Privacy Policy

Yacht Only appreciates your use of and contributions to our website or our related services (Services), respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, Yacht Only provides this Privacy Policy, which explains our information practices and the choices you can make about the way in which your information is collected and used on this website. We encourage you to read this privacy policy to understand the information we collect and how we use and disclose it.  

No users from one yacht brokerage company are allowed access to the confidential transaction information of any other yacht brokerage company, including the clients or contracts that are pending or fully executed.

1. Information Collected by Yacht Only.

When you use the Services, we collect a variety of information from and about you, your devices, and your interaction with the Services. Some of this information identifies you directly or can be used to identify you when combined with other data.

• Information you provide. When using the Services, you may be asked to provide personal information about yourself, such as your name, contact information, payment information, details about you or inventory you are interested in, or financial information. This may occur, for example, when you correspond with a broker via the Services, or complete other forms on the website. You may also provide information about a third party through the Services, for example, if you share a listing with a recipient via email. We may combine this information with other information we collect from your interaction with the Services or from other companies.

• Voluntary Information for Services and Features. We collect personally identifiable information when you choose to use certain features of the website, including, but not limited to: 1) completing, submitting, receiving and signing forms 2) consenting to receive email. When you choose to use these features, we require you to provide your “Contact Information” in addition to other personal information that may be required. Occasionally, we may also request information such as usage preferences and demographics, which will help us better serve you and our other users in the future.

• Cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.We use various technologies to collect information automatically when you access and use the Services, including cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies. Cookies are bits of electronic information that can be transferred to your computer or other electronic device to uniquely identify your browser. When you use the Services, we may place one or more cookies on your computer or other electronic device or use other technologies that provide similar functionality. We may use cookies to connect your activity on the Services with other information we store about you in your account profile or your prior interactions on the Services to, for example, store your preferences. The use of cookies helps us improve the quality of the Services to you, by identifying information, which is most interesting to you, tracking trends, measuring the effectiveness of advertising, or storing information you may want to retrieve on a regular basis.  At any time, you may adjust settings on your browser to refuse cookies according to the instructions related to your browser. However, if you choose to disable cookies, some of the website features will not operate properly. The pages on the website may also include web beacons or pixels, which are electronic files. This is to: count users who have visited that page; track activity over time and across different websites; determine users’ interactions with emails we send; identify certain cookies on the computer or other electronic device accessing that page; or to collect other related information. This information may be associated with your unique browser, device identifier, or Internet Protocol address. We may, for example, implement a pixel on the pages of the Services where you view a certain advertisement so that we can track whether you visit a website associated with that advertisement at a later time.

• Third-party cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.We work with service providers and advertising networks to track and manage cookie information and your activities while you’re using the Services and your online activities over time and across different websites and devices. For example, third parties may use cookies to deliver advertisements to you based on your visit to the Services.
• Mobile device and mobile browser information.You may adjust settings on your mobile device and mobile browser regarding cookies and sharing of certain information, such as your mobile device model or the language your mobile device uses, by adjusting the privacy and security settings on your mobile device.
• Location Data.If you enable location services on your mobile device, Yacht Only may collect the location of your device, which we use to provide you with location-based information and advertising. If you wish to deactivate this feature, you can disable location services on your mobile device.
• Usage logs.We collect information about your use of our Services, including the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, your IP address and the page you visited before navigating to our Services. We also collect information about the computer or mobile device you use to access our Services, such as the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, mobile network information, and browsing behavior.

Our Services may also use a third-party ad server to present the advertisements that you may see on our Services. These third-party ad servers may use cookies, Web beacons, clear gifs or similar technologies to help present such advertisements, and to help measure and research the advertisements’ effectiveness. The use of these technologies by these third-party ad servers is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by our Privacy Policy.

2. How Yacht Only Uses Your Information

Yacht Only generally uses the information collected about you to provide and improve the Services, including to:

• provide and deliver the Services;
• send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages;
• respond to your comments, questions and requests and provide customer service;
• communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, rewards and events offered by Yacht Only and others, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you;
• monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our Services;
• revise, modify, and update existing Services and develop new Services;
• detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect the rights and property of Yacht Only;
• personalize the Services and present you with advertising, content or features that we believe will be of interest or useful to you;
• facilitate contests, sweepstakes and promotions and process and deliver entries and rewards;
• link or combine with information we get from others to help understand your needs and provide you with better service; and
• carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected

Email Management. You may receive email from Yacht Only for a variety of reasons – for example, if you took an action by entering your email on the website within a form. Please note that, even if you unsubscribe from certain email correspondences, we may still need to email you with important transactional or administrative information.

3. When Yacht Only Shares and Discloses Your Information

Your privacy is important and we are committed to protecting your information that identifies you personally. We will only share personal information that you provide outside the public areas of the Services in the following circumstances:

• Service providers to Yacht Only. When Yacht Only hires a service provider to help operate the Services or our business, we may give access to personal information only as appropriate to perform the service for Yacht Only, and subject to the terms of this privacy policy. Yacht Only always remains responsible for the privacy of your personal information that is shared with service providers.
• Partners with whom we conduct business.When Yacht Only partners with other businesses to offer products and services, we may share information with those business partners only as needed to provide those products and services and only subject to the terms of this privacy policy.
• Legal obligation or protection from harm.When Yacht Only has a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of the Terms of Use, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, (d) support auditing and compliance functions, or (e) protect the rights, property, or safety of Yacht Only, its users, or the public against harm.
• Business transfers.If and when Yacht Only is involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of transfer or sale of some or all of its business, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, we may share your personal information in connection with that transaction.

4. Interest-Based Advertising

We participate in interest-based advertising. This means that when you use the Services, we or third-party service providers or advertisers may use cookies (that they collect or that we provide to them) or other similar technologies to collect information about your use of the Services (including mobile applications) or your online activities over time and across different websites and devices. Collected information may include the content you view, the date and time that you view this content, and the website that referred you to the Services, and this information may be associated with your unique browser, device identifier, or Internet Protocol (IP) address. These practices help tailor advertisements that are relevant and useful to you. These tailored advertisements may appear on the Services or on other websites, applications or properties.

In addition, if you have provided your email address to us, we may use a scrambled, unreadable form (a hash) of your email address to deliver tailored advertisements to you on the Services or on other websites, including via Facebook’s Custom Audience Feature or other similar tools. 

5. Third-Party Links and Websites

Throughout the Services, we may link to the websites of other companies and/or individuals. Further, certain functionalities on the Services may involve the distribution of your listing information to third-party websites. These third-party websites may collect information about users on those websites, and Yacht Onlys privacy policy does not extend to these external websites and third parties. Please refer directly to these third parties and websites regarding their privacy policies.

6. Security and Retention of Information

Yacht Only takes reasonable steps to protect the information users share with us from unauthorized use, access, and disclosure, both during transmission and at rest. However, no transmission of information via the Internet nor electronic storage solution can be entirely secure, so please be aware that we cannot guarantee absolute security.

You can access, update, and delete personal information you provide to Yacht Only through contact with an account management representative of Yacht Only by sending an email to info@yachtonly.com.

Yacht Only will retain and use information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

7. Government and Private Party Information Requests

Yacht Only may occasionally receive various forms of legal process from government agencies and private parties requesting information about Yacht Only users. Before we produce information, we will attempt to notify affected users and give them an opportunity to object unless notification is prohibited by law or if we believe that notification would create a risk of harm or be otherwise counterproductive.

8. Disclaimer to Security

By consenting to the Terms of Use of the website and hence the Privacy Policy, you consent that no data transmission over the Internet is completely secure. We cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you provide to us and you transmit such information to us at your own risk.

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

Please note that this policy may be amended from time to time. You should check back for the most current version before relying on any of the provisions in this privacy policy.