Privacy & Personal Data Policy
The Privacy & Personal Data Policy describes what types of personal data SALTY MILES may collect from you and how SALTY MILES, its subsidiaries, contractors, and partners may be allowed to use it. This policy also provides you with important information about your rights and data protection. All transactions of your data comply with the regulations in effect and the law n° 78-17 « Data Processing, Files and Freedom,» amended on January 6, 1978.
1. Who is collecting your data?
Your data is collected by SALTY MILES.
2. Personal data collected
"Personal Data" means any information relating to an actual person identified or who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identification number or to one or more elements of their own. When SALTY MILES collects your data, this collection is carried out transparently, thanks to the presence of information or reference to this Policy. Personal Data is the information that identifies you, such as civility, first and last name, postal address, e-mail address, phone number(s), and any other personal data valuable for the purposes set out in Chapter 3 of this Policy. Your data is collected via our forms or when you browse our sites. No matter which device the data is collected from, mandatory fields are indicated in the forms. If you don't want to provide such information, you won't be able to access certain services or features of our websites. In addition, you may not be allowed to purchase products or services through our websites. SALTY MILES will take all necessary steps to ensure that the personal data processed is accurate and, if required, updated. Numbers used for sending A2P SMS will not be published or resold to 3rd parties. e.g. no mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.
3. For what purpose is personal data collected?
Your Data is collected and used to access the features and services offered on our website and maintain current, correct, and relevant information about you, to meet one or more of the following purposes: a) Respond to your requests for quotes, information, or contact to rent a boat, book a cruise or more widely benefit from our services. b) Offer to respond to surveys that will allow us to improve and adapt our products and services c) Allow you to book an online quote or an available offer e) Offer you promotions or special offers that may interest you in our marketing operations.
4. Recipients of personal data
SALTY MILES may share your data with group companies, service providers (insurance companies), and partner boat rental companies. For example, you can edit a rental contract or arrange your arrival at the rental base to validate your reservation. The latter is bound by contract to respect the confidentiality and the security of your data, which they are likely to receive and to use exclusively within the framework of the services to which they have been entrusted by SALTY MILES. If your data is transferred to subcontractors residing outside the European Union, if necessary, a contract for the transfer of the personal data is signed by the subcontractor to maintain a similar level of protection of your data to that of SALTY MILES and European legislation. Except in the abovementioned cases, SALTY MILES also agrees not to sell, rent, or transfer your data to third parties without your consent. SALTY MILES may be required to disclose your data without your consent to comply with a legal requirement. SALTY MILES may disclose your data if necessary to comply with a court summons, warrant, or other judgment of order, which appears to be valid or to an authority that has asserted its legitimate authority to obtain the information in the context of an inquiry or the exercise of a legitimate interest and in particular the defense of its rights.
5. Retention period of personal data
SALTY MILES will keep your data in a secure environment for the time necessary to achieve the purposes for which they were collected or during the minimum retention period provided by the applicable legislation, particularly in civil and commercial matters.
6. Security and confidentiality
SALTY MILES takes protective measures to ensure the confidentiality and security of your data and to prevent such data from being damaged, deleted, or accessed by unauthorized third parties. Access to personal data is strictly limited to employees authorized by their duties and bound by an obligation of confidentiality.
7. Right of access, modification, and opposition
Following articles 38, 39, and 40 of the law n ° 78-17 relating to technology, data, and individual liberties of January 6, 1978, you have a right to access, modify, or oppose the information concerning you. With proof of your identity, you can verify the accuracy of your data at any time or request the correction, update, or deletion of your data. You can exercise your rights of access, modification, and opposition by writing to us at the following email address: info@saltymiles.com.
8. Cookies
SALTY MILES sites use cookies to adapt to users' preferences and optimize their Internet pages. For you to connect to and customize the site and services, the site's webpage servers may place cookies on your computer. These cookies facilitate navigation and improve the user-friendliness of the website. You can read information about cookies here.
9. Changes to the privacy policy
If SALTY MILES modifies this policy or if the law requires it to do so, it will be published on our websites and will be effective upon its publication. Therefore, we encourage you to refer to this publication each visit to learn more about the latest version permanently available on our websites.
Cookies
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that websites store on your computer or mobile device when you use them. It allows sites to remember your actions and preferences (username, language, character size and other display settings) for a given time, so you do not have to re-enter this information each time you visit a site or navigate from one page to another.
The cookies that we use allow us:
• to establish statistics and the use of various elements of our website (headings and content visited, preferred routes), allowing us to improve the interest and ergonomics of our services;
• to adapt the presentation of our website to your device's display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system, etc.) during your visits to our site, depending on the hardware and software viewing or reading that your mobile device operates;
• to memorize information relating to a form that you have completed on our site (registration or access to your account) or to products, services or information that you have shown a preference for on our website (subscribed service, favorites, etc.);
• to allow you to access reserved and personal areas of our website, such as your account, using identifiers or data that you may have previously entrusted to us;
• to implement security measures, for example, when you are asked to sign-in again to access content or a service after a certain amount of time.
Cookies issued on our site by third parties
Our site may contain cookies issued by third parties (audience measurement companies, communication agencies, etc.) and allows these cookies, during the period of validity of said cookies, to collect browsing information about the devices which are consulting our website. The issue and use of cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy policies of these third parties. We inform you about the purpose of cookies that we know and the means you have to make choices about these cookies.
Regarding third party applications integrated into our site
We may include third party computer applications on our site that allow you to share content from our site with other people or to let others know about your review or opinion about content from our site. This is particularly in the case of the "Share" and "Like" buttons, coming from social networks such as, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. The social network providing such an application button is likely to identify you because of a button like this, even if you may not have used this button during your visit to our site. In fact, this type of application button can allow the social network to follow your navigation on our site, just because your social network account was activated on your device (an open session) during your navigation on our site. We have no control over this process used by social networks to collect information about your navigation on our site and associated with the data. We invite you to consult the privacy policies of these social networks to learn about the purposes of use, including advertising, and navigation information they can collect through these application buttons. These protection policies must allow you to exercise your choices with these social networks, including setting up your usage accounts for each of these networks.
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you choose. You have the option to delete all cookies already stored on your computer and configure most browsers to block them as well. However, if you choose the latter, you may need to manually enter your preferences or your information each time you visit a site, and some services and features may not be accessible.
For the management of cookies and your choices surrounding cookies, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the Help Menu of your browser, which will allow you to know how to change and manage your preferences for cookies.
You can also connect to the site Youronlinechoices, proposed by digital advertising professionals grouped within the European association EDAA (European Digital Advertising Alliance). You will be able to know which companies are registered on this platform and which offer you the possibility of refusing or accepting their cookies.
This European platform is shared by hundreds of advertising professionals on the Internet. It is a centralized interface that allows you to express your refusal or your acceptance of cookies that can be used to adapt advertisements to a user's type of device based on information collected from said cookies. Note that this procedure will not prevent advertisements from being displayed on the websites you visit; it will only block the technology that will tailor advertisements to your interests.