Privacy

• HIN Check: the number you enter is read on the server and sent back in the page. It is not saved to the database. Because the form uses the page address, it appears in that address and in the web server's standard access log, like any page you visit. The page is marked not to be cached.
• Dockside Walkthrough: your marks are sent once to make the findings sheet and are not saved.
• Boat Notebook: holds what you type into it: boat names, HINs, asking prices, walkthrough marks and notes. Write only what you need; there is no need to store a seller's name or phone number. It is opened by a private key kept in a cookie and in your notebook link; the site stores only a scrambled form of that key. Delete a boat or the whole notebook at any time.
• The site never contacts anyone. It sends no email or texts.
• Limits: to stop abuse, the site counts new notebooks per day against a scrambled form of your internet address. Those counts are deleted within 4 days.
• No accounts, no email, no tracking cookies, no analytics services. The web server keeps standard access logs (address, page, time) for security, as every web host does. The only outside service any page loads is the banner ad from adengine.us on the public pages, described under Advertising; it also counts one page view per page as a daily total.

Advertising

The public pages of BoatOnline.net (home, HIN Check, Dockside Walkthrough, Red flags, Sources, pricing and about) show one banner ad from AdEngine (adengine.us), the small ad network run by WeldonPC, the company behind this site. For now the ads are for WeldonPC's own services. The findings sheet, the Boat Notebook and its pages, this page and the terms show no ad.

To show an ad, your browser loads a script from adengine.us, asks it for one banner, loads the banner image, and reports once that the page was viewed and once that the banner was shown. Like any website, adengine.us receives your internet address, your browser type and the address of this site with those requests. It does not receive the HIN you check: the browser sends adengine.us only this site's address, not the address of the page you are on.

• No cookies, no profile. AdEngine sets no cookies, gives you no ID and does not track you from site to site.
• How your internet address is used. adengine.us looks up the approximate city for your address in a location database kept on its own server (nothing is sent to anyone else), so that ads meant for one area are shown only there. It also uses the address to count each ad view or click only once and to leave out robots and WeldonPC's own office traffic. The address is not stored with the counts; the temporary entries made from it expire within six hours and are cleared from the server within two days.
• What is kept. Daily totals only: page views for this site, and views and clicks for each ad. The adengine.us web server also keeps a standard access log (internet address, time, address requested, referring site, browser) for security; it is deleted on a rolling schedule.
• Clicking an ad passes through adengine.us, which counts the click, and then opens the advertiser's site, which has its own privacy policy.
• Nothing about you is sold or shared.

Questions

For a question about this page or what the site keeps, contact WeldonPC, the company behind BoatOnline.net. Please do not send your notebook link: we never need it.