Privacy Policy

Last Updated 1/24/2017

This Privacy Statement sets forth the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to the CAREFREE YACHT CHARTERS Platform and associated websites (sometimes referred to herein as the "CAREFREE Platform" which shall include carefreecharters.com) and does not apply to information we collect in any other fashion.

1. Collection of Information by CAREFREE
By using the CAREFREE Platform, we may request that you provide personal information, including your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number and other generalized background information. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by us. This information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses, but is not linked to your personal information. We also collect device information, such as your hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information including phone number. By using the CAREFREE Platform, we may also collect and store certain information in server logs, including details of how you used our the CAREFREE Platform, your search queries, your IP address, device related information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your CAREFREE Account, and your location information.

Regarding IP Address and Clickstream Data, our server automatically collects data about your server's Internet address when you visit us. This information, known as an Internet Protocol address, or IP Address, is a number that's automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider whenever you're on the Internet. When you request pages from our web site, our servers may log your IP Address and sometimes your domain name. Your IP Address is used to help identify you and to gather demographic information about our customers as a whole, but does not include personally identifiable information. Our server may also record the referring page that linked you to us (e.g., another web site or a search engine); the portions of the CAREFREE Platform you visited; the web site or App that you visit after the CAREFREE Platform; any search terms you have entered on the CAREFREE Platform, or a referral site; and other web usage activity and data logged by our web servers.

2. Our Use of Your Information
We use the information we gather on the CAREFREE Platform, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operating and improving the CAREFREE Platform, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services that we offer. We may use your contact information in order to send you email or other communications regarding updates at the CAREFREE Platform. The nature and frequency of these messages will vary depending upon the information we have about you. We additionally may employ Internet tracking and analytic tools such as Google Analytics to better understand and deliver a user experience. We also use the information that we gather for internal system administration, to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our web site. Such information may also be used to gather demographic information, such as country of origin and Internet Service Provider. We may link this information with your Personal Information.

3. Disclosure of Personal Information to Others
We do not disclose your personal information to third parties, or your combined personal and demographic information or information about your use of The CAREFREE Platform, except as follows;

-We disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf, including hosting our Web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals may have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party.

-We also disclose information to the central listing agent of the vessel, its crew, and the vessel owner as necessary, so that the purpose of the CAREFREE Platform can be effectively accomplished.

We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of CAREFREE if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to (1) meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (2) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations (3) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues (4) Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of CAREFREE, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.

4. Use of Cookies and Local Storage
The CAREFREE Platform may contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited those pages. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about our Web site usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. You may not decline web beacons, however, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or modifying your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis. We use a third party supplied data stream for listings of potential charters. These third parties may also use Web beacons within their platforms or listings. We may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage (including HTML 5) and application data caches.

5. Access to, Opt-Out and/or Modification of Your Information
The CAREFREE Platform may provide account holders limited access to or the ability to modify Your personal information prior to the conclusion of a charter. Whenever you use our services, we aim to provide you with access to your personal information. If that information is wrong, we strive to give you ways to update it quickly or to delete it – unless we have to keep that information for legitimate business or legal purposes. When updating your personal information, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request.

If you are receiving newsletters, commercial emails or other communications from CAREFREE, but subsequently change your mind, you may opt-out by selecting an appropriate link in those email communications as indicated for the opt out. We may retain indefinitely all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use of the CAREFREE Platform more efficient, practical, and relevant. To the extent that we utilize the Google Analytics tools available, you have options with respect to some of those tracking tools or features available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

6. Security of the Personal Information
We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. We may offer you a multi-step verification when you access your CAREFREE Account. We restrict access to personal information to CAREFREE employees, contractors and agents (including the third parties who list the specific vessels for charter)who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.

7. Children
The CAREFREE Platform is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.

8. Changes to Privacy Statement
If we decide to materially change our Privacy Policy for the CAREFREE Platform, we will post those changes through a prominent notice on the web site so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it. If at any time, you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or believe that we have not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please feel free to email us at info@CAREFREECHARTERS.com.

9. Contact Information
The CAREFREE Platform operates under the control of Carefree Yacht Charters, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company with its principal place of business at 401 E Las Olas Blvd. #130-232 Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301.