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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 7 November 2026

Algarve Boat Sales is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy explains what personal data we collect when you use our website or contact us, why we use it, who we share it with, and what rights you have.

Who is responsible for your data

ABG (Sales Division) LDA (NIF 515344400), trading as Algarve Boat Sales, Marina de Lagos, Loja 11, 8600-780 Lagos, Portugal, is the controller of your personal data. We are part of the Algarve Boat Group ("ABG"). You can contact us about your data at info@algarveboatsales.com.

Data we collect

  • Enquiries and forms. When you send an enquiry, ask about a boat or trailer, or ask us to value or sell your boat, we collect your name, email address, telephone number (if you give one), your message, how you would like to be contacted, the boat or trailer you asked about, the language of the website and the page you were on.
  • Contacting us directly. If you call, email or message us (including by WhatsApp), we keep what you tell us so that we can help you.
  • Technical data. Our servers record technical information such as your IP address, browser type and the pages requested, to keep the website secure and working.
  • Favourites. If you save boats as favourites, the list is stored in a cookie on your own device.

We do not ask for sensitive personal data, and we do not use analytics or advertising cookies or trackers.

Why we use your data

  • To reply to your enquiry and to take steps you ask for before a purchase or sale (needed to deal with your request).
  • To follow up our conversations and keep a single record of our dealings with you (our legitimate interest in running our business).
  • To protect the website and our forms against spam and abuse (our legitimate interest).
  • To meet legal obligations, such as accounting and tax rules, if you buy from or sell through us.
  • To send you marketing — only with your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. We will not send you marketing without it.

Who we share it with

  • ABG's internal customer system. Enquiries sent through this website are also recorded in ABG's internal customer management system, so that the right member of our sales team can follow up and there is one record of our conversations with you. Access is limited to ABG staff who need it for that purpose.
  • Service providers acting on our behalf, under contract: website hosting (Amazon Web Services, Frankfurt), email delivery (Amazon SES, Frankfurt) and our database (MongoDB Atlas, hosted on Amazon Web Services in Paris, France).
  • Services that load in your browser: Cloudflare Turnstile, which protects our forms from bots, loads when you use a form; Google Maps loads on our contact page; and the Vanclaes trailer configurator, provided by Vanclaes, loads on the trailer configurator page. These providers may receive technical data such as your IP address and may use their own cookies; their own privacy policies apply to what they do.
  • Authorities, where the law requires it.

We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it with third parties for their own marketing.

Transfers outside the European Economic Area

Our website and database are hosted in the European Union (Frankfurt and Paris). Some of our providers (for example Cloudflare, Google and MongoDB) are based in, or have operations in, the United States. Where your data is transferred outside the European Economic Area we rely on the safeguards the GDPR requires, such as an adequacy decision (including the EU–US Data Privacy Framework) or standard contractual clauses.

Cookies

The only cookie we set ourselves is abs_favourites, which remembers the boats you save as favourites. It stays on your device for up to one year and you can delete it in your browser at any time. We do not use analytics or advertising cookies. Cloudflare Turnstile, Google Maps and the Vanclaes configurator may use their own cookies or similar technologies when they load.

How long we keep your data

  • Enquiries and related conversations: 2 years after our last contact with you, unless you become a customer.
  • Customer and sales records: for as long as tax and accounting law requires, which is currently 10 years.
  • Server logs: 90 days.

After that we delete or anonymise the data.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access your personal data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to how we use it, to receive a copy in a portable format, and to withdraw any consent you have given (without affecting what we did before you withdrew it). To use any of these rights, email info@algarveboatsales.com and we will reply within one month.

You also have the right to complain to the Portuguese data protection authority, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD) — www.cnpd.pt.

Security

We protect your data with measures such as encrypted (HTTPS) connections and restricted access.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top shows when it was last changed.