Privacy Policy
User’s privacy is important to us. It is Reef Break’s top priority
to respect user’s privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation
regarding any personal information we may collect about users.
Personal information is any information about users which can be
used to identify them. This includes information about you as a person (such as
name, address, and date of birth), your devices, payment details, and even
information about how you use a website or online service.
In the event our site contains links to third-party sites and
services, please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy
policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read
their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal
information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after
you leave our site.
This policy is effective as of September 18 2021.
Last updated: September 18 2021
Information We Collect
Information we collect falls into one of two categories:
‘voluntarily provided’ information and ‘automatically collected’ information.
‘Voluntarily provided’ information refers to any information you
knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our
services and promotions.
‘Automatically collected’ information refers to any information
automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products and
services.
Log Data
When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the
standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device’s
Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you
visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other
details about your visit.
Additionally, if you encounter certain errors while using the
site, we may automatically collect data about the error and the circumstances
surrounding its occurrence. This data may include technical details about your
device, what you were trying to do when the error happened, and other technical
information relating to the problem. You may or may not receive notice of such
errors, even in the moment they occur, that they have occurred, or what the
nature of the error is.
Please be aware that while this information may not be personally
identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to
personally identify individual persons.
Device Data
When you visit our website or interact with our services, we may
automatically collect data about your device, such as:
§ Device Type
§ Operating System
§ Unique device identifiers
§ Device settings
§ Geo-location data
Data we collect can depend on the individual settings of your
device and software. We recommend checking the policies of your device manufacturer
or software provider to learn what information they make available to us.
Personal Information
We may ask for personal information — when you contact us — which
may include one or more of the following:
§ Name
§ Email
Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information
We only collect and use your personal information when we have a
legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance we only collect personal
information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.
Collection and Use of Information
We may collect personal information from you when you do any of
the following on our website:
§ Use a mobile device or web browser to access
our content
§ Contact us via email, social media, or on any
similar technologies
§ When you mention us on social media
We may collect, hold, use and disclose information for the
following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a
manner that is incompatible with these purposes:
§ to provide you with our platform’s core
features and services
§ to enable you to customize or personalize your
experience of our website
§ for advertising and marketing, including to
send you promotional information about our products and services and
information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you
We may combine voluntarily provided and automatically collected
personal information with general information or research data we receive from
other trusted sources. For example, our marketing and market research
activities may uncover data and insights, which we may combine with information
about how visitors use our site to improve our site and your experience on it.
Security of Your Personal Information
When we collect and process personal information, and while we
retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable
means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure,
copying, use or modification.
Although we will do our best to protect the personal information
you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or
storage is 100% secure and no one can guarantee absolute data security.
You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall
security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the
bounds of our services. For example, ensuring you do not make your personal
information publicly available via our platform.
How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Information
We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to.
This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in
accordance with this privacy policy. For example, if you have provided us with
personal information such as an email address when contacting us about a
specific enquiry, we may retain this information for the duration of your
enquiry remaining open as well as for our own records so we may effectively
address similar enquiries in future. If your personal information is no longer
required for this purpose, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all
details that identify you.
However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for
our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for
archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research
purposes or statistical purposes.
Children’s Privacy
We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children
under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information about
children under 13.
Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
We may disclose personal information to:
§ a parent, subsidiary or affiliate of our
company
§ third-party service providers for the purpose
of enabling them to provide their services including (without limitation) IT
service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, ad networks,
analytics, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving
providers, advertising providers, professional advisors, and payment systems
operators
§ our employees, contractors, and/or related
entities
§ our existing or potential agents or business
partners
§ credit reporting agencies, courts, tribunals,
and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services
we have provided to you
§ courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and
law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or
prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend
our legal rights
§ third parties, including agents or
sub-contractors who assist us in providing information, products, services, or
direct marketing to you
§ third parties to collect and process data
§ an entity that buys, or to which we transfer
all or substantially all of our assets and business
Affiliate Partners and Third Parties
We use affiliate links and other affiliate products across this
site.
These represent our partnership with a third-party organization or
company that we feel will increase your user experience of our service. They
can come in many forms: Ads, booking forms, links, banners, and text are some of
the most common.
Information on the individual affiliate partners we use can be
found below:
Analytics
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics. It’s a webmaster service
provided by Google to help us keep track of how well our site is performing.
Google Analytics uses cookies. They’re automatically set on any
device that visits our site and has cookies enabled. The data that’s generated
by these cookie about you use Reef Break (including, but not limited to your IP
address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on its global database of
servers, typically in the United States.
This information is used to generate reports on how users behave
on our site. That includes, but is not limited to, the time spent on our site,
how many pages visited, your geo location, your device, your browser
information/settings, secondary pages you visit, and what links you click.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where
required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information
on Google’s behalf.
Amazon Affiliates
Reef Break is a member of the Amazon Services LLC Associates
Program. It’s an advertising network that lets us earn fees from goods sold on
Amazon properties as a result of our recommendations.
Basically, if we link to an Amazon product with our tracker code
in the URL, we can earn something if our reader goes on to purchase
something.
Data that we’re able to see includes goods that were purchased and
the cost of those goods. Data about your visit to Amazon is stored on a cookie.
It includes the site – in this case, Reef Break – you visited from and
purchases made on the Amazon site.
Adsense
Google AdSense is a tool that lets Reef Break display
relevant advertisements to our users. The service makes use of cookies and
other tracking tech to optimize the ads it delivers and personalize the content
it displays.
AdSense collects certain data about users. This might include but
is not limited to IP addresses and past browsing history.
Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information
Your choice: By providing personal
information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use, and disclose your
personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. You do not have to
provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect your
use of our website or the products and/or services offered on or through it.
Information from third parties: If
we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect
it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing
personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you
have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
Marketing permission: If you have
previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing
purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the
details below.
Access: You may request details of the
personal information that we hold about you.
Correction: If you believe that any
information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete,
irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this
privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found
to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.
Non-discrimination: We will not
discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal
information. Unless your personal information is required to provide you with a
particular service or offer (for example providing user support), we will not
deny you goods or services and/or charge you different prices or rates for
goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or
imposing penalties, or provide you with a different level or quality of goods
or services.
Notification of data breaches: We
will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.
Complaints: If you believe that we have
breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please
contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the
alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you,
in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will
take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a
regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.
Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our email
database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please
contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy, or opt-out using
the opt-out facilities provided in the communication. We may need to request
specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.
Use of Cookies
We use ‘cookies’ to collect information about you and your
activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website
stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand
how you use our site. This helps us serve you content based on preferences you
have specified.
Business Transfers
If we or our assets are acquired, or in the unlikely event that we
go out of business or enter bankruptcy, we would include data, including your
personal information, among the assets transferred to any parties who acquire
us. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any parties who
acquire us may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, continue to use your
personal information according to this policy, which they will be required to
assume as it is the basis for any ownership or use rights we have over such
information.
Limits of Our Policy
Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by
us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of
those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective
privacy practices.
Changes to This Policy
At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect
updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative
or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post
the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy
policy.
If required by law, we will get your permission or give you the
opportunity to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of your
personal information.
Additional Disclosures for General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR) Compliance (EU):
Data Controller / Data Processor
The GDPR distinguishes between organizations that process personal
information for their own purposes (known as “data controllers”) and
organizations that process personal information on behalf of other
organizations (known as “data processors
Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Information
We will only collect and use your personal information when we
have a legal right to do so. In which case, we will collect and use your
personal information lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. If we seek
your consent to process your personal information, and you are under 16 years
of age, we will seek your parent or legal guardian’s consent to process your
personal information for that specific purpose.
Our lawful bases depend on the services you use and how you use
them. This means we only collect and use your information on the following
grounds:
Consent from You
Where you give us consent to collect and use your personal
information for a specific purpose. You may withdraw your consent at any time
using the facilities we provide; however this will not affect any use of your
information that has already taken place. When you contact us, you may consent
to your name and email address being used so we can respond to your enquiry.
While you may request that we delete your contact details at any time, we
cannot recall any email we have already sent. If you have any further enquiries
about how to withdraw your consent, please feel free to enquire using the
details provided in the Contact Us section of this privacy policy.
Performance of a Contract or Transaction
Where you have entered into a contract or transaction with us, or
in order to take preparatory steps prior to our entering into a contract or
transaction with you. For example, if you contact us with an enquiry, we may
require personal information such as your name and contact details in order to
respond.
Our Legitimate Interests
Where we assess it is necessary for our legitimate interests, such
as for us to provide, operate, improve and communicate our services. We
consider our legitimate interests to include research and development,
understanding our audience, marketing and promoting our services, measures
taken to operate our services efficiently, marketing analysis, and measures
taken to protect our legal rights and interests.
Compliance with Law
In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to use or keep your
personal information. Such cases may include (but are not limited to) court
orders, criminal investigations, government requests, and regulatory
obligations. If you have any further enquiries about how we retain personal
information in order to comply with the law, please feel free to enquire using
the details provided in the Contact Us section of this privacy policy.
International Transfers Outside of the European Economic Area
(EEA)
We will ensure that any transfer of personal information from
countries in the European Economic Area (EEA) to countries outside the EEA will
be protected by appropriate safeguards, for example by using standard data
protection clauses approved by the European Commission, or the use of binding
corporate rules or other legally accepted means.
Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information
Restrict: You have the right to request
that we restrict the processing of your personal information if (i) you are
concerned about the accuracy of your personal information; (ii) you believe
your personal information has been unlawfully processed; (iii) you need us to
maintain the personal information solely for the purpose of a legal claim; or
(iv) we are in the process of considering your objection in relation to
processing on the basis of legitimate interests.
Objecting to processing: You have
the right to object to processing of your personal information that is based on
our legitimate interests or public interest. If this is done, we must provide
compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which overrides your
interests, rights, and freedoms, in order to proceed with the processing of
your personal information.
Data portability: You may
have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Where possible, we will provide this information in CSV format or other easily
readable machine format. You may also have the right to request that we
transfer this personal information to a third party.
Deletion: You may have a right to request
that we delete the personal information we hold about you at any time, and we
will take reasonable steps to delete your personal information from our current
records. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will let you
know how the deletion affects your use of our website or products and services.
There may be exceptions to this right for specific legal reasons which, if
applicable, we will set out for you in response to your request. If you
terminate or delete your account, we will delete your personal information
within 7 days of the deletion of your account. Please be aware that search
engines and similar third parties may still retain copies of your personal
information that has been made public at least once, like certain profile
information and public comments, even after you have deleted the information
from our services or deactivated your account.
Additional Disclosures for California Compliance (US)
Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, if you live in
California and your business relationship with us is mainly for personal,
family, or household purposes, you may ask us about the information we release
to other organizations for their marketing purposes.
To make such a request, please contact us using the details
provided in this privacy policy with “Request for California privacy
information” in the subject line. You may make this type of request once every
calendar year. We will email you a list of categories of personal information
we revealed to other organizations for their marketing purposes in the last
calendar year along with their names and addresses. Not all personal
information shared in this way is covered by Section 1798.83 of the California
Civil Code.
Do Not Track
Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that lets you tell
websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. At this
time we do not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.
We adhere to the standards outlined in this privacy policy
ensuring we collect and process personal information lawfully, fairly,
transparently, and with legitimate, legal reasons for doing so.
Cookies and Pixels
At all times you may decline cookies from our site if your browser
permits. Most browsers allow you to activate settings on your browser to refuse
the setting of all or some cookies. Accordingly, your ability to limit cookies
is based only on your browser’s capabilities. Please refer to the Cookies
section of this privacy policy for more information.
CCPA-permitted financial incentives
In accordance with your right to non-discrimination, we may offer
you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in
different prices, rates, or quality levels for the goods or services we
provide.
Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably
relate to the value of your personal information and we will provide written
terms that describe clearly the nature of such an offer. Participation in a
financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may
revoke at any time.
California Notice of Collection
In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories
of personal information enumerated in the California Consumer Privacy Act:
§ Commercial information such as products or
services history and purchases.
§ Internet activity, such as your interactions
with our service.
§ Geolocation data.
§ Inferences such as information about your
interests, preferences and favorites.
For more information on information we collect, including the
sources we receive information from, review the “Information We Collect”
section. We collect and use these categories of personal information for the
business purposes described in the “Collection and Use of Information” section,
including to provide and manage our Service.
Right to Know and Delete
If you are a California resident, you have rights to delete your
personal information we collected and know certain information about our data
practices in the preceding 12 months. In particular, you have the right to request
the following from us:
§ The categories of personal information we have
collected about you;
§ The categories of sources from which the
personal information was collected;
§ The categories of personal information about
you we disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
§ The categories of third parties to whom the
personal information was disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
§ The business or commercial purpose for
collecting or selling the personal information; and
§ The specific pieces of personal information we
have collected about you.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the
details provided in this privacy policy.
Shine the Light
If you are a California resident, in addition to the rights
discussed above, you have the right to request information from us regarding
the manner in which we share certain personal information as defined by
California’s “Shine the Light” with third parties and affiliates for their own
direct marketing purposes.
Contact Us
For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may
contact us by email to reefbreaksite@gmail.com.
Thank you,
Reef Break team.
Last updated: September 18, 2021