Who we are

Our website address is: https://sweetruca.com/.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

Browse at your own risk. Protect yourself. If you want to keep your data protected, don’t rely on us and 3rd parties. Browse with a safe browser such as Firefox, Brave, or Duck Duck Go. Adjust your browser settings for security. Essentially, lock your own doors and be aware that there are bad people out there, just like in real life.

Now, we are good people, and we don’t even want any of your data, except what we need to run the website and process an order for some swag that you want.

We believe in the 1st amendment of the US Constitution, and all code and content published on this website is protected by it. If you don’t want to interact with our “Press” then leave and clear your browser history, cache, and cookies.

Any information your device has sent our website and system, whether our website has requested it or not, we consider is sent consensually by you to us, whether you know you sent it or not.

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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

That is how you contact us. Its like sending us an email. Don’t put something in if you don’t want us to read it.

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. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles 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.

Analytics

Our website and Google Analytics and possible others collect data like your IP, browser type, geolocation, and other stuff that their scripts might request from your browser.

Who we share your data with

We don’t knowingly share your data with anyone, but there might be some 3rd party scripts in an app or website plugin that try to grab some of your data, like Google Analytics or others.

How long we retain your data

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.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

You can reach us through our contact us form. We are sailing most of the time, so we can’t guarantee you will get an answer.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We keep things up to date and use secure as possible USA hosted servers. Our credit card processing it outsourced through square and we don’t keep or see those numbers. We do all the stuff we are supposed to do.

We also think you should protect your own data, not rely on us or others. Use safe browsers, adjust your browser settings, don’t put anything out there on the internet that you don’t want someone to find.

What data breach procedures we have in place

We don’t have any, we are just vloggers running this website for fun and entertainment. Use the website at your own risk, and don’t disclose any sensitive data.

What third parties we receive data from

We have no idea really? Anyone who submits a comment? Google? Amazon? Affiliate link providers? Once again, use at your own risk.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Us? We don’t do anything with your data other than look at some web stats to confirm just how few visitors we received. Google probably sucks up your data and does something with it, you should ask them. But we personally treat others as we would like to be treated, so we don’t do anything with your data.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

We are just vloggers running a little website from a sailboat as we sail around the world, we have to put these stupid disclaimers up because there are blood sucking extortionist attorneys in the world. They should try going sailing rather than strong arming little guys. But alas, here is our statement: If you want us to do something special for you, like opt-out you out of something (we aren’t even really sure what we would opt you out of, it would be much easier if you just used some common sense and adjusted your browser settings to make yourself happy, or use something like Duck Duck Go or Brave Browser), you have to use our contact form to let us know.

Once again, leave the website and delete your browser history. That’s your remedy.