This Privacy Policy covers what we collect and how we use, disclose, transfer and store your personal information. Your privacy is important to us.

1. Collected data

When you register as a member of the site, you must provide us with the following mandatory information: last name, first name, email address and country of residence. These data allow us to identify you on the site and allow you to participate in its community life, including adding spots, posting comments, and adding photos. These data have a shelf life of 5 years from the date of your last activity on the site.

When you subscribe to our newsletter without being a member of the site, we only collect your email address. These data allow us to regularly send you a newsletter, from which you can unsubscribe on request. These data have a shelf life of 5 years from the date of your last activity on the site.

When you send us an email without being a member of the site, the data is not stored on the site. The receiving device’s email client is protected by password encryption.

When you browse the site and/or access our services, whether or not you are a member of the site, we also record usage data. In particular, we perform audience measurements, with which we measure the number of pages viewed, the number of visits to the site, the regions of origin of visits, as well as the activity of visitors to the site and their frequency of return on the site. We use your login credentials and cookies as well as your IP address to identify you and register your activity on the site. We may also collect technical data about your browser, and devices. These data have a shelf life of 12 months.

2. Use of personal data

We may use your data for different purposes such as:

  • send you a newsletter or specific information;
  • offer you personalized content and improve your user experience;
  • send you commercial and/or promotional proposals concerning exclusively the activities of Snorkeling Report;
  • do statistics and marketing analysis to understand how you use our services.

3. Cookies

Snorkeling Report may install cookies on your browser when you visit www.snorkeling-report.com.

Cookies are data that are sent from the web server to your browser, where they are stored for later retrieval. Cookie collection may be disabled in your browser preferences. This can also be configured in such a way as to inform you of the registration of a cookie. Thus the storage of the cookie occurs only in case you expressly accept it. Your browser allows Snorkeling Report to access only cookies installed by www.snorkeling-report.com, and not those installed by other sites.

These cookies are intended to customize the navigation and use of the service by the user.

Cookies allow us:

  • to adapt the presentation of the site to the display preferences of your browser (used language, display resolution, operating system used, etc.);
  • to analyze the use of our site and improve our user experience by establishing statistics and volumes of attendance and use (topics and content visited, routes, etc.);
  • to create user profiles and give you targeted advertising content that is relevant to you and your interests, on our site as well as on third-party sites;
  • to monitor whether a user who saw an advertisement subsequently visited the advertiser’s site and performed an action there.

4. Recipient of the data

Snorkeling Report is the sole recipient of your personal data.

We do not sell, trade, or transfer personally identifiable information to third parties.

5. Data Protection Officer

Snorkeling Report appointed a Data Protection Officer. He can be reached by email: contact@snorkeling-report.com

6. Rights of opposition, interrogation, access and rectification

For EU users only: In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, you have the right to request access to your personal data, rectification or erasure thereof, limiting processing, to oppose the treatment and the portability of your data. This right can be exercised by email: contact@snorkeling-report.com

You also have the possibility to lodge a complaint with your national Data Protection Authority (DPA).

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.