Introduction:

Absolute Yachting (“we,” “us,” “our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.absoluteyachting.co.za or attend our courses.

Information We Collect:

Personal Data: We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register for courses, fill out forms, or communicate with us. This includes your name, email address, phone number, date of birth, and any other information you choose to provide.

Payment Information: We collect payment details necessary to process your course fees. This may include your bank account details for Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) payments.

Health Information: We may collect health information to ensure your safety during our courses. This information will be treated confidentially.

Usage Data: We automatically collect certain information when you visit our website. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and pages viewed directly before and after accessing the website.

Use of Your Information:

We use the information we collect in the following ways:

To process your course registrations and payments.

To communicate with you regarding your course bookings and other inquiries.

To provide, operate, and maintain our website and services.

To improve our website and services based on your feedback and usage patterns.

To ensure your safety and provide appropriate accommodations during courses.

Disclosure of Your Information:

We may share your information in the following circumstances:

Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers that perform services for us or on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.

Other Training Academies: We may share your information with other training academies when booking courses through them on your behalf to facilitate your training needs.

Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.

Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

Security of Your Information:

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

Your Privacy Rights:

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights with regard to your personal information:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal information.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal information, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies:

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and store certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

Changes to This Privacy Policy:

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy