Last updated: 29 September 2026
About this policy
This policy explains how DownloadBoatManuals handles personal information when you browse this website, download manuals or contact us. DownloadBoatManuals is responsible for the information we process to operate the website. For privacy questions or requests, email [email protected].
You can browse and download available manuals without creating an account. The website does not have a contact form; correspondence is handled by email.
Hosting, downloads and security
We use Cloudflare Pages to host the website and Cloudflare R2 to store and deliver manual files. Cloudflare processes technical information associated with requests, such as IP addresses, requested URLs, browser and device information, request times and security signals. This processing helps deliver pages and downloads, maintain performance, detect errors and protect the service from abuse.
Security features may use cookies or similar technologies where needed. These serve operational and security purposes. Read Cloudflare's Privacy Policy for information about its processing of website traffic.
Google Analytics 4
We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to understand how visitors find and use the website and to improve its content. Depending on your privacy choices and the applicable settings, Google may process page views, interactions, referring pages, approximate location, browser and device information, and cookie identifiers. Analytics cookies help distinguish visits and measure usage over time.
Google processes this information to provide measurement and reporting services. See Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
Advertising with Google AdSense
We use Google AdSense to support the website through advertising. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on previous visits to this website or other websites. Google's advertising cookies allow Google and its partners to personalise ads where permitted by your consent and settings.
Advertising services may also process information to select and measure ads, limit repeated ads, and detect fraud. The consent message, where displayed, provides information about the participating partners and their purposes. Depending on your choices and location, ads may be personalised, non-personalised or limited.
You can manage Google's ad personalisation through Google Ad Settings. Turning off personalisation does not necessarily remove advertising or all measurement associated with it.
Cookies and your choices
Cookies and similar technologies may be used for security, remembering privacy choices, analytics and advertising.
For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, our Google consent settings start with analytics storage, advertising storage, advertising user data and ad personalisation denied. The consent message lets you accept, refuse or customise the purposes and partners shown. Outside these regions, the default settings may allow analytics and advertising before a choice is made, subject to other applicable privacy controls.
We use Google Consent Mode. When analytics or advertising storage is denied, consent-aware Google tags can still send limited measurements without the corresponding cookies, including consent status and technical request information, for measurement and modelling. Declining cookies therefore does not mean that no information is transmitted to Google.
Use the privacy settings control provided by the consent message, where available, to revisit your choices. You can also delete or block cookies in your browser; deleting consent cookies may cause the message to appear again. Google offers an Analytics opt-out browser add-on. If you need help exercising a privacy choice, contact us using the email above.
Email correspondence
If you email us, we receive your address, any name you provide, your message, attachments and related email metadata. We use these details to answer questions, investigate broken downloads, make corrections and handle rights or privacy requests. Please include only information relevant to your enquiry.
Messages sent to our public address are forwarded through Cloudflare Email Routing to a Yahoo Mail inbox. These providers process messages as part of delivering and hosting email; see Cloudflare's policy above and Yahoo's Privacy Policy. We do not publish your correspondence or add your address to a marketing list simply because you contact us.
Purposes, sharing and retention
Where data protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on our legitimate interests in delivering and securing the website and responding to enquiries; consent for optional cookies and related processing where required; and legal obligations when handling information that must be retained or disclosed by law.
Information is processed by the service providers described above for hosting, security, analytics, advertising and email. They may process data in countries outside your own. Their privacy notices explain the safeguards and transfer arrangements that apply to their services.
We keep correspondence for as long as reasonably needed to handle the enquiry, resolve related issues and meet applicable legal obligations. Technical logs, analytics records, advertising data and cookies have different retention periods, governed by the service involved, its settings and its policies. You can contact us about deletion of information we hold about you.
Your privacy rights
Depending on the law that applies to you, you may have rights to access, correct or delete your personal information, restrict or object to processing, and request a portable copy. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it; withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal. You may also complain to the relevant data protection authority.
Send requests to [email protected]. We may need information to verify that a request concerns your own data. For information held independently by a service provider, its privacy notice also explains how to exercise your rights.
External websites and policy updates
Links to manufacturers, advertisers and other external websites lead to services with their own privacy policies. This policy covers DownloadBoatManuals and does not control how those websites handle information.
We will update this page when our services or privacy practices change and revise the date above.