Overview
The Canadian Shark Class Association’s purpose is to promote and further the interest in the Shark Class throughout Canada.
We do this by maintaining the one-design character of the Shark24; Making recommendations to the International Shark Class Association on the control of any licensed builders; Encouraging the formation of regional and local fleets; Encouraging and coordinating regional, inter-regional and national competition, cruising and social events for the Class; Providing relevant information on the Shark24 to members of the Association; and Maintaining its status as a Full Member of World Sailing.
Our website address is: www.shark24.ca
For inquiries or additional information, please contact secretary@shark24.ca
Analytics Platform – Usage Information
The Canadian Shark Class Association website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”) used by the Canadian Shark Class Association to analyze how visitors are using our website. This information is used to monitor, identify issues, and improve the Canadian Shark Class Association website.
Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website will normally be transmitted to a server in the US, where it is stored.
You can prevent Google Analytics tracking on this website by adjusting your browser settings accordingly and/or installing a Google Analytics Opt Out plugin.
Please visit the website below for more information about the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
To learn more about how Google Analytics uses cookies to measure user-interactions on websites, please visit the website below: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=en
To learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use their services, such as the Canadian Shark Class Association, please visit the website below: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Payment Processing – Information
The Canadian Shark Class Association processes annual membership dues payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the membership association fee and billing information.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
Website Platform – Usage Information
The Canadian Shark Class Association website is built using WordPress, an open-source content management system.
Contact forms
When visitors or users submit a form, we capture the IP Address for spam protection. We also capture Name, email address, comments and might capture other personal data included in the Form fields. This information is captured to respond back to your form submission. When visitors or users submit a form we retain the data indefinitely. This is so that we can recognize your previous inquiries and/or comments when you reach out to us and provide follow up correspondence based on historical form submissions.
We use Google reCAPTCHA for spam protection. Their privacy policy can be found here : https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
Embedded content from other websites
Pages or posts on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Website Security Platform – Usage Information
The Canadian Shark Class Association website utilizes Wordfence, a WordPress Security plugin. Wordfence is utilized by the Canadian Shark Class Association to secure and monitor our website platform.
By utilizing the Wordfence plugin, the Canadian Shark Class Association collects (in our own database) information about a users IP address, User Agent, and Referrer. This data is used by the Wordfence plugin for use in live traffic viewing and to secure our website platform.
Some IP addresses that are deemed to be highly malicious are sent over to Wordfence’s servers. The IP address is then stored on Wordfence servers for 90 days and then removed. If the offending IP address still however is attacking websites, it might be re-added to Wordfence servers.
Cookies are set by the Wordfence plugin to aid in various security features. To learn more about the cookies set up Wordfence, please visit the website below:
To View Wordfence’s privacy policy, please visit the website below:
https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/
Email Marketing Platform – Usage Information
The Canadian Shark Class Association uses Mailchimp as our Marketing automation platform. When a user registers on the Canadian Shark Class Association website and opts in to email communication from the Canadian Shark Class Association the following user information is sent to Mailchimp: Email Address, First Name, Last Name, CSCA Region, Sail Number, Yacht Club, Boat Name, and Province.
This data is collected to send emails to users who have registered on the Canadian Shark Class Association website. Users can select to opt out of emails from the Canadian Shark Class Association by selecting Unsubscribe from the bottom of our emails or logging into their website account and adjusting their email communication preferences.
For more information about how Mailchimp processes member contacts as a data controller, please visit the website below:
https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/#3._Privacy_for_Contacts
Contact Us
Email: secretary@shark24.ca
