Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small file a website can place on your device to remember something between visits or between pages. Local storage and session storage work on the same principle but sit inside the browser rather than as a classic cookie file, and a third-party request is simply a call your browser makes to another company's server — for example to fetch a typeface or a map tile — while you are on our page.

All of these are covered by the same rule under Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC), as implemented in the national law of each EU country where we welcome clients aboard: anything that is not strictly necessary for the service you asked for requires your consent before it is set.

primeyachtclub.com sets no cookies of its own, and we have deliberately not added any third-party analytics, advertising or social-media tracking tags. We do not run retargeting pixels, we do not share browsing behaviour with advertising networks, and no tool on this site builds an advertising profile of you.

The only measurement we carry out is a first-party one, described below, designed to tell us how the site is performing without relying on cookies or outside tracking services.

A small measurement system running on our own domain counts visits so we can understand which pages and which of our 23 destination cities attract interest. It records:

• Pages viewed and time spent on each page
• The site or link you arrived from, and any tracking parameters attached to that link (such as a campaign tag or ad click identifier)
• Device type, browser, operating system and screen size
• Browser language, and the country derived from your IP address — the IP address itself is not stored
• Whether that visit later led to an enquiry, a WhatsApp tap or a phone-link tap, so we know which channel brought the enquiry

This measurement relies on the random identifiers listed in the storage table above, held in your browser's local storage for 30 days after your last visit. No separate cookie is created for this purpose, and the identifiers cannot be used to identify you by name.

Besides the visit-measurement identifiers, the site uses two small, functional entries that are not cookies in the strict sense but live in the same browser storage areas: one remembers that you dismissed the cookie notice, and one, kept only for the length of your visit, remembers which yacht you were looking at so the enquiry form opens pre-filled with the right vessel. Neither entry contains your name, email or any other contact detail, and the yacht-selection entry disappears as soon as you close the tab or send the form.

A few elements on the page are delivered directly from outside providers rather than from our own server, and each of those providers receives your IP address when your browser requests the file, simply as a technical consequence of how the internet works. These are: Google Fonts for the typefaces, the intl-tel-input library delivered through the jsDelivr content network for the phone-number field in our enquiry form, and the Leaflet mapping library together with CARTO's map tiles, built on OpenStreetMap data, for the destinations map on our homepage. None of these providers sets a cookie on our behalf.

The WhatsApp buttons found throughout the site behave differently: nothing is set on primeyachtclub.com when you see the button, and no connection to WhatsApp is made until you actually tap it. At that moment we record the click — the page you were on, the referring site, your browser language and the prefilled message text — in our own booking system before opening WhatsApp, so that our team has context for the conversation. Once WhatsApp opens, the conversation itself takes place on Meta's platform under WhatsApp's own privacy policy, outside our control.

You can clear local storage and session storage, or block the site from writing to them, through your browser's settings — typically found under privacy, site data or site settings, with the exact wording varying by browser. Clearing this storage simply means the cookie notice may reappear and your pre-filled yacht selection or visit-measurement identifier will be reset; it has no effect on any enquiry you have already sent us, which lives in our booking system rather than in your browser.

If we ever introduce an optional cookie, for example for a future advertising or preference feature, we will ask for your consent beforehand and update this page to describe exactly what it does and how long it lasts. If you have questions about this page, or want to exercise your rights over the visit data we hold, write to [email protected]; we aim to respond within one month and may ask you to confirm your identity first. You may also raise concerns with the data protection authority of your EU country of residence.