Privacy Policy

Who we are

Zanshin Sailing is a non-commercial site, containing information about sailing in the Caribbean. It also contains other related topics including a travel blog and photographs. The URI is Zanshin Sailing Home Page and further information about contacting the owner can be found on the Legal Notice page. This privacy policy page describes the way that personal data is handled by this site.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. We do this to help spam detection and prevention.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: Automattic.Com Privacy Policy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

Avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on the site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

The site uses Google Analytics for performance measurement, and this service utilizes temporary cookies.

Website Analytics

The only third-party cookies used on this site are for Google Analytics. These are used to track the use of the website to determine the popularity of certain content and better optimize the site.

LiteSpeed Cache

This site utilizes caching with LiteSpeed in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily. Please see https://www.quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.

Akismet

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet Anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Zanshin Sailing does not collect any data that is not incidental to the website’s operation. Any such data is not shared with anyone whatsoever.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

What rights you have over your data

You can request that we erase any personal data from the site.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Apart from this, we do not send your data outside of this website.