Last updated: October 27, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how Boating Chicago ("we," "us," or "our") handles information when you visit boatingchicago.com, submit forms, or interact with our content and partners.
Information we collect
- Contact details you submit (name, email, subject, message) via our contact form
- Newsletter emails when you subscribe
- Vendor inquiries related to listing your business
- Usage data such as pages viewed, approximate location derived from IP, device/browser type, and referral URLs — collected via analytics tools when enabled
How we use information
- To respond to contact and partnership requests
- To send newsletters or updates you opted into
- To improve site content, performance, and user experience
- To measure traffic and conversions (including affiliate clicks) with analytics
- To display relevant advertising when AdSense or similar services are enabled
Sharing
We may use service providers for email delivery, hosting, analytics (such as Google Analytics), and advertising (such as Google AdSense). We do not sell personal information as a standalone consumer data product.
Cookies & tracking
Essential cookies or local storage keep the site working (for example remembering your optional-cookie choice). Google Analytics, labeled shopping-partner ads, and Impact impression tags are optional. They stay off until you accept them in the cookie banner or Cookie settings. Rejecting them does not block weather, guides, booking links, contact, or the newsletter form.
Google's EU user consent policy and Consent Mode v2 apply to end users in the EEA (and, for some publisher advertising products, the UK and Switzerland). We do not run a Google-certified IAB CMP such as Funding Choices, and this site does not look up your country at the edge. Optional tags therefore stay denied for every visitor until you choose. That is not a certified-CMP or AdSense-approval claim. If display ads are later turned on for EEA traffic, a certified CMP would still be required for that product.
Google and other third-party vendors may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site or other websites after you allow advertising cookies. You can review or turn off ad personalization in Google's Ad Settings / My Ad Center. Browser settings also let you block or delete cookies.
Third-party links
Booking links may send you to partner sites (for example GetYourGuide or Viator). Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies.
Data retention
We retain contact and newsletter records as long as needed to respond to requests, comply with legal obligations, and operate the business, then delete or anonymize when no longer required.
Your choices
To request access, correction, or deletion of personal information we hold, or to unsubscribe from marketing emails, use our Contact form.
Children
The site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
Changes
We may update this policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects the latest revision.
Contact
Privacy questions: use our Contact form.