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Blue Water Foundation Privacy Notice

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for volunteer.bluewaterfoundation.org. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

  1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
  2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
  3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
  4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing 

Blue Water Foundation is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via the website or other direct contact from you. This currently includes your name, email address, phone number, and postal code. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to communicate with you regarding Blue Water Foundation activities and events, as well as to track training and participation.

Blue Water Foundation does not share volunteer information with any third parties. However, volunteers who sign up for events or sails will be able to see emails of other signed up volunteers for those events. Phone numbers and zip codes can be seen by first captains and event planners.

When you sign up with Blue Water you are automatically added to the “Events” mailing list. This list sends weekly reminders of upcoming Blue Water events and also reminds you of any which you are signed up for. Instructions to remove yourself from the mailing list are included with each mailing.
Your Access to and Control Over Information 
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time on our website:

If you wish to have all your records deleted permanently, please send email to privacy@bluewaterfoundation.org to notify us of your request.

Security 

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only volunteers who need the information to perform a specific function are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure cloud hosting platform.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via email: privacy@bluewaterfoundation.org.

All data on this site is subject to the Blue Water Foundation privacy policy.
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Blue Water Certification Process

Blue Water Foundation has a safety program which includes ensuring that crew and captains have the needed skills and knowledge to safely handle the boat and maximize the safety and enjoyment of the people we take sailing.

Volunteers are not required to have sailing skills since we have related programs such as scholarships and outreach that do not require sailing expertise. However, only those with verified sailing skills can be listed as certified Crew or certified Captains. Our sails with children require a minimum of a First Captain, a Second Captain, and three Certified Crew on board. For sails at night we require additional certification skills be demonstrated in order to be night certified.

We use a check list of skills to ensure Crew, Second Captains, Night Crew, and Night Captains know and have demonstrated all the sailing maneuvers, terms, and operations necessary to safely handle the boat. We confirm skills on each boat separately due to the differences between their equipment and layout. A few skills (such as knots, VHF communication, etc.) are general and apply to all boats.

Certifications have dependencies. You must be certified Crew on a boat before you can be a certified Second Captain, and you must be a Second Captain before you can be a First Captain. Night Crew requires prior Crew certification and Night Captain requires Second Captain certification. A First Captain on a night sail must also have Night Captain certification.

First Captains, who are the persons in overall charge of the boat and the sail, have already demonstrated their sailing skills when they become Second Captains. We verify their capacity to take full responsibility for the boat and everyone on it by having them take full charge of sails under the observation of an already certified First Captain. To be successfully promoted to a First Captain the candidate must have sailed acting as First with at least two other (and preferably more) First Captains on the boat in question. A candidate is nominated when one or more First Captains think the time has come for promotion to First.

When nominated for First Captain the decision is first voted on by the current First Captains. If they approve it is referred to the Board of Directors for final approval.