Privacy Policy

We have adopted a set of information management guidelines that serve as the basis for our customer and advertiser relationships. These have been developed to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. We take note of advice published from time to time by the Information Commissioner. Accordingly, guidelines are subject to change and any such changes to our privacy policy will be posted on this page without notification.

Yacht Charter Guide (YCG) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of 2F3 Internet. Its remit covers online and digital activity in the UK. YCG operations centre around the production of Yacht Charter Guide.

Questions regarding this statement should be directed to the Yacht Charter Guide site coordinator.

Further information on the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Information Commissioner is available at www.dataprotection.gov.uk.

A summary of the measures taken by YCG and 2F3 to protect our users' privacy is as follows:

• We do not provide or sell your details to third parties unless you have specifically requested that we do so, in order that these advertisers and/or third parties can offer you information, goods and services that may be of interest to you.
• We reserve the right to disclose information about member usage and demographics to advertisers and partners, but in anonymous aggregate form only. YCG and 2F3 will not reveal your personal identity in connection with the disclosure of such information.
• Yacht Charter Guide contacts users by email with updates about our website and its services. All our email correspondence includes an unsubscribe option.

What personally identifiable information do we collect about you?
We collect information on our users in two ways: through cookies, and through registration. For more information about cookies, please see below.

We require users to provide us with a name and email address in order to register for access to certain services. This information is stored by us and our data processors (see below).

Following registration we will employ a registration cookie to recognise a subscriber and his or her access privileges on Yacht Charter Guide, as well as to track site usage.

We may also collect personal information from you through your use of enquiry and feedback forms and every time you email us your details.

We also log IP addresses, or the location of your computer on the internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. We occasionally use IP addresses to track a user's session.

What do we do with the information collected?
We may perform statistical analyses of user behaviour in order to measure relative consumer interest in the various areas of our site (for product development purposes) and to inform advertisers as to how many consumers have seen or 'clicked' their listings. In performing these statistical analyses, we will disclose information to third parties only in aggregate form. Personal information on individual subscribers will not be provided to any third party if you object.

We may periodically send you email updates on Yacht Charter Guide and services offered by Yacht Charter Guide. If you wish to opt out of receiving such information from us, please use the unsubscribe option included in all our email correspondence.

We will also use your information to target banner and box advertising on the site so you will see advertising that may be more relevant to you. You will never be targeted as an individual, but as a larger demographic group of similar users. This use of your personal information is contractual to the use of Yacht Charter Guide. If you do not wish your information to be used in this way then you will be unable to use those areas of Yacht Charter Guide that require registration.

With whom do we share the information we collect?
We will not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others unless you have given us your permission. With your permission we will only share the information with carefully chosen, reputable and trustworthy third parties. We may pass on a small amount of personal information to charter companies if you have requested charter quotes. Over 95% of the time the only personal information we pass on for this purpose is your name and country of residence.

From time to time we may provide aggregate statistics on our customers, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information.

We will provide subscribers a summary of all personal information that we process on them upon request. We will charge £10 for such requests. To make such a request please use the contact form.

We are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of Web sites to which Yacht Charter Guide may link.

Cookies
A cookie is a small, numeric text file that is stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Any information you provide to us is held securely on our web servers and not on your machine.

Cookies make it possible for us to identify registered users without needing to ask for registration details every time you access one of our sites. Using cookies makes accessing our sites more convenient as you don't need to remember you username and password each time you enter.

We may also use cookies to track registered or unregistered users as they travel through the site - for instance, we might use cookies to count the total number of unique users who are accessing the site over a particular period of time, or to ensure that you don't see a particular advert more than once. This information is only shared with third parties in aggregate form. The use of cookies in this way helps to make our systems more efficient.

You can view the information stored in this cookie here.

What information is visible to other Yacht Charter Guide users?
When you contact a charter company your name and country of residence will be made visible to that company. This use of your personal details is contractual to the use of Yacht Charter Guide.