Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 11-04-2022

Your privacy is important to us

It is Blackbeard Sailing Club’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to blackbeardsailingclub.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “blackbeardsailingclub.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.

Contents

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  1. Website Visitors
  2. Personally-Identifying Information
  3. Security
  4. Links To External Sites
  5. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
  6. Aggregated Statistics
  7. Cookies
  8. Privacy Policy Changes
  9. Contact Information & Credit

1. Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Blackbeard Sailing Club collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Blackbeard Sailing Club’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Blackbeard Sailing Club’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Blackbeard Sailing Club may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Blackbeard Sailing Club also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://blackbeardsailingclub.com blog posts. Blackbeard Sailing Club only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

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2. Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Blackbeard Sailing Club’s websites choose to interact with Blackbeard Sailing Club in ways that require Blackbeard Sailing Club to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Blackbeard Sailing Club gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who leave a comment at https://blackbeardsailingclub.com to provide a username and email address.

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3. Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

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Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms of service of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

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5. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Blackbeard Sailing Club discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Blackbeard Sailing Club’s behalf or to provide services available at Blackbeard Sailing Club’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Blackbeard Sailing Club’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Blackbeard Sailing Club will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Blackbeard Sailing Club discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Blackbeard Sailing Club believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Blackbeard Sailing Club, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://blackbeardsailingclub.com and have supplied your email address, Blackbeard Sailing Club may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Blackbeard Sailing Club and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Blackbeard Sailing Club takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

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6. Aggregated Statistics

Blackbeard Sailing Club may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Blackbeard Sailing Club may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Blackbeard Sailing Club does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

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7. Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Blackbeard Sailing Club uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Blackbeard Sailing Club uses cookies to help Blackbeard Sailing Club identify and track visitors, their usage of https://blackbeardsailingclub.com, and their website access preferences. Blackbeard Sailing Club visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Blackbeard Sailing Club’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Blackbeard Sailing Club’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Blackbeard Sailing Club’s use of cookies.

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8. Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Blackbeard Sailing Club may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Blackbeard Sailing Club’s sole discretion. Blackbeard Sailing Club encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

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