Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. We have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Sail Boston, Inc. (“Sail Boston”) operates sailboston.com. It is Sail Boston’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Sail Boston collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Sail Boston’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Sail Boston’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Sail Boston may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Sail Boston also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users leaving comments on our blogs. Sail Boston only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Sail Boston’s websites choose to interact with Sail Boston in ways that require Sail Boston to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Sail Boston gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Sail Boston updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Sail Boston collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Sail Boston. Sail Boston does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Sail Boston may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Sail Boston may monitor the most popular pages on sailboston.com or use Google ReCAPTCHA to help prevent spam. Sail Boston may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Sail Boston does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Sail Boston discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Sail Boston’s behalf or to provide services available at Sail Boston’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Sail Boston’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Sail Boston will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Sail Boston discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Sail Boston believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Sail Boston, third parties or the public at large. If you signed up for the Sail Boston newsletter through the sign up form on the website and have supplied your email address, Sail Boston may occasionally send you emails to tell you about Sail Boston news and events. Sail Boston takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Sail Boston uses cookies to help Sail Boston identify and track visitors, their usage of Sail Boston website, and their website access preferences. Sail Boston visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Sail Boston’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Sail Boston’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Sail Boston may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Sail Boston’s sole discretion. Sail Boston encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Last update: October 2024