Privacy policy

1. Who we are

This website, Brass Sailor, is run by Blue Coast Water, LLC ("we", "us"). This policy covers this website.

To reach us, write to privacy@bluecoastwater.com.

2. What we collect

When you write to us, ask for samples, join our email list or send any other form on this site: your email address, your name and company if you give them, and what you write.

As you use the site: the pages you view, the links you click, where your visit came from (the site that sent you and any campaign tags on the link), your browser type and screen size. Our servers see your IP address, as every web server does.

3. How we use it

To answer you and to do what you asked, such as sending samples or the emails you signed up for. Every marketing email has an unsubscribe link.

To keep the site safe: to spot spam and bots, and to limit how often one network address can send a form.

To see, in aggregate, how the site is used, so we can make it better.

To measure our Google ads and show our ads to people who have visited. You can turn this off (section 5).

To meet our legal duties and answer lawful requests from authorities.

4. What we share, and with whom

We do not sell your personal information.

The companies that help us run the site, only for that work and only on our instructions: Vultr and Google Cloud, which host our servers, database and files; Google BigQuery, which stores our analytics records; and AgentMail, which sends our email.

Google’s advertising tag, described in section 5, measures our ads. What it collects, Google handles under its own privacy policy.

Our own team sees what it needs to answer you. We share information with authorities only where the law requires it.

5. Cookies and your browser

We use our own first-party analytics, with a visitor cookie so repeat visits count as the same browser. In some regions, which we tell from your browser’s time zone, and whenever we cannot tell where you are, we ask before setting the analytics cookie, and until you accept we count visits without it. Elsewhere it is set by default. Anyone can turn it off at any time with the Privacy choices link at the bottom of every page, or clear it in the browser.

Your browser also keeps the campaign tags of your visit on your device, cleared when you close the tab.

We also run Google’s advertising tag, so we can tell which of our Google ads brought you here and show our ads to people who have visited. It may set Google advertising cookies. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as an opt-out: the tag only measures our ads and builds no ad audience from your visit. It follows the same choice as our analytics: in some regions it loads only after you accept; elsewhere it loads by default, and the Privacy choices link turns it off. It receives the address of the page you are on, with any private link removed, and never your name, email or anything you type into a form.

6. Where your information is kept

We store and process your information in the United States, with the companies named in section 4. If you visit from another country, your information goes to the United States, whose privacy laws may differ from yours.

7. How long we keep it

We keep the information described in this policy for as long as our business, legal and accounting needs require. We do not delete it on a schedule.

Your email address on our list: we email you until you unsubscribe. After that we keep your address on a do-not-email list, so you stay unsubscribed.

8. Your choices and rights

Stop marketing email with the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of them.

Turn off the analytics cookie, and the advertising tag where this site runs one, with the Privacy choices link at the bottom of every page.

You can also ask us what information we hold about you, ask for a copy, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it where the law gives you that right. If we must keep something, for example business records, we will tell you.

To ask, write to privacy@bluecoastwater.com. It is free. We may need to confirm it is you first. We answer within 30 days. You will not be treated differently for asking.

9. Notes for some countries

United States: depending on your state, you may have the right to know what personal information we hold about you, to get a copy, to correct it, to delete it, and to opt out of its sale or its use for targeted advertising. We do not sell personal information. Section 8 explains how to ask.

On this site, Google’s advertising tag can show our ads to people who have visited. Some state laws call that sharing for advertising. The Privacy choices link turns it off, and we honor a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser as the same choice.

Canada: we handle your information under Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA). Write to us at privacy@bluecoastwater.com.

Elsewhere: where your local law gives you rights over your information, write to us and we will answer under that law.

10. Changes

We may change this policy. The version date at the top tells you when it last changed.

11. Contact

Questions or requests about your information: write to privacy@bluecoastwater.com.