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German (DE-CH-A) Data Protection Policy
We are committed to protecting the data of visitors to our website. Stored data is only shared with third parties in the way outlined in this policy and we will never share personal data we collect with affiliated partners or marketing companies.
We reserve the right without prior notice to adapt or modify the information given in this policy in response to changes in existing legislation or law. A copy of the latest version of our policy will always be available on this page.
Information about Data Protection:
The data protection regulations protect personal data, as well as indirect personal data. This is data regarding natural or legal individuals. Personal data is information which identifies or can identify an individual. Indirect personal data is information from which clients, service providers or receivers of information can not determine the identity of an individual by legally permissive means.General Information
By visiting our website you agree that we may collect certain data from you. We in turn assure you that only absolutely essential data will be collected and that we will protect this data at all time. If you simply visit our website, we collect only indirect personal data. In other words, you can visit our website without revealing your identity. We can merely establish the name of your internet service provider and your IP address, the name of the website from which you visit ours and which of our website pages you go to. This information is analysed for statistical purposes in order to improve the services we offer but the individual users remain anonymous.We use cookies in order to make our website more user friendly and to provide you with more personally tailored and relevant content. None of the cookies collect information, which can identify you personally. Cookies are necessary for the functionality of our website.
Cookies
Cookies contain information about the website visited and are stored by your web browser in a text file on the hard drive of your computer. This information includes the name of the website from where the cookies are sent and they can only be accessed by this server. One of the most important functions of cookies is to save personal settings for particular websites. On future visits to these websites it is therefore not necessary to re-enter personal settings.Cookies can not be read by anyone other than the sender and they are not harmful. They do not contain program code or viruses or malware. Only the cookies themselves can be read again and no other data on the hard drive can be read or accessed. Neither can cookies write anything onto your hard drive.
Cookies serve to personalise your experience of a website and facilitate the retrieval of information. In addition, they are used for statistical analysis in order to further improve site-user friendliness. In all cases, no information connected to cookies is shared with third parties.
Collection and processing of indirect personal data
At each visit to our website and each time you access information on our server, data about your activity is gathered and saved in a log file. This data does not contain personal information and therefore we can not determine which particular individual has accessed which information. We also make no attempt to collect this information.Purpose, use and disclosure of personal data
Personal data is only collected when you specifically provide it to us for example in a registration for a regatta, membership enrollment or other kind of enquiry.Google Analytics Data Protection Notice
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc.Google Analytics uses cookies, small amounts of data that are stored on your computer to allow an analysis of how you use our website. Google gathers the information and sends it to a Google server in the USA, where it is stored.
If IP anonymity is activated for this website, Google will shorten your IP address beforehand within member states of the European Union and other countries party to the Agreement. Only in exceptional cases will a full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and be shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use the information to evaluate your use of our website, to compile reports on website activity and provide website and internet usage services to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software. However, we should point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website fully. In addition, you may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the available browser plug-in at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
The use of Google Analytics serves to constantly improve the functions and services of our website. Only indirect personal data is used for the purpose of analysis and reporting. This data is not combined with personal information by the Yachtclub.
