General Privacy Policy (cont.)

MAGAZINE/NEWSLETTERS

If you wish to subscribe to a magazine or newsletter that we offer or to a mailing list that we maintain, we will collect from you contact information necessary to send the information to you. This is usually limited to your postal address, and e-mail address, but may include other information.

EMAIL INFORMATION

If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. If you give us your e-mail address, we may send you a welcoming e-mail that may verify password and user name information. If you wish to unsubscribe from e-mail contact, follow the directions in the e-mail or use the contact information at the end of this policy to remove your name from the database.

TELL-A-FRIEND

We may offer a referral service that allows you to inform your friends and other acquaintances about content on the site or to forward information to them. If you elect to use such a referral service, the following provisions will apply:

* We will collect the friend’s e-mail address and use it to send a one-time e-mail inviting the friend to visit internet sites or providing the information you requested.

* We will store this contact information for the sole purpose of sending the one-time e-mail.

* When you use this service, you represent and warrant to us that you have an existing business or personal relationship with the friend or acquaintance sufficient to avoid liability under any law that applies to unsolicited e-mail.

* You will be the sender of any such e-mail and we will merely be a service provider facilitating your sending of the e-mail.

SITE SALES, ORDERING, EVENT REGISTRATION, AND RELATED PROCESSES:

This section is meant as a general description of our practices. It does not impose any duty upon us and it does not constitute a representation or warranty by us upon which you may rely.

Boston Whaler Branded Merchandise Sites.

In some instances, we will make available through the Site, an invisible linked site of a third party vendor to sell certain products and services, including the Boston Whaler-branded merchandise sold by a third party vendor. Although it may appear that you are on our Site when you request such products and services, your information goes directly to the third party vendor for the purpose of fulfilling your order or request and is not received by Boston Whaler.

Credit Card Information for Boston Whaler Merchandise.

If you send confidential personal credit card information as part of your ordering process to our vendor’s site, it is encrypted and securely relayed to a third party credit card processor, who subsequently sends an authorization code back to the Site. Your confidential personal credit card information is not received, stored or otherwise retained by Boston Whaler in any way.

Boston Whaler Merchandise Licensee.

The Boston Whaler branded merchandise sold on this Site is sold by Boston Whaler’s licensee, Threds. Please contact Erin Reese, Threds, 10529 Lexington Drive, Knoxville, TN 37923 (phone), 865-525-5622, or by e-mail  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  for information regarding products, delivery, and returns.

Order Forms.

When and if you order brochures or services using a site or register for an event, Boston Whaler or a third party vendor selling Boston Whaler branded merchandise will request information from you using an order form. When we already have information about you (such as through a previous order, survey, or registration, whether received through a site or otherwise), we may use such information to facilitate the order or registration process. When using an order form, you must provide contact information (such as name and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number and expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your order. If Boston Whaler or its third party vendor selling Boston Whaler branded merchandise have trouble processing an order, this contact information could be used to contact you.

Shipping of Merchandise.

Boston Whaler, or its third party vendors selling Boston Whaler-branded merchandise on linked sites to the Boston Whaler site, may use outside shipping or other outsourcing providers to process and ship orders or perform other functions. We use commercially reasonable diligence to restrict the purposes for which these outsourcing providers may use your personal information. The requirements or requests that we impose on such outsourcing providers vary with the sensitivity of the information and can, but do not necessarily, include requirements that these outsourcing providers not retain, share, store, or use personal information for any secondary purposes, except for backup and recovery operations. Although we use good faith efforts to impose, and/or ensure compliance by our outsourcing providers, we cannot, and will not, be responsible to users for misuse of personal information by such outsourcing providers.

USERS UNDER AGE 13

It is our policy that visitors to our Site who are under the age of 13 should not post or provide information on our Site without the consent of their parents. The Child Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA) regulates online collection of information from persons under the age of 13. It is our policy to refrain from knowingly collecting or maintaining personal information relating to any person under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not supply any personal information through the site. If you are under the age of 18 and have already provided personal information through the site, please have your parent or guardian contact us immediately, so that we can remove such information from our files. You may contact: