Last Modified: August 5, 2024.
International Yacht Brokers Association (“Yachtr.com,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), including our affiliates, respect your
privacy and understand that you care about your personal information and how it is used. We value your trust in
sharing your personal information with us and are dedicated to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice
describes in detail the types of information we collect about you; how we use your information and with whom we
share it; the choices and rights you have with regard to your information; how we protect your information; and how
you can contact us about our privacy practices.
This Privacy Notice applies to the use of the Services (as defined below), including by both consumers and
Professionals. “Professional(s)” means individuals, companies and other organizations or persons acting as yacht
sales professionals or otherwise engaged in a business related to Yachtr.com’s Services, including, without
limitation, brokers, agents, providers of yachting-related services, products or information, yacht builders,
lenders, boat dealers, yacht sales professionals, re-fit designers, boat service professionals and other service
professionals. Except as otherwise indicated, Professionals, consumers and other persons using the Services are
individually and collectively referred to as “you.”
This Privacy Notice applies to personal information collected by Yachtr.com through the Yachtr.com family of
websites, and mobile apps, mobile-optimized websites and other applications and/or electronic media (such as emails
Yachtr.com sends) (collectively, the “Services”). This includes, but is not limited to:
https://Yachtr.com
https://mls.yachtbroker.org
https://iyba.org
https://mls.ybaa.org
- INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND OBTAIN
We obtain personal information about you from a variety of sources. This includes personal information you provide
to us directly, information we obtain from other sources, and information we gather through automated means.
Information you provide to us. When you register for or participate in certain services, seek access to
certain content or features, or directly correspond with us, we may collect certain types of information from you:
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- Contact information (such as name, postal address, email address and telephone and/or mobile
numbers);
- Username and password when you register through our Services;
- Your social security number or payment information, when needed to facilitate certain
transactions;
- Reviews, comments, and/or surveys; and
- Other information you may provide to us, such as through our “Submit a Request” or “Contact
Us” feature.
If you are a Yacht Sales Professional, we may also ask for additional information, such as relevant professional
licensing info or your MLS User#.
Information obtained from other sources. We may obtain personal information about you in connection with the
Services from publicly and commercially available sources and from our Yachtr.com affiliates and/or business
partners (such as advertising networks or social networking services), including:
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- Demographic data (such as gender, age range, educational level, household income range,
number of children in household, ethnicity to the extent permitted);
- Purchasing data, including information about advertisements you have seen or acted upon and
information about your interaction with advertisers’ products and services;
- Occupational data (such as profession, position, title, industry; and business address);
- If you log in with a third-party account with the Services (e.g., Google), we may obtain
information about you, such as your user ID and/or user name and other information you have
permitted those services to share with us consistent with your privacy settings for that
third-party account.
Information Collected by Automated Means Through Our Services. We may gather by automated means (such as
cookies, web beacons, web server logs, JavaScript and other similar technologies) certain information through our
Services:
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- Your Internet Protocol (IP) address;
- Device information, including unique identifiers and connection information, including
mobile device advertising IDs (e.g., Apple’s IDFA or Google’s AAID) and the means of
internet connection (e.g., WiFi connection, ISP) that can identify the physical location of
such devices, in accordance with applicable law;
- Your device type and settings, software used, browser type and operating system;
- Websites or other services you visited before and after visiting the Services (referring
URL);
- Web pages and advertisements you view and links you click on within, and what search queries
you may have run on, the Services (clickstream);
- Viewing behavior, including the content you view, how long you view content, the quality of
the service you receive, and advertisements you have been shown or interacted with;
- Dates and times you access or use the Services;
- Location information, including the city, state and zip code associated with your IP
Address, information derived through WiFi triangulation, and precise location information
from GPS-based functionality on your mobile apps, with your consent;
- Your phone number and mobile carrier details in connection with our websites and mobile
apps.
- COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Cookies are small files that we or others send to and store on or with your computer so that your computer, browser,
mobile app or other application can be recognized as unique the next time you access, visit, use or otherwise take
advantage of the Services or other media. Cookies may also reflect demographic data pertaining to you or other data
linked to information you submit. One use or consequence of cookies is to enable you to receive customized ads,
alerts, content, services or information. You are always free to decline any cookies we use by adjusting the
settings of your browser, (
Opt-Out) as your browser may permit;
however, some products, services or features might not be available or operate properly if cookies are not enabled.
Some of our advertisers and third-party service providers may also utilize their own cookies.
In addition, we, our service providers and others sometimes use data-gathering mechanisms on the Services, including
without limitation “web beacons”, “clear GIFs”, “pixels” and/or “tags”. These perform statistical and administrative
functions, such as measuring site and page traffic, verifying advertising paths, better understanding user interests
and activity, gathering related information (such as information relating to a particular browser, device or IP
address) and positioning images, and typically do so without detracting from your online experience. Such mechanisms
are not necessarily designed to collect Personal Information. In addition, if you have provided your email address,
we might use a non-human unreadable form (or “hash”) of your email address to deliver, or facilitate delivery of,
relevant advertisements and information to you on or by way of the Services or on or by way of other websites or
media, including, for example, popular social media sites and features.
- HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE OBTAIN
We, or service providers acting on our behalf, may use the information collected from and about you to:
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- Provide our products and services, including authorizing a purchase, or completing a
transaction that you requested;
- Create and manage online accounts;
- Send promotional materials, alerts regarding available offers and other communications,
including text/SMS messages if you provided your mobile number and opted in to receive such
messages (for information on our text messaging program, please see our Text/SMS Messaging
Program Terms);
- Communicate about, and administer participation in, special events, promotions, programs,
offers, surveys, contests and market research;
- Respond to inquiries from you and other third-parties, including inquiries from law
enforcement agencies;
- Anonymize or de-identify personal information to provide third parties with aggregated data
reports showing anonymized information and other non-personal information;
- Provide technical support;
- Generate suggestions about the type of content you may enjoy;
- Supplement your personal information collected directly from you and/or from automated means
with additional information from publicly and commercially available sources, and/or
information from Yachtr.com affiliates and our business partners;
- Associate your browser and/or device with other browsers or devices you use for the purpose
of providing relevant and easier access to content, advertising across browsers and devices,
and other operational/business purposes;
- Operate, evaluate and improve our business (including developing, enhancing, analyzing and
improving our Services; managing our communications; reviewing and processing employment
applications, performing data and statistical analytics; and performing accounting, auditing
and other internal functions);
- Protect against, identify and prevent fraud and other unlawful activity, claims and other
liabilities;
- Comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards,
contractual obligations and our terms of service and other policies; and
- In other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection.
INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING
As described in this Privacy Notice we, as well as our third-party service providers, may obtain information about
your online activities to provide you with advertising about products and services tailored to your individual
interests. We and our third-party service providers also may obtain information for this purpose from third-party
websites and apps. We also use third parties (including third-party ad servers) to serve ads on our Services. We
engage third-party advertising networks to help us target our messaging to visitors through interest-based and
contextual means.
Through these ad networks, we can track your online activities (such as your visits to websites and your use of apps
that serve our advertisements, including the pages or ads your view and actions you take on those sites or apps)
over time and across third-party websites and apps by obtaining information through automated means, as described
above. This data collection takes place both on our sites, apps and emails and on third-party websites and apps that
participate in these ad networks. Our third-party advertisers and/or ad networks may also gather data relating to
you in connection with your interactions with the advertisements they place on our Services. The networks use this
information to show you advertisements on our Services or other third-party websites and apps that may be tailored
to your individual interests. This information also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. To
the extent required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent before using your information for interest-based
advertising.
The section below entitled
Your Choices and Rights provides details on and explains
how to exercise your choices regarding interest-based advertising.
We may share your personal information with:
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- Our Subsidiaries and Affiliated Businesses. Our subsidiaries and affiliated
businesses within the Yachtr.com family of companies and the News Corp family of companies
may use your personal information consistent with this Privacy Notice. Those businesses may
also use your personal information for each of their own purposes, including marketing
purposes. We also participate in an advertising platform offered by our affiliate NC
Audience Exchange LLC, called NewsIQ, which collects information from you through automated
means, as described above, when you are using the Services. To learn more about News IQ and
if you wish to opt out of receiving News IQ advertisements, please click here.
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- With our Service Providers. With third parties who perform services on our behalf.
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- With our Clients or Business Partners. With our third-party clients or business
partners, such as yacht brokers, boat dealers, and other Professionals to facilitate your
transactions, and other third parties for their own commercial or marketing purposes, such
as to serve targeted advertisements.
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- For Legal Requirements and Proceedings. We may disclose information to law
enforcement authorities or other government officials if we are required to do so to comply
with subpoenas, court orders, legal process or other law enforcement or other government
measures, and to comply with other legal obligations. We may also disclose information if we
believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of
suspected or actual fraudulent or illegal activity.
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- To Protect our Services and Users. We may disclose information to protect and defend
the rights, interests and safety of the Services, our subsidiaries and affiliates, and their
employees, contractors and agents; to protect the security and safety of our users of the
Services, including when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent
physical harm or financial loss.
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- For Business Transfers. In the event of a proposed or completed sale or transfer of
all or a portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a reorganization,
dissolution or liquidation).
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- With Your Consent. We may share your information with select third-party partners
with your consent or at your direction so they can send you promotions, ads or offers about
their services or products that you may be interested in. We also may give you the option to
receive communications from one of our advertising partners, such as when we offer a joint
promotion with that third-party advertiser. If you choose to opt in to receiving
communications from that third-party advertiser by providing your explicit consent, the
third-party advertiser will manage your personal information pursuant to their own privacy
policy.
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- Non-personal Information. When the information collected from or about you is not
defined as personal information under applicable law, we may share such non-personal,
de-identified information or aggregated information with third parties at our discretion.
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- Our business partners:
- International Yacht Brokers Association/Yacht Brokers Association of America
(“IYBA/YBAA”). We share information about you with the IYBA/YBAA and other
participating yacht brokerage associations in connection with business, advocacy and
vessel related matters of interest to Yachtr.com and the IYBA/YBAA, who may use such
information to contact you or otherwise with respect to such matters
- For information, features, products and services marketed or offered to you jointly or on a
coordinated basis by us and a third party, we may share information about you with, or
information may be gathered independently by, the third party. In these situations, we will
be free to use such information to facilitate such features, products and services (or
information about them) being made available to you and as otherwise outlined in this
Privacy Notice, and you understand the third party may use the information in different
ways. Although not always the case, you often can tell when information, features, products
or services are marketed or offered jointly or in coordination with a third party because a
portion of the Services often will be “co-branded” in such cases, will display the third
party’s logo and/or name (whether or not along with our own), will describe or reference the
relationship between us and the third party or will be set up so that you can contact or be
linked to the third party or its website to initiate, complete or learn more about the
transaction. Please be aware that each company we do business with (including Professionals)
has its own policies regarding its use, sharing and protection of information about you and
that such policies may differ from those outlined in this Privacy Notice.
- Information obtained from SMS login authentication will not be shared with
third parties.
We offer you certain choices and you also may have certain rights in connection with the personal information we
collect about you.
You can choose to use Yachtr.com’s Services without providing any information about yourself to us directly, but
some information may be collected automatically or be requested by us so that you can take advantage of certain
features on our Services.
To ask us to remove your information from our marketing mailing lists, please contact us as outlined in the
HOW TO CONTACT US Section below. You also can unsubscribe from
our marketing mailing lists by following the “Unsubscribe” link in our emails. Even if you unsubscribe from our
marketing communications, we may still need to send you communications relating to your use of the Services, such as
service announcements where you are using our Service.
You also have choices about whether cookies and other similar technologies are placed on your computer or mobile
device. For more information, see our section on Cookies and Other Technologies,
above.
We may use third-party analytics services on our Services, such as Google Analytics. The analytics providers that
administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to help us analyze
your use of the Services. To learn more about how to opt out of Google Analytics and similar services, please visit
the links below:
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You may also choose to opt out of use of data that we or our third-party service providers collect about your
activities to provide you with tailored advertising about products and services of interest to you. We and our
third-party service providers also may obtain information for this purpose from third-party websites or apps. To
learn more about how to opt out of ad network interest-based advertising, please see the section on Cookies and
Other Technologies section above or visit the customer opt-out pages at
http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and
http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. To learn more
about opting out on your mobile device, click
here or, for users of our mobile apps, go to our Privacy & Data menu
option and review your selections.
- ACCESSING, CORRECTING, AND DELETING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Consumers and Professionals may access, review, update, and/or correct inaccuracies in your personal information in
our custody and control as described below. Please note that any change you request regarding personal information
may affect or otherwise change the availability, deliverability or quality for you of information, features,
products or services in which you are interested or your experience on or relating to the Services.
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- Consumers may access and edit their personal information by following the
instructions found in the “My Profile” or “Edit Your Profile” area of the Services
where you registered or submitted personal information. If you would like us to no
longer use information about you or share it with our affiliates, partners or other
service providers, for their marketing purposes, please send a request
to Privacy@Yachtr.com
- Professionals may edit their personal information by returning to the area of the
Services where they registered and modifying the information there, or by calling
our Customer Support at (954) 228-5473. By contacting
Customer Support to make such changes, Professionals expressly authorize Customer
Support to access personal information and any associated data or accounts for the
purposes of completing your requested edits, modifications and/or deletions. Note
that these options may not apply to a Professional to the extent modified in a
separate written agreement signed by an authorized officer of Yachtr.com, which
agreements may be entered into by Yachtr.com in its sole discretion and without
notice to others.
If you submit an application for employment on our Careers page, we will use the information you provide about
yourself to process your application. We may also use such information for our recruitment, management and planning
programs. Your provision of information to us is voluntary; however, if you fail to provide sufficient information,
we may reject or decline to consider your application. We may also obtain information about you from your
references, a background check (as permitted by applicable law) or through automated means based on your use of our
Services. We may share information about you with our affiliates and with third-party service providers in
connection with human resources functions (including technical support.)
- CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
For additional information for residents of the State of California view below.
- INFORMATION FOR VISITORS FROM CANADA
The Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) provides certain rights to
Canadian residents. Under Canadian law, you have a right to access your personal information held by us, subject to
applicable exceptions. You may contact us or write to us at the address below to ask us to access and/or correct
your information. We may require you to send us proof of your identity before providing you with access to your
personal information. If you send us a request to access or correct information, then we will contact you within 30
days (although it may take us longer to fully respond to your request).
Our Privacy Notice clearly states how we collect, use and share your personal information. We may share information
with third parties, such as subsidiaries, affiliates, business partners and authorized third parties. However, we
will only share your information with such parties where we have your explicit consent to do so or, in some cases,
where we may infer consent from your actions or behavior. Please contact us at any time to let us know (1) if you do
not wish to receive marketing communications (such as emails) from us or our third-party partners, or you otherwise
object to our sharing your information with those partners, (2) if you have any questions, or complaints, regarding
the collection or use of your personal information or the content of this notice, or (3) if you wish to withdraw
your consent to us using your data.
If you are not satisfied with our response to your query or complaint, you may also contact the Office of the
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
- HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we have
about you against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.
However, no data transmission or storage, or use of the Internet, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
The Services are hosted in and managed from the United States. We may transfer the information we collect about you
to another country, which may not be deemed to have the same data protection laws as the country in which you
initially provided the information. Applicable laws in the United States and/or other countries may allow the
courts, law enforcement and national security authorities to access your personal information when in such country.
If you are a user located outside the United States or the country to which your information may be transferred, you
understand (and, as permitted under applicable law, consent to) having any personal information processed in the
United States and/or such country. When we transfer your information, we will protect that information as described
in this Privacy Notice.
- LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES, APPS AND SERVICES
For your convenience and information, our Services may provide links to third-party sites, apps and services that
may be operated by companies not affiliated with Yachtr.com. These companies may have their own privacy notices or
policies, which we strongly suggest you review. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any
non-Yachtr.com sites, apps or services.
- CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE
From time to time, we may change our Privacy Notice to reflect changes to our privacy practices and Services. If we
modify the Privacy Notice, we will update the “Last Modified Date” and the changes will be effective as of the date
we post such Notice. For material changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent notice on our Services
indicating at the top of the Privacy Notice when it was most recently updated or by other appropriate means, such as
email through the email address you most recently provided to us.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice or the manner in which we or our service providers
treat your personal information, would like to exercise your choices, or would like us to update information we have
about you or your preferences, please contact us as follows:
Internet Services Administrator
International Yacht Brokers Association
1845 Cordova Road – Suite 205
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316
Fax: (954) 764-0697
Email: Privacy@Yachtr.com
FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS:
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) provides certain rights to residents of California. This
section of the Privacy Notice applies if you are a natural person who is a resident of California (“California
Consumer”) and use our Services. This notice supplements the information in the above Privacy Notice. Certain terms
used below have the meanings given to them in the CCPA.
The following sets forth the categories of information we collect and purposes for which we may use California
Consumers’ personal information collected by Yachtr.com:
Categories of Personal Information We Collect About You
The categories of personal information we may have collected about you or your use of our Services are:
- Identifiers (such as your contact information (name, email address), government identifiers (social security
numbers and MLS ID# or similar professional licensing numbers) or unique personal identifiers (device ID,
cookies, IP address);
- Commercial information (such as transaction data or purchase history);
- Financial information (such as credit card information);
- Internet or other network or device activity (such as browsing history or app usage);
- Geo-location information;
- Professional or employment related information;
- Education information;
- Profile data about you and any inferences drawn from the profile data (such as characteristics, behaviors,
attitudes);
- Information that identifies or can be reasonably associated with you.
More details on the personal information we may collect are set forth in the Information We Collect and Obtain
outlined above.
Categories of Sources from Which We Collected Personal Information
The sources from which we may have collected personal information about you or your use of the Services are:
- Directly from you;
- From other sources (such as Company affiliates and/or business partners);
- Through your use of the Services; and
- Publicly available records.
and as described in more detail in the Information We Collect and Obtain above.
Business or Commercial Purposes for Which We Collected or Sold the Personal Information
The business or commercial purposes, as defined under the CCPA, for which we collected or sold the personal
information are:
- performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or
fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing
advertising or marketing services, providing analytics services, or providing similar services;
- auditing related to a current interaction with you and concurrent transactions, including, but not limited
to, counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and
auditing compliance;
- short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, the contextual customization of ads shown as part
of the same interaction;
- detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and
prosecuting those responsible for that activity;
- debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
- undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration; and
- undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned,
manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or
device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us.
More details concerning the business and commercial purposes are set forth in the How We Use the Information We
Obtain above. We may disclose the categories of personal information identified in this California Privacy Notice
about our California consumers for our operational purposes where the use of such personal information is reasonably
necessary and proportionate to achieve the operational purpose for which the personal information was collected or
processed or for another operational purpose that is compatible with the context in which the personal information
was collected.
Categories of Third Parties with Whom We Shared the Personal Information
The categories of third parties, as defined by the CCPA, with whom we share personal information include our
subsidiaries and affiliates; business partners, data analytics provers and third-party marketers (who may combine
your personal information with their own records and records available from other sources), for their own business
or direct marketing purposes, and the direct marketing purposes of other third-party marketers.
Categories of Personal Information Sold, Shared or Disclosed for a Business Purpose We may sell or disclose
for a business purpose (each as defined under CCPA) any or all of the personal information collected from and about
you as set forth in the Information We Collect and Obtain and Information We Share sections.
Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you may have certain rights. California law may permit you to request that we:
- Provide you the categories of personal information we have collected or disclosed about you in the last
twelve months; the categories of sources of such information; the business or commercial purpose for
collecting or selling your personal information; and the categories of third parties with whom we shared
personal information.
- Provide access to and/or a copy of certain information we hold about you.
- Delete certain information we have about you.
You may have the right to receive information about the financial incentives that we offer to you (if any). You also
have the right to not be discriminated against (as provided for in applicable law) for exercising certain of your
rights. Certain information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. For example, we need certain
types of information so that we can provide the Services to you and for compliance with applicable law. If you ask
us to delete certain information, you may no longer be able to access or use the Services.
California customers may request, once per year, that we disclose the identity of any third parties with whom we
have shared personal information for the third-parties’ direct marketing purposes within the previous calendar year,
along with the type of personal information disclosed.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at (954) 522-9270. You will be required to
verify your identify before we fulfill your request. You can also designate an authorized agent to make a request on
your behalf. To do so, you must provide us with written authorization or a power of attorney, signed by you, for the
agent to act on your behalf. You will still need to verify your identity directly with us.
You also have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information. California law broadly defines sale
such that it may include allowing third parties to receive certain information, such as cookies, IP address and/or
browsing behavior, to deliver targeted advertising. If you would like to opt out, you may do so by sending an email
with a detailed description of the specific content or information to support@yachtr.com. We will act upon your
opt-out request as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than 15 days from the date of your request.
If you access this site from other devices or browsers, or clear your cookies on your devices or browsers, you will
need to indicate your preferences again from those devices or browsers. Please note that after making your "Do Not
Sell" request, you may still see advertising and we may continue to share personal information with our service
providers who use such information on our behalf. To learn more about interest-based advertising across sites and
additional opt-out choices, you can visit http://optout.aboutads.info and http://optout.networkadvertising.org.