Back Creek Yacht Club - BCYC Privacy Policy

The Back Creek Yacht Club Privacy Policy

Effective February 10, 2023

General

The Back Creek Yacht Club (“BCYC”) wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information from and about you because we understand you are concerned about your privacy, and we want to maintain your trust. This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect from and about you when you visit www.backcreekyc.org BCYC Facebook or other social media associated with BCYC, collectively the {“BCYC website”). This Policy describes BCYC’s collection and use of Users’ personal Information. It also describes generally BCYC’s practices for handling Other Information collected through www.backcreekyc.org or from a third party to the extent such information is associated with a particular device, user or user account.

This is a membership audience site that is not directed to, and does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of eighteen (18).

Information We Collect

Personal Information. “Personal Information” for purposes of this Privacy Policy is the information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable person, such as name, email address, photograph or image.

Other Information. “Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity, such as browser information, information collected through cookies and other technologies, demographic information, and aggregated information. We automatically collect IP addresses and Web site usage information from you when you visit our Website. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors and subscribers use and navigate our Web sites on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors and subscribers to each Web page, and the length of their visits.

BCYC and our service providers also may use cookies and other tracking technologies (such as browser cookies and Adobe Flash technology including cookies) when you visit or use www.backcreekyc.org. Third parties that support the BCYC by providing services, such as tracking aggregate site usage statistics, may also use these technologies to collect Other Information on www.backcreekyc.org. Please see the BCYC Cookie Policy for more information about our use of these technologies and your choices in connection with these practices.

How We Use Information Collected

We may use Personal and Other Information in the following ways:

For the purposes for which you specifically provided the information including, for example, to enable us to respond to your questions.
To enhance existing features or develop new features, products and services, or other internal business purposes.
To send you email notifications about events, special offers, Contest Prizes or to otherwise contact you.
To provide third parties with aggregate, anonymous information about our user base and usage patterns.
To protect the rights of BCYC and others. There may be instances when BCYC may disclose your Personal Information, including situations where we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary in order to: (i) protect, enforce, or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of BCYC, agents and contractors (including enforcement of our agreements and our terms of use); (ii) protect the safety, privacy, and security of users of our products and services or members of the public; (iii) protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; (iv) comply with the law or legal process, including laws outside your country of residence; or (v) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence.

Service Providers. We may share your Personal Information with third-party service providers to contact you on our behalf, or facilitate some aspects of our Website services, or fulfill your purchase requests. These service providers will have limited access to your Personal Information, solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf.

Unaffiliated Third Parties. Except as specifically set forth in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your Personal Information with a company that is not affiliated with BCYC unless you have given us permission to do so.

Your Access

You can access, review, correct, update, delete or modify your profile information by using the online tools on the BCYC website.

Security

BCYC uses a combination of administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard Personal Information in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification. However, no one can guarantee the complete safety of your information. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting BCYC in accordance with the instructions below.

Location of Data

Your Personal Information may be stored, transferred to, and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using our products and services, you consent to the processing and transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have different data protection rules than in your country.

Policy Modifications

BCYC may modify this Privacy Policy. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will inform you by posting a notice on the homepage of this site that the policy has been updated and by changing the effective date on this page noting when the policy was last updated. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy at www.backcreekyc.org. Your use of www.backcreekyc.org or your provision of personal information to us following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

If you would like to modify your marketing preferences, access or request a change to your Personal Information, or if you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you can contact BCYC using:

email us at Webmaster

We ask that you not disclose any sensitive Personal Information when contacting us.