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Privacy Policy
Last updated May 24, 2020
Welcome to MikeTheMarine.com's Privacy Policy!
We care deeply about the privacy of our visitors and users, and are fully committed to protect your personal information and use it properly in compliance with data privacy laws. This policy describes how we may collect and use personal information, and the rights and choices available to our visitors and users regarding such information.
We strongly urge you to read this policy and make sure you fully understand it, before you access or use any of our services.
1. Please Read Carefully!
It is Mike The Marine LLC's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.mikethemarine.com (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "www.mikethemarine.com", or "Mike The Marine LLC").
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
2. What Information Do We Collect?
2.1 Visitor & User Information
We collect two types of information regarding our Visitors and Users:
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1. Like most website operators, Mike The Marine LLC collects non-personally-identifying information ("Non-Personal Information") of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Mike The Marine LLC's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Mike The Marine LLC's visitors use its website.
From time to time, Mike The Marine LLC may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
2. Mike The Marine LLC also collects potentially personally-identifying information ("Personal Information") like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on http://www.mikethemarine.com blog posts.
Mike The Marine LLC only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
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The Personal Information collected by us mainly consists of contact details (e.g., e-mail address or phone number), billing details (name, physical billing address, payment method and transaction details), which are only collected from Users with Paid Services, details regarding a browsing or usage session (IP address, Geo-location and/or device unique identifier), details regarding connected third party accounts (such as the e-mail or username for a connected Google, Facebook, or Paypal account), and any other Personal Information provided to us by Visitors and/or Users through their access to and/or use of the Services. For the avoidance of doubt, any Non-personal Information that is connected or linked to Personal Information (for example, in order to improve the Services/Products we offer) is deemed and treated by us as Personal Information, as long as such connection or linkage exists.
3. How Do We Collect Such Information?
Certain visitors to Mike The Marine LLC's websites choose to interact with Mike The Marine LLC in ways that require Mike The Marine LLC to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Mike The Marine LLC gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at http://www.mikethemarine.com to provide a username and email address.
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There are two main methods we use:
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We collect information through your use of the Services. When you visit or use our Services, including when you browse the Website or any User Website, register a User Account, edit your User Account and/or upload information and content, and/or download and use any Mike The Marine products/services, we are aware of it and will usually gather, collect and record such uses, sessions and related information, either independently or with the help of third-party services as detailed in Section 8 below, including through the use of “cookies” and other tracking technologies, as further detailed in Section 9 below.
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We collect information that you provide us voluntarily. For example, we collect the Personal Information you provide us when you register to our Services; when you sign in to our Services via third party services such as Facebook or Google; when you place purchases; when you submit or upload such Personal Information as you use any of our Services; and/or when you contact us directly by any communication channel (e.g., Mike The Marine support ticket, emails).
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We also collect information from third-party sources as described in Section 8 below.
4. Why Do We Collect Information?
We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:
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To provide and operate the Products and/or Services;
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To further develop, customize and improve our Products and/or Services, based on Visitors’ and Users’ common or personal preferences, experiences and difficulties;
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To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
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To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages (as further detailed in Section 10 below);
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To facilitate, sponsor and offer certain contests, events and promotions, determine participants’ eligibility, monitor performance, contact winners and grant prizes and benefits;
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To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
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To enhance our data security and fraud prevention capabilities;
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To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
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We will only use your Personal Information for the purposes set out in Section 4 where we are satisfied that:
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Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we have, or
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our use of your Personal Information is necessary to support legitimate interests that we have as a business (for example, to maintain and improve our Services by identifying user trends and the effectiveness of Mike The Marine campaigns and identifying technical issues), provided it is conducted at all times in a way that is proportionate, and that respects your privacy rights.
5. Where Do We Store Your Information?
Visitors and User information may be stored in data centers hosted by Wix and other approved third-party data services (e.g. Facebook, Google, Dropbox, iCloud) as necessary to continue, sustain, and improve all products and/or services provided in compliance with all laws and regulations.
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Refer to Wix's privacy policy for more information.
6. Sharing Information with Third-Parties
Wix may share your Personal Information with third parties (or otherwise allow them access to it) only in the following manners and instances:
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6.1 Employees, Contractors, and Affiliated Organizations:
We may need to share some of your information for the execution, development, and delivery of services and/or products we provide on our behalf. All of our employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations agree not to disclose personal information.
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Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Mike The Marine LLC's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Mike The Marine LLC will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.
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6.2. Law Enforcement, Legal Requests, and Duties:
Where permitted by local data protection laws, Mike The Marine may disclose or otherwise allow others access to your Personal Information pursuant to a legal request, such as a subpoena, court order or other governmental requests, or when Mike The Marine LLC believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Mike The Marine LLC, third parties or the public at large.
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6.3. Protecting Rights and Safety:
Mike The Marine LLC may share your Personal Information with others if we believe in good faith that this will help protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Mike The Marine LLC, any of our Users, or any member of the general public, with or without notice to you.
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6.4. Social Media Features and Framed Pages:
Our Services (e.g. blog) include certain Social Media features and widgets, single sign-on features, such as the “Facebook Connect” or “Google Sign-in”, the “Facebook Like” button, the “Share this” button or other interactive mini-programs (“Social Media Features”). These Social Media Features may collect information such as your IP address or which page you are visiting on our Website, and may set a cookie to enable them to function properly. Social Media Features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Services. Please be aware that if you choose to interact or share any Personal Information via such Frames, you are in fact providing it to these third parties and not to us, and such interactions and sharing too are governed by such third parties’ policies and not ours.
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7. Security
The truth about security in the digital age. The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
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If you want to be completely invulnerable to digital security breaches containing your personal information, never subscribe, enroll, sign-up, join, purchase, sell, and/or interact in any way, shape, or form with any and all digital technologies. If you are not willing to live in the pre-digital stone age, you must realize the risks of providing personal information online.
8. Links to External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us.
If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and the terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites, products, or services.
9. Marketing
Mike The Marine LLC uses the following platforms for marketing purposes:
1. Google AdWords for remarketing. We use the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven't completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an inquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google's privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt-out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
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2. Email. If you are a registered user of http://www.mikethemarine.com and have supplied your email address, Mike The Marine LLC may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Mike The Marine LLC and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Mike The Marine LLC takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
10. Use of Cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes:
1. To enrich and perfect your online experience, Mike The Marine LLC uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and
2. store your preferences on your computer.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Mike The Marine LLC uses cookies to help Mike The Marine LLC identify and track visitors, their usage of http://www.mikethemarine.com, and their website access preferences.
Mike The Marine LLC visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Mike The Marine LLC's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Mike The Marine LLC's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Mike The Marine LLC's use of cookies.
11. E-Commerce
Those who engage in transactions with Mike The Marine LLC – by purchasing Mike The Marine LLC's services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Mike The Marine LLC collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Mike The Marine LLC. Mike The Marine LLC does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
12. Changes to our Privacy Policy
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Mike The Marine LLC may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Mike The Marine LLC's sole discretion.
Mike The Marine LLC encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
13. Contact Us
We aim to be clear and transparent about how we protect and share your personal information. If you ever have any questions about our privacy policy, feel free to contact our team at hello@mikethemarine.com