Privacy Policy BL4SEA

Last updated: 2023-09-03

Boatlabs AS ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting the privacy of your information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our BL4SEA app ("the app"). Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, do not download, register with, or use this app. By downloading, registering with, or using this app, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

When you use our app, we may collect the following information:

Personal Information: We collect personal information that you provide directly to us, such as your name and user ID. Access to our app is created manually by us, and users cannot register an account on their own.
Geolocation Information: We may collect information about your location when you use our app.
IP Addresses: We may collect your IP address when you use our app.
Photos, Video Recordings, and Voice Recordings: We may collect photos, video recordings, and voice recordings that you upload or create while using our app.
App Interactions: We may collect information about your interactions with our app, such as the features you use and the time spent on the app.
Crash Logs and Diagnostics: We may collect information about crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, and browser language.
Device IDs: We may collect information about your device, such as the device ID.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

To provide, maintain, and improve our app.
To process transactions and send related information, including confirmations and invoices.
To manage your account and send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
To respond to your comments, questions, and requests and provide customer service.
To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our app.
To detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect our rights and property.
To personalize and improve the app and provide advertisements, content, or features that match user profiles or interests.

Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data on the following legal bases:

Performance of a Contract: To provide you with our app and fulfill our obligations under the Terms of Service.
Consent: Where you have given us consent to process your personal data for specific purposes, such as marketing.
Legitimate Interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, unless there is a good reason to protect your personal data which overrides those legitimate interests.

How We Share Your Information

We may share your information in the following ways:

With Vendors and Service Providers: We may share your information with vendors and service providers that perform services on our behalf.
In Response to Legal Process: We may share your information to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal processes, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena.
To Protect Us and Others: We may share your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
With Your Consent: We may share your information for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect the information or pursuant to your consent.

Your Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights:

Right to Access: You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccuracies in the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we delete your personal data from our records.
Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer your personal data to another organization or to you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes or where the processing is based on our legitimate interests or carried out in the public interest.
Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we process your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before you withdrew your consent.

To exercise any of your rights, please contact us at gdpr@boatlabs.no. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights).

This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Data Security

We take reasonable measures to help protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no electronic transmission or digital storage mechanism is secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any changes, we will notify you by revising the "Last Updated" date at the bottom of this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy whenever you use our app to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: gdpr@boatlabs.no.