This Privacy Policy explains how Oyster Services collects, uses, and protects any information you provide when using this website. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy, and any personal information shared with us will be handled following this policy.

Oyster Services may update this policy periodically. We recommend checking this page occasionally to ensure you’re informed about any changes.

Information We Collect

We may collect the following information:

• Name and job title
• Contact information, including email address
• Demographic details like postcode, preferences, and interests
• Information relevant to customer surveys or promotional offers

How We Use Your Information

Collecting this information helps us understand your needs and provide better service. Specifically, we use it for:

• Internal record-keeping
• Enhancing our products and services
• Sending periodic promotional emails about new products, special offers, or information we think may interest you.
• Market research to improve our website and services, including contact via email, phone, fax, or mail
• Personalizing the website to match your interests

We are committed to ensuring your information is secure. We have implemented suitable measures to protect against unauthorized access or disclosure.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are small files that request permission to be stored on your computer’s hard drive. Once accepted, cookies help analyze web traffic or recognize when you visit a particular page, enabling a customized experience. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual, tailoring operations based on your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are visited, helping us analyze webpage traffic and improve our site for customer needs. This data is used only for statistical analysis, after which it is removed from the system.

Cookies enhance your website experience by helping us identify the pages you find useful. Cookies do not grant access to your computer or provide any information other than what you choose to share. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can modify your settings to decline them if preferred, which may limit website functionality.

Controlling Your Personal Information

You may restrict the collection or use of your personal information in these ways:

• When filling out forms on the website, look for a box to opt out of your information being used for direct marketing.
• If you’ve previously agreed to our use of your information for marketing, you can change your preferences anytime by contacting us at enquiry@oystersailing.in.

We do not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties without permission unless required by law. We may, however, send promotional information about third parties if you indicate interest.

Who we are

Suggested text: Our website address is: https://oystersailing.in.

Comments

Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.