Privacy Policy for Ocean Super yachts.com

All personal information collected and used from the Ocean Super Yachts.com site will be processed in accordance with the 1998 Data Protection Act.

INFORMATION COLLECTED

Online Advertisements
In order to place an advertisement on the Ocean Super Yachts web site, you will need to register. We will require your registered company details and in the case of a private advertiser; your name, date of birth, e-mail address, postal address and postcode/zip code. Registrants are also presented with the option of supplying their personal mobile/cell phone number, insurance renewal dates, and the make and model of any boats owned. Credit Card information is collected over a secure connection.

Stolen Boat Searches
In order to conduct a yacht search on the Global data base for stolen yachts, we will require you to supply a postcode/zip code and a selection of identifying criteria matching your yacht, for example make, model, when and where puchased.

USE OF INFORMATION

General
Ocean Supper Yachts is part of the OSY Network and information supplied in this site may be shared with other group members. When you register with our site, we ask you whether you would like to receive our email newsletters detailing changes to the site, offers and services from third party companies via email and/or via post that we feel may be of interest to you. You have the ability to opt-out of receiving all or any of these offers during registration.

We have taken measures to ensure that information supplied to us is held securely. As a consequence - we may occasionally request proof of identity before allowing access to your personal information.

You have the right to access all personal information supplied to Ocean Super Yachts and rectify any inaccuracies on the information held (this service is FREE of charge). Further enquiries should be made to: personalservice@oceansuperyachts.com

Amendments and Updates to this policy may be made from time to time. Any revisions will be posted on this page so you will always be aware of what information we collect.

Online Advertisements
Telephone numbers and email addresses supplied as part of a Yacht advertisement will be published within the relevant advertisement for the duration of the booking, to enable a potential buyer to contact the seller. The postcode/zip code is collected in order to provide a positioning on each Yacht within our database, thereby enabling potential buyers to locate Yachts for sale within their chosen location.

Credit card information is used solely for the purpose of payment processing. Ocean Super Yachts retains no record of credit card details.

All details supplied to Ocean Super Yachts with your on-line advertisement will be safeguarded both by our privacy policy and also by the 1998 Data Protection Act. We will only ever pass your personal details to third parties to enable fulfilment of the advertising package which you have selected. Where advertising packages include additional benefits your agreement to these terms and conditions includes consent for your data to be used by others to provide those benefits, subject always to your being offered the opportunity to opt out of those benefits upon receipt.

Yacht Searches
Postcodes/zip codes and boat information are collected in order to provide a relevant match of Yachts against a specified search. The inclusion of the postcode/zip code enables us to provide the potential buyer with a range of Yachts within a chosen World location.

Registration
Email addresses are collected in order to send registrants their chosen password, providing them with online access to their registration details. The user can access this information at any time in order to update their details or change the option on whether they would like to receive communication from Ocean Super Yachts or selected third parties. Other registration information is collected in order:

• To generate an overall audience profile of visitors using the Ocean Super Yachts web site. This information is then used to assist in developing relevant content on the site as well as ensuring that marine trade advertisers looking to reach specific audience groups are encouraged to place their content or promotions on our the site.
• To provide our web site visitors with the option to receive the Ocean Super Yachts monthly email bulletin, as well as the option to receive email and postal offers from selected third party companies that Ocean Super Yachts believes may be of interest to them. If a visitor has supplied insurance renewal date information and/or boat ownership details, it provides Ocean Super Yachts with the potential to better target that visitor with relevant and timely consumer offers by email or post, providing that visitor has opted to receive notification on such offers.
• To support our E-alerts functionality - whereby visitors to our site can store settings on Yacht searches and/or set up alerts to be notified (by email) - when a specified Yacht appears for sale on the Ocean Super Yachts web site. Unless a visitor supplies their email address, we are unable to send such alerts.
• To limit access to the full range of fields within the search form in order to maintain an overall faster search facility. By providing limited access to all our search fields, notably free text entry boxes, we are able to limit the impact on the performance of our search engine during periods of intense user activity. Whilst all users gain unhindered access to the key database fields, (such as Make and Model) fields that generate more intensive database processing (such as free text fields), are limited to those users who register.
• To support our 'Send To Mobile' functionality - whereby visitors to our site can send details of Yachts for sale to mobile phones.

USE OF COOKIES

When you visit our web site we issue a "cookie" or unique identification code that enables us to recognise your computer and store settings to help facilitate your use of our site.

If your computer is configured to accept cookies we will be able to provide time saving functionality such as:

• the ability to pre-fill the search form with your postcode/zip code, thus preventing the need to re-input it each time you need to run a search.
• unhindered access to all the fields within our advanced search settings.
• ready access to an online record on past advertisements you may have placed via the site.
• access to our E-alert functionality.

If your computer is cookie enabled we are also able to limit the number of occasions you are exposed to certain display advertisements on our site (such as banners and pop-up boxes). On most occasions this will mean you never see the same pop-up advertisement more than twice each time you visit the Ocean Super Yachts web site.

Please note you need to enable cookies in your browser in order to place an advert. For further information on cookies or for details on how to delete them or refuse their installation on your computer, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/

Why we use cookies
Ocean Super Yachts uses cookies for 4 purposes:

• To enable the delivery of functionality that improves the ease and speed of using the Ocean Super Yachts web site (see above).
• To frequency cap display advertisements, particularly pop-up boxes. By limiting advertisement exposure we provide a more compelling user experience for site visitors and also ensure that advertisements on Ocean Super Yachts are more evenly spread across our user base.
• To enable us to track the relative demand for different types of Yacht on the site. Such information enables us to better target advertising at users searching for specific boats.
• To enable us to track the relative popularity of disparate parts of our site. This in turn enables us to concentrate our efforts on developing those parts of the site that are generating the greatest consumer demand.