Privacy policy

Sailing Mary Waters Privacy Policy

Last updated: 08 May 2024

Welcome to Sailing Mary Waters [“SMW”]! We prioritize your privacy and are committed to safeguarding your personal information. Our privacy policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and store your data when you interact with our website and services.

At SMW, we aim to provide a secure online environment where you can confidently explore our offerings. We understand the importance of protecting your personal information.

Our privacy policy is designed to be transparent, outlining the types of information we collect, how we use it, and the steps we take to keep your data secure. We encourage you to review our privacy policy to understand how we handle your personal information and your rights in relation to it.

By continuing to use our website and services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our privacy policy and agree to its terms and conditions.

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices, please contact us. We are dedicated to maintaining your trust and protecting your personal information.

Analytics:

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited before coming to this website

  • Your I.P. address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

This information is shared with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies:

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, allowing Squarespace, our hosting platform, to serve this website securely.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Visitor Data:

Website Visitors:

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Form Submissions:

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google/Gmail for storage.

Customers and/or The “Tip Jar”:

When you buy something in the “Shop” or leave a tip in the “Tip Bucket” on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill your order or submission. We may collect information like your:

Billing and shipping address

Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)

Email address

Name

Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

Share Buttons:

This website includes share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from this site to the following third party services: [Facebook, Twitter, Google]. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

  • Your IP address

Blog Comments:

This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:

Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)

Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

Your website URL (optional)

This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

Information about your browser, network and device

Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

Your IP address

Emails:

Marketing Emails:

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Order and Account Emails:

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

  • You’ve created a customer account

  • Your customer account password has been reset or updated

  • You’ve made a purchase

  • Your order has shipped

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Fonts:

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

Information about your browser, network, or device

Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

Your IP address

Changes to Terms and Conditions:

Here at SMW, we value your trust and want to ensure that you are aware of any changes that may affect your experience with our service. Therefore, we reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace our Terms and Conditions at any time.

Thank you!