Privacy Policy

Use of this website acknowledges your consent to this Privacy Policy for Boat Masters Marine and Dealer Spike. Protecting your private information is our priority and we are committed to safeguarding your privacy online. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we may collect about you through our website, when we collect it, how we may use it, who we may disclose it to, and is intended to help you understand the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of your data.

Personal Information We Collect

Our primary goal in collecting your personal information is to enable us to personalize your interactions and experiences with our website.

We may collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you ("Personal Information"). In particular, our website has collected the following categories of Personal Information within the last twelve (12) months:

Categories of Personal Information

Types of Personal Information Collected

A. Identifiers

Name, telephone number, postal address, e-mail address, social security number, date of birth, account name, IP address, visitor ID, or other information you voluntarily provide to initiate a purchase transaction or to opt in to receiving future communications from us.

B. Personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information.

Name, address, telephone number, physical address, zip code, email address, company name, credit card number, income, or other financial information you may provide to obtain a quote or complete a purchase transaction.

C. Commercial information

Housing information, products or services purchased, and purchasing and consuming histories or tendencies.

D. Internet or other similar network activity

Type and version of browser, service provider, device identification information, any search engine or other referring site you may have used to locate our website, and information regarding your interaction with the website, application, or advertisements.

E. Geolocation data.

Signals from your device that allow us to determine your location, with reasonable precision.

F. Professional or employment-related information.

Occupation, name of employer, employment status, employment history, or business email address.

G. Inferences drawn from other Personal Information.

Information regarding your interaction with the website, application, or advertisements; browsing history

How Your Personal Information Is Collected

We collect Personal Information that you voluntarily give or has been given through some other direct contact from you. When you access our website, we may also passively or automatically collect additional Personal Information and non-personally identifiable data regarding the means you use to access our website and the content you view when you use our website, for example, via cookies on our website and/or device fingerprinting.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Visit the Opt-Out & Unsubscribe Section below for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this website and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Use of Your Personal Information

We may use or disclose the Personal Information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see the How to Exercise Your Rights and Contact Information section below.

Who We Share Your Personal Information With

We may share your Personal Information with:

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we've disclosed the following categories of Personal Information for a business purpose:

If Customer Connections is used, the information you consent to share in relation to our SMS texting service may be used to send you text notifications, conversational texts related to your inquiry, marketing messages, and requests for reviews. Opt-in data, as defined by the CTIA, and consent for text messaging will not be shared with any third parties except for messaging partners for the purpose of enabling and operating our text messaging program.

If we are required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary, we will disclose your Personal Information, without notice, to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on our company or the website; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of our company; and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of our website, or the public.

Data Retention

We retain Personal Information we collect from you for the period of time that is necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements), unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Access to Third Party Websites

This website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via our website, your information is protected both online and offline. Whenever we collect sensitive information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. We do not collect sensitive Personal Information in online forms you may voluntarily complete to indicate your interest in a unit or service. The computers and servers in which we store Personal Information are kept in a secure environment.

Children Under Sixteen

We believe that it is especially important to protect children's privacy online. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of sixteen, regardless of the source. Nor do we share with any third party for any purpose whatsoever Personal Information from website visitors younger than sixteen years of age. If you are under the age of sixteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Your Rights

You may have certain rights relating to your Personal Information, subject to local data protection laws. Depending on applicable state or federal laws these rights may include the right to:

For Oregon Residents, at our option, we may provide you with a list of specific third parties, other than natural persons, to which we have disclosed personal data.

Where we process your Personal Information for direct marketing or targeted advertising purposes, you can exercise your right to opt-out at any time to such processing without having to provide any specific reason for such objection.

To exercise your rights, please see the information in the “How to Exercise Your Rights and Contact Us” section below. Your Personal Information may be processed in responding to these rights. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month unless otherwise required by law, and will contact you if we need additional information from you in order to honor your request or verify your identity. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month, taking into account the complexity and number of requests we receive.

Opt-Out & Unsubscribe

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information at any time. Users may opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us by contacting us via email at support@dealerspike.com or call us toll-free at 800-288-5917. Users may also unsubscribe from newsletters by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the newsletter. Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms will be honored to opt you out of the collection of your Personal Information for targeted advertising purposes. Alternatively, if you wish to opt-out of the use of your Personal Information for targeted advertising purposes, you may update your preferences by visiting the “Your Privacy Choices” link in the website footer.

SMS Texting Services

If SMS texting services are used on our website, the information you consent to share in relation to our SMS texting service may be used to send you text notifications, conversational texts related to your inquiry, marketing messages, and requests for reviews. No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Message frequency varies per user. Message and data rates may apply. Text HELP for help. Text STOP to unsubscribe. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

Accessing this Website

This website is hosted on servers located in the United States. As such, your connection will be through and to servers located in the United States. Any Personal Information you provide during your visit will be processed and maintained on our web servers and other internal systems located within the United States. By using this website, you consent to the collection and use of your anonymous data, Personal Information, and/or form submissions for the purposes of analytics and/or advertising.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change and update this Privacy Policy. These changes will be made when appropriate, and in a timely manner. We encourage you to examine our Privacy Policy from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes we may have made. Your continued use of our website following an update to the Privacy Policy indicates your agreement to the same.

How to Exercise Your Rights and Contact Information

If your Personal Information changes (i.e., email address, mailing address), or if you no longer desire to receive information from us, we will endeavor to correct, update, or remove your Personal Information from our records. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your information described above, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to appeal a decision, please do not hesitate to contact us at support@dealerspike.com or call us toll-free at 800-288-5917.

If you wish to exercise your rights under CCPA or other applicable privacy laws, please use the Consumer Privacy Form.

If we're not able to verify your identity or verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected the information, we are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure.

Any Personal Information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with you request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.

To further assist you in exercising your rights regarding the collection and use of your Personal Information:

Privacy Notice for California Residents

This section applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California and is provided in compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act ("CCPA"). Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this section.

Under the CCPA, we are required to disclose whether we sell Personal Information. We do not sell Personal Information, but we may share Personal Information with third parties or allow them to collect Personal Information from our website or services if those third parties are authorized service providers or business partners who have agreed to our contractual limitations as to their retention, use, and disclosure of such Personal Information, or if you direct us to disclose your Personal Information to third parties.

California law grants you the right to know:

Please note that we are not required to:

In connection with any Personal Information we may share, or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know the categories of Personal information that we:

Under CCPA and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, you have the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Information and the right to opt-out of the use or disclosure of your sensitive Personal Information. If you exercise your right to opt-out, we will refrain from selling or sharing your Personal Information or disclosing your sensitive Personal Information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the sale, sharing, or disclosure of your Personal Information. To opt-out of the disclosure of your Personal Information, please contact us at support@dealerspike.com or call us toll-free at 800-288-5917, or use the Consumer Privacy Form.

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

You have the right to not be discriminated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA. As a result, we will not deny you goods or services for exercising these rights, charge a different price for goods or services for exercising these rights, provide a different level or quality of goods or services for exercising these rights, or even suggest you'll receive a different price or a different level or quality of goods or services for exercising these rights.

For more information or to exercise your rights, please contact us by using the information in the “How to Exercise Your Rights and Contact Information” section above.

Last Updated: July 15, 2025

Privacy Policy
 
This Privacy Policy ("Policy") applies to www.boatmastersmarine.com and Boat Masters Marine and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to the Company include www.boatmastersmarine.com. The Company's website is a Marine Industry. By using the Company website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
 
Collection of your Personal Information
In order to better provide you with products and services offered, the Company may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
 
First and last name, mailing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, employer, job title, gender, age range, income, LinkedIn profile, location, your industry, department/seniority level, company name, contact person, URL, LinkedIn, company revenues, number of employees, industry SIC code, and size.
 
If you purchase the Company's products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
 
 
Use of your Personal Information
The Company collects and uses your personal information in the following ways: 
 
-to contact you through phone, email, text, and LinkedIn about products/services of the company.
-to operate and deliver the services you have requested
-to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us
-to provide you with notices about your account
-to carry out the Company's obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered between you and us, including for billing and collection
-to notify you about changes to our www.boatmastersmarine.com or any products or services we offer or provide through it
-in any other way we may describe when you provide the information
-for any other purpose with your consent.
 
The Company may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from the Company and its affiliates.
 
Sharing Information with Third Parties
The Company does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties.
 
The Company may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis.
 
The Company may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the Company or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Company; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Company, or the public.
 
Tracking User Behavior
The Company may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within the Company, in order to determine what the Company services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within the Company to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
 
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Automatically Collected Information
The Company may automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Company's website.
 
Use of Cookies
The Company's website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
 
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the Company's pages, or register with Company's site or services, a cookie helps the Company to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Company's features that you customized.
 
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Company's services or websites you visit.
 
 
 
Security of your Personal Information
The Company secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Company uses the following methods for this purpose:
 
 -          SSL Protocol
 
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
 
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet that are beyond our control; and (b) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed.
 
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
 
-Delete your personal information from our records; and
-Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
 
Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
 
-Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, and provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
-Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
-Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
-Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
-Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
-Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
-Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
-Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
-Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
-Ongoing online marketing campaigns such as phone, email text, and LinkedIn.
 
Children Under Thirteen
The Company does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
 
Communications
The Company may contact you via phone, email, post mail, text, and LinkedIn for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from the Company or click on a link therein.
 
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications from the Company, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the unsubscribe button or texting the word “Stop.” Or contact us using any of the options below.  
 
External Data Storage Sites
We may store your data on servers provided by third-party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
 
Changes to This Statement
The Company reserves the right to change this Policy from time to time. For example, when there are changes in our services, changes in our data protection practices, or changes in the law. When changes to this Policy are significant, we will inform you. You may receive a notice by sending an email to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our Boat Masters Marine, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
 
Contact Information
The Company welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Policy. If you believe that the Company has not adhered to this Policy, please contact the Company at:
 
5290 Manchester Rd.
Akron, OH
 
greg@boatmastersmarine.com
330.882.4568
Effective as of 12/2/2025