Boating Made Simple PRIVACY
STATEMENT
Your privacy is
important to BoatingMadeSimple.com LLC
("BMS"). Our goal is to provide you with a
personalized Internet experience that
delivers the information and products that
are most relevant and helpful to you. In
connection with this Site, we may collect
information during your visits to
understand what differentiates you from
each of our other users and for other
reasons. This Privacy Policy will tell you
what information we collect about you and
about your use of
<www.BoatingMadeSimple.com> and all
other Web sites owned or operated by BMS
(collectively are referred to as the
"Site"). BMS can be contacted by telephone
at: Customer Service (9 AM - 5 PM EST /
Monday - Friday);
info@boatingmadesimple.com for Sales and
Product Information (24 Hours / 7 Days)
info@boatingmadesimple.com; or by e-mail at
info@BoatingMadeSimple.com.
1. (Purposely
deleted)
2. Collection of
Personal Information from Site
Visitors
BMS may collect and
track: (a) User-Supplied Information - When
you order products from BMS through our
online order form, when you sign up for our
message board, or through other forms on
the Site; (b) Server Log Information - When
you visit an Internet Web site, you
disclose certain information about
yourself, such as your Internet Protocol
(IP) address, the time of your visit, and
the referring location (e.g., the Site or
page that offered a link to a BMS page);
(c) Statistical Data - In order to solve
technical problems with the Site and to
calculate overall usage statistics, we
collect aggregate and user-specific
information on which pages you access; and
(d) Cookies - In order to offer and provide
a customized, personal service, BMS may use
cookies to store and help track your
information. Internet "cookies" save data
about individual visitors, such as your
name, password, screen preferences, and the
pages of a site you viewed. Our Site uses
cookies to keep track of your shopping
cart. We also use cookies to make sure you
don't see the same ad repeatedly. When you
revisit the Site, BMS may recognize you by
the Internet cookie and customize your
experience accordingly. Other than that, we
do not use cookies to re-contact you. You
may decline Internet cookies, if any, by
using the appropriate feature of your Web
client software, if available.
Third Party
Sites
If you access a
third party site from a link on this Site,
any information you disclose on that site
is not subject to this Privacy Policy.
Sponsors, partners, or advertisers on BMS
may also use their own cookies when you
click on their advertisement or link to
their site or service, or even if the
advertisement simply appears on a page that
you are viewing. Additionally, these other
sites or services may use means other than
cookies to collect information about you.
Some advertisers use companies other than
BMS to administer their ads, and these
companies may also collect personal or
non-personal information through the use of
cookies on this Site. We do not control
these third parties' use of cookies,
collection of information, or how they
manage such information. You should review
the privacy policy of other sites you visit
or link to from this Site to understand how
these other sites use cookies, collect and
handle information, and how they use the
information they collect through the use of
cookies and other means on their own
sites.
Message
Boards
Please remember
that any information (including without
limitation personal and medical
information) that you reveal on a BMS
Message Board is not protected by this
Privacy Policy.
Children
BMS is committed to
protecting the privacy of children. This
Site is not designed or intended to attract
children under the age of 13. We do not
collect or accept personal information from
any person we actually know is under the
age of 18.
3. Use of Personal
Information Collected; Disclosure of
Personal Information to Third
Parties
Except as set forth
herein or as specifically agreed to by you,
BMS will not disclose any personal
information it gathers from you on the Site
to third parties. Personal information
collected by BMS may be used by BMS for
many reasons, for example, for a
statistical analysis of users' behavior,
for product development, for content
improvement, for fulfillment of or in
connection with a requested transaction or
recordkeeping, or to customize the content
and layout of the Site. Additionally, we
may release personal information to third
parties: (1) to comply with valid legal
requirements such as a law, regulation,
search warrant, subpoena, or court order;
or (2) in special cases, such as a physical
threat to you or others. Personal
information may also be disclosed or
distributed to another party with which BMS
enters or reasonably may enter into a
corporate transaction, such as, for
example, a merger, consolidation,
acquisition, or asset purchase, but, except
as spelled out in this Privacy Statement,
we will not sell you personally
identifiable information to a third party.
We may also use information gathered from
you to contact with you with product,
service, or information offerings that we
feel may be of interest to you.
BMS may provide to
third parties non-personal information
about users of the Site in general
("Aggregate Information") that does not
allow you to be identified or contacted and
that is combined with the non-personal
information of other users. For example, we
might inform third parties regarding the
number of users of the Site and the
activities they conduct while on the Site.
We might also inform a product manufacturer
(that may or may not be an advertiser on
this Site) that "20% of our users live in
California" or that "15% of our users have
genital warts." Depending on the
circumstances, we may or may not charge
third parties for such information. We have
no control over how third parties use such
information.
4. Security
Measures
BMS has implemented
numerous security features to prevent the
unauthorized release of or access to
personal information. For example, credit
card information is maintained in encrypted
form on a secure, password-protected
server, and we do not maintain the e-mail
addresses of persons to whom anonymous STD
notifications are transmitted. Please be
advised, however, that the confidentiality
of any communication or material
transmitted to or from BMS via this Site or
e-mail cannot be guaranteed. Accordingly,
BMS is not responsible for the security of
information transmitted via the Internet.
For more private communication, contacted
by telephone at: Customer Service (9 AM - 5
PM EST / Monday - Friday);
info@boatingmadesimple.com for Sales and
Product Information (24 Hours / 7 Days)
info@boatingmadesimple.com; by e-mail at
webmaster@BoatingMadeSimple.com.
5. Access to Personal
Information; How to Correct
Inaccuracies
Upon your request
via postal mail or e-mail, BMS will provide
you a summary of any of your personally
identifiable information, which information
has been voluntarily provided to BMS
through a message board registration,
customer order, or other voluntary means
via the Site and which information is
retained by BMS.
Should you wish to
modify, correct, change or update any of
the information you supply on or via the
Site, you should contact us at
webmaster@BoatingMadeSimple.com or at the
postal address set forth in this Privacy
Statement.
6. Opt-Out
Except as necessary
for BMS to provide the services or products
requested by you, you may opt out of having
your personally identifiable information,
which has been voluntarily provided to BMS
through a message board registration,
customer order, or other voluntary means,
retained by BMS, used by BMS, or disclosed
to third parties, by contacting BMS via
postal mail or e-mail at the addresses
above. (This does not apply to collection
of the type of Web browser of the visitor
to the Site or to information provided or
collected that does not meet the above
description.)
7. BMS's Right to
Change Privacy Statement
BMS reserves the
right to change this Privacy Statement at
any time, with or without notice; your
continued use of this Site after any change
is made to this Privacy Statement signifies
your understanding of and intention and
agreement to be bound by such change. It is
your responsibility to monitor this Privacy
Statement for changes.
