Who we are
Our website address is: https://explorelamu.com.
Public Nature of Content Submitted to Sites
The nature of Explore Lamu is designed to enable our members to share content of a personal and professional nature with a public worldwide audience. Please be aware that any information that you submit to us whether through forms or email, including personally identifiable information, may be publicly displayed on sites hosted at https://www.explorelamu.com, or on websites not within our control. If you don’t want others to see such information, don’t submit it.
Forms and Content
To create a new account, or login to an existing one, you are required to submit an email address and other personal information. We may publicly display the personal information. Your address may also be used to send you email bulletins from Explore Lamu administrators, or from specific interest group mailing lists to which you subscribe and which you can manage via your account settings. You may also be sent automatic notifications from your listings as booking requests and update notifications based on what you post on the website or other content types and the settings for these are controlled on the content page when you create it. The website will automatically send you notifications when your content is approved, and from time to time when other members engage with your pages, and these notifications settings may be updated from your profile settings pages.
If there are problems with your individual account, we may contact you via email as well.
If you contribute content, such as discussion comments, to any content, your contribution may be publicly displayed including personally identifiable information. Display of visitor content is determined by the discretion of the individual content authors and Explore Lamu editors.
As the author of any listing, product or article or news content to the website, your content will by default be made available to outside search engines, indexes and third party sites to scan each blog, create hyperlinks to individual blogs or distribute it further via feeds. You can delete any content you add to the website but it may take some time before 3rd party services remove their links and digital references to copies of your work.
Each time you update your content, it may also send pings or feeds to sites that index or track newly updated content. These sites may publicly display a hyperlink to your site and the time that you updated it. If your site publishes XML feeds, content from or links to your site may be publicly displayed on third party sites.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
IP Addresses and Referrers
We may publicly display the IP addresses of visitors and contributors of content hosted on https://www.explorelamu.com.
We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to tailor site content and to format the site and software to user needs, and to generate aggregate statistical reports. We may use aggregate visitor data to prepare publicly displayed reports regarding the traffic on individual pages, site popularity rankings, and referrers that visitors use to access specific content.
Cookies
Like most websites, ours uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site and capture information about use of the site. This helps us to provide you with a favorable experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve it.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. We do not ask your consent for cookies (other than targeting cookies) as in accordance with guidance from the International Chamber of Commerce, opt-in from you is not required. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. We do not currently use targeting cookies, but if we did, we would ask your express permission.
If you visit our web site, we may use session cookies while your browser is open, or while you are logged into our site. To facilitate our registration and login functions, we may use cookies to recognize you when you return to our website or to individual accounts hosted our site. If you do not logout of your account, these cookies allow us to keep track of your username and password, so that you do not have to resubmit the information to log into your account. Always remember to log out of your site or account so that the computer’s other users cannot access your account.
Cookies fall into the following categories:
Strictly necessary cookies.
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies.
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies.
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies.
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
You can disable cookies and limit their use on your web browsers.
Please search online for more information on how to restrict and delete cookies for your browser type.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire at the end of your session.
For further information about ‘cookies”and how to disable them please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org
For information on how to opt out of Google Analytic cookies: Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On.
If you have further concerns or questions over our cookie usage, please email [email protected].
Website Statistics, User Tracking and Advertising
We use Google Analytics Tracking and Facebook pixels to track and provide us with data about how our website visitors use the website and about their interests and demographics. We use this anonymous data to help us create better advertising campaigns and to target Yachting Industry professionals more successfully. These services use their own cookies and tracking systems. For more information about the data Google and Facebook store about your online activity please read the information they may offer on their websites.
3rd Party Sharing Tools
We use AddThis which is a third party sharing tool that enables our users to more easily share content online and via other digital platforms. Add this uses its own cookies and collects user analytics and data about sharing activity. Please see their documentation for more info if required. http://www.addthis.com
If you visit our website, we may use session cookies while your browser is open, or while you are logged into our site. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
To facilitate our registration and login functions, we may use cookies to recognize you when you return to our website or to individual accounts hosted on our site. If you do not logout of your account, these cookies allow us to keep track of your username and password, so that you do not have to resubmit the information to log into your account. Always remember to log out of your site or account so that the computer’s other users cannot access your account.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Website Statistics, User Tracking and Advertising
We use Google Analytics and Facebook pixels to track and provide us with data about how our website visitors use the website and about their interests and demographics. We use this anonymised data to help us create better advertising campaigns and to target Yachting Industry professionals more successfully. These services use their own cookies and tracking systems. For more information about the data Google and Facebook store about your online activity please read the information they may offer on their websites.
3rd Party Sharing Tools
We use AddThis which is a third party sharing tool that enables our users to more easily share content online and via other digital platforms. Add this uses its own cookies and collects user analytics and data about sharing activity. Please see their documentation for more info if required. http://www.addthis.com
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Disclosure of Information to Explore Lamu Administration and to Law Enforcement
Available log records, and all data stored on our servers may be accessed by our system administrators and our contracted website developers Overtone Digital and the members of their development team. The system administrators may produce these records and data to the Explore Lamu shareholders upon request or suspected violation of our terms of use. It is Explore Lamu’s policy to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the detection, investigation, and prosecution of unlawful activity. If we receive a warrant or subpoena for user information, we may disclose requested records to law enforcement authorities or outside parties seeking information through the legal process.
Links to Independent Websites
Any content hosted by Explore Lamu may link to independently run web sites outside of the https://www.explorelamu.com domain. Explore Lamu is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such web sites.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Children’s Privacy
The content on the Explore Lamu site is intended for adults and we will not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years old. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a child under age 13 who has become a member of a site hosted by https://www.explorelamu.com, please contact our administration at [email protected] to notify us of a suspected violation.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the general terms of use of the site, you may contact us by email at [email protected].