Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for Offshore Sailing Centre PTY (LTD) trading as Offshore Sailing Academy
One of our top goals at Offshore Sailing Academy, which can be accessed at www.yachtsman.co.za, is our visitors’ privacy. This privacy policy document describes the sorts of information that Offshore Sailing Academy – website: Yachtsman.co.za collects and records, as well as how we utilize it.
If you have any concerns or need more information about our privacy policy, please contact us at werner@yachtsman.co.za.
Consent
By using our website or any of our offline services, you hereby agree to our privacy policy and its conditions.
Information we gather
When we ask you to supply personal information, we will explain why you are requested to do so.
If you contact us directly or make a booking through the website, we may collect additional information about you, such as your name, email address, phone number, address ID number, sailing experience and interest.
When you subscribe to our newsletter, we may request your contact information, including your name, company name, address, email address, and phone number.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, such as website operation, personalization, analytics, product development, customer service, and marketing.
Except as specified in this policy, Offshore Sailing Academy does not release the personal information of users to any parties. To support the uses stated below, Offshore Sailing Academy may provide personal information to its officers, suppliers, agents, contractors, subcontractors, employees, insurers, and professional advisers as well as governing bodies and designated authorised agencies (all of whom will be subject to privacy responsibilities).
In conjunction with or during discussions for any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or purchase of all or a portion of the business by another firm, we may exchange or transfer your personal information.
Log files
Yachtsman follows a conventional process for using log files. These files keep track of who visits which websites. All hosting firms do this, and it is part of the hosting services’ analytics. Log files gather information such as IP addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit sites, and potentially the number of clicks.
These do not include any personally identifying information. The information is used to analyse trends, manage the site, track user movement on the website, and collect demographic statistics.
Cookies or browser cookies.
Our services may use cookies. A cookie is a tiny file stored on your device. You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to notify you when one is received. However, if you do not accept Cookies, you may be unable to utilize certain sections of our Service. Unless you have changed your browser settings to refuse cookies.
Web beacons.
Web beacons, also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs, are tiny electronic files that are sometimes included in email messages and certain parts of our service. They allow the company to track user activity on those pages, count the number of people who have visited those pages, and gather other website-related data (like tracking how popular a particular section is and ensuring system and server integrity).
Social media
Offshore Sailing Academy could let you interact and exchange content on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, among other social media sites. To enable the communications and features, these features may need us to install cookies, plug-ins, and/or APIs offered by such social media sites.
We could exchange information you give us or gather data about how you utilize these platforms. When you use these social networking sites, their privacy and data rules apply to the information you provide. For further details, we invite you to review these platforms’ privacy policies.
Additionally, you give us permission to share information with the selected social media platform if you choose to utilize any third-party social media platform or publish communications or material on any social media platform. We have no control over the rules or policies of any third-party platforms.
You use our platform at your own risk, and we disclaim all liability for how a third-party platform uses your information or material.
To distribute advertising material, we may also make advantage of the networks and advertising capabilities that these social media sites—like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter—offer. When you use these services, the social media platform must use cookies and/or pixels to show you advertisements when you’re on such sites.
Preservation of your personal information
Your personal data will only be kept by us for the duration required to fulfil the objectives outlined in this Privacy Policy. To the extent required to fulfil our legal duties (for instance, if we must keep your data on file to abide by relevant laws), settle disputes, and uphold our legal agreements and policies, we will keep and utilize your personal data.
Additionally, usage data will be kept by us for marketing and communication needs.
Deleting of personal data
You are entitled to have the personal data that we have collected about you deleted, or you may request that we help you in deleting it.
You can also contact us to request access to, updates for, or removal of any personal information you may have provided to us.
But please be advised that we may need to retain some information if we are compelled to by law or have good cause to do so.
Minors’ privacy
No one under the age of eighteen is addressed by our service. We do not intentionally ask anyone younger than 18 for personal information. Please get in touch with us if you are a parent or guardian and you know that your child has given us personal data. We take action to delete this information from our systems if we learn that we have obtained it from anybody under the age of 18 without first obtaining parental consent.
Security
Although we care about the security of your personal data, keep in mind that no method of electronic data transmission over the Internet or technique of electronic data storage is 100% safe. We make every effort to safeguard your personal data using methods that are financially feasible, but we are unable to provide complete security.
Data on an individual is kept in both electronic and paper records. All the personal information you submit will be kept on our secure servers by us, and we’ll take appropriate organizational and technical security measures to guard against data loss, theft, or tampering.
General
Offshore Sailing Academy has the right to sometimes modify this policy. If these modifications have a significant impact on how Offshore Sailing Academy uses or discloses personal information that it already has, it will ask for your approval.
You consent to Offshore Sailing Academy sending the requested newsletter and any other information or material that we think the user would find interesting by requesting or indicating that the user would like to receive Offshore Sailing Academy’s newsletter or any other marketing or resource material that can be requested on the website.
You can opt out of receiving communication from us by sending an email to bookings@yachtsman.co.za
By using the website, the user agrees that any processing or storing of their personal information is permitted, and they guarantee that any information they supply is correct and up to date.
To safeguard and uphold the confidentiality of personal information, we are dedicated to operating our business in line with these principles.
Please get in touch with us if you have any queries about our policy or your interactions with our website.