Who we are

Our website address is: https://champagneyachtsd.com.

SMS Communications (A2P 10DLC Compliance)

If you provide your mobile phone number and opt in, Champagne Yacht SD may send you SMS/text messages for yacht availability updates, discounts, promotions, booking-related notifications, and customer service.

Consent & Opt-In

  • You will only receive SMS messages if you explicitly opt in through our website forms, checkout/booking forms, or by another clear consent method.
  • Message frequency varies based on availability and promotions.
  • Consent to receive SMS is not a condition of purchase.

Opt-Out & Help

  • You can opt out at any time by replying STOP. You may receive one final confirmation message.
  • For help, reply HELP or contact us via our website contact page.

Message & Data Rates

Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

What We Collect for SMS

When you opt in to SMS, we may collect and store your phone number, name (if provided), message content, opt-in/opt-out timestamps, and delivery status to operate and document our messaging program.

How We Use & Share SMS Data

We use your information to send the messages you requested and to manage our SMS program. We may share limited information with our messaging and CRM providers (e.g., HighLevel/LC Phone and related carriers) solely to deliver messages and maintain compliance.

Mobile Information Sharing

  • No sale of mobile information: We will not sell your phone number or mobile-related information.
  • No third-party marketing use: We will not share your phone number with third parties or affiliates for their own marketing or promotional purposes.
  • Operational sharing only: We may share limited information with service providers who help us deliver SMS (such as messaging platforms, carriers, and CRM tools) strictly to operate the program, provide support, and maintain compliance.
  • Opt-in data protection: Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent (including opt-in/opt-out records) will not be shared with any third parties, except as required to deliver the service or comply with legal obligations.

What personal data we collect

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.

Data security and handling

We take reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, and physical measures designed to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These safeguards may include access controls, encryption in transit where supported, secure authentication practices, logging and monitoring, and limiting access to personal data to personnel and service providers who need it to perform legitimate business functions.

How we handle your data:

  • Data minimization: We collect and retain personal information only as needed to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
  • Access limitation: Access to personal information is restricted to authorized users on a need-to-know basis.
  • Service providers: We may use vetted third-party service providers (e.g., website hosting, analytics, CRM, messaging providers) that process data on our behalf under contractual obligations to protect it.
  • Retention: We retain personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. When no longer needed, we take steps to delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it.
  • International processing: Depending on the tools we use, your data may be processed or stored in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.

No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee absolute security. If you believe your interaction with us is no longer secure, please contact us promptly through the contact information on our website.

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.

Cookies

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.

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.

Analytics | Who we share 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.

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 we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.