Privacy Policy

Who we are

Zanshin Sailing is a non-commercial site that contains information about sailing in the Caribbean. It also includes other related topics, such as 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 how personal data is handled on 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 anonymised 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 your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public alongside 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 you do not have to re-enter your details when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

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

The site uses Google Analytics for performance measurement, which utilises temporary cookies.

Website Analytics

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

LiteSpeed Cache

This site utilises LiteSpeed caching to improve response time and the user experience. Caching can store a duplicate copy of every web page displayed 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 can 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.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if the visitor had 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 do 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 do we retain your data

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

What rights do you have over your data

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

Where do 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.