Privacy Statement
Yachtopolis.com, respects the privacy of visitors to our website. Please
read this Privacy Statement carefully so that you understand what information
we collect
through our website and what we do with that information. This Privacy Statement
applies only to information collected online through the Yachtopolis.com website
and does not describe the ways in which we may collect or use information obtained
offline or through any means other than our website.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, please contact info@Yachtopolis.com for more information.
Information collected:
Yachtopolis.com is the sole owner of the information collected on this site.
Yachtopolis.com collects information at several different points on this Web
site as discussed below:
Emails to a Yachtopolis.com and represented Members (companies or
brokers):
Site Visitors may communicate directly with a Members from the
Yachtopolis.com website. The Member may designate this information
as required or optional. we may keep a copy of these communications for systems
management, tracking and reporting purposes, we have no control over what is
done with the information collected by the Member through the Member's website.
Web logs:
We collect non-personal information such as an IP address, the web address
of the page viewed, the referring page address, and the browser information
of Site Visitors in order to count page views on our site for traffic information
purposes.
Cookies:
To help us tailor our website to the needs and interests of our visitors,
we keep track of the pages visited by our users by placing a cookie, a small
entry in text file, on your hard drive. The cookie contains an ID number that
allows us to track the pages you've visited. We aggregate this data with data
on the pages visited by other users to track overall visitor traffic patterns.
We use this information to improve our site by making it more responsive to
the needs of our users. We also use cookies to make sure you don't see the
same ad repeatedly during a single visit to our site. Cookies don't reveal
personal information; the only personal information a cookie can contain is
information you supply yourself. Cookies can't read unrelated data off your
hard drive. Our advertisers and those who provide products and/or services
through our site may also assign their own cookies, a process we don't control.
We don't have access to these cookies or to any information they contain. The
help function on most web browsers contains information on how to set your
browser to notify you before accepting a cookie or to disable cookies entirely.
However, if you don't accept cookies, you won't be able to take advantage of
various features on our site that are available to other visitors. Our "BOAT
COMPARE" feature, for example, won't work properly if you configure
your browser not to accept cookies.
Web Beacons:
To help us keep track of how many users are visiting particular pages within
our website, and how many users are accessing particular listings that we
distribute, we may place a small file, called a web beacon, on some of our
pages and on some of the listings we distribute. These web beacons allow
us to track the number of users that view our pages and our listings, but
they don't reveal any personally identifying information about individual
users. Additionally, third parties that serve ads or content on this Web
site or within our emails may use web beacons. We do not have control
over
web beacons used by these third parties.
Browser Level Information:
Our web server automatically collects limited information
about your computer configuration when you visit our site, including the
type of browser software you use, the operating system you're running, the
resolution
of your computer monitor, the website that referred you, and your IP address.
(Your IP address is a numerical address that is used by computers connected
to the Internet to identify your computer so that data (such as the web pages
you want to view) can be transmitted to you. We also use IP address information
for systems administration and trouble shooting purposes. Your IP address
does not tell us who you are.) We use this information to make our site as
useful
as we can for as many users as possible.
Disclosure of Personal Information Collected:
In order to use this site you do not need to provide any personal information,
but where you do volunteer to provide personal information, we may disclose
the following information to affiliated third parties such as other web sites
owned and operated by Yachtopolis.com and to nonaffiliated third parties
such as marketing companies, boat manufacturers and brokers.
The disclosed information may include data entered through
one
of our forms,
through cookies, web beacons and web logs such as a Site Visitors name, address,
email address, other contact information, boat information and information
about the Site Visitors transactions and experiences with companies related
to Yachtopolis.com.
We use non-personal information such as aggregate demographic data and information
about our boats to analyze and develop our marketing strategy and to determine
how Site Visitors found out about us, our Site Visitors' interests regarding
our services and how to further improve the Web site based upon these data.
We may employ third parties to perform functions on our behalf. Examples of
these functions include, without limitation, sending emails or other communications
on our behalf or providing promotional or marketing assistance. These third
parties may have access to our Site Visitors' personal information in order
to provide these services to us or on our behalf.
We may disclose personal information about our Site Visitors when legally
required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities, or to verify
or enforce compliance with the policies governing the Web site and applicable
laws. We may also disclose Site Visitors' personal information where we believe
disclosure is necessary to limit our legal liability or to protect the safety
or enforce the rights of our Site Visitors.
We may sell, transfer or otherwise disclose Site Visitors' information in
connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of substantially
all assets, or other fundamental corporate change.
Partners:
Some of our partners offer services on the Web site. To provide services, our
partners collect personal information from Site Visitors. We exercise great
care in choosing our partners but we neither control nor are we responsible
for our partners' information collection practices. Site Visitors should
view our partner's privacy statement to make an informed decision whether
to provide personal information.
Links to Other Web Sites:
To make our website more valuable to our visitors, we feature some products
and services that come from other providers.
The Web site contains links to other sites. When you access another website
or purchase products or services or conduct other transactions through our
website, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy
of the operator of the site you're visiting or the provider of such products
or services. When you provide information in the course of obtaining products
or services through our site, use of any information you provide may be governed
by the privacy policy of the provider of those products or services. The provider's
privacy policy may differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of
any of our provider partners via a link either from their site's homepage or
from the pages on which the products or services are offered, you should contact
the provider directly for more information.
Security:
Please note that we do not guarantee the security of any personal information
you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. If you have any questions
about the security at the Web site, you can send an e-mail message to policies@Yachtopolis.com.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change our privacy policy at some
point in the future, we'll post the changes to this Privacy Statement on
this website and update the reference to the effective date to reflect the
date of the amendment. By visiting Yachtopolis.com, you agree that your visit,
and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Statement and our
Visitor Agreement.
Copyright:
Copyright ©2006 Yachtopolis.com. All rights reserved.
