Effective date: November 03, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cruising Guide Publications (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates cruising guides.com<\/a> and the Cruising Guide mobile application (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. When you access the Service with a mobile device, this Usage Data may include information such as the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. Examples of Cookies we use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cruising Guide Publications uses the collected data for various purposes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are located outside and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to and process it there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cruising Guide Publications will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Legal Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cruising Guide Publications may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analysing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and\/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:<\/p>\n\n\n\nDefinitions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Service means www.cruisingguides.com<\/a> and the Cruising Guides mobile application operated by Land and Sea Software Corp.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nInformation Collection and Use<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Types of Data Collected<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Personal Data<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Usage Data<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Tracking & Cookies Data<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Use of Data<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Transfer of Data<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Disclosure of Data<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Security of Data<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Service Providers<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Analytics<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
You may opt-out of certain Google Analytics features through your mobile device settings, such as your device advertising settings or by following the instructions provided by Google in their Privacy Policy: https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy<\/a>
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
Firebase is an analytics service provided by Google Inc.
You may opt-out of certain Firebase features through your mobile device settings, such as your device advertising settings or by following the instructions provided by Google in their Privacy Policy: https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy<\/a>
We also encourage you to review the Google’s policy for safeguarding your data: https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/6004245<\/a>
For more information on what type of information Firebase collects, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nLinks to Other Sites<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Children’s Privacy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Changes to This Privacy Policy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Contact Us<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n