Our Privacy Policy
The Wellings Blog is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the The Wellings Blog Website and governs data collection and usage. By using the The Wellings Blog website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Wellings Blog collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. The Wellings Blog also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by The Wellings Blog. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by The Wellings Blog for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the The Wellings Blog Website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through The Wellings Blog public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: The Wellings Blog does not read any of your private online communications.
The Wellings Blog encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from The Wellings Blog so that you can understand how those Websites collect, use and share your information. The Wellings Blog is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the The Wellings Blog and The Wellings Blog family of Web sites.
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Wellings Blog collects and uses your personal information to operate the The Wellings Blog Web site and deliver the services you have requested. The Wellings Blog also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from The Wellings Blog and its affiliates. The Wellings Blog may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
The Wellings Blog does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The Wellings Blog may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, The Wellings Blog may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to The Wellings Blog, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
The Wellings Blog does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent. The Wellings Blog keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within The Wellings Blog, in order to determine what The Wellings Blog services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within The Wellings Blog to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
The Wellings Blog Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on The Wellings Blog or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Wellings Blog; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Wellings Blog, or the public.
USE OF COOKIES
The Wellings Blog Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize The Wellings Blog pages, or register with The Wellings Blog site or services, a cookie helps The Wellings Blog to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same The Wellings Blog Website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the The Wellings Blog features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of The Wellings Blog services or Web sites you visit.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Wellings Blog secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The Wellings Blog secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
The Wellings Blog will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The Wellings Blog encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how The Wellings Blog is protecting your information.
CONTACT INFORMATION
The Wellings Blog welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that The Wellings Blog has not adhered to this Statement, please contact NAUTICAL LANDS GROUP at webform@nauticallandsgroup.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
WELLINGS APP PRIVACY POLICY DATED JANUARY 29TH 2019 VERSION 1(A)
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you use the Wellings App (“the app”).
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you use the App, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, email, name, room number, phone number, additional comments, and data stored in cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the App, and use its functions we collect information about your use of the App. This includes the storage of your information on third party servers under our administration at FreshDesk and Setmore. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
You can refer to the policies of both FreshDesk and Setmore at:
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit //www.allaboutcookies.org.
- “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
- “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Additionally, when you make an order request, purchase, or attempt to make a purchase through the App, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, room number, email address, and phone number as required by us to render the service requested. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the App. Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
Communicate with you;
Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address and room number), and more generally to improve and optimize our App (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the App, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above and to carry out the services and service the Orders placed by you through the App. For example, we use inter alia, Google Firebase, Freshdesk, and Setmore to process and use the data to carry out the services available through the App.
We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site- -you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: //www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: //tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: //optout.aboutads.info/.
DATA RETENTION
When you place an order through the App and/or use and/or request services through the App, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.