Privacy Policy

    Definitions

    • “We” / “us” / “our” refers to Be Sailor Limited.
    • “User” / “you” / “your” refers to the website visitors, customers, and any other users of the website.
    • “Content” refers to the text, graphics, images, music, software, audio, video, information, or other materials that are posted, generated, provided, or otherwise made available through the Services.
    • “Cookie” refers small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser. It is used to identify your browser, provide analytics, remember information about you such as your language preference or login information.
    • “Country” refers to the Republic of Malta.
    • “Device” refers to any internet connected device such as a phone, tablet, computer, or any other device that can be used to visit https://www.bsailor.com/ and use the Services.
    • “IP address” refers to every device connected to the Internet is assigned a number known as an Internet protocol (IP) address. These numbers are usually assigned in geographic blocks. An IP address can often be used to identify the location from which a device is connecting to the Internet.
    • “Personnel” refers to those individuals who are employed by Be Sailor Limited or are under contract to perform a service on behalf of one of the parties.
    • “Personal Data” refers any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
    • “Service” refers to the service provided by Be Sailor Limited as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this platform.
    • “Third-party service” refers to advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you.
    • “Website” refers to site, which can be accessed via this URL: https://www.bsailor.com/

    Scope of Privacy Policy

    Use of the Site

    You agree to use the site only for lawful purposes and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restricts, or inhibit anyone else's use or enjoyment of the website. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any other user, transmitting obscene or offensive content, or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within our website.

    Copyright and Ownership

    All content included on the site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of Be Sailor Limited or its content suppliers and protected by the Copyright Laws.

    Advertisements

    We strive to ensure that all details, descriptions, and prices of products appearing on the Website are accurate, but errors may occur. If we discover an error in any advertisement of a vessel which you have booked, we will inform you of this as soon as possible and give you the option of reconfirming your order at the correct price or cancelling it.

    Booking a vessel does not transfer ownership of the vessel and does not grant you any property rights except the right to use the vessel for a particular period of time in accordance with the Terms and Conditions and other applicable laws and regulations of the Country.

    User Conduct

    You must not use our Website in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the website to access to it to be interrupted, damaged, or impaired in any way. You understand that you, and not Be Sailor Limited, are responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer to us and you must use the Website for lawful purposes only.

    Be Sailor Limited is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed by Be Sailor Limited.

    Your Privacy is important to us, and we have developed our Privacy Policy in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 which came into effect on 25th May 2018.

    This Privacy Policy applies to our website, and its associated subdomains (collectively, our “Service”) alongside our website https://www.bsailor.com/.

    Our Privacy Policy offers you a thorough explanation regarding your personal data provided to us or any data we may collect from you. This Policy is updated from time to time; therefore, it should be reviewed occasionally. You agree to the updated posted version.

    By providing us with your personal information, you signify your consent to us processing such personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy, as specified below.

    What information do we collect?

    Data can be collected and processed during the operations of our website. The following are ways we may perform these actions: Data regarding your visit(s) to our website and any resources used are collected. The following is included and not limited to location data, weblogs, traffic data, and any other communication information. Any forms you filled out on our site allow us to collect data such as registering and submission of information. If for any reason you communicate with our personnel or site we may collect information.

    We collect information from you when you visit our website and place an order.

    • Name,
    • Phone Numbers,
    • Email Addresses,
    • Billing Addresses,
    • Identity Verification Data (ID Documents),
    • Banking Details,
    • Payment and Transaction History,
    • Listing and Boat Data,
    • User-generated content and reviews,
    • Communication Logs with Other Users or BeSailor Support.

    How do we use the information we collect?

    Information stored or collected regarding your helps us improve and offer Services you need. The following list contains how we might use your data: Any request you make of our site or personnel allows us to use information you provided us with, relating to the products or services we have. We may also send information on products or Services you may be interested in, as long as consent has been received. We may also use information about you to administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature.

    Contract Commitments.

    To meet any commitment we make to you, changes or improvements made to the site can warrant use of your information, with regard to notification of such changes. An existing customer may be contacted regarding products and services related to any item of previous order you made on our Website. We use your personal information to contact you to give you information relating to your orders with us, this is mandatory in order for us to process and fulfil your order. Anyone who does not wish to give consent for our site or third-party use has the opportunity to decline. Once we receive your withhold for consent, we will remove your details from any mailings or third-party communications. However, you assume all related responsibility providing us with such withhold for consent.

    The personal information you provide to us will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the information was collected or as required by law. We do not share personal information with third parties except as necessary to carry out our business or as required by law or other legal processes, and we never sell your personal information.

    We understand the importance of protecting children's privacy, especially in an online environment. Our sites are not intentionally designed for or directed at children under the age of 13 years. It is our policy never to knowingly collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 13.

    Locations outside the European Economic Area may be used for transferring data we collect about you. These data sites are for storing or processing of your information. The information we share outside the European Economic Area may be shared with staff based on the process and storage of said data. It may include such processes as processing a payment or offering support for your service or product needs. The staff processing or storing information may work for our suppliers outside the European Economic Area. By submitting your data to use you have agreed to this transfer and storage of data. We take all reasonable action to ensure the safety of your personal data in agreement with this Privacy Policy. Information we are provided will be stored on secure servers. Transaction data is encrypted for your safety. You should understand data via online transmission is not completely secure. We cannot guarantee full protection and security data, only that we take all reasonable action to protect information sent to us electronically. Transmission of any data by you is at your own risk. Where applicable you may be given access to sections of our site that require a password. You are responsible for the password's safety and confidentiality.

    When does Be Sailor Limited use end user information from third parties?

    Be Sailor Limited will collect End User Data necessary to provide the Be Sailor's Services to our customers.

    End users may voluntarily provide us with information they have made available on social media websites. If you provide us with any such information, we may collect publicly available information from the social media websites you have indicated. You can control how much of your information social media websites make public by visiting these websites and changing your privacy settings.

    At times we may disclose personal information to Third Parties. Third Party disclosure may occur for, but not limited to, the following reasons:

    • Selling any or all of our business to a third party may result in sharing your information.
    • At any time when we are legally required to, we may disclose information about you and your visits to our sites.
    • To prevent fraud and help in fraud protection in order to reduce risk, we may disclose information.

    When does Be Sailor Limited use customer information from third parties?

    We receive some information from the third parties when you contact us. For example, when you submit your details to us to show interest in becoming Be Sailor's customer, we receive information from a third party that provides automated fraud detection services to Be Sailor Limited. We also occasionally collect information that is made publicly available on social media websites. You can control how much of your information social media websites make public by visiting these websites and changing your privacy settings.

    Do we share the information we collect with third parties?

    We may share the information that we collect, both personal and non-personal, with third parties such as advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you. We may also share it with our current and future affiliated companies and business partners, and if we are involved in a merger, asset sale or other business reorganization, we may also share or transfer your personal and non-personal information to our successors-in-interest.

    We may engage trusted third-party service providers to perform functions and provide services to us, such as hosting and maintaining our servers and the website, database storage and management, e-mail management, storage marketing, credit card processing, customer service and fulfilling orders for products and services you may purchase through the website. We will likely share your personal information, and possibly some non-personal information, with these third parties to enable them to perform these services for us and for you.

    We may share portions of our log file data, including IP addresses, for analytics purposes with third parties such as web analytics partners, application developers, and ad networks. If your IP address is shared, it may be used to estimate general location and other technographics such as connection speed, whether you have visited the website in a shared location, and type of the device used to visit the website. They may aggregate information about our advertising and what you see on the website and then provide auditing, research and reporting for us and our advertisers.

    We may also disclose personal and non-personal information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in order to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas), to protect our rights and interests or those of a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to otherwise comply with applicable court orders, laws, rules and regulations.

    Third Party Links

    Third party links may be discovered on our site. These third-party links have their own privacy policy, which you agree to when you click on the link. We are not responsible, nor do we accept responsibility for third party links. Our liability covers us only on our site, and thus we do not accept liability for third party links as we have no control over them.

    Where and when is information collected from customers and end users?

    Be Sailor Limited will collect personal information that you submit to us. We may also receive personal information about you from third parties as described above.

    How do we use your email address?

    By submitting your email address on this website, you agree to receive emails from us. You can cancel your participation in any of these email lists at any time by clicking on the opt-out link or other unsubscribe option that is included in the respective email. We only send emails to people who have authorized us to contact them, either directly, or through a third party. We do not send unsolicited commercial emails, because we hate spam as much as you do. By submitting your email address, you also agree to allow us to use your email address for customer audience targeting on sites like Facebook, where we display custom advertising to specific people who have opted-in to receive communications from us. Email addresses submitted only through the order processing page will be used for the sole purpose of sending you information and updates pertaining to your order. If, however, you have provided the same email to us through another method, we may use it for any of the purposes stated in this Policy. Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

    How long do we keep your information?

    We keep your information only so long as we need it to fulfil the purposes described in this policy. This is also the case for anyone that we share your information with and who carries out services on our behalf. When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we'll either remove it from our systems or depersonalize it so that we can't identify you.

    How do we protect your information?

    We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) is never kept on file. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the absolute security of any information you transmit to Be Sailor Limited or guarantee that your information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

    Could my information be transferred to other countries?

    Be Sailor Limited is based in Malta. Information collected via our website, through direct interactions with you, or from use of our help services may be transferred from time to time to our offices or personnel, or to third parties, located throughout the world, and may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including countries that may not have laws of general applicability regulating the use and transfer of such data. To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, by using any of the above, you voluntarily consent to the trans-border transfer and hosting of such information.

    Is the information collected through the Be Sailor Limited's Services secure?

    We take precautions to protect the security of your information. We have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard, prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use your information. However, neither people nor security systems are fool proof, including encryption systems. In addition, people can commit intentional crimes, make mistakes, or fail to follow policies. Therefore, while we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If applicable law imposes any non-disclaimable duty to protect your personal information, you agree that intentional misconduct will be the standards used to measure our compliance with that duty.

    Can I update or correct my information?

    The rights you have to request updates or corrections to the information Be Sailor Limited collects depend on your relationship with Be Sailor Limited may update or correct their information as detailed in our internal company employment policies.

    Customers have the right to request the restriction of certain uses and disclosures of personally identifiable information as follows. You can contact us in order to (1) update or correct your personally identifiable information, (2) change your preferences with respect to communications and other information you receive from us, or (3) delete the personally identifiable information maintained about you on our systems (subject to the following paragraph), by cancelling your account. Such updates, corrections, changes, and deletions will have no effect on other information that we maintain, or information that we have provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction, change or deletion. To protect your privacy and security, we may take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.

    You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to us from our system. The need to back up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Promptly after receiving your request, all personal information stored in databases we actively use, and other readily searchable media will be updated, corrected, changed or deleted, as appropriate, as soon as and to the extent reasonably and technically practicable.

    If you are an end user and wish to update, delete, or receive any information we have about you, you may do so by contacting the organization of which you are a customer.

    Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

    In the event of any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions, your use of the Platform, or any product or service provided by Be Sailor Limited, the parties agree to first attempt to resolve the matter amicably through direct negotiation. If the dispute cannot be resolved within thirty (30) days of written notice from one party to the other, the parties agree to submit the dispute to mediation in Malta, with the mediator to be selected by mutual agreement. If the parties are unable to resolve the dispute through mediation within sixty (60) days from the start of mediation, the dispute shall be finally settled by binding arbitration under the rules of the Malta Arbitration Centre. The arbitration shall be conducted in English, by a single arbitrator appointed in accordance with those rules. The seat of arbitration shall be Malta. The arbitrator's decision shall be final and binding, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. Nothing in this clause prevents either party from seeking urgent interim relief or injunctions from the Maltese courts.

    Governing Law

    This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of Malta without regard to its conflict of laws provision. You consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in connection with any action or dispute arising between the parties under or in connection with this Privacy Policy.

    The laws of Malta, excluding its conflicts of law rules, shall govern this Agreement and your use of the website. Your use of the website may also be subject to other local, state, national, or international laws.

    By using Be Sailor Limited or contacting us directly, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you should not engage with our Website or use our services. Continued use of the website, direct engagement with us, or following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy that do not significantly affect the use or disclosure of your personal information will mean that you accept those changes.

    Your consent

    We've updated our Privacy Policy to provide you with complete transparency into what is being set when you visit our site and how it's being used. By using our website, registering an account, or making a purchase, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

    Cookies

    Be Sailor Limited uses “Cookies” to identify the areas of our website that you have visited. A Cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use Cookies to enhance the performance and functionality of our website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality like videos may become unavailable or you would be required to enter your login details every time you visit the website as we would not be able to remember that you had logged in previously. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies.

    However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on our website correctly or at all. We never place Personally Identifiable Information in Cookies.

    Blocking and disabling cookies and similar technologies

    Wherever you're located you may also set your browser to block cookies and similar technologies, but this action may block our essential cookies and prevent our website from functioning properly, and you may not be able to fully utilize all of its features and services. You should also be aware that you may also lose some saved information (e.g., saved login details, site preferences) if you block cookies on your browser. Different browsers make different controls available to you. Disabling a cookie or category of cookie does not delete the cookie from your browser, you will need to do this yourself from within your browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.