World Cruising Club Limited Website Terms and Conditions

Last Updated 01/06/2018

This document is here to protect both you and us. To use our Services, you must agree to our Terms of Use.

1. Age Requirement:

1. You must be at least 18 years old to use our Services. 

​

2. The accuracy of the information you provide: 

1. By registering for our Websites or Services, you are guaranteeing that all of the information you provide is accurate.
2. You agree to not to select as your username:
   • A false name
   • The name of another person 
   • A name subject to the rights of a person other than you 
   • A name that is otherwise vulgar, obscene or offensive. 
3. You agree to use your real, legal and full name when you register,
4. You must also notify us before registering multiple accounts to prevent being flagged for abuse.

​

3. Use of content:

1. We are not and cannot be held responsible for the Content you create or access elsewhere while using our Services.
2. Be mindful how you use our Services. If you are breaking laws, being obscene, or abusing our infrastructure, we have the right to stop you from doing these things.
3. It is up to you to use caution when visiting any third-party resources we may link to outside of our Websites. They are outside of our control, and we cannot be responsible for any content or actions that result from their use.
4. You may not use the Services to obtain information about or make decisions about anyone but yourself. 
5. You and you alone are responsible for any reliance by you on the Services or other use you make of the Services. 
6. Companies may be listed on our Services or advertise through our Services. This should not be considered an endorsement nor a recommendation by us, nor a sponsorship of us by them unless otherwise noted. We are not responsible for any outcomes, positive or negative, you may have with such businesses.
7. Individuals and companies may list various items for rent or sale on or through our Services.  We make no warranty or guarantees of the accuracy of such listings. We are not responsible for any outcomes, positive or negative, you may have with such listings.

​

4. As conditions of use of our Services:

1. You agree that you will not use the Services for any purpose that is prohibited by these Terms of Use. 
2. You accept responsibility for the acts of others using your account to access our Services as we cannot tell your actions from another’s using your account.  
3. You agree that all Content you access by using our Services is at your own risk and you alone are responsible for any damage or loss to you. 
4. You accept and agree that we do not guarantee the accuracy of Content you access on or through the Services.
5. You agree that you will not contribute Content, in any way, on or through our Services that
   • Is unlawful
   • Is threatening, abusive or harassing, 
   • Is defamatory, libelous, deceptive or fraudulent
   • Is invasive of another's privacy
   • Is tortious
   • Is offensive, profane, contains or depicts pornography, or is otherwise inappropriate as determined by us in our sole discretion, 
   • That you know is misleading, untruthful, false, or inaccurate
   • That constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited advertising
   • That impersonates any person or entity
   • That impersonates any of our employees or representatives
   • That includes anyone's identification documents, personal information or sensitive financial information.

​

5. Payments and Promotional Credits:

1. For those Services that require payment we currently accept payments only by PayPal, major credit and debit cards or, in some cases bank transfer.
2. If you have received promotional credit for use purchasing Services on our site, you must redeem it within 6 months of the date it was issued, unless otherwise indicated. All other credit will remain on your account as long as you're active in a given 6 month period.

​

Just like you the customer, we as a company have rights:

1. We have no special relationship with you.
2. We have no fiduciary duty to you.
3. You agree that we have no duty to take any action regarding:
   • Which Subscribers gain access to the Services
   • What Content you access via the Services
   • How you may use or interpret the Content
   • Such Content is protected by copyrights, trademarks, patents, service marks, trade secrets or other proprietary rights and laws. 
   • Trademarks used on this Website or associated Services are the property of their respective owners
   • Take any action that may or does impose (as determined by us in our sole discretion) an unreasonably large load on our (or our third party providers') infrastructure
   • Interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Services or any activities conducted on the Services
   • Bypass or attempt to bypass any measures we may use to restrict or prevent access to the Services (or other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Services)
   • Add "spam" on the Services
   • Use automated or manual software, devices, or other means to "spider" or "crawl" any page of the Websites
   • Harvest or scrape any Content from the Services
   • Use the Services for high-risk activities including but not limited to any use where the failure of service could lead to personal injury, death or environmental damage
   • Otherwise, take any action in violation of our guidelines and policies.
   • Decipher, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to obtain or derive any source code or underlying algorithms or ideas of any part of the Services (including without limitation any application), except for when, where and how applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction 
   • Modify, or otherwise create derivative works of any part of the Services without express permission

4. The Services may contain Content provided by us, our partners or our users.

5. You shall not:

6. You shall not:

​

7. Rights to Content:
8. By submitting any User Content to the Websites or Services, with the exception of privately transmitted or Personal Content, you hereby do grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid, sub-licensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and otherwise fully use such User Content in connection with the Websites, Services and our businesses in any media formats and through any media channels, third party websites and feeds, or technology now known or later developed and including after your termination of your Account or the Services. 
9. You also grant each user of the Websites or the Services a perpetual, non-exclusive license to access any of your User Content that is available to the user on the Websites for as long as the Content is on the Websites or Services
10. By submitting any User Content to the Services other than on the Websites, you hereby do grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid, sub-licensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and otherwise fully use such User Content solely for the purpose of providing the Services. 
11. The licenses you grant to us and our users do not affect your other ownership or license rights to your User Content, including the right to grant additional licenses to your User Content, unless otherwise agreed in writing. 
12. You guarantee that you have the rights to grant licenses to the User Content you contribute to us without infringement or violation of any third party rights, including without limitation
    • Any privacy rights
    • Publicity rights
    • Copyrights, trademarks, contract rights, or any other proprietary or intellectual property rights. 
    • Subject to the conditions described in our Privacy Policy, we shall be free to use and distribute the Feedback to others without limitation. 

6. Comments, suggestions or other materials sent or transmitted to us (collectively "Feedback"), shall be deemed to be non-confidential.

7. We reserve the right to use or publish any responses, questions or comments you email to us for promotional or other purposes without any further permission, notice or payment of any kind to you. All such submissions will be the property of World Cruising Club Limited.

8. All website, app or service design, text, graphics or any other Content are the Copyright 2006 to present, World Cruising Club Limited, its subsidiaries or agents.

​

8. Beta Access:
9. From time to time we may let you try new experimental features (aka Beta Services), but these are provided "as-is" and without warranty.

​

9. Confidentiality:
10. We do not share your personal or confidential information with third parties except where it is required to deliver the Service you have requested, you have requested we do so, or the law requires it. See our Privacy Policy for more details.

​

10. Choice of Law
11. In using the Services, you must comply with, and refrain from violations of, any right of any other person, entity, law, or contractual duty, including without limitation the laws of England, and including without limitation those laws forbidding
    • Distribution of child pornography
    • Forgery or Identity theft
    • Misdirection or interference with electronic communications
    • Invasion of privacy
    • Unlawful sending of commercial or non-commercial electronic messages or communications
    • Collection of excessive user data from children, or other improper data collection activities
    • Securities violations, wire fraud or money laundering
    • Terrorist activities
    • False advertising
    • Propagating or profiting from frauds and unfair schemes

​

11. Termination of account:
12. If you violate these Terms of Use, then we have the right to suspend or delete your account. These actions are for the most severe offenses. You will more likely receive a warning and still be able to continue using our services as long as the behavior in question ceases. 
13. You are free to terminate your account without reason at any time.

​

12. Disclaimer
13. The news, updates and features that appear on the Websites or Services may be prepared by independent journalists, members of the public or other third parties and do not necessarily represent the views of World Cruising Club Limited or its subsidiaries. World Cruising Club Limited accepts no responsibility for the news, features or other Content on or delivered through the Websites or Services nor the opinions expressed therein. 

​

13. Feedback, comments and complaints
14. Should be sent to [email protected]

World Cruising Club Ltd Privacy Policy

Last Updated 01/06/2018

The World Cruising Club Limited family

The World Cruising Club Limited family is a group of online and offline services and products. Together, these are known as “Services”.

You, as a user of our Services, are known as a “Service User”.

Service Users are collectively known as the “Community”.

Services are currently made of:

• Websites:

www.worldcruising.com

www.oceancrewlink.com 

www.noonsite.com

​

New sites, software or mobile applications may be added in the future. You will be notified when this occurs in order to provide your consent for your use of these new Services

• Offline Services:

Sailing Rallies

Seminars

Classes

Trade-shows

Other offline activities

This Privacy Policy applies to the use of or interaction with any of the Services by you, the Service User.

Identity, access and what information we collect about you

When you sign up for one of our Services, we will first ask for your First and Last name and email address so you can personalize your new account, and we can send you updates, or other important information.

Some Services you sign-up for may require other personal and non-personal information needed to deliver or provide the Service. For example, to sail in a rally your nationality and information about your boat will be needed.

There may also be other personal and non-personal information you can choose to provide to increase the value you receive from the Services.

While using the Services, you may also choose to add or share things like comments, reports, reviews, ratings, forum posts, photos and other content intended to be seen by the Community.

When you call, email or message us, we will keep a record of that for future reference. When you visit the pages of our website, we will track that to make our Services better for you. For example, conversion rates and to test new designs. We also store any information you choose to share, like surveys or feedback, for as long as it makes sense.

Membership of www.worldcruising.com and participation in our rallies is restricted to those aged 18 years and above, unless participating under the direction of a parent or guardian. Information relating to age, nationality, address and emergency contacts is stored for under 18’s, but may only be added to our database by a parent or guardian. 

Membership of www.oceancrewlink.com is restricted to those aged 18 years or above.

Use of www.noonsite.com is restricted to those aged 13 years or above, in line with industry standards for social media.

We will never sell your personal identifying information to third-parties. 

We will only ever share your information:

• If you have asked or given consent to us to share that information.
• To the Services you have requested, with your permission. See this list of third-party services we use below.
• To investigate, prevent, or take actions regarding suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, illegal activities, violations of our Terms of Service, or as required by law.
• If required by authorized governmental and law enforcement agencies, to facilitate cross border movements for rallies; or if appropriately requested by such agencies under UK Data Protection Laws.

Third-Party Accounts
You may choose to link a third-party account to our Services, for example, using your Facebook ID to login to one of our websites. If you do, we will receive data about that account to allow the link.

How we use information
We use information we collect in a variety of ways, including:

• To provide and operate our Services
• To improve and personalize our Services
• To understand how you use our Services
• To develop new products, services and features
• To communicate with you to inform or update you about our Services or your use of our Services. 
• For marketing or promotional purposes, or customer support
• To process your purchases and transactions
• To send you SMS or push notifications
• To find and prevent fraud
• For other legally required purposes

Processors we use
As part of the Services we provide we may use third-party processors for some or all of your personal information. For a list of these processors, and where they are located, please see our Subprocessor listing below. 

These companies are authorized to use your information only as needed to provide these services to us.

Data Retention
We keep the personal information we collect when we have a legitimate business need to do so. For example to comply with legal, tax or accounting needs or to provide you with a service you have requested.

When we no longer have a legitimate business need to keep your personal information we will either delete or anonymize it.

Deleted data
If you delete anything from your account, or the account itself, it will be removed from our servers and systems within 30 days except where it conflicts with our Data Retention policy. 

If you delete your account, it may prevent you from using some Services that require an active account. Deletion of data may require we stop providing some Services to you if the Services rely on that data. 

Location of Site and Data
The Services are operated in the United Kingdom. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be sent to the United Kingdom. 

Some of the subprocessors we work with are located in other countries, for example, the United States. Please be aware that your data may be sent to these subprocessors to deliver our services to you. 

You consent to this by using our Services or providing us with your information.

Cookies and other tracking technology
We may use cookies to keep track of your settings on our websites and profile information. Cookies may also be used to collect data that does not include your personal information. Please see our Cookie Policy for more details.

Your Rights Under the GDPR
GDPR gives you rights about your personal information collected by us on the Services. The rights under GDPR include:

You have the right to know the personal information we collect about you, and your right to know about the sharing, storage, security and processing of that information.

• You have the right to ask for correction of your personal information.
• You have the right to ask us to remove your personal information, also known as the “Right to be forgotten”. Please note this may prevent you from using some of the Services and may result in closing your account.
• You have the right to make a complaint regarding our handling of your personal information with relevant authorities.
• You have the right to ask for restrictions on how and why your personal information is used or processed.
• You have the right to object to how or why your personal information is processed.
• You have the right to be given the personal information we have about you and your right to give or share it with another party.
• You have the right to refuse and prevent any decision being made solely based on automated processes that could have a legal, or similarly significant, effect on you. 
• This right is limited if the decision is: 
  • Needed for the performance of any contract between you and us
  • Is allowed by European law or United Kingdom law.
  • Is based on your explicit consent.
• You have the right to opt-out of marketing messages we send you. You can opt-out using the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” links in the marketing emails we send you. To opt-out of other forms of marketing please contact us by email at [email protected]. 
• Please be aware that opting-out of marketing may limit or restrict your access to Services that depend on it. 
• Please also be aware that even after you opt-out of promotional or marketing emails we may still contact you for informational, transactional, account-related or similar purposes.

Many of these rights can be used by signing in and directly updating your account information. If you have questions about exercising these rights or need assistance, please contact us at [email protected].

World Cruising Club Ltd Subprocessors

World Cruising Club Ltd uses third party subprocessors, such as cloud computing providers and payment processing providers to facilitate your use of the WCC Services

List of Subprocessors:

• Google Analytics. Web analytics service 

• SendGrid. Email services

• Constant Contact. Email Services 

• Campaign Monitor. Email Services 

• Digital Ocean. Cloud Services 

• Netguides. Cloud Services 

• Codeguard. Data backup  

• Cloudflare. Security, Bandwidth Efficiency and DNS services  

• WorldPay. Payment Processor 

• ProPay. Payment Processor 

• Stripe. Payment Processor  

• PayPal. Payment Processor 

• Amazon Web Services. Cloud Services 

• Oauth providers: (Oauth allows linking your WCC Services account(s) with the Oauth provider(s) of your choice to facilitate one click logins to WCC Services using the Oauth provided credentials:

◦ Facebook. Social Media  

◦ Google. Webservices 

◦ Yahoo. Webservices

◦ AOL. Webservices 

◦ OpenID . Webservices 

• Software and Website Developers and Contractors 

◦ Each is governed by our Privacy Policy