Beacon Wireless Solutions Inc. and Beacon Marine Europe,
owners and operators of the "Websites"
www.beaconwireless.net, www.harborstore.com, www.harborstoreeurope.com and
www.viewfleet.net, are
committed to ensuring that each user of our website encounters a
reliable, safe and satisfying experience while using our site. We
attach great importance to the respect of the privacy of our
users.
Our Privacy Policy describes the Personal Information which
we will collect from you and the manner in which they will be used
and safeguarded.
"Personal
Information" is all information concerning you as an individual that
you voluntarily provide us or that we will collect within the
framework of the use of our site and which, whatever their nature,
will allow us either directly or indirectly, to identify you. You
can browse through our "Webites" without entering any Personal
Information which will identify you and thereby remain completely
anonymous during your entire visit. If you purchase a HarborMaster
or FleetMaster device, you will be required to register with us and supply Personal
Information which allows us to identify you (name, mailing address,
e-mail address, credit card number and expiration date, information
about your vessel and service plan options). This information which
you will find in the section entitled "Account Profileā is strictly
reserved to account holder concerned and is inaccessible to other
Internet users or other members. This Personal
Information allows us to fulfil our commitment to you to notify you
of any alarm situations on your vessel and provide you with the most
up-to-date statistics about your boat on an on-going basis as
outlined in the service plan you have selected.
By accepting the Terms & Conditions of our services, you
agree to allow us to share your Personal Information with third
parties, within the limits and in accordance with the rules
expressed in this policy. The Privacy Policy is in itself an
integral part of the Terms & Conditions of use of the services
of Beacon Wireless Solutions Inc. and Beacon Marine Europe.
The data which we use and
collect:
We
collect Personal Information from you in order to ensure that our
site works efficiently, completes your transaction properly, and
customises your experience with us. You undertake
to keep this information updated as necessary
We will only request specific information from a user of our
site in order to facilitate a transaction that the user initiates.
If we collect credit card or other financial information that is
transmitted to reputable third-party banking and distribution
institutions it is only to allow them to verify and authorize your
credit card and process payments. They are under strict obligation
to keep your personal information private and
secure.
We may also collect certain data relating to your practices
on our Site. We use this information internally in order to compile
statistics on our users, their interests, their behaviour, in order
to serve you better..
We
may use the information we collect from you to notify you about
important functionality changes to our web site, new on-line
services, contests and special offers we think you'll find valuable.
We request that a user be 18 years of age or older before submitting
personally identifiable information. By accepting
our Terms and Conditions, you agree to receive information from us. If you would
rather not receive information from us, you are able to request that
you be excluded from receiving such information, either at the time
of registration with us or at any time thereafter by sending us an
email to europeansales@beaconmarine.com.
We may install cookies on your PC (small files stored on your
hard disk and not on our site) and access them from time to time. We
use the cookies to ensure a user-friendly management of the sessions
you open.
The sharing of your data:
We will not share any of your personally identifiable
information with any third party - other than to carry out a
transaction that you initiate - unless you provide your consent in
advance.
In order to verify and authenticate your use of your credit
card, we may engage a third party or directly undertake to perform a
number of security confirmations during the buying process. Our
payment and fraud prevention partners will confirm information that
you provide us to ensure that your credit card information has not
been misappropriated for fraudulent
use.
Beacon Wireless Solutions Inc. and Beacon Marine Europe will
not sell, trade or rent your personal information to any third
party. We may provide aggregate statistics about our customers,
sales traffic patterns and related web site information to reputable
third parties, but the statistics will not include any personally
identifiable information.
Your password:
For security reasons, your Personal Information is protected
by a personal password. You are responsible for any act carried out
using your login and your password. As such, we recommend that you
do not communicate this information to third parties. If you choose
to communicate your login and your password or your Personal
Information to a third party, you are responsible for any act
undertaken using your login and of your password and we advise you
to inform these third parties of our Privacy Policy. By losing the
control of your password, you are also likely to lose control over
your Personal Information and to be held responsible for any
obligations contracted in your name. If your password has been
communicated to a third party you must immediately change it in the
"Account Profile" section.
Conservation of Personal
Information:
Your Personal Information and financial information are kept
for as long as you are HarborMaster and/or FleetMaster member. Should you wish to
revoke your membership, we undertake to remove your Person
Information form our active database as soon as possible. To make
such a request, send an email to europeansales@beaconmarine.com stating your desire. Your Personal Information will be deleted as
soon as possible, in accordance with our policy of deletion of data
and with the applicable laws on the matter. We may be required to
keep in our files some of the information which you would like
deleted in case of litigation, to resolve future problems and to
apply our Terms and Conditions. In particular, we may retain your
financial information to prevent any risk of fraud or to conform to
the applicable legal provisions. You should therefore not expect
that all your Personal Information is immediately
deleted.
Right of modification and deletion of your Personal
Information:
We inform you that you have the right to access, to correct
and to delete the Personal Information concerning you which we have
on file by sending us an e-mail to europeansales@beaconmarine.com or
directly on-line from the " Account Profile" page. The desire to
modify or delete certain information may require you to revoke your
membership and/or stop the use of your HarborMaster
and/or FleetMaster device.
Modification of this policy:
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy in order
to include comments made by our customers and in accordance with the
evolution of the rules which we apply to the collection and the
disclosure of Personal Information. All modifications come into
effect as soon as they are put on line on our site. As such, we
recommend that you regularly consult and review this Privacy
Policy.
If you do not agree with this
Privacy Policy nor wish to be bound by it, do not use our site or
the services offered. If you have any
comments, questions or concerns about your privacy and the security
of your Personal Information, please contact us
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