Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 14, 2026

A. Introduction

The privacy of our website's visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how we will use your personal information.
Where consent is required by law (for visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland), your consent for Google advertising and analytics cookies is collected through a Google-provided consent message, and you can change or withdraw your choices at any time through that message. Outside those regions, Google advertising and analytics cookies may be used in accordance with this policy. This consent applies to Google advertising and analytics cookies; we may still set storage strictly necessary to operate the site, and limited (non-personalized) ads may use signals solely to detect invalid traffic.

B. Collection of Personal Information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

Information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system.
Information about your visits and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
Information such as your email address, which you enter when registering with the website.
Information that you enter while creating your profile on our website—examples include your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details.
Information, such as your name and email, which you enter in setting up subscriptions and sending emails and/or newsletters.
Information that you enter while using services on our website.
Information generated from the use of our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
Information relating to any purchases you make of goods or services or any other transactions that you enter into through our website, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details.
Information that you post to our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile information, and the content of your posts.
Information contained in any communications that you send to us via email or through our website, including the content of the communication and metadata.
Any other personal information that you send to us.

Before you disclose any personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

In no case will this site request sensitive personal data from you. If you voluntarily proceed in any way to send such data, you do it at your own initiative and risk. In such cases, the administrators of the website will ignore, not process, and delete such data if and when they are detected. In any case, the administrators and owners of the website do not bear any responsibility.

C. Use of Your Personal Information

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information to:

administer our website and business;
personalize our website for you;
enable your use of the services available on our website;
send goods purchased through our website;
supply services purchased through our website;
send statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;
send non-marketing commercial communications;
send email notifications that you have specifically requested;
send our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
send marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service); and
other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.

We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party's direct marketing.

D. Disclosing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

E. International Data Transfers

Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the USA, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
The personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this section F.

F. Retaining Personal Data

This Section F sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
We will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

to the extent that we are required by law;
if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

H. Security of Your Personal Data

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers. All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet. You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

I. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

J. Your Rights

We may retain the personal information you request for the period permitted by law.

You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

K. Third Party Websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

L. Updating Information

Please let us know if the information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

M. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either "persistent" or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are set out below:

we use Google Analytics on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website, to track users as they navigate the website, to improve the website's usability, to analyze the use of the website, to manage the website, and to prevent fraud and improve the security of the website. Where you have consented (or outside the regions where consent is required), we also use Google advertising cookies to personalize content and to show advertisements that may be of particular interest to you.

For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, we use Google's certified consent management message (built on the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework — current version, v2.3 as of 2026) together with Google Consent Mode v2. Google advertising and analytics cookies are not stored until you make a choice in that message: if you consent, those cookies are used as described above; if you do not consent, no Google advertising or analytics cookies are stored and you are shown limited (non-personalized) ads. Until you make a choice, Google tags run in a cookieless mode — no advertising or analytics identifiers are stored, although anonymous, cookieless measurement pings may be sent. You can change or withdraw your choices at any time through the privacy options link provided by the consent message. Outside these regions, Google advertising and analytics cookies are used in accordance with this policy.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:

in Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools," "Internet Options," "Privacy," and then "Advanced";
in Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools," "Options," "Privacy," selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and unchecking "Accept cookies from sites"; and
in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, and clicking "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and "Content settings," and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer, for example:

in Internet Explorer, you must manually delete cookie files you can find instructions for doing so at microsoft how to delete cookies
in Firefox, you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools," "Options," and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history", clicking "Show Cookies," and then clicking "Remove All Cookies"; and
in Chrome, you can delete all cookies by accessing the menu "Customize and control", and clicking "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and "Clear browsing data", and then selecting "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking "Clear browsing data."
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

N. Embedded Calculator Analytics

We offer an embeddable version of our sea-distance calculator (a "widget") that other websites can place on their own pages. When the widget loads on a third-party page, we record a minimal, aggregate usage measurement so that we can understand how and where the widget is used. Specifically, we log only the domain (host name) of the website on which the widget is displayed (the referring site), together with the widget's display language and the type of route shown. This measurement is cookieless — it does not set or read any cookie or other identifier on the device of a person viewing the embedded widget, and we do not store any direct identifier of that person.

The data we keep for this purpose is limited site-level information and is generally non-identifying; however, because a referring domain can occasionally be a personal or sole-trader domain, we treat it with care under data-protection law. The lawful basis for this processing is our legitimate interest in measuring the distribution and usage of our widget and in protecting it from abuse. We have carried out a balancing test (a Legitimate Interest Assessment) and concluded that this limited, aggregate measurement does not override the rights and freedoms of the individuals concerned. The data controller is the operator of breezada.com (see the contact details in this policy).

When the widget loads, the viewer's IP address is necessarily received by our servers, as with any internet request. For this widget-analytics feature, the IP address is processed transiently and only for abuse-prevention (rate-limiting) and is never stored in our analytics records. Our content-delivery network and web-server access logs may separately retain IP addresses and referrer information under our general log-retention practices; that is independent of the widget-analytics records described here. We do not use Google Analytics' Measurement Protocol or any similar method to send this widget data to Google, precisely so that no viewer IP addresses are transmitted to third parties from the consent-less embedded context.

We retain these aggregate widget-usage records for a limited period (currently 180 days) and then delete them. You can opt out of this measurement by enabling the "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting in your browser: when Do Not Track is enabled, the widget does not send the usage measurement at all.