Our privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) explains the information we collect, how we use and share it, how to manage your privacy controls and your rights in connection with the Anchorz mobile application and our related website (collectively, the “Services”).
Anchorz is provided by Green Machines, which is headquartered in the province of Quebec, Canada. If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), Green Machines is the controller of your personal data for the purposes of EEA data protection law.
Unless indicated otherwise, this Privacy Policy does not apply to third party products or services or the practices of companies that we do not own or control, including other companies you might interact with on or through the Services.
Questions or comments about this Privacy Policy may be submitted at anchorzapp@gmail.com.
Anchorz collects information about you, including information that directly or indirectly identifies you, if you or your other members choose to share it with Anchorz. We receive information in a few different ways, including when you track, complete or upload activities using the Services. Anchorz also collects information about how you use the Services. There are also several opportunities for you to share information about yourself, your friends, and your activities with Anchorz. For example:
We collect basic account information such as your name, email address, marina, boat information, username and password that helps secure and provide you with access to our Services.
Profile, activity and use information is collected about you when you choose to upload a picture, activity, comment or react to others’ activities, or otherwise use the Services (including date, time and geo-location information).
We use your contact information so we can respond to your support requests and comments.
We collect and process location information when you sign up for and use the Services. We do not track your device location while you are not using Anchorz, but in order to provide Anchorz’s core Services, it is necessary for us to track your device location while you use Anchorz. If you would like to stop the device location tracking, you may do so at any time by adjusting your device settings.
We gather information from the photos, anchorings, posts, comments, reactions, and other content you share on the Services.
Anchorz allows you to sign up and log in to the Services using accounts you create with third-party products and services, such as Google (collectively, “Third-Party Accounts”). If you access the Services with Third-Party Accounts we will collect information that you have agreed to make available such as your name, email address and profile information. This information is collected by the Third-Party Account provider and is provided to Anchorz under their privacy policies. You can generally control the information that we receive from these sources using the privacy controls in your Third-Party Account.
We collect information from your mobile device, which provide us with technical information when you access or use the Services. This technical information includes device and network information, log files and analytics information. The Services use log files. The information stored in those files includes IP addresses, platform type, date/time stamp.
We may collect information from you through third parties, such as when we collect your feedback. We may also collect information about you from other members such as when they give you likes or comment on your activities.
Anchorz uses the information we collect and receive as described below.
We use the information we collect and receive to provide the Services, including providing you with the ability to:
Your information, including parts of your profile, username, photos, likes and comments you give and receive will be shared on Anchorz so that you may be able to participate in the Services.
We use the information we collect to protect members, enforce our Terms of Service, and promote safety. For example, we find and remove content that violates our terms, such as hate speech or spam, as well as suspend or terminate accounts that share such content.
We also use the information we collect to analyze, develop and improve the Services. To do this, Anchorz may use third-party analytics providers to gain insights into how our Services are used and to help us improve the Services.
We use the information we collect to provide support in response to your requests and comments. We may also use the information we collect to market and promote the Services, activities and events on Anchorz, and other commercial products or services. This includes marketing and push communications, where you have not opted out of receiving such messages and notifications.
We use the information we collect to process your subscription.
We do not sell your personal information. Anchorz may aggregate the information you and others make available in connection with the Services and post it publicly or share it with third parties. Examples of the type of information we may aggregate include information about boat brand, marina, usage, demographics, anchor spots. Anchorz may use, sell, license, and share this aggregated information with third parties for research, business or other purposes.
In addition to sharing aggregated data about our members as described above, we also share personal information in accordance with your preferences, as needed to run our business and provide the Services, and where required for legal purposes, as set forth below.
We may share your information with third parties who provide services to Anchorz such as supporting, improving, promoting and securing the Services, processing payments, or fulfilling orders. These service providers only have access to the information necessary to perform these limited functions on our behalf and are required to protect and secure your information. We may also engage service providers to collect information about your use of the Services over time on our behalf, so that we or they may promote Anchorz or display information that may be relevant to your interests on the Services or other websites or services.
Your profile information and the activities you share are visible to all other Anchorz members and may be made public.
We may share your information with affiliates under common control with us, who are required to comply with the terms of this Privacy Policy with regard to your information. If Anchorz becomes involved in a business combination, securities offering, bankruptcy, reorganization, dissolution or other similar transaction, we may share or transfer your information in connection with such transaction.
We may preserve and share your information with third parties, including law enforcement, public or governmental agencies, or private litigants, within or outside your country of residence, if we determine that such disclosure is allowed by the law or reasonably necessary to comply with the law, including to respond to court orders, warrants, subpoenas, or other legal or regulatory process. We may also retain, preserve or disclose your information if we determine that this is reasonably necessary or appropriate to prevent any person from death or serious bodily injury, to address issues of national security or other issues of public importance, to prevent or detect violations of our Terms of Service or fraud or abuse of Strava or its members, or to protect our operations or our property or other legal rights, including by disclosure to our legal counsel and other consultants and third parties in connection with actual or potential litigation.
We may share your information with third parties when we forward Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notifications, which will be forwarded as submitted to us without any deletions.
We take several measures to safeguard the collection, transmission and storage of the data we collect. We employ reasonable protections for your information that are appropriate to its sensitivity. Sensitive data access is protected with user authentication and database security rules. To protect your data as it travels over the Internet during read and write operations, we use Transport Layer Security (TLS).
Anchorz provides you the option to make your anchorings private. This can be chosen when ending the anchoring or later on by going into the anchoring history view.
You may correct, amend or update profile or account information at any time by adjusting that information in your account settings. If you need further assistance correcting inaccurate information, please contact Anchorz at anchorzapp@gmail.com.
You can make a request to have your account deleted by sending an email to at anchorzapp@gmail.com. After you make a deletion request, we permanently and irreversibly delete your personal data from our systems, including backups. Once deleted, your data, including your account, activities cannot be reinstated. Following the deletion of your account, it may take up to 90 days to delete your personal information from our systems. Additionally, we may retain information where deletion requests are made to comply with the law and take other actions permitted by law.
Note that content you have shared with others, such as photos, or that others have copied may also remain visible after we have deleted your account or deleted specific information from your own profile.
Anchorz also provides you the option to remove individual activities and photos you have posted without deleting your account. Once removed,the activities may remain on Strava’s systems until you delete your account.
Anchorz relies on a number of legal bases to collect, use, share, and otherwise process the information we have about you for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including:
Particular rights may be available to you if you reside in certain locations, such as the EEA or Germany. Learn more about your rights and how to exercise them.
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
If you reside in Germany, you have a right to report content that you believe is unlawful under the Network Enforcement Act ("NetzDG"). To submit a report, please email anchorzapp@gmail.com.
Anchorz reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Please review it occasionally. If Anchorz makes changes to this Privacy Policy, the updated Privacy Policy will be posted on the Services in a timely manner. If you object to any of the changes to this Privacy Policy, you should stop using the Services and delete your account.