Bellingham Sail and Power Squadron (BSPS)
Terms of Service (TOS)

These Terms of Service of the Bellingham Sail and Power Squadron website www.BoatingIsFun.org apply solely to this website.

The purpose of these Terms of Service are to inform you of the following:

  1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through this web site, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared.
  2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
  3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
  4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

These terms of service conform to the guidelines of the Bellingham Sail and Power Squadron Personal Information Policy.

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site.  We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to these terms.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

We do NOT collect sensitive information (such as credit card data) on this website.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline.  Only Bellingham Sail and Power Squadron members who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, customer service, event registration) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

This website uses Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the site. The tool uses "cookies," which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors' us of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for www.BoatingIsFun.org.

We will never (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of visitors to our site. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither we nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any Personally Identifiable Information from any source, unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.

Cookies do not reveal personal information. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. Cookies can not read unrelated data off your hard drive. The help function on most browsers contains information on how to set your browser to notify you before accepting a cookie or to disable cookies entirely. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of various features on our site.

Links

Our Web site contains links to external Web sites that are not within our control. If you decide to use any of these external links, you will be connected to a site not covered by our Terms of Service or Privacy Policy. We recommend that you read their privacy statements, since they may differ from ours. These Terms of Service apply only to information collected on www.boatingisfun.org.

Your Agreement to Be Bound By these Terms of Service

By visiting our Web site, you agree that your visit is governed by the Bellingham Sail and Power Squadron Website Terms of Service, and that these terms may be revised from time to time.

Any visitor to www.BoatingIsFun.org shall indemnify and hold the Bellingham Sail and Power Squadron, its directors, officers, agents, employees, affiliates, successors, webmasters, or assigns harmless from, and with respect to, any losses, damages, liabilities, claims, costs, causes of action, judgments, payments, and expenses, including expenses for investigation and attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to: (1) any information obtained by the visitor directly or indirectly through www.BoatingIsFun.org ; or (2) any acts, lawful or unlawful, by any www.BoatingIsFun.org user or visitor.

Sponsorship of www.BoatingIsFun.org , business listings, links to other web sites, or any classified or other advertisement on www.BoatingIsFun.org does not imply endorsement of sponsor or business and the products or services they provide. visitors to www.BoatingIsFun.org agree to hold harmless and to indemnify the Bellingham Sail and Power Squadron and its directors, officers, agents, employees, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, webmasters and assigns from and against any and all loss, damages, liabilities, claims, costs, causes of action, judgments, payments, and expenses, including expenses for investigation and attorneys' fees, which in any way result or arise from the actions, experiences or exchange of information with any vendor or other entity listed or located on www.BoatingIsFun.org.

Updates

These Bellingham Sail and Power Squadron Terms of Service may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.

If you feel that we are not abiding by these Terms, you should contact us immediately via the webmaster.

Bellingham Sail & Power Squadron
P.O. Box 30363
Bellingham, WA 98228