PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: August 27, 2026
Last Updated: August 27, 2026
Schoonmaker Point Marina (“Schoonmaker Point Marina,” “SPM,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you:
- Visit https://schoonmakermarina.com/ or another website that links to this Privacy Policy;
- Contact us by telephone, email, mail, or through an online form;
- Submit a berth, moorage, office, storage, or other application;
- Request or receive marina services;
- Visit Schoonmaker Point Marina or interact with our personnel; or
- Otherwise communicate or conduct business with us.
This Privacy Policy includes disclosures concerning the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA”), the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”), and, where applicable, the European Union and United Kingdom data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
1. Notice at Collection
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following categories of personal information:
Identifiers and contact information
Examples include your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, signature, online identifiers, Internet Protocol address, driver’s license information, vessel registration or documentation number, and similar identifiers.
We use this information to communicate with you, respond to inquiries, process applications, identify customers and vessels, provide marina services, maintain records, protect security, and comply with legal requirements.
Customer and application information
Examples include your residence and mailing address, employment information, rental interests, references, credit-related information, insurance information, application history, and information contained in applications or supporting documents.
We use this information to review applications, verify information and references, evaluate eligibility for requested services, establish and administer customer relationships, collect amounts due, and protect our legal and business interests.
Vessel, property, and transaction information
Examples include vessel name, make, model, year, dimensions, hull and fuel type, motor type, holding-tank information, registration, insurance, current marina, requested berth or service, payment and transaction history, and records of services provided.
We use this information to assess berth suitability, provide services, administer leases or other agreements, bill and collect payments, maintain marina safety, and comply with legal obligations.
Internet and electronic activity information
Examples include browser type, device type, operating system, IP address, approximate location derived from IP address, pages viewed, links selected, referring page, timestamps, form interactions, security events, and diagnostic information.
We use this information to operate and secure the website, prevent spam and fraud, diagnose technical problems, understand website use, and improve our services.
Communications
Examples include the contents of inquiries, emails, letters, form submissions, messages, and other communications directed to us.
We use communications to respond to you, provide requested information or services, document our interactions, resolve concerns, and administer our relationship with you.
Visual, security, and premises information
Schoonmaker Point Marina may use visible security cameras in and around marina facilities, docks, gates, parking areas, offices, and other common areas. These systems may collect images, video, dates, times, vehicle information, and activities occurring in monitored areas.
We use this information for physical security, access control, incident investigation, safety, loss prevention, and protection of people and property. Security cameras are not intended for use in areas where individuals reasonably expect privacy.
Professional or employment-related information
A berth or other application may request your place of employment, occupation, business contact information, or related information.
We use this information to process applications, verify information and references, administer agreements, and protect our legitimate business interests.
Inferences and preferences
We may infer your interests or service preferences from your inquiries, applications, and prior interactions with us, such as whether you are interested in a berth, storage, office space, or transient moorage.
We use this information to respond to requests and provide relevant service information.
Sensitive personal information
An application or transaction may include sensitive personal information, such as a driver’s license number, financial information, account credentials, or other information treated as sensitive under applicable law.
We use sensitive personal information only as reasonably necessary to process requested services, verify identity, prevent fraud, maintain security, process transactions, comply with law, and administer our relationship with you. We do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you.
Please do not include Social Security numbers, payment-card details, health information, account passwords, or other unnecessary sensitive information in a general website message.
2. Sources of Personal Information
We may collect personal information from:
- You directly, including through forms, applications, telephone calls, emails, correspondence, and in-person interactions;
- Your authorized representatives, vessel managers, employers, crew members, references, or other persons acting on your behalf;
- Credit-reporting sources, references, insurers, payment processors, and verification providers, when authorized or otherwise permitted by law;
- Our website, servers, security systems, access-control systems, and marina facilities;
- Service providers that support website hosting, forms, email, security, information technology, payment processing, accounting, and business administration;
- Government agencies and public records, including vessel-registration information; and
- Other sources where you direct or authorize us to obtain information.
3. How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information to:
- Respond to inquiries and provide requested information;
- Process berth, moorage, storage, office, and other applications;
- Verify application information, references, insurance, registration, or credit information where authorized;
- Determine availability and suitability of marina services;
- Prepare, enter into, and administer leases, licenses, reservations, and other agreements;
- Provide customer service and marina operations;
- Process payments, deposits, refunds, and billing;
- Communicate about applications, services, safety matters, account administration, or policy changes;
- Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and improve our website;
- Detect and prevent spam, fraud, misuse, security threats, and unlawful activity;
- Protect customers, visitors, personnel, vessels, facilities, and property;
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims;
- Comply with applicable laws, court orders, insurance requirements, and regulatory obligations; and
- Carry out another purpose disclosed to you at the time of collection or with your consent.
4. How We Disclose Personal Information
We may disclose personal information to the following recipients when reasonably necessary:
Service providers and contractors
These may include website hosts, website administrators, form providers, email and office-system providers, information-technology vendors, security providers, payment processors, accountants, insurers, professional advisers, document-storage providers, and other companies performing services for us.
We expect service providers and contractors to process personal information only for appropriate business purposes and subject to applicable contractual and legal restrictions.
Google services
The website currently uses Google reCAPTCHA to help prevent spam and abuse and may display content through Google Maps. When these services load, Google may receive device, browser, IP address, interaction, and related technical information. Google’s use of information is governed by its own terms and privacy practices.
Where required by law, nonessential third-party technologies will be activated only after the appropriate consent or privacy choice.
Credit, reference, insurance, and verification sources
When authorized or permitted by law, we may disclose application information to credit-reporting sources, references, insurers, registration authorities, or other verification providers to evaluate or administer an application or customer relationship.
Governmental and legal recipients
We may disclose information to courts, law enforcement, regulators, governmental authorities, insurers, attorneys, or other parties when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to comply with law, respond to valid legal process, protect rights or safety, investigate suspected misconduct, or establish or defend legal claims.
Business transactions
If ownership or control of the marina or its business changes, personal information may be disclosed to prospective or actual purchasers, lenders, advisers, or successors as part of a merger, financing, reorganization, sale, or similar transaction, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.
At your direction
We may disclose information to another person or organization when you request, direct, or consent to the disclosure.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website and its service providers may use cookies and similar technologies necessary to:
- Deliver and display website content;
- Maintain website functionality;
- Protect forms against spam and abuse;
- Remember privacy or accessibility preferences;
- Detect technical errors and security threats; and
- Measure website performance where permitted.
Some third-party content, including Google Maps and Google reCAPTCHA, may receive technical information when it loads.
Where consent is required, nonessential cookies or similar technologies will not be activated unless you consent through our cookie or privacy-preference tool. You may withdraw your consent or change your selections through the website’s privacy-preference control.
Browser settings may also permit you to remove or block cookies. Blocking necessary cookies may affect website functionality.
6. California Invasion of Privacy Act and Communications Notice
We recognize that California law protects communications against unauthorized interception, eavesdropping, or recording.
When you voluntarily submit a website form, send us an email, leave a message, or otherwise direct a communication to us, you authorize us and the service providers acting on our behalf to receive, transmit, process, and store that communication for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. This authorization applies only to communications directed to us and does not authorize interception of unrelated communications.
The current website does not use session-replay software or live-chat recording technology to recreate or record the contents of visitors’ website sessions.
If we later use technology designed to record or reconstruct the contents of a communication—such as session replay, recorded live chat, or telephone-call recording—we will provide conspicuous notice and obtain consent before recording where required by applicable law.
We do not record telephone calls unless we first provide notice and obtain any consent required by applicable law. Continuing to use the general website does not, by itself, constitute consent to the recording of a confidential telephone conversation.
Routine website security logs and technical records may document requests, timestamps, IP addresses, device information, and system events. These records are used for website delivery, security, fraud prevention, and diagnostics and are not intended to secretly record confidential communications.
7. Sale and Sharing of Personal Information
We do not sell personal information for money.
We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as “sharing” is defined by the CCPA.
During the preceding 12 months, we have not knowingly sold or shared personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We also do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.
If these practices change, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide legally required opt-out mechanisms before engaging in the new practice.
8. Retention of Personal Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including:
- Inquiry and communication records: for the time needed to respond, maintain service history, resolve disputes, and protect legal interests;
- Application and verification records: for the time needed to evaluate the application and, if approved, administer the relationship, plus applicable legal, accounting, insurance, and dispute-resolution periods;
- Customer, lease, transaction, and payment records: for the duration of the customer relationship and applicable tax, accounting, contractual, insurance, and legal-retention periods;
- Website and security records: for a period proportionate to operational, fraud-prevention, diagnostic, and cybersecurity needs;
- Security-camera recordings: for a limited operational period unless needed for an incident, investigation, insurance matter, legal hold, or safety purpose; and
- Records subject to legal process or a dispute: until the matter and applicable retention periods are resolved.
We consider the amount, nature, sensitivity, purpose, legal requirements, security risks, and operational need associated with the information when determining retention.
9. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, physical, and technical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
No website, email system, or electronic storage method is completely secure. You should avoid sending unnecessary sensitive information through ordinary email or a general website form.
10. California Privacy Rights
To the extent the CCPA applies to our processing, California residents may have the following rights:
- Right to know: Request the categories or specific pieces of personal information we collected, sources, purposes, categories of recipients, and sale or sharing information.
- Right to delete: Request deletion of personal information we collected from you, subject to legal exceptions.
- Right to correct: Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
- Right to opt out: Direct a business not to sell or share personal information.
- Right to limit: Limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information when it is used beyond purposes permitted without a limitation right.
- Right to non-discrimination: Receive equal service and pricing when exercising applicable privacy rights.
- Right to use an authorized agent: Designate an authorized agent to submit a request, subject to legally permitted verification.
Because we do not sell personal information, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, or use sensitive personal information for purposes that trigger a right to limit, those opt-out rights do not currently change our practices.
Categories collected and disclosed during the preceding 12 months
Depending on your relationship with us, we may have collected:
- Identifiers and contact information;
- Customer-record information;
- Commercial and transaction information;
- Internet or electronic activity information;
- Approximate geolocation derived from IP address;
- Audio or visual information, such as security-camera footage;
- Professional or employment-related information;
- Inferences concerning service preferences; and
- Sensitive personal information necessary for applications, verification, transactions, or security.
We may have disclosed these categories for business purposes to service providers, contractors, professional advisers, insurers, verification providers, payment processors, security providers, governmental authorities, or another recipient described in this Privacy Policy.
We have not sold these categories or shared them for cross-context behavioral advertising during the preceding 12 months.
Submitting a California request
You may submit a request by:
- Email: office@schoonmakermarina.com
- Telephone: (415) 331-5550
- Mail: Schoonmaker Point Marina, Attn: Privacy Request, 85 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 205, Sausalito, CA 94965
Please write “California Privacy Request” in the email subject line or at the top of a mailed request and identify the right you wish to exercise.
We may need to verify your identity by matching information you provide with information in our records. We will request only information reasonably necessary for verification. We may deny or limit a request where permitted by law, including when we cannot reasonably verify the request.
An authorized agent may submit a request on your behalf. We may require evidence of the agent’s authority and may ask you to verify your identity or confirm that you authorized the request.
Global Privacy Control
Where legally required, we recognize qualifying browser-based opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, as a request to opt out of sale or sharing for the browser or device that sends the signal.
Because we do not currently sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, receiving such a signal does not require us to change those practices.
11. GDPR and United Kingdom Privacy Rights
This section applies when our processing of personal data is subject to the GDPR, United Kingdom GDPR, or similar European data-protection law.
Controller
Schoonmaker Point Marina is the controller of personal data covered by this section.
Contact details:
Schoonmaker Point Marina
85 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 205
Sausalito, CA 94965
United States
Email: office@schoonmakermarina.com
Telephone: +1 (415) 331-5550
Legal bases for processing
Depending on the circumstances, we process personal data based on:
- Pre-contractual steps and contract performance: To respond to a request, process an application, make a reservation, or perform an agreement with you.
- Legitimate interests: To operate and secure our website and marina, prevent fraud, maintain business records, provide customer service, protect people and property, improve services, and establish or defend legal claims.
- Legal obligations: To satisfy tax, accounting, safety, regulatory, court-order, and other legal requirements.
- Consent: For nonessential cookies, certain communications, or another activity where consent is the appropriate lawful basis.
- Legal claims or substantial public interest: Where processing of legally protected or sensitive information is necessary and permitted by applicable law.
When processing is based on consent, you may withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before withdrawal.
European privacy rights
Subject to applicable conditions and exceptions, you may request:
- Access to your personal data;
- Correction of inaccurate or incomplete data;
- Deletion of personal data;
- Restriction of processing;
- Data portability;
- Objection to processing based on legitimate interests;
- Withdrawal of consent;
- Information about international transfers; and
- Review by a person if a legally significant decision is based solely on automated processing.
We do not currently make decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects based solely on automated processing.
You may also lodge a complaint with the data-protection supervisory authority in the country where you live, work, or believe a violation occurred.
International transfers
Schoonmaker Point Marina is located in the United States. If you provide information from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ.
Where legally required, we use an approved transfer mechanism or another lawful safeguard, such as applicable standard contractual clauses, an adequacy mechanism, or a permitted derogation. You may contact us for additional information about applicable safeguards.
Required information
If information is necessary to process an application, enter into or perform an agreement, verify eligibility, or comply with law, failure to provide it may prevent us from processing the application or providing the requested service.
12. Other United States Privacy Rights
Residents of other states may have privacy rights under applicable state law. Requests may be submitted through the contact methods listed above. We will evaluate and respond to requests as required by the law applicable to the requester.
Where applicable law provides a right to appeal our decision concerning a privacy request, you may appeal by emailing office@schoonmakermarina.com with the subject “Privacy Request Appeal.”
13. Children’s Privacy
Our website and marina services are not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 16 without appropriate authorization, and we do not knowingly sell or share their personal information.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.
14. Third-Party Websites
Our website may contain links to Google Maps, local businesses, service providers, social platforms, or other third-party websites. We do not control the privacy or security practices of independent third parties. Review their policies before providing information to them.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices, services, technology, or legal obligations. The revised policy will be posted with an updated “Last Updated” date.
If a change materially affects how we use personal information already collected, we will provide any additional notice or consent required by law.
16. Contact Us
Questions, privacy requests, or complaints may be directed to:
Schoonmaker Point Marina
Attn: Privacy Request
85 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 205
Sausalito, CA 94965
United States
Email: office@schoonmakermarina.com
Telephone: (415) 331-5550