Valid from 25th May 2018
Last Update 1st September 2025
The controller is Boataffair AG, Schuetzenstrasse 43, 5454 Bellikon, Switzerland. Boataffair AG (referred to as Boataffair or BoatAffair) is a yacht charter broker company based in Switzerland. We charter out yachts, or other assets, defined as a boat, a motorboat, superyacht, motor yacht, catamaran, sailing yacht, or other accommodation (hereinafter referred to as "Yachts", displayed as a "Listing" on our website) against a Charter Fee, and additional expenses if applicable. Refer to our Terms of Use for more information about Boataffair AG's services.
Boataffair AG considers it important that our clients and that the visitors of our website are informed as to when, for what purposes and which personal data are processed.
Boataffair AG reserves the right to amend this Privacy Notice from time to time. You should therefore read this Privacy Notice regularly. The date of the then-current version (valid from) may be found at the beginning of the Privacy Notice.
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (e.g., name, address, telephone number, date of birth or email address).
When you engage with us or ask us about our services, this may require personal data to be provided, for instance in order to sign up for a newsletter or to leave your email address when getting in touch with our customer support team.
Personal data are therefore not processed as a matter of course, but rather only under certain circumstances and for specific purposes.
In order to provide the Boataffair AG’s services, Boataffair AG may collect personal data as follows:
• When you get in touch with Boataffair AG to send you information about a yacht or service.
• When you wish to do business with us or to work for us.
• When you visit our website or submit your information via the website.
• When you contact us by any means with queries, complaints etc.
• When you book any kind of appointment or meeting with us.
• When you interact with Boataffair AG on social media.
• When you comment on or review our services.
• When you have given a third-party permission to share with us the information they hold about you.
• We collect data from publicly available sources where the information is made public as a matter of law.
• Optimising the website (i.e. market research or internet audience measurement)
• Personalising the website for users
• Providing information about Boataffair AG' yacht services
• Distribution of newsletters (email newsletters)
• Ensuring the data security for the visitors of our website
• To protect Boataffair AG and our clients from fraud and other illegal activities
The personal data collected may include:
• Your personal contact details such as your full name, postal addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers.
• Technical information, such as information from your visits to our website or relating to Boataffair AG's event invitations, updates, marketing materials and other communications we send to you electronically.
• Your communication preferences regarding marketing materials.
• Your passport copies, and copies of documents you provide to prove your identity where the law requires this or where we require it when you transact with us. This may include a copy of your passport or equivalent ID document. This will include details of your full name, address, date of birth and facial image. If you provide a passport, the data will also include your place of birth, gender and nationality.
• Any other personal information you provide to us during your relationship with us, such as dietary requirements, any physical disability and your views and your comments.
• Identification and background information we may collect about you as part of our business acceptance procedures and recruitment procedures (i.e. KYC procedures).
• Details of your yachting preferences.
• Financial information, such as your bank account details (if necessary).
• The company you work for and your position (if necessary).
• Details of your visits to our websites, and which site you came from to us.
• Your social media username, if you interact with us through those channels, to help us respond to your comments, questions or feedback.
• We can take photos at events and courses and to publish them on our website/app for marketing purposes.
Insofar as we obtain your consent to process personal data, your consent serves as the legal basis. This is the case for example in connection with newsletters, as well as for us to send you our information about Boataffair AG's services.
When you order products or services with Boataffair AG, we may need to process your personal data for the performance of the contract for our services. This includes data processing which is necessary prior to entering into a contract.
To the extent personal data is processed based on a legal obligation, this serves as the legal basis. This may be the case for example relating to the disclosure of personal data to third parties or storage or retention periods.
In general, we only disclose your personal data to third parties insofar as we have a legitimate interest in doing so or you have provided your consent.
Furthermore, your data may be disclosed to third parties insofar as we may be obliged to do so pursuant to legal provisions or an enforceable administrative or court order.
Where necessary and legally required, Boataffair AG may perform a KYC (Know Your Customer) due diligence process. This is used by businesses to verify the identity of their clients and assess potential risks.
We use third party service providers for data processing. Service providers are generally involved as so-called "processors", who may only process your personal data with our instructions.
We also provide personal data to third parties, respectively processors, that are not based in the EU/EEA or Switzerland. In this case, we ensure prior to disclosure either that the recipient provides an adequate level of data protection (e.g., on the basis of an adequacy decision for the relevant country, self-certification by the recipient for the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the application of standard contractual clauses of the European Union) or that our users have provided their consent.
We can provide you with an overview of the third country recipients along with a copy of the terms specifically agreed to in order to ensure an adequate level of data protection.
We store your data for as long as is necessary in order to provide our services, and for as long as we have a legitimate interest in continuing storage. In all other cases, we delete your personal data as soon as legally necessary, with the exception of any data that we are required to retain in order to comply with legal obligations (e.g., retention obligations).
• Right of access: Clients have the right to request confirmation from the controller as to which personal data concerning them is being processed and whether these data are being transmitted to a third country.
• Right to rectification: Clients have the right to request the controller to correct any incorrect or incomplete personal data relating to them.
• Right to erasure: Clients have the right to request the controller to erase promptly any personal data relating to them if these data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or processed. The same applies if the data subject withdraws consent or objects to the processing in absence of an overriding legitimate interest of the controller or if these data are being unlawfully processed. The data subject may additionally execute this right in case where the controller is subject to a legal obligation to delete these personal data or when the personal data have been collected in the context of information society services.
• Right to restriction of processing: Clients have the right to request the controller to restrict processing.
• Right to withdraw consent: Clients have the right at any time to withdraw their consent to the processing of any personal data relating to them for any specific purpose or purposes if that processing is based on their express consent. The withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness for the processing on the basis of that consent carried out prior to the withdrawal of consent.
• Right to object: Clients have the right at any time to object to the processing of any personal data relating to them if the processing occurs on the basis of the legitimate interest of the controller or of a third party. Where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, clients have an absolute right to object to such processing at any time.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority. In order to do so, you may contact the data protection authority competent for your place of residence or your federal state, or the data protection authority competent for this.
In order to exercise your rights, please contact us at welcome@boataffair.com.
Please do not hesitate to contact us by email to welcome@boataffair.com. for any information or with any suggestions regarding data protection.
If you wish to contact us, you may also reach us as follows:
Each time you use the internet certain data is automatically transferred from your browser and stored by us in so-called log files. Some of the following log files are stored on our web server.
The log files are stored by us in order to investigate defects and for security reasons. The rotation period for the web server is 52 weeks. Log files on the web app are stored for up to 10 days, after which they will be deleted. Log files that must be retained for longer periods for evidence purposes are excluded from deletion until the applicable incident has been reviewed and may in particular cases be passed along to investigating authorities.
Cookies are small text files that are sent whenever a webpage is visited and are stored in the visitor's browser. If the corresponding webpage is visited again, the visitor's browser will send back the content of the cookie, thereby enabling the visitor to be recognised.
Some cookies are automatically deleted at the end of the browser session (so-called session cookies), others are stored in the visitor's browser for a specified period of time or indefinitely and thereafter deleted themselves (so-called temporary or permanent cookies).
Use the link provided below, you can see whether cookies from various providers have been activated and object to the collection or analysis of your data using their cookies: www.youronlinechoices.com
It is possible to object to various cookies in a blanket fashion, including in particular those of US providers, by clicking on the following link: optout.networkadvertising.org
Comprehensive information concerning cookies may be found on the following portal: www.allaboutcookies.org
We use cookies in order to make our website more user-friendly and to measure and analyse the usage of our website. Some elements of our website require that the browser which accesses the site can also be identified after switching to a different page. We also use cookies on our website that enable an analysis of the browsing habits of the visitors.
Some cookies are essential in order for us to be able to securely maintain our website.
The embedding of social plugins often results in plugin cookies being saved by providers.
We need statistical information in order to be able to make our website more user-friendly and to conduct market research.
We use the following web analysis tools for this purpose. The usage profiles generated by the tools using analysis cookies or from an analysis of the log files are not cross-referenced with personal data. The tools either do not use the IP addresses of visitors at all or abbreviate them immediately after collection. The providers of web analysis tools only process data as processors in accordance with our instructions and not for their own purposes.
For each web analysis tool, you can find information regarding the corresponding provider, as well as how to object to the collection and processing of data through the tool. Please note in relation to tools that work with opt-out cookies that the opt-out function is device- or browser-specific and generally only applies for the specific end device or browser used. In addition, you can also prevent usage profiles being generated overall by deactivating cookies in general.
Plugins enable the integration of social media into the website of Boataffair AG. The various providers of plugins are referred to below collectively as "plugin providers".
Plugins are deactivated as the default setting in order to prevent the automatic disclosure of user data to providers. Only after the visitor clicks on the plugin (Shariff plugin) is it activated and is data transmitted. Log files (including the IP address) are thereby transferred by your internet browser directly to a server of the relevant plugin provider and may be saved at that location. This server may be located outside the EU or the EEA (e.g., in the USA).
If you do not wish to have data exchanged between you and social media, you should log out of social media before using the website of Boataffair AG. In addition, you should activate the private mode in your browser.
In addition, it is also useful to deactivate or restrict cookies in your browser settings in order to prevent third parties from being able to monitor your browsing habits. You can generally also completely prevent the loading of plugins by using add-ons for your browser (so-called script blockers).
Plugins are independent extensions of the plugin provider. Boataffair AG does not, therefore, have any influence over the scope of the data collected and stored by the plugin providers through plugins. If any of the named plugin providers has stored a cookie on your device, it may record your browsing habits and generate detailed usage profiles using tracking data.
Further information concerning the purpose for which data are collected, the extent to which this occurs and the further processing and use of your data by the plugin provider along with your rights and configuration options in order to protect your data may be found in the Privacy Notices of the relevant providers. We use social plugins ("plugins") from the following providers in connection with our website:
Boataffair AG is a yacht charter broker company based in Switzerland. We charter out yachts, or other assets, defined as a boat, a motorboat, superyacht, motor yacht, catamaran, sailing yacht, or other accommodation (hereinafter referred to as "Yachts", displayed as a "Listing" on our website) against a Charter Fee, and additional expenses if applicable. Boataffair AG may also charter out Yachts that are not displayed on the website boataffair.com (and any other websites affiliated with our company Boataffair AG), but always with the express approval and permission of the respective Operators of the Yachts. Boataffair AG is not the owner of the yachts offered for charter. Refer to our Terms of Use for more information about Boataffair AG's services.
We offer you the opportunity to subscribe to our email newsletters (newsletter) in order to be updated about Boataffair AG's services. In doing so, you consent to receiving newsletters.
If you no longer wish to receive newsletters, you can revoke your corresponding consent at any time. Please use the unsubscribe function in order to do so, or contact us at welcome@boataffair.com
By using the privacy settings of your browser, you can prevent third parties from being able to monitor your browsing habits. In order to do so you need to activate the private mode. In addition, it is also useful to deactivate or restrict cookies in your browser settings. You can generally also completely prevent the loading of plugins by using add-ons (script blockers) for your browser.
Further details can be found in your applicable browser instructions: