About this Cookie Policy?This Cookie Policy shall be understood in conjunction with our WSDO Privacy Policy, available at http://www.worldsailingday.org, which provides you further information about the personal data collected, including via cookies, how this data is processed and the rights you have. This Cookie Policy is applicable regardless of how you access and make use of our website, including access via mobile devices and apps.

What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file with an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This allows us and third party providers engaged by or cooperating with us to recognize visitors to our website and to track them over multiple visits and across different sites.

There are different reasons why we work with third parties. Often this happens because we use their tools or services to improve the functionality or content of our website (e.g. we want to give you access to a particular YouTube video, we integrate the YouTube viewer in our website, so you can watch the video on our website). An internet “cookie” may be sent to your computer in order to allow our servers to monitor your requirements. The cookie is stored on your computer. Our server may request that your computer return a cookie to it.

These return cookies do not contain any information supplied by you or any personally identifiable information about you. However, we use cookies to keep track of yourshopping cart when you are using the World Sailing Day Store Online and the Sailing Miles Vendor Store. The use of cookies allows World Sailing and its subsidiaries to measure the usability of the systems, which will help to continually improve user experience of our websites. Your browser software should however enable you to block cookies if you wish to. For more information about cookies, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.

Performance Cookies: Are used only to improve how a website works. These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Functionality Cookies: Allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies are also used to remember your customizations (example: if you have changes text size, fonts and other parts of web page) and used to provide services you requested (example watching a video or blog commenting All the information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Targeting or Advertising Cookies: are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests and limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. These cookies are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.

Google Analytics: WSDO uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics collects first party cookies, which are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour. This information is sent to Google and is used toevaluate how our website is being used enabling statistical reports to be created. See Google Analytics for a full list of cookies used and the explanations on their operation.

How to Disable Cookies: You can stop cookies being downloaded on to your computer by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. There is more information about cookies, including how to delete them on the website http://www.aboutcookies.org/. You may also opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics.

Who is the controller for processing your data?

Strictly Necessary Cookies: The World Sailing Day Organisation Ltd., 1 Des Roches Square Witan Way, Witney, OX28 4BE Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, is the controller for the WSDO’s processing under this Cookie Policy.

For any questions or to exercise your data protection rights, you can contact us
as follows: Post Email World Sailing Day Organisation Ltd.
First Floor 1 Des Roches Square
Witan Way, Witney
OX28 4BE Oxfordshire
United Kingdom
legal@worldsailingday.org

NOTE
World Sailing does not collect (nor allow any third party to collect) personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered with any personally identifying information. We will not link or seek to link an IP address with the identity of a computer user. In short, Google Analytics doesn’t identify who you are, but it does track your movements on our websites.

We may operate pages and other online presences («fan pages», «channels», «profiles», etc.) on social networks and other platforms operated by third parties and collect data about you and process it in accordance with our WSDO Privacy Policy. We receive this data from you and from the provider of the platform when you interact with us through our online presences (e.g. when you communicate with us via our online presences, view, comment or share our content we post or visit our online presences). At the same time, the providers of the platforms may analyze your use of our online presences (e.g. the way you interact with us, how you use our online presences, what you view, comment or «like») and process this data together with other data they have about you (e.g. information about your age and your gender and other demographic information). In that way, they create profiles about you and statistics on the use of our online presences. They use this data and profiles to display our or other advertisements and other personalized content on the platform and to manage the behaviour of the platform, but also for market and user research and to provide us and other parties with information about you and the use of our online presence. Where we are jointly responsible with the provider for certain types of processing, we will conclude a corresponding agreement with such provider. You may obtain information about the material content of this agreement from the provider. They also process this data for their own purposes, in particular for marketing and market research purposes (e.g. to personalize advertising) and to manage their platforms (e.g. to decide what content they show you) and, to that end, they act as separate controllers. We are entitled but not obliged to review contents prior to or after their publication on our online presences, to delete contents without notification, and to report them to the provider of the platform in question, if necessary. When rules of decency and codes of conduct are violated, we may also notify the provider of the platform of the user account in question for blocking or deletion. For further information on the processing of the platform operators, please refer to the privacy information of the relevant platforms. There you can also find out about the countries where they process your data, your rights of access and erasure of data and other data subjects rights and how you can exercise them or obtain further information. We currently use the following platforms:Facebook: On Facebook we operate the page : https://www.facebook.com/worldsailingday

The controller for the operation of the platform for users from Europe is Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., Dublin, Ireland. Their privacy notice is available at www.facebook.com/policy. Some of your data will be transferred to the United States. You can object to advertising here: www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads. With regard to the data collected and processed when visiting our site for «page insights», we are joint controllers with Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., Dublin, Ireland. As part of page insights, statistics are created about the actions visitors perform on our site (comment on posts, share content, etc.). This is explained at www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data.

It helps us understand how our page is used and how to improve it. We receive only anonymous, aggregated data. We have agreed our data protection responsibilities according to the information on www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum.
Twitter/ X On Twitter we operate the account: https://twitter.com/worldsailingday
The controller for the operation of the platform for users from Europe is Twitter International Company, Dublin, Ireland. Its privacy notice is available at twitter.com/en/privacy. Some of your data will be transferred to the United States. You can object to advertising here: twitter.com/settings/ads_preferences. LinkedIn: On LinkedIn we operate the page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/worldsailingday .

The controller for the operation of the platform for users from Europe is LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Dublin, Ireland. Its privacy notice is available at www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. Some of your data will be transferred to the United States. You can object to advertising here: www.linkedin.com/psettings/advertising-data. With regard to the data collected and processed when visiting our site for «page insights», we are joint controllers with LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company,Dublin, Ireland. As part of page insights, statistics are created about the actions visitors perform on our site (comment on posts, share content, etc.). This is explained at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. It helps us understand how our page is used and how to improve it. We receive only anonymous, aggregated data. We have agreed our data protection responsibilities according to the information on https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum.

TikTok: On TikTok we operate the page
https://www.tiktok.com/@admin

The controller for the operation of the platform for users from Europe is TikTok
Technology Limited, Dublin, Ireland. Its privacy notice is available at https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy-eea?lang=en. Some of your data will be transferred to the United States. Youtube: On Youtube we operate the page https://www.youtube.com/@worldsailingday Instagram: On Instagram we operate the page
https://www.instagram.com/@admin

4. Can Cookie Policy be updated?
This Cookie Policy is not part of a contract with you. We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other reasons. Please refer to this Cookie Policy from time to time to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The version published on this website is the current version. Your consent applies to all of the WSDO websites and mobile applications.