Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are widely used tiny files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website.

Cookies allow websites to recognise that a user on an individual computer has previously visited the site. The cookies save some information about that user for when they access the site again in the future.

What do we use them for?

1. Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are essential to make our website work. Our booking pages make use of cookies to enable you to make a booking. Without use of cookies, these features of the website could not operate.
2. Performance cookies. These cookies collect anonymous information about users for the purpose of assessing the performance of a website. We use the well-known web analytics tool 'Google Analytics'.
3. Functionality cookies. These are cookies that automatically remember choices that you have previously made in order to improve your experience next time you visit our website. The only such cookie used on our website at the moment is the cookie consent banner!
4. Targeting or advertising cookies. These cookies are similar to performance cookies, in that they collect information about users' behaviour. However, this information is used at individual user level to advertise products and services. We currently use Google AdWords and FaceBook for internet advertising.

Your consent to our use of cookies

By using and browsing the Classic Sail Barcelona website, you consent to cookies being used in accordance with our policy.

However, if you do not consent, you can use the security and privacy features of your internet browser to block cookies from this and other websites.

Third party cookies on our website

Third party	Cookie policy location
Google	https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/
Google Analytics	https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/
FaceBook	https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

Personal data

Who are we?

Classic Sail Barcelona is the sole proprietorship of the owner and skipper, David Baird. You can contact David by email, WhatsApp, phone or post. See the contact page for details.

How do we collect information from you?

We obtain information about you in the following ways:

Information you give us directly

If you make a booking with us, we will collect your name, email, and phone number in order to communicate with you about your reservation.

We use third party payment provider services who will collect your payment information. Currently, we use Stripe and PayPal. Please note that we (Classic Sail Barcelona, David Baird) never have access to your card details. These are handled securely by the payment providers and your information never passes through our systems.

When you visit this website

We, like many companies, automatically collect the following information:

• technical information, including the type of device you’re using, the IP address, browser and operating system being used to connect your computer to the internet. This information may be used to improve the services we offer.
• information about your visit to this website, for example we collect information about pages you visit and how you navigate the website, i.e. length of visits to certain pages, products and services you viewed and searched for, referral sources (e.g. how you arrived at our website).

We collect and use your personal information by using cookies on our website – more information on cookies can be found under the ‘Use of Cookies’ section.

How and why is your information used?

We may use your information for a number of different purposes, including:

• managing a reservation you have made with us
• keeping a record of your relationship with us
• conducting analysis and market research so we can understand how we can improve our services, products or information;
• seeking your views or comments on the services we provide;

Who has access to your information?

We do not sell or rent your information to third parties.

We do not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.

However, we may disclose your contact information to other service providers who we work with to deliver the events described in our website.

Lawful Processing

Data protection law requires us to rely on one or more lawful grounds to process your personal information. We consider the following grounds to be particularly relevant:

Specific Consent

Where you have provided specific consent to us using your personal information in a certain way, such as to send you email, text and/or telephone marketing, or browsing our website.

Performance of a contract

Where we are entering into a contract with you or performing our obligations under it like when you book a sailing trip with us.

Review of this Policy

We keep this policy under regular review. This policy was last updated in May 2018.