Privacy

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This privacy policy covers the use of Harbour Exchange web site at http://www.harbourexchange.com, MyBoatingInfo.com web site and BoatGoblin.com web¬† site (collectively “Harbour Exchange”) including how Harbour Exchange treats personal information that Harbour Exchange collects and receives. Pursuant to Harbour Exchange’s Terms of Use, you must be 18 years and older to use this site or have permission from a legal guardian. Therefore, this policy makes no provision for individuals under 18 years old.

Effective Date: 01/01/2009

Information Collection and How it is Used

General Information:

• Harbour Exchange will not sell or disclose your name or e-mail address to third parties without your explicit consent, except as specified in this privacy policy.

• Harbour Exchange collects personal information when you register to use Harbour Exchange services or you post content on Harbour Exchange. At registration you are asked for your email address and certain other optional information.

• Harbour Exchange automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookies, and the pages you request.

‚Ä¢ Harbour Exchange uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provisioning, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting. IP addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page. Your IP address is stored in Harbour Exchange’s user registration databases when you register with Harbour Exchange. IP addresses may be used for various research purposes.

Service-related Announcements

The Harbour Exchange will send you a welcome/confirmation email when you sign up for Harbour Exchange’s services. Receipt of this email is required for using Harbour Exchange’s services. Harbour Exchange will send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so.You may not opt-out of service-related communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account by contacting us and telling us which email address you signed up with.

Administrative Messages

Harbour Exchange may periodically email you with administrative messages. Harbour Exchange will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. Your information may be combined with information Harbour Exchange collects from other companies and used to improve and personalize services, content and advertising. If you don’t wish to receive administrative messages or participate in these programs, simply opt-out by contacting us.

Choice/Opt-out

If you no longer wish to receive administrative messages, you may opt-out by contacting us.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use Harbour Exchange products or services that require you to “sign in,” and you may not be able to take full advantage of the Harbour Exchange service. Harbour Exchange uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to: Access your information when you “sign in”; keep track of preferences you specify while you are using Harbour Exchange’s services; display the most appropriate advertising banners, based on your interests and activity on Harbour Exchange; estimate and report Harbour Exchange’s total audience size and traffic; conduct research to improve Harbour Exchange’s content and services.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

When you post a message, your Harbour Exchange ID or alias is visible to other users. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Harbour Exchange may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate Harbour Exchange’s Terms of Use. Harbour Exchange may disclose personally identifiable information to parties in compliance with Harbour Exchange’s Copyright Policy, as Harbour Exchange in Harbour Exchange’s sole discretion believes necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity. In such events, Harbour Exchange may disclose name, street address, city, state, post code, country, phone number, email address and company name. Harbour Exchange may share aggregated demographic information with business partners.Harbour Exchange will not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with nonaffiliated parties except as specified in this Privacy Policy to provide products or services you have requested or when Harbour Exchange has your permission. It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Harbour Exchange’s Terms of Use, as specified in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise required by law. Harbour Exchange will transfer information about you if Harbour Exchange is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Harbour Exchange will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the Harbour Exchange web site before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. As part of the buying and selling process, you may obtain another Harbour Exchange user’s email address, shipping address and/or other information. Pursuant to Harbour Exchange’s Terms of Use, you have a limited license to use this information. This information should only be used for Harbour Exchange related communications or for Harbour Exchange facilitated transactions. Harbour Exchange has not granted you a license to use the information for unsolicited commercial messages. Without limiting the foregoing, without express consent from the user, you are not licensed to add any Harbour Exchange user to your email or physical mail list.Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy and Harbour Exchange’s ability to keep the community free from bad actors, Harbour Exchange will not otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement, other government officials, or other third parties without a subpoena, court order, legal process, or substantially similar legal procedure, except when Harbour Exchange believes in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to protect Harbour Exchange’s rights, prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss, or to report suspected illegal activity.

Social Networking, forums, chat rooms etc

If you use the Social platform or a form or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by others could be used to send you unsolicited messages. Harbour Exchange is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Third Parties

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information Harbour Exchange collects from you. If you disclose your information to others, whether they are buyers or sellers on Harbour Exchange or throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. Harbour Exchange does not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. Harbour Exchange encourages you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

Editing and Deleting Account Information

You can change your Harbour Exchange Account Information (except your username), at any time. Harbour Exchange may send you certain communications relating to the Harbour Exchange service, such as service-related announcements and administrative messages that are considered part of your Harbour Exchange account. You can delete your Harbour Exchange account by contacting us. Please note that your identification, billing and contact information may remain in Harbour Exchange’s records for some period. Harbour Exchange limits access to personal information about you to employees who Harbour Exchange believes reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. Your Harbour Exchange Account Information is password-protected. If your personally identifiable information changes you may correct or update it by making the change on Your Harbour Exchange Page. You may delete or deactivate your account by contacting us or by postal mail at the contact information listed below. Harbour Exchange will respond to your request within 10-20 business days.

Security

Harbour Exchange follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once Harbour Exchange receives it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore Harbour Exchange cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on Harbour Exchange’s Web site, you can contact us.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

If the privacy policy is changed, Harbour Exchange will post changes so that you are aware of those changes. Harbour Exchange reserves the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If Harbour Exchange makes material changes to this policy you will be notified here, by email, or other places Harbour Exchange deems appropriate.

Questions

If you have questions or suggestions you can contact us