Privacy policy

Last updated: October 23, 2026

Data controller

[TO FILL IN: name or company name and address, as in the legal notice]. Contact: [TO FILL IN: contact email address].

Data we collect

  • Account: email, username, photo, bio, position (crew or skipper), sign-in method.
  • What you publish: ads, boats and their photos, messages, favorites.
  • Contact form and donations: name, email, message.
  • Payments (donations, boosts): amount, name, email, country, card brand and last 4 digits. The full card number is entered at Stripe and never goes through our servers.
  • Activity log: pages visited, actions on the site, IP address, browser, device, country, for security, abuse prevention and statistics.

Why

  • To run the service (account, ads, messaging, payments): performance of the contract.
  • Security, abuse prevention and usage statistics: legitimate interest.
  • Automatic translation of ads and understanding free-text searches: legitimate interest.
  • Keeping payment records: legal obligation (accounting).

Service providers

Your data is never sold. It is entrusted to service providers, only for what they need:

  • Google (Firebase): sign-in, database, photo storage.
  • Vercel: hosting and audience statistics (without cookies).
  • Stripe: payments.
  • Anthropic: automatic translation of ads and articles, understanding searches.

Some of these providers are located outside the European Union (United States): transfers are covered by the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or the Data Privacy Framework.

Retention

  • Account and published content: as long as the account exists; deleted with the account.
  • Activity log: [TO FILL IN: duration, for example 12 months].
  • Payments: 10 years (accounting obligation).
  • Contact messages: [TO FILL IN: duration, for example 3 years].

Cookies

The site only uses cookies needed for it to work: your sign-in session and, if you start an ad without an account, the identifier of your draft. Your preferences (theme) are kept in your browser. No advertising or audience measurement cookies: no consent is therefore asked.

Your rights

You can access, correct or delete your data, object to or restrict its use, or get a copy of it: write to [TO FILL IN: contact email address] or from the Contact page. You can edit your profile at any time in the settings.

If you believe your rights are not respected, you can lodge a complaint with the CNIL (cnil.fr), the French data protection authority.