Privacy notice

1. Who we are

This website is owned by SWCC Ventures, Inc., the owner of Crude Escape (“we,” “us”). Shelton Strategies LLC designs and runs the website for us and helps us manage the requests that come through it.

2. What we collect

When you send an availability request: your name, email, phone number if you give it, your dates, group size, how you want to sail and any message.

When you send a review: your name, trip month, rating, review and email. Your email is never shown publicly.

When you ask for the planning guide: your name and email.

When you browse: page views, time on page and scroll depth, counted without cookies by our own counter and by Cloudflare Web Analytics. Google Analytics, which uses cookies, runs only if you choose Allow on the cookie banner. Our host, Cloudflare, also processes basic technical data such as your IP address to deliver the site and block abuse.

3. How we use it

To answer your request, check availability, prepare a quote and help you book; to publish approved reviews; to send the planning guide you asked for; to keep the site secure and stop spam; and to understand which pages are useful so we can improve them.

4. Who sees it

Your request goes to the owners and to Shelton Strategies, which runs the site. If you go ahead with a charter, the details needed to book are shared with BVI Yacht Charters, which handles contracts, payments and the charter under its own privacy policy. We also use service providers to host the site, store form submissions and deliver email and notifications, and they may use your information only to provide those services.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising.

5. How long we keep it

We keep requests and reviews for as long as they are useful for your booking and our records, and then delete them. Ask us any time and we will delete your information unless the law requires us to keep it.

6. Your choices

You can ask to see, correct or delete your information, or ask us to stop emailing you, by writing to [email protected]. You can turn analytics cookies off at any time by clearing cookies for this site and choosing No thanks.

7. Children

This site is meant for adults planning a trip. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.

8. Changes

We may update this notice by posting a new version here. The date at the top shows the latest version. See also our terms of use.