Privacy Policy

This version has been in effect since November 1st, 2022.

Our privacy commitment

Boat-Educator.com understands the importance of protecting your personal information and is committed to protecting the privacy of its users. This privacy policy sets out how Boat-Educator.com uses and protects all information you provide to Boat-Educator.com while using the website.

About Boat-Educator™

Boat-Educator.com is the operating name of ALMAX Vision Corporation. Boat-Educator™ is a course provider in the process of being approved by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA) and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to issue boater safety cards in Florida and other states in the US.

Information collected on Boat-Educator™ and its use

When you register on Boat-Educator.com, we ask you to provide information about yourself, including your name, address, phone number, date of birth, and email address. This information is necessary for our records and allows us to issue your boater education card after you successfully pass the final exam.

When using Boat-Educator.com, we may ask you to provide information that can identify you. You can be assured that any information you provide will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

With your consent, we may use your personal information for a number of different purposes, for example, to:

  • manage requests for products or services
  • inform you about new products and services
  • measure and improve the effectiveness of our website
  • tailor our offerings to your preferences

Share of information

We do not share, sell, or otherwise distribute information about individual users taking the online boating safety exam with any third party or any outside companies or organizations except the agency in your state responsible for boating or if required by law. Boat-Educator.com will only ever use your personal information to help you obtain your boater education card.

Sign-Up for Newsletters or Updates

If you have “opted in” or subscribed to one of our newsletters or mailing lists, we will always provide you the opportunity to “opt-out” or unsubscribe. For example, each email we send you will tell you how to decline further emails.

External Links

Our websites may contain links to external websites. These external links are not controlled by us or covered by our privacy policy. We recommend that you read the site´s privacy statements, which may differ from ours. This privacy statement applies only to information collected on Boat-Educator.com Website.

COOKIES

“Cookies” are small files that are stored on users’ computers. Different information can be stored within the cookies. A cookie is primarily used to store information about a user (or the device on which the cookie is stored) during or after their visit to an online offer. Temporary cookies, or “session cookies” or “transient cookies,” are cookies that are deleted after a user leaves an online offer and closes his browser. For example, the content of a shopping cart in an online shop or a login status can be saved in such a cookie. “Permanent” or “persistent” refers to cookies that remain stored even after the browser is closed. For example, the login status can be saved if users visit it after several days. Users’ interests can also be stored in such a cookie, which is used for range measurement or marketing purposes. “Third-party cookies” are cookies that are offered by providers other than the person responsible for operating the online offer (otherwise, if they are only their cookies, we speak of “first-party cookies”).

We can use temporary and permanent cookies and explain this in our data protection declaration.

Users who do not want cookies to be stored on their computer are asked to deactivate the corresponding option in their browser’s system settings. Saved cookies can be deleted in the system settings of the browser. The exclusion of cookies can lead to functional restrictions of this online offer.

A general objection to the use of cookies for online marketing purposes can be raised for a large number of services, especially in the case of tracking, via the US website http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU website http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. Furthermore, cookies can be stored by switching them off in the browser settings. Please note that not all functions of this online offer can be used in this case.

We may also link tracking information with personal information voluntarily provided by Website users. Once such a link is made, all of the linked information is treated as personal information and will be used and disclosed only in accordance with this Policy.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about the user’s use of the online offer is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our online offer by users, to compile reports on the activities within this online offer, and to provide us with other services related to the use of this online offer and internet usage. Pseudonymous user profiles can be created from the processed data.

Children and Privacy

Boat-Educator.com™ encourages parents and guardians to spend time with their children online and to be familiar with the sites their children visit. ALMAX Vision collects personal information from children in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”).

Information from children collected on Boat-Educator.com

When children use or explore the Boat-Educator.com Website, we may automatically collect certain technical information to improve and enhance our site. We may collect information regarding the user’s operating system, web browser, the user’s online service provider, and the frequency with which the user visits various parts of our site. We may also collect persistent identifiers, such as cookies. Where we know that a child is using our site, this information will be used to provide support for our internal operations to provide access to certain features of our site and to enable us to conduct research and analysis to improve the performance of our site.

For users who elect to register for a course, Boat-Educator™ collects the user’s name, date of birth, and email address. For course payment, Boat-Educator™ may collect additional information such as mailing address, billing address, and payment information and, depending on requirements of some state agencies, some other information.

If Boat-Educator™ obtains actual knowledge that a child under the age of 13 is using our site, we will only retain the child’s name and email address. We will then request that the child provide us with the name and email address of his or her parent. In accordance with COPPA, Boat-Educator™ will then contact the parent to seek consent to retain and collect additional information from the child for purposes of fulfilling the course registration. Boat-Educator™ verifies the identity of a parent by requiring the parent to provide a credit card, debit card, or another online payment system so that Boat-Educator™ may make a nominal charge to confirm the parent’s identity and consent to our collection of information from the child.

 

Use and share information from children on Boat-Educator.com

Boat-Educator™ values and respects the privacy of personal information, including information collected from children. Children using our site may not make their personal information publicly available to others through our website.

Boat-Educator™ uses information collected from its users to provide them with requested services. For example, if a child provides information to us for registering for a safety course, we will use that information to provide the requested course. We will also disclose the information collected to the appropriate state agency so that the user, upon satisfactory completion of a course, can receive the appropriate state certification of completion. Boat-Educator™ does not otherwise share data with third parties, except the state organizations to issue a boater safety card or if it is required by law.

 

Parents access, review, or deletion of information collected from their child

Parental access: Parents of students 18 years or younger may contact Boat-Educator™ at the mailing address provided below if you would like to do any of the following:

  • Access and review personally identifiable information from your child,
  • Request to have this information deleted,
  • Correct factual errors in such information, or
  • Request that Boat-Educator™ no longer collect or maintain such information.

Please include your email address and telephone number where we can reach you. Boat-Educator™ takes steps to verify the identity of anyone requesting information about a child and to ensure that the person is the child’s parent or legal guardian.

 

External payment service providers

We use external payment service providers via whose platforms the users, and we can carry out payment transactions. These payment service providers may include each with a link to the data protection declaration:

The terms and conditions and the data protection notices of the respective payment service provider apply to the payment transactions, which can be accessed within the respective websites or transaction applications. We also refer to this for the purpose of further information and the assertion of revocation, information, and other data subject rights.

Comments and Posts

If users leave comments or other contributions, their IP addresses can be stored. This is for our security if someone leaves illegal content in comments and posts (insults, forbidden political propaganda, etc.). In this case, we can be prosecuted for the comment or contribution and are therefore interested in the identity of the author.

Furthermore, we reserve the right to process user information for the purpose of spam detection on the basis of our legitimate interests.

On the same legal basis, in the case of surveys, we reserve the right to store the IP addresses of users for the duration of the survey and to use cookies to avoid multiple votes.

The personal information provided in the comments and posts, any contact and website information, as well as the content, will be stored by us permanently until the user objects.

 

Hosting and email delivery

The hosting services we use serve to provide the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, e-mail dispatch, security services, and technical maintenance services that we use for the purpose of operating this online offer.

In doing so, we or our hosting provider process inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta and communication data from customers, interested parties, and visitors to this website on the basis of our legitimate interests in making this online offer available efficiently and securely.

Website security and identity theft

Your personal and credit card information is collected using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Protocol. It encrypts your information and allows a secure transfer to our website. The SSL Certificate protects the Boat-Educator.com website and ensures that your identity is authenticated and that any and all information you enter on our website is private. After collection, your information will be stored on our servers at a location designed specifically to ensure that no unauthorized individuals have access to the server or its data.

 

YouTube

We embed videos from the “YouTube” platform provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Data protection:

https://www.google.com/policies/privacy , Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

Vimeo

We embed videos from the “Vimeo” platform provided by Vimeo.com, Inc., 330 West 34th Street, 5th Floor, New York 10001, USA. Data protection:

https://vimeo.com/privacy

 

reCAPTCHA

We use reCAPTCHA version 2 on our site and the use of this feature is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The reCAPTCHA feature only serves to combat spam and abuse on our site.

https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

 

Changes to this policy

Boat-Educator.com may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. Please refer to the version date to know whether the Privacy Policy has been updated since your last visit to our site.

Deletion of information

We keep your information only as long as we need it for the products and services you’re using and for a reasonable time thereafter or to meet any legal requirements. We have retention standards that meet these requirements. We destroy your information when it is no longer needed, or we remove your personally identifiable information. You can also request that we remove your information from our records. Subject to our requirements for continued retention of your information, for example, for billing, audit, or warranty purposes, we will make every reasonable effort to honor your request.

Contact

If you believe that any information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, if you like to delete your data or have any other questions about this privacy statement, please contact us

at [email protected], or telephone at 1-814 – 351 – 1207.

ALMAX Vision Corporation (producer of Boat-Educator™)
1110 SW 28TH ST
Cape Coral, FL 33914
814 – 351 – 1207

 

We will immediately correct any information found to be incorrect. Boat-Educator™ hopes this document answers your questions and concerns about our privacy policy. Boat-Educator™ is committed to protecting the privacy of our students at all times.