Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Last Updated: October 14, 2025
This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process personal data through your use of our site: https://openwaterlog.com
Contact us at admin@openwaterlog.com
By using our website, you warrant to us that you are over 18 years of age.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit the website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the site, we collect information about the individual web pages that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the site, and information about how you interact with the site.
Where Do We Get Your Information?
We collect information using the following technologies:
“Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
The categories of cookies we collect include
- Essential: Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper functioning of the website.
- Statistics (also called Analytics): Statistics cookies collect information anonymously. This information helps us understand how visitors use our website.
- Marketing (also called Tracking/Advertising): Marketing services are used to track the behavior of individual visitors (across multiple pages), analyze the data collected and, for example, display information that is relevant and engaging to the individual user.
“Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
“Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
We also collect communication data that includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through a contact form on our website, through email, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defense of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.
How Do We Use Your Information?
We may use this data to deliver relevant advertisements or website content to you and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the information we provide to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests which is to grow our business.
Google Analytics
We use Google analytics to record information about the pages a user has seen, for example the URL of the page, time of day, device used, etc. The information that is anonymized and sent to Google Analytics. Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”). See this page for Google Analytics security and usage of data: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
SENSITIVE DATA
We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you, such as details about your race, ethnicity, religion, political affiliations, or sexual orientation. We estimate your device’s approximate geolocation based on IP Address, only in order to display the nearest swimming sites.
We will only use your personal data for a purpose it was collected for or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. For more information on this please email us at admin@openwaterlog.com.
We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
Who we share data with
The data collected may be shared with service providers and others who help with our business operations and assist in the delivery of our website and content to you, including, but not limited to: application development, site hosting, data analysis, marketing, analytics, and enforcement of our Terms and Conditions and other agreements. Third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate, in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence.
We do this to: comply with legal process; respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; enforce our Terms and Conditions and other agreements; protect our operations; protect and defend our rights.
In no event will we sell your personal information as part of a customer list or similar transaction for unrelated parties to independently market to you.
CHILDREN UNDER THIRTEEN
Our Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
DATA SECURITY
Security measures are in place to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization.
We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data.
How Long Do We Keep Your Information?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
YOUR RIGHTS
Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent. If you wish to exercise these rights please email us at admin@openwaterlog.com.
INFORMATION FOR CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS RESIDENTS
We do not, and will not, sell or rent your information to third-parties (as defined in the CPRA and TDPSA). WE DO NOT share your personal information in a way that is intended to result in targeted advertising. If you would like to submit a request about your data, obtain additional information, you may do so by emailing admin@openwaterlog.com.
INFORMATION FOR EU and UK RESIDENTS
If you are an EU or UK resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please email us at admin@openwaterlog.com.
Additionally, if you are an EEA (European Economic Area) or UK resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of the EEA and UK, including to the United States.
Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:
- Your consent;
- The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
- Compliance with our legal obligations;
- To protect your vital interests;
- To perform a task carried out in the public interest;
- For our legitimate interests, including to grow our business.
NOTICE TO NON-US USERS
If you are located in a country outside of the United States of America and voluntarily submit personal information to us, you thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Cookie Consent and to the transfer of that information to, and/or storage or processing of that information in, the United States and you understand that your information may be available to government authorities under lawful orders and laws applicable there.
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at admin@openwaterlog.com