Privacy Policy

OVERVIEW

Buddy Boating is a membership based boating group which gives its members access to a variety of well-maintained, late model boats and to receive newsletters, e-mails or other promotional information from us. We use the information that we collect about you to fulfill your boating needs and to create a more personalized online experience. This is just a brief overview, so please read on for more details about our Privacy Policy. This Policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.

Except as otherwise discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you online. We encourage you to ask questions and to be very cautious before you disclose your personal information to others.

Questions regarding this Policy should be directed to Buddy Boating may also be contacted directly at the following address:

Buddy Boating LLC

Attn: Office Manager

5887 SW Frontage Road

Fort Collins CO 80528

This Privacy Policy will explain the following regarding use of our site:

What information does Island Buddy Boating collect from you?

Buddy Boating collects two types of information about its visitors: Personal Information and Nonpersonal Information. Our primary goal in collecting information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience while using our site.

Personal Information

This refers to information that lets us know the specifics of who you are. Personal information is requested when you reserve a specific boat for a specified time and send us feedback. For example, this information might include your name, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card or other payment information, and product details. With this information, Buddy Boating can handle your reservation and better provide you with personalized services.

Non-Personal Information

This refers to information that does not by itself identify a specific individual. We gather certain information about you based upon where you shop on our site in several ways. This information is compiled and analyzed on both a personal and an aggregated basis. For example, this information may include the Web site’s Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. A URL is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. An IP address is an identifier for a computer or device on a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (“TCP/IP”) network, such as the World Wide Web. Networks like the Web use the TCP/IP protocol to route information based on the IP address of the destination. In other words, an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web, allowing web servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers require IP addresses in order for users to communicate on the Internet, browse and shop.

Where do we collect information from you and how do we use it?

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide Buddy Boating’s visitors with a superior customized online experience. We use the customer contact information to make reservations and to inform members of their reservation status, to send promotional information, to enhance the operation of our site and administer our systems.

Demographic data also may be collected at our site from third party advertising servers, content servers, or web site analysis agents who provide us with the zip code and area code associated with a visitor’s server, along with pages viewed on our site. We review the actions of the Buddy Boating visitors on an aggregate basis to determine customers’ preferences. Buddy Boating also does research on our visitors’ demographics, interests, and pages viewed based on the information provided to us during ordering, a promotion, from our server log files, from our web site analysis agents, or from surveys. We will use this data to tailor the visitor’s experience at our site, to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site use, to improve our product offerings, and to customize our site’s content, layout, and services. We receive reports from third party ad servers, content servers, or a web site analysis agent that tells us how many ads were presented and clicked upon or what content was served or viewed.

We gather information in the following ways:

Shopping

We collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to gather broad demographic information, to enable ads to be served on our site, to report Non-Personal Information to our advertisers, and to monitor the level of activity on our site. We collect information from visitors to our site regarding the URLs they came from, domain types (e.g., .com or .org), their IP addresses, the date and time of their visit or order, the number of visits and orders, the number of visits per browsing session, the server type, the operating system and browser type used to come to the site, the country, state and telephone area code where their servers are located, the pages and page titles of our site that visitors viewed during their visit, whether the visitor’s computer is enabled for Java or cookies, browser language, applications and plug-ins, and any search terms entered on our site.

Making Reservations

When you make reservations, we collect personal information from you. If you reserve one of our fleet, we will collect and maintain your name, e-mail address, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, selections, credit card or other payment information, order number, referring URL, IP address, page you bought from and a password. We collect this, and other information, as disclosed in this Policy, in order to fill your reservation, to communicate with you about your reservation and to send you promotional materials. Before confirming your rervation, you will have the opportunity to review the reservation form and make changes and additions to the information it contained and these changes will be automatically kept for future use.

Newsletters & Promotional E-mails

We may offer free newsletters and promotional e-mails as a service to our customers.

Contact Information

If you contact Buddy Boating or our customer service representatives by telephone, e-mail or letter, we may keep a record of your correspondence or comments. If you report a problem with our site, we may collect such information in a file specific to you. If you contact us through our feedback area or by calling one of our customer service representatives, we may ask for your name, e-mail address and order information in order to send you a reply.

Cookies

We use cookies in the operation of our website.

With whom do we share your information?

Fulfillment: The information collected by Buddy Boating is used for processing reservations, keeping you informed about your reservation status, for statistical purposes, for improving our site and its performance, to serve ads, and to notify you of products or special offers that may be of interest to you.

Other Parties: WE DO NOT SELL, TRADE, or RENT your Personal Information to others without your consent. We may provide Non-Personal Information about our customers’ sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to third parties, but these statistics do not include any Personal Information. We may release account information when we believe that such release is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions or to protect the rights, property, and safety of Buddy Boating, our users, or others. If customers do not pay us for reservations, we may submit their account information to a third party collection agency.

Services Provided on Our Site: Except as otherwise stated in this Policy, without your consent, Buddy Boating does not disclose its customers’ Personal Information.

Compliance with Service of Process or Law Enforcement: on rare occasions Buddy Boating may be asked by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide Personal Information to the appropriate governmental authorities. We will disclose Personal Information upon receipt of a court order, subpoena, or to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation, without prior notice to you. Buddy Boating fully cooperates with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our services for illegal activities. We reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we believe to be unlawful.

How can you update or correct your Personal Information?

We believe you should have the ability to access and edit the personal information that you have provided to us. During the online reservation process you can review, change, or delete the information that you have submitted. You may change any of your personal information in your account online at any time. We encourage you to promptly update your information if it changes. You may ask to have the information on your account deleted or removed; however, because we keep track of past reservations, you cannot delete information associated with past reservations. Also, as a security measure we “back up” the data stored on our systems, and such prior information cannot be completely removed from our databases. As a result, you should not expect that all of your Personal Information will be completely removed from our backed-up databases.

What are your choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information?

Email: We may from time to time send you e-mail or other communications regarding current promotions, specials and new additions to the Buddy Boating site. You may “opt-out,” or unsubscribe from our newsletters by following the unsubscribe instructions in any e-mail you receive from us, or by sending an e-mail to sandic@islandlakemarine.com. After doing so, Buddy Boating users will not receive future promotional emails UNLESS they open a new account, enter a contest, or sign up to receive newsletters or emails.

What security precautions are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information?

When you access your account information, the information is kept on a secure server. All of the customer data we collect is protected against unauthorized access by physical security means.

A special note about children’s privacy

You must be at least 18 years old to have our permission to use this site. Our policy is that we do not knowingly collect, use or disclose Personal Information about visitors under 18 years of age. If you are the parent or guardian of a minor under 18 years of age and believe that they have disclosed Personal information to us, please contact us at sandic@islandlakemarine.com so that we may delete the minor’s information.

Buddy Boating use of cookies.

Buddy Boating Cookies: When you use our site we will store cookies on your computer in order to facilitate and customize your use of our site. A cookie is a small data text file, which a Web site stores on your computer’s hard drive (if your Web browser permits) that can later be retrieved to identify you to Buddy Boating. Our cookies store randomly assigned user identification numbers, the country where you are located, and your first name to welcome you back to our site. The cookies make your use of the site easier, allow you to retrieve an earlier shopping cart, make the site run more smoothly and help us to maintain a secure site. You will be unable to shop on our site without your browser set to accept cookies.

Contacting Buddy Boating about privacy questions or concerns

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact Buddy Boating by sending a letter to:

Buddy Boating LLC

Attn: Office Manager

5887 SW Frontage Road

Fort Collins CO 80528

You may also contact us by e-mail at sandic@islandlakemarine.com.

Privacy Policy changes

This Privacy Policy was last changed on October 22, 2014. If Buddy Boating makes changes to any terms or conditions of the Privacy Policy, the changes will be posted in this document so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and to whom we will disclose it. We may change, modify, add or remove portions of this Policy at any time, and any changes will become effective immediately upon being posted unless we tell you otherwise.