Privacy Policy
Last updated: February 03, 2021
At Knot My Boat Charters, LLC (“Knot My Boat Charters”, “Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”), accessible from www.knotmyboatcharters.com (“Website”), we understand the importance of your personal information and one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) contains types of information that is collected and recorded on our Website and how we use it.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our Website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collected on www.knotmyboatcharters.com. If our information practices change, we will post an updated Privacy Policy on our website with an updated revision date above. By using our website, you
hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than the Website. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the use of companies that Knot My Boat Charters does not employ or manage. The Website may contain links to third-party sites. The Company is not responsible for the content and/or privacy policies on other sites.
Information We Collect
We may collect personally identifiable information that can be used to contact you or identify you when you access our website, contact us by phone or email, or participate in a promotion/contest. Personal information may include name, email address, phone number, and postal address, company affiliation, birthday, and/or personal interests. We may also maintain a record of your product interests and past purchases. We may combine this information with information about you that we gather from our partners, unrelated third parties, and from any of our related brands.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- To personalize your experience - your information allows us to better respond to your individual needs and keep delivering content and products that you are most interested in.
- To improve our customer service experience - your information helps us more effectively respond to your customer service and support needs.
- To improve our website based on information and feedback we receive from you
- To process your transactions.
- To administer a contest, promotion, or survey.
- To contact you pertaining to your order, other products, services, contests, promotions, or surveys.
- To follow up with you after a phone, email, web form, or live chat correspondence.
- To find and prevent fraud
Sharing Information and Third Parties
We do not share, sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties. This does not include trusted third parties or hired agents who assist us in operating our website, conducting business, or servicing you with specific tasks. The Company’s hired agents do not have the right to use personal information we share with them beyond what is necessary to complete our tasks.
We reserve the right to share your personal information with legal authorities when enforcing the law, our site policies, or when protecting ours or others rights, property, or safety. We also reserve the right to share information with legal authorities and other companies for fraud protection.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
The security and protection of your personal information is important to us. As a company we maintain safe business practices and technological measures to ensure the protection of your private data. We offer the use of a secure server on our website and we do not gather sensitive credit card and/or billing information through our website. All official correspondences involving payment information will be through an external PCI compliant payment gateway that handles CC transactions, the completion of Payment Authorization Forms, and/or transmitting payment information over the phone. We also do not store payment information for past orders.
With these in mind, please note that no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic communication is 100% secure. Please be mindful that you are responsible for keeping account passwords and such items confidential. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted via the internet to our website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.
Cookies
Like any other website, www.knotmyboatcharters.com uses “cookies”. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies, but please note that if you choose to do so you may not be able to see portions of our website.
Social Media Websites
These Privacy Policy terms, in additions to our Terms and Conditions, apply to users of social media websites managed by us and hosted by third-party providers (e.g., Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, etc.). Any materials, ideas, or comments “Submitted Items”) submitted to us (images, photographs, videos, written messages, and sound recordings) shall be deemed as not confidential. By providing such items you grant us: 1) permission and 2) an irrevocable and unrestricted license to use, modify, reproduce, transmit, display, and distribute such Submitted Items for any purpose, and you warrant to us that no such Submitted Items violate or infringe upon any copyright, trademark, or any other intellectual property or other rights (including but not limited to invasion of privacy or defamation) of any person or entity. With this, we ask that users of our social media managed websites be respectful and mindful of their Submitted Items and by complying with the terms and policies of each respective Social Media Website Provider. In an effort to preserve the integrity of our social media websites, we reserve the right to remove comments or content from our social media websites that might be considered confrontational, offensive, discriminatory, unsolicited promotional marketing, or misleading. Further, we may block further posting on our social media websites by an individual that violates our Privacy Policy or Terms and Conditions. We claim no liability in any way connected to the use or access of users to our social media websites.
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Compliance
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to: 1) Request that a business that collects a consumers’ personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers; 2) Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected; and 3) Request that a business that sells a consumers’ personal data, not sell the consumers’ personal data. If you wish to make a request and/or exercise any of these rights, please write to us at our mailing address (located at the end of the page) addressed to the following department: Knot My Boat Charters, LLC. – California Privacy Legal Department.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Compliance
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Our website, services, products, social media, etc. are all intended for persons 18 years of age or older. No one under the age of 18 may provide any information to our company. If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from a person under 18 we will delete that information from our records.
With this and in compliance of COPPA, Knot My Boat Charters does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email, telephone, or postal mail with the address below:
Mailing Address:
Knot My Boat Charters
465 N Park Dr. Suite 4301
Chicago, IL 60611
Email:
contact@knotmyboatcharters.com
Phone:
312-235-1229
