Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us!

UK Boating believes your right to privacy is important. To run an efficient, effective service, however, we need to collect and use certain information about our users.

What information do we collect and why?
UK Boating may also gather anonymous information for its own use and/or to be shared with third parties. This is information that does not personally identify you, but which may be helpful for marketing purposes, for improving the services we offer, or for informing sponsorship clients about the relative interest in different programming themes, or advertisers of the number of consumers that have clicked on their advertising banners. Generally, this information involves 'traffic' data, such as the number of first-time and return users to the website every month.

If you fill out the ‘Contact Us’ form or request to be kept informed of programming that we are intending to broadcast we collect your name and email address. You can opt-out of receiving information from us whenever you input personal data, by unticking the box provided, or by sending an email via the ‘Contact Us’ service on the website. You can also opt in to allowing us to share any of your details with our sponsorship clients.

How do we protect your personal details?
We have strict procedures governing the storage and disclosure of personal details to prevent unauthorised access and misuse. In addition, all your personal information is password-protected: only you and UK Boating have access to your personal information.

We will not rent, trade or sell your data to others. The only exception to this is if you give us express permission to contact you, or share your details with 3rd parties, when entering the UK Boating 'Prize Draw'.

How do we use cookies?
We use cookies on this website. Cookies are small files of information that are stored by a browser on your computer's hard drive and are a feature common to many websites. They are mainly used to improve your site experience and monitoring the number of people using the website.

If you vote in one of our polls, a cookie containing an ID number will be saved on your computer. The next time you visit the site the cookie will ensure that you are given the updated poll results rather than being given the opportunity to vote again.

If you have viewed or clicked on one of our advertisements on another website, a cookie may have been saved on your hard drive to indicate that you have viewed or clicked on the advertisement. This cookie is also used to record some of your activities on this website, such as whether you look at certain pages or enter into certain transactions. We use this information to assess the effectiveness of our advertisements on different websites. These cookies do not contain any personal information.

You can choose to disable cookies globally at any time through your browser, but this will prevent our services that require mandatory cookies from working and, depending on your browser version, may make your information less secure. If you want to know how to do this please look at the help menu on your browser.

Links to other sites
This website includes links to other sites. We make every effort to provide links to high quality, reputable sites but we're not responsible for their privacy practices or, site content, or the services they offer.

Do you have any other questions about privacy?
We want you to feel happy about any information you give us and know that you have control over the way it is used. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please e-mail them to us by clicking on 'Contact Us’ on the website.

Please see also the Terms and Conditions for using this website.