This privacy policy sets out how we handle the information we receive from customers and everyone who uses our products and services. We take this seriously and will always treat this information with the utmost respect and care.
WHO WE ARE
BVI Yacht Charters is a charter company for bareboat and crewed charters in the Virgin Islands or Caribbean. Our website address is: https://www.bviyachtcharters.com.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT
Comments/TESTIMONIALS
When visitors leave comments and testimonials on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. When comments on blogs and testimonials are approved by us, they will be shown on our website for other to read.Pictures uploaded in your testimonial will be shown on our website and can be used for marketing purposes in Social Media and our Newsletters
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
If you fill in any of our contact or inquiry forms, we collect this data on our secure server and will contact you back with information for your inquiry. Your email address and name will be added to our Newsletter list.
Cookies
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
WHO WE SHARE OUR DATA WITH
Nobody! We only use your data for internal use. Only our employees and website administrators, who have access to our server and the data of this website will be able to see your data.
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
If you leave a comment, testimonial or fill in a contact/inquiry form, the metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments and inquiries automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA
If you have filled in any form on this site, or have left comments or testimonials, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. All data from contact & inquiry forms, comments and testimonials on this website are stored on our secure servers. Only your name and email address is sent to our Newsletter Campaign builder Mailchimp.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
How we protect your data
We’re serious about guarding the security of your personal information and the details of any inquiries you make. We take appropriate organizational and technical security measures to protect your data against unauthorized disclosure or processing. We use a secure server to store the information you give us when you register or make a booking (including your credit card details).
What is not included in this policy
This policy doesn’t apply to information about our employees or shareholders. It also doesn’t cover other companies or organizations (which advertise our products and services and use cookies, tags and other technology) collecting and using your personal information to offer relevant online advertisements to you. Read our cookie policy here for information about how we use cookies on our website.
You can link to other organizations’ websites, apps, products, services and social media from our websites. This privacy policy doesn’t apply to how those other organizations use your personal information.
You should review their privacy policies before giving them your personal information.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For any questions, remarks or requests concerning our use of your data and this Privacy Policy, please contact Abbie Turner at abbie@bviyc.com. You can ask us to correct, complete, delete or stop using any personal information we hold about you. If you do not want to receive our Newsletters, you can unsubscribe at the bottom of our Newsletter or send Abbie Turner an email with your request.