Privacy Policy
Updated 10/05/2019
Privacy Policy
We recognize the
importance of protecting the personal information you provide at Web sites
owned or controlled by the INTERNATIONAL YACHT BROKERS ASSOCIATION (IYBA). One
of IYBA’s sites, IYBA.Pro, has posted its own
"privacy polices" and "terms of use". For the rest of IYBA’s
Web sites, we maintain the following privacy policy:
1. IYBA gathers the
following types of information needed to process your transactions, fulfill
your requests, and maintain our membership records:
· Contact information you
provide (for example, your personal and business addresses, phone and fax
numbers, firm affiliations and titles).
· Tracking information
which our Web server automatically recognizes each time you visit one of our
sites or communicate with us by email (for example, your domain name, your
email address, and what pages you visit).
· Information you
volunteer, via applications or surveys (for example, education, designations,
specialties, affiliations with other marine industry organizations and general
demographic data).
2. IYBA uses this
information to:
· Improve and customize the
content and layout of our sites and other communications tools, such as COMPASS
Magazine online and print.
· Notify you of updates to
our sites.
· Notify you of relevant
products and services.
· Notify you of upcoming
events and programs.
· Compile specialty
directories about which you will be made aware.
· Track usage of our sites.
· Assist brokerage and
charter associations and affiliated Institutes, Societies, and Councils in
membership tracking and for their use for purposes similar to those listed
above.
3. Email contact
information. IYBA does not share, sell, or trade email addresses, except that
state and local association staff and leadership email addresses may be listed
in the membership directories & listing details available on IYBA.Org. IYBA
may use your email address to directly send you information and may provide you
with online informational or marketing messages that have been approved by IYBA
together with other communications to which you have subscribed.
4. Other forms of contact
information. Forms of contact information other than email address (for
example, street address) may be listed in the brokerage directories available
on IYBA.Org. IYBA will not share, sell or otherwise provide this contact
information about you except for the following purposes:
· Partners in our Sponsorship
Program for the limited purpose of notifying you of IYBA-approved promotions.
· Exhibitors at IYBA trade
shows for the limited purpose of contacting you one time immediately before and
after trade shows, through marketing vehicles approved by IYBA.
· Other vendors for the
limited purpose of contacting targeted groups of members, through marketing
vehicles approved by IYBA.
· When required by law or
valid legal process, or to protect the personal safety of our members or the
public.
· Some or all of the data
collected during promotions or contests on our sites that are sponsored by
third parties may be shared with the sponsor for the limited purpose of a
one-time marketing follow-up by the sponsor. If information about you will be
shared with a sponsor you will be notified prior to your participation in the
promotion or contest and you can decide not to participate in the promotion or
contest.
5. Credit information
that you and credit authorizers provide when you make payments by credit card
or electronic check for products, dues or other services via the IYBA payment
gateway will only be used to process the transactions you request. This
information will be provided to and maintained by reputable credit reporting
databases, but will never be sold, shared or provided to other third parties.
6. IYBA follows generally
accepted standards to protect the information it collects and makes available
via its Web sites. IYBA tests their security procedures regularly and modifies
them as new technologies become feasible.
7. IYBA utilizes a strict
Opt-Out policy for sending online notifications regarding services, products
and programs. You may adjust your Communication Preferences by reviewing your IYBA
subscription emails and clicking unsubscribe to change your preferences.
8. You may edit your
personal contact information directly in IYBA.Org or by contacting IYBA.
9. Some of our Web sites
contain advertising placed by advertising networks pursuant to agreements
between IYBA and the advertising network. IYBA does not control these
advertising networks, the sites of third parties reached through links on our
site, or their information collection practices, and IYBA will not be
responsible for the activities of these third parties. The advertising network
uses cookies to collect certain non-personally identifiable information when
you click on the banner ads appearing on our sites. This information is
collected by the advertising network for purposes of measuring and reporting on
the advertising to advertisers and IYBA. The advertising network may also
aggregate the information for certain other statistical and reporting purposes.
10. Do-Not-Track
Disclosure: Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that allows you to
communicate to websites that you do not want to have your online activities
tracked. Our system does not respond to Do Not Track requests or headers from
some or all browsers at this time.