Data we collect
Boatpedia may collect account details, email verification data, saved boats, watchlists, newsletter preferences, listing drafts, owner listing details, support messages, device data, usage analytics, and security logs.
Boatpedia may also collect public source records and public factual observations, including boat model facts, public listing prices, source links, listing status, timestamps, source identifiers, public business contact context, and market signals needed to operate search, alerts, comparisons, and price history.
If ads, premium listings, payments, or notifications are enabled, Boatpedia may process delivery, billing, campaign, consent, and performance data needed for those features.
How we use data
Boatpedia uses data to operate the service, personalize saved features, send requested notifications, prevent abuse, improve search, support listings, and meet legal obligations.
- Provide accounts, email-code sign-in, favourites, watchlists, newsletters, and saved searches.
- Review boat listings, corrections, source links, reports, and support requests.
- Measure app health, prevent fraud, enforce policies, and secure the service.
- Send transactional email, notifications, and optional marketing based on preferences.
Sharing and retention
Boatpedia shares data with service providers only when needed for hosting, analytics, email, security, payment, moderation, and support. Public listings and public contributions are visible to other users.
Data is retained only as long as needed for the product, legal obligations, safety, disputes, backups, and audit history. Users can request account and data deletion.
Public source data
Publicly accessible factual data is used for reference, indexing, price tracking, source integrity, fraud prevention, and correction workflows. Boatpedia avoids retaining non-public seller contact details, private account data from other services, raw third-party page copies, or third-party listing prose unless a user, partner, provider, law, or written permission authorizes that processing.
Requests involving personal data, public source records, business contact information, or rights-holder concerns are reviewed under applicable privacy, data-protection, source-integrity, and legal-retention rules.
Cookies and browser storage
Boatpedia may use cookies and browser storage to keep you signed in, remember preferences, measure reliability, limit repeated ads, and prevent abuse.
Users can manage browser cookies in browser settings. Some account, security, and saved-feature cookies are needed for the service to work.
- Strictly necessary storage keeps accounts, security, and preferences working.
- Analytics storage helps improve reliability and search quality.
- Advertising storage may support modest sponsored placements when enabled.
Account and data deletion
Email privacy@boatpedia.co from the email address on your Boatpedia account with the subject "Delete my Boatpedia account".
If you cannot access that email address, include enough information for us to verify ownership before deleting or exporting account data.
Account deletion does not automatically remove public factual records, public source observations, third-party listing facts, source citations, price-history points, anti-fraud records, safety records, or legal audit records that Boatpedia has a legitimate basis to retain.
Where a public source record includes personal data, Boatpedia will review correction, anonymization, de-indexing, or deletion requests under applicable privacy law, source-integrity needs, public-interest uses, and legal-retention obligations.
- Boatpedia can delete or anonymize account data, saved boats, watchlists, notification preferences, listing drafts, and newsletter subscriptions, subject to legal, security, payment, fraud, and audit retention needs.
- Public listings may be removed, marked sold, or anonymized depending on source and transaction records.
- Some backup, security, payment, fraud, and abuse-prevention logs may be retained for a limited period.
- Published public contributions may remain if needed for source integrity, but can be detached from your account where practical.
