Global Privacy Policy & Data Protection | SailingManuals

1. Institutional Data Principles

SailingManuals.com was established on the fundamental premise that access to safety-critical nautical documentation should not compromise individual confidentiality. We operate under rigorous data minimization principles: we collect only the minimum telemetry strictly necessary to deliver high-availability static documentation, prevent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattacks, and fulfill our legal obligations.

2. Categories of Information Collected

A. Non-Identifiable Technical Log Data

When you access documentation on SailingManuals.com, our global edge routing infrastructure (operated via Cloudflare, Inc.) automatically records standard internet protocol transmissions. This data includes:

• Anonymized Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (truncated to preserve geographic anonymity while enabling regional routing).
• Browser architecture, user-agent specifications, and operating system build.
• Referral uniform resource identifiers (URIs) and outbound link click events.
• Timestamps, request durations, and hyper-text transfer protocol (HTTP) status response codes.

B. Voluntary User Submissions

If you choose to submit a technical query, engine manual contribution, or errata notification via our Contact Desk, we collect the contact parameters you voluntarily supply. This data is utilized solely for customer fulfillment and is never commoditized or syndicated to commercial brokers.

3. Statutory Rights Under GDPR & CCPA

Depending on your jurisdiction, you retain rights of access, rectification, data portability, and erasure under GDPR Article 17. Requests can be dispatched directly to privacy@sailingmanuals.com.