Privacy Policy

This policy covers the Yachtara marketing website (yachtara.com) and the Yachtara app (app.yachtara.ai). It describes what we actually do with your data today, in plain language.

Who is responsible

AD Internet Consulting BV is the controller for the personal data described here. No data protection officer has been appointed; the controller is your point of contact for anything in this policy, at privacy@yachtara.com.

What we process, and why

When you use the Yachtara app, we process:

• Account data — the email address you sign in with, used for authentication and to operate your account.
• Vessel and crew records — the boat details, crew profiles, invites, and schedules you create.
• Documents and manuals — the files you upload and keep with your boat.
• Maintenance records — assets, tasks, work logs, and incident history you record.
• Community content — forum posts and media you choose to publish.
• Position data— your device's position, used on the device for navigation and anchor watch.

The marketing website requires no account. If you contact us by email, we process what you send us in order to respond.

Where your data lives

All backend data is hosted in the European Union, on AWS in the eu-central-1 region (Frankfurt). We do not sell personal data, we run no advertising, and we do not share personal data with third parties for marketing.

Legal bases

• Performance of a contract— operating your account and the app's functions.
• Legitimate interest — keeping the service secure and preventing abuse.
• Consent — where we explicitly ask for it.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can request access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interest. Send any request to privacy@yachtara.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Belgian data protection authority, the Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit (gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be).

Deleting your account and data

Erasure requests sent to privacy@yachtara.com are executed by our administrator: your account identity is removed, and your community contributions are anonymized under the neutral label "Deleted user" so that useful discussions can remain without identifying you. A self-service deletion flow is planned; until it ships, the administrator-run process above is how erasure works.

Cookies and local storage

Today, this website sets no tracking or analytics cookies — only strictly necessary items. That is why you currently see no cookie banner.

We do plan to introduce analytics. When that happens, it will run only after you explicitly opt in through a cookie banner with an equally easy "necessary only" choice, and this policy will be updated to name the provider and the data handled before anything is activated. Your consent choice itself is stored on your device (a local storage item named yachtara-cookie-consent) and is strictly necessary, since it exists only to remember your decision.

Changes to this policy

When our data practices change, we update this page first and adjust the "last updated" date below.

Last updated: 2026-07-19