Privacy Policy
Here at The Yacht Sales Co. we take your privacy as seriously as you do.
Information collection and use
The Yacht Sales Co. collects information from our users at several different points on our website and via other direct communication. The Yacht Sales Co. is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not supply this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.
When you look at this web site, our Internet Service Provider makes a record of your visit and logs the following information for statistical purposes:
- your server address
- your top level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc)
- the date and time of your visit to the site
- the pages you accessed and documents downloaded
- the previous site you have visited
- the type of browser you are using.
The Yacht Sales Co. will not make an attempt to identify users or their browsing activities. However, in the unlikely event of an investigation, a law enforcement agency or other government agency may exercise its legal authority to inspect our Internet Service Provider’s logs.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name, postal address, contact numbers and email address. These details will only be used by The Yacht Sales Co. for the purpose of services for which the user has expressed interest.
Order
We may request information from the user on an order form. Here a user must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer’s orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Specific cookies are used in the Ordering section of this site, however, our web server may implement the usage of additional cookies – we have no access to or control over these cookies. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site other than the web site statistics generated from the web logs as outlined above.
Log files
We may use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. External links are included solely for the convenience of users, and do not constitute an endorsement by The Yacht Sales Co. of the sites linked or referred to. The Yacht Sales Co. does not expressly authorize links to its web pages on other third party web sites, and reserves the right to request that unsuitable links are removed.
Please be aware that The Yacht Sales Co. are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site.
Personal information correction/updating/opt-out
If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as postal address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we have provided via our ‘œMailing List page’, a method to update or remove that user’s personal data provided to us.
Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes under our privacy policy page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
More information on privacy legislation is available from the Federal Privacy Commissioner at www.privacy.gov.au