PRIVACY POLICY OF YACHT SHIPPING

Yacht Shipping Limited, registered at, 4th Floor 7/10 Chandos Street, W1G 9DQ London, United Kingdom,  as well as all affiliated entities (hereinafter: “Yacht Shipping”), processes personal data via our website in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679, hereinafter: “GDPR”).

Yacht Shipping recognizes and respects your privacy and processes personal data in compliance with the GDPR and related legislation and regulations. We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary for the purposes highlighted below and we will never sell your Personal Data to third parties.

This policy accounts for the personal data, i.e. any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter: “the Personal Data”), used via the website www.yachtshipping.com (hereinafter: “the Website”).

1. The reason why we process Personal Data

Yacht Shipping may process Personal Data to:

  • generate statistics on the use of the Website
  • analyse and improve the Website
  • provide information and services you request via info@yachtshipping.com which involve the processing of Personal Data.

The legal ground for processing Personal Data will be one or more of the following:

  • performance of a contract
  • compliance with a legal obligation
  • legitimate interests
  • your consent

If appropriate, any Personal Data gathered may be shared with other entities of Yacht Shipping.

2. Which Personal Data are collected?

When you visit the Website, Yacht Shipping may process the following Personal Data:

  1. Personal Data you submit to us via the Website, such as your name, e-mail address, home or work address, telephone number. Yacht Shipping also collects anonymous demographic information which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.
  2. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Yacht Shipping. This data can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Yacht Shipping for the operation of the service, to maintain the quality of the service and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Website.

3. Use of your Personal Data

  1. Yacht Shipping does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Yacht Shipping may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (name, address, e-mail address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.
  2. Yacht Shipping keeps track of the Website and pages our customers visit within Yacht Shipping, in order to determine which Yacht Shipping services are the most popular. Such data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Yacht Shipping to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
  3.  Yacht Shipping will disclose Personal Data without notice only in order to comply with a legal obligation or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to:
    (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with the legal process served upon Yacht Shipping or the Website ;
    (b) protect and defend the rights and/or property of Yacht Shipping; and
    (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Website, or the public.

4. Your rights under the GDPR

Under the GDPR you have the following rights, always within the limits and requirements of the GDPR:

  • the right of access to your Personal Data processed by Yacht Shipping
  • the right to withdraw your consent to processing of your Personal Data
  • the right to request erasure of your Personal Data without undue delay
  • the right to request rectification or correction of inaccurate or incorrect Personal Data without undue delay
  • the right of restriction of processing of your Personal Data
  • the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data
  • the right  to data portability;
  • the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling
  • the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country of residence

5. Cookies

Yacht Shipping uses cookies on its Website. A cookie is a small message stored by your browser. The browser stores the message in a small text file.

Yacht Shipping’s Website uses cookies which are strictly necessary for the operation of the Website. Furthermore, we use analytical cookies which help us to improve the way the Website works. All data or information which is used by the setting of a cookie is anonymous.

Yacht Shipping uses cookies to help you personalize your online experience. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. Also, a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the Website’s page, or register with Yacht Shipping, a cookie helps Yacht Shipping to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses and the like. When you return to the Website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Yacht Shipping features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but usually you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of Yacht Shipping services or the Website.

6. Security of Personal Data

Yacht Shipping and its data processor(s) have taken all reasonable and appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the Personal Data from unauthorized or unlawful processing. Furthermore, all such measures are aimed at preventing accidental loss, destruction, alteration, damage or disclosure of Personal Data. Yacht Shipping secures the Personal Data you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access. In case Personal Data are transmitted to other websites, they are protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

7. How long do we retain your Personal Data?

We will store Personal Data no longer than required for the purpose for which they have been processed or as long as required by law or regulation.

8. Contact and Information

In the event that you have any queries or complaints about this Privacy Policy or the processing of your Personal Data, please contact us at GDPR@yachtshipping.com.

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