Privacy statement for the Guildford Model Yacht Club website

Our commitment to privacy

The Club is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy as a visitor to our website at http://www.guildford.co.uk. We take the issue of privacy very seriously and value the trust you place in us each time you use our services and access this website. This Privacy Statement describes the practices and policies we have put into place to safeguard your personal information that may be gathered and used as you visit our website.

This notice describes how information about you may be used and disclosed, and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.

The statement may change from time to time so please check back periodically. If you have any questions about our privacy policies, we encourage you to contact us using any of the methods outlined at the end of our Privacy Statement.

Form submission.

Information submitted via our enquiry form is never divulged to any third party. If you have requested our newsletter then on occasions you will receive communications from us. You can unsubscribe at an time fromthis facility.

Who is collecting the information?

Guildford Model Yacht Club is collecting information on this website as outlined in this privacy statement.

What information do we collect?

Automatic collection of information:

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website or download information, our system will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally and is used in an aggregate way to help us improve our website and tell us the number of visitors to our site each day.

Our web server automatically collects and records the following information:

  • The visitor's domain name, but not the e-mail address
  • The visitor's IP address
  • The name and release number of web browser software used
  • The operating system used
  • Date and time you access our site
  • The address of the website that linked to us (referrer URL)

Permission-based collection of information:

At present you will not be asked to volunteer personal information such as your name, email, mailing address and telephone number in order to view any of the areas of the web site.

How do we use the information we collect?

The information we gather automatically and with your permission during your visit to our website is used in the following ways:

  • Monitor, review, measure, and analyze website utilization
  • Modify and enhance the website
  • Improve the content and design of our website
  • Respond to your requests
  • Monitor and improve our customer service efforts
  • Study general usage habits and demographic information for our own marketing research purposes

With whom will the information be shared?

The personally identifiable information gathered during your visit to this website is not shared with any organization for any purpose without your express permission.

Security of communications

We recognize that many people are concerned about the privacy and protection of information as it is transmitted over the Internet. You should keep in mind that the possibility exists for unauthorized individuals to intercept any email message you send over the Internet. In some cases, information can be encrypted (scrambled or encoded) to make it very difficult to read if it is intercepted during communication. Certain technology and practices allow websites to provide an increased level of security for your personal information when appropriate.

We use the following practices on our website to enhance the level of security for communication and the transmission of personal information:

  • We have taken reasonable steps to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of personally identifiable information that you may provide
  • We are not responsible for the privacy of e-mail messages except those stored in our system
  • We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site

E-Commerce, online donations, and online shopping

At this time there is no merchandising from this site.

Advertising servers

On-line advertising, such as banner ads, has become commonplace on many websites. Certain websites have developed relationships with third-party advertising servers to display these advertisements on their sites. By clicking on one of these banner ads, you will be taken to another site with different privacy policies. These third party ad servers may also use cookies to collect non-personal information on your preferences and interests via the advertisement you decide to view.

At this time, we do not partner with or have special relationships with any advertising server companies.

Links to other sites

Websites often provide a number of links that offer direct access to other useful or interesting websites holding potential value to site visitors. Inclusion of the other sites by links does not imply any endorsement of the material or information on the other sites. Users are encouraged to review the privacy statement of each linked site before sharing personal information.

This site includes links to non-affiliated external websites. We have the following practices:

  • We encourage users to review the privacy statement of each linked site, as we cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of other sites

Changes in our privacy statement

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we have the following practices:

  • We will use for these new purposes only data collected from the time of the statement change forward.

Preference for future use of information

You may prevent your information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by:

  • Sending us e-mail to that effect using our contact form.

Website contact information

Please contact us If you have questions about our privacy statement.


Mark Mortimore
Club's Official address here:

Contact: Mark Mortimore
E-mail: Please use our contact form


This privacy statement was last modified on 14th October 2008