🔒 Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how Yamaha Marine Hub collects, uses, and protects your data.

🌐 Website Address

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

💬 Comments

When visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser details to help detect spam. An anonymized hash of your email may be shared with Gravatar to display your profile picture.

🖼️ Media

If you upload images, avoid including location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can extract this information from downloaded images.

🍪 Cookies

• Comments may save your name, email, and website in cookies for 1 year.
• A temporary cookie checks if your browser accepts cookies when visiting the login page.
• Login cookies last 2 days; screen preference cookies last 1 year.
• “Remember Me” keeps you logged in for 2 weeks.
• Editing/publishing sets an additional cookie (expires after 1 day).

📎 Embedded Content

Articles may include embedded content (videos, images, articles). Such content behaves the same as if you visited the third-party site directly. These sites may track your interaction if you are logged in with them.

🤝 Who We Share Data With

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

⏳ Data Retention

Comments and metadata are retained indefinitely. Registered users’ personal information is stored in their profiles, which they can view, edit, or delete (except username). Administrators can also edit this information.

🛡️ Your Rights

You may request an exported file of the personal data we hold, or request its deletion. This does not include data retained for legal, administrative, or security purposes.

🌍 Where Your Data is Sent

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