Privacy

Who is responsible

TackRegatta is an independent project, and whoever runs it decides what is collected and why — the data controller, in the words of the GDPR. Write to info@tackregatta.com for anything on this page, including a request for the controller's full identifying details.

When you read these pages

The pages are static files served from a content delivery network. As with every web server, each request leaves a technical log entry — IP address, time, page requested, browser and operating system. Those logs keep the site running and let us see abuse or attacks; they are kept by our hosting provider for a short period and are not used to build a picture of you.

Measurement, and why there is no cookie banner

We want to know which pages people find useful. Two tools tell us that, and both are set up so they do not store anything on your device:

• Vercel Web Analytics counts visits and pages without cookies and without a cross-site identifier.
• Google Analytics runs with consent signals set to denied by default. In that mode it writes no cookies and stores no identifiers: it sends anonymous signals from which Google produces aggregate estimates.

Because nothing is written to or read from your device beyond what is strictly necessary to serve the page, no consent banner is required. If that ever changes — if we add advertising, or switch analytics to full consent mode — a banner will appear first and this page will say so.

The legal basis for this aggregate measurement is our legitimate interest in understanding whether the site works, weighed against an impact on you that is close to nil because you are not identified.

Information about boats and race results

The archive is built from two kinds of source, both already public: handicap measurements issued to individual boats, and race results published by the clubs and organisers who ran the events.

Most of it is information about boats rather than about people: measurements, sail areas, speed predictions, finishing positions. Some of it can nonetheless relate to an identifiable person — a boat name and sail number that a local fleet would recognise, or a name recorded on a published result sheet. Where that is the case, we rely on our legitimate interest in maintaining a factual sporting archive, of the same kind a class association or a results database keeps.

If something published here relates to you and you would rather it did not, write to us and say so. You have the right to object, and we would rather hear from you than have you assume nothing can be done. Corrections are welcome for the same reason: an archive is only worth keeping if it is right.

Accounts, your boats and the regattas you report

You can sign in with Google or with a six-digit code sent to your email address; there is no password. Either way we receive your email address, and through Google your name as well. Google confirms who you are and gives us nothing else from your account.

With an account you can follow designs, say which boat is yours and add its sail number, and report regattas we have not collected. What you report — the name of a regatta, a club's website, a link to a results page — is kept with your account, together with the date and the version of the terms in force when you sent it. Each report is also sent by email to our press address, where it is read and where we may reply to you about it.

The legal basis is the contract between us: without this data there is no account to run and no report to handle. We send no newsletters. The only emails are the sign-in code and, when needed, a reply about something you reported; anything more would need your consent, asked for explicitly, with nothing pre-ticked.

Linking a person to a boat is a connection that does not exist in the public sources, so it is treated as yours. Deleting your account — from the My boats page, in one step — deletes the boats you follow and claim, your sign-in details and every open session. The regattas you reported stay in our records, because what you send becomes ours as the terms explain, but they are detached from you: your email address and the link to your account are removed.

What a club authorises when it reports a regatta — being named as organiser, its website, its logo — is information about the club, and the club can withdraw it by writing to press@tackregatta.com.

Who else handles this data

Four providers process data on our behalf, under contracts that require them to act on our instructions:

• Vercel — hosting, content delivery, server logs and cookieless analytics.
• Google — analytics in the reduced mode described above, the search performance figures for this site, sign-in for those who choose it, and the handling of mail sent to our addresses.
• MongoDB Atlas — two separate databases. One holds the measurement record and race data before it is turned into these pages; the other holds accounts, the boats people follow and claim, and the regattas they report. Reading a page queries neither: the pages are files. Signing in and the account pages use the second.
• Brevo — sending the sign-in codes and the notifications of reported regattas.

We do not sell data, and no advertising network is present on this site.

Data leaving Europe

Vercel, Google and MongoDB are established in the United States and may process data there. Those transfers rely on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses and, where applicable, on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework to which the providers adhere. Brevo is established in the European Union.

How long things are kept

Server logs are kept for a short period, measured in weeks, for security and troubleshooting. Aggregate analytics are kept for up to fourteen months. Certificate and race data is kept for as long as the archive exists, because its value is precisely that it goes back in time — subject to the right to object described above. Account data is kept until you delete the account; the regattas you reported are kept after that, without anything that identifies you.

Your rights

You can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or erased, ask us to restrict how it is used, object to its use, and ask for a copy of what you gave us in a portable form. Write to info@tackregatta.com and we will answer within a month. If you are not satisfied, you can complain to your national supervisory authority — in Italy, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali.

If you write to us

Your email address and whatever you tell us are used to answer you and nothing else. We keep the exchange for as long as it is useful to have a record of what was asked and what was done.

Changes

If what the site does changes, this page changes first and carries the date of the revision at the top. The current version is always at tackregatta.com/privacy/.