the relevant Classic Sailboats data controller directly. Should you need Classic Sailboats assistance to indicate who the relevant Classic Sailboats data controller is, please feel free to contact us at: privacy@classicsailboats.org. To the extent required and upon a written request from Classic Sailboats data controller, Classic Sailboats will assist the Classic Sailboats data controller to fulfill your rights under the GDPR.

Enforcement

Classic Sailboats is doing its utmost to comply with this privacy policy. If you have any questions, concerns or complaints regarding this privacy policy and the enforcement thereof, please refer them to: support@classicsailboats.org.

After receiving your complaint, Classic Sailboats can contact you to better understand your concerns and will make all efforts to promptly answer your question or resolve your complaint to your full satisfaction.

How does Classic Sailboats secure your personal information?

Classic Sailboats and third parties on its behalf implement information security systems and procedures to secure your personal information. While such systems and procedures reduce the risk of security breaches, they do not provide absolute security.

Therefore, Classic Sailboats cannot guarantee that the Services will be immune from any wrongdoings, malfunctions, unlawful interceptions or unauthorized access to the information stored therein and to other information security risks, or that your private communications on or through the Services will remain private.

We restrict access to personal information you provided Sailing for Water to our employees, contractors, vendors and agents who need to know that information for the purposes described in this privacy policy.

These individuals are obligated to keep your personal information confidential and they can be subject to penalties, termination of relations and criminal prosecution, if they fail to comply with such obligations.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Classic Sailboats can change and update the terms of this privacy policy from time to time. Changes will take effect seven (7) days after their initial posting on the Website, unless Classic Sailboats amends this privacy policy to comply with legal requirements. In the latter cases the amendments will become effective as required or ordered.

Last Updated: February 19, 2023