Privacy Policy

Knautical respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you use Knautical, including our website, vessel lookup tools, sailboat reference pages, wiki-style content, comments, reviews, discussions, reactions, and related services.

By using Knautical, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

We use information to provide, operate, and maintain Knautical; authenticate users and manage accounts; attribute contributions, comments, edits, reviews, replies, discussions, and reactions; display user-submitted content; moderate and review content; prevent spam, abuse, fraud, unauthorized access, and security incidents; improve site functionality; respond to support requests; enforce our Terms of Service; and comply with legal obligations.

Knautical includes wiki-style and community features. Content you submit, including vessel information, corrections, comments, replies, reviews, discussions, reactions, photos, and other contributions, may be visible to other users or the public.

Do not submit personal information, confidential information, private ownership information, or sensitive information unless you are comfortable with it being publicly visible and associated with your account or contribution history.

If you delete your account, your public contributions, replies, reviews, discussions, reactions, and related activity may remain on Knautical, but your displayed identity may be replaced with “[deleted]” or a similar anonymous label.

We may share information with authentication providers, including Clerk, to provide account login, session management, and user authentication.

We may also share information with service providers such as hosting providers, database providers, email providers, analytics providers, security tools, and support tools.

We may disclose information if required by law or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect rights, safety, users, Knautical, or others.

If Knautical is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or transfer of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

Public content, including contributions, comments, reviews, replies, discussions, reactions, and profile information, may be visible to other users or the public.

We do not sell your personal information in the ordinary sense of selling user data for money.

Clerk provides authentication and user-management services for Knautical. Clerk may collect and process information according to its own privacy policy and contractual terms with Knautical.

Because Clerk’s data collection can depend on the authentication methods enabled, such as email login, phone login, passkeys, OAuth/social login, or multi-factor authentication, you should review Clerk’s privacy policy for more detail.

Deletion of your Knautical account may not automatically delete information separately processed by Clerk or other service providers. Authentication-related data may be handled according to Clerk’s policies and our configuration with Clerk.

Knautical and its service providers may use cookies, local storage, pixels, tokens, or similar technologies to keep you signed in, secure your account, remember preferences, understand site usage, diagnose errors, and prevent abuse.

You can control cookies through your browser settings, but disabling cookies may affect account login or site functionality.

You may delete your Knautical account through your account settings or by contacting us at privacy@knautical.com.

When an account is deleted, we will delete or de-identify account-level personal information that Knautical controls where required by law and where technically feasible.

However, Knautical may continue to store content and activity associated with the account, including contributions, edits, replies, comments, reviews, discussions, reactions, moderation records, reports, flags, and related timestamps.

After account deletion, public-facing attribution for retained content may be changed to “[deleted]” or a similar anonymous label. This means the content may remain visible, but it will no longer display the deleted user’s active account identity.

We retain this content to preserve discussion context, vessel record history, moderation integrity, abuse prevention, legal compliance, and the usefulness of Knautical’s community-edited information.

We may also retain certain information in backups, logs, security records, moderation records, or legal records for a limited period or as required by law.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or restriction of certain personal information.

You may be able to update certain account information through your account settings or Clerk-powered user profile tools.

To make a privacy request, contact us at privacy@knautical.com. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect information. However, no website, database, or internet transmission is completely secure. You use Knautical at your own risk.

Knautical is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to Knautical, contact us so we can take appropriate action.

Knautical may link to third-party websites, public records, databases, tools, or resources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or policies of third parties.

Knautical may be operated from the United States or use service providers located in the United States or other countries. If you access Knautical from outside your country, your information may be transferred to and processed in countries with different data protection laws.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted with a new “Last Updated” date. Your continued use of Knautical after changes become effective means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.