Privacy
Boats.org is a part of the Outdoornetwork Corporation (Outdoornetwork.com), an extensive network of over 400 marine and outdoor related sites. Boats.org has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site and our network of sites.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to
administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you for
message board and interactive services regulation, your shopping cart, and to
gather broad demographic information.
Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like
their name and email address) and demographic information (like their zip code,
age, or other related information). We use members contact information from the
registration form to send the user information about our company and promotional
material from some of our partners. The customer's contact information is also
used to contact the visitor when necessary and shared with other companies who
may want to contact our visitors. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings
at any time; see the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data
is also collected at our site. We use this data for other purposes. We use this
data to tailor the visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that
we think they might be interested in, send them pertinent offers and displaying
the content according to their preferences. This information is shared with
advertisers on an aggregate basis.
This site contains links to other sites. Boats.org is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. These sites can be found
under our “Resources”, "Gallery", “Classifieds” and other areas.
Our site uses an order form for clients to request information, order products,
and or services. We collect contact information (like their email address),
unique identifiers, financial information (like their account or credit card
numbers), and demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income
level). Contact information from the order form is used to process requests,
send orders, information about our company, and promotional material from some
of our partners to our customers. The customer's contact information is also
used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary and shared with other
companies who may want to contact our visitors. Financial information that is
securely collected is used to check the users' qualifications and bill the user
for products and or services.
Our online surveys ask visitors for contact information (like their email
address) and demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income
level). We use contact data from our surveys to send the user information about
our company and promotional material from some of our partners. The customer's
contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary and
shared with other companies who may want to contact our visitors.
Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section
below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this
data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that
we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to
their preferences. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate
basis.
We run contests on our site in which we ask visitors for contact information
(like their email address) and demographic information (like their zip code,
age, or income level). We use contact data from our contests to send users
information about our company and promotional material from some of our
partners. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor
when necessary and shared with other companies who may want to contact our
visitors. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out
section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We
use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site, showing them
content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content
according to their preferences. This information is shared with advertisers on
an aggregate basis.
Public Forums
This site makes forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its
users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas
when set in user preferences may become public information and you should
exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our control.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications
from us and our partners in all email correspondence, at anytime by emailing
customerservice@boats.org.
