Website Privacy policy.

OUR COMMITMENT

Highland Yacht Club owns and operates a website at www.highlandyachtclub.com with public access pages, as well as a Members Only section requiring a password login.

Highland Yacht Club (HYC) is committed to protecting your privacy and personal information when you are using the HYC website. Subject to the other disclosures set out in this Privacy notice, HYC does not disclose, give or sell any personal information about site visitors.

This Privacy Statement explains the current information management practices on our website.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Information submitted by website users on a voluntary basis is used for the purpose of providing you with information regarding HYC services, as well as to provide you with information you have requested. Information from users is only maintained as needed to fulfill the stated purpose.

USING “COOKIES”

Like many other websites, the HYC website uses " cookies". Cookies are small bits of data that we send to your computer to track visitor activity on our site. This information is used to help us develop content that responds to the interests of our site visitors.

TRACKING IP ADDRESSES

An IP address (Internet Protocol Address) is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are using the Internet. Web servers (the computers that "serve up" Web pages) identify your computer by its IP address. We collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration and to report aggregate information on the use of our site. When you request pages from our site, our servers log your IP address. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when it is deemed necessary to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use or to protect our service, site, customers, or others' privacy from those that might abuse such.

WEB ANALYTICS

In order to serve you better, we use web analytics services to help analyze the use of the HYC website. This tool uses cookies to collect and generate information about your visits to our site (including your IP address) that is transmitted to servers in an anonymous form for processing. We may study patterns of website activity so we can improve the experience of visitors to our site.

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND WEBSITE LINKS

When using HYC Facebook or Twitter accounts, please refer to the privacy statements from those organizations. Any information that you provide to or through another website or a social media platform is not collected or controlled by HYC. Social media platforms or other websites are not bound by our Privacy Policy. You should review the privacy policies of any linked website or social media platform before providing any personal or other information.

SECURITY

We have taken steps to make sure all information received from our online visitors is as secure as reasonably possible against unauthorized access and use.

SUMMARY

Please be assured that we take your privacy seriously and make every reasonable effort to protect it. If you have questions or comments about our privacy policy, please let us know by contacting Communications@highlandyachtclub.com

HYC reserves the right to change this privacy statement at any time. Any changes to the privacy policy will be posted on this website.

Last Update – June, 2019