Who We Are
Old Sea Dogs is an online boating and yachting publication edited by Michael Hodges. You can contact us at [email protected].
Information We May Collect
We may receive personal information when you contact us, send a press release, submit a story idea, provide a correction, or send a photo for possible publication. This may include your name, email address, organisation, message, photo credit, and any details you choose to include.
Like most websites, the site may also collect basic technical information such as browser type, device information, pages viewed, referring pages, approximate location, and cookie or similar identifiers used for security, performance, analytics, and advertising.
How We Use Information
We use information to run the website, reply to messages, review submissions, publish agreed credits, correct articles, protect the site, understand what readers use, and support advertising.
Cookies, Analytics And Advertising
Old Sea Dogs may use cookies and similar technologies to help the site work, understand readership, and show advertising. We may use Google Analytics to understand which public pages are useful, and Google AdSense or similar advertising partners to show sponsored adverts when advertising is enabled.
Non-essential analytics and advertising services should only load after the visitor's consent choice allows them. Visitors can accept all optional cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or manage preferences using the cookie banner.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites where personalised advertising is allowed. Google and its partners may also serve non-personalised ads based on contextual information such as the page being viewed and approximate location.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads to users based on visits to this site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Users may also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
If additional advertising networks are used, they may also use cookies or similar technologies. These third-party advertising partners may receive technical information needed to serve, measure, limit, or protect adverts. Old Sea Dogs does not sell personal information.
Some Ports and Clubs pages may also include embedded Google Maps or satellite views. Google may receive technical information when those maps load, in line with Google's own privacy and cookie policies.
For more detail, read the Old Sea Dogs Cookie Policy.
Photos, Press Releases, And Credits
If you provide photos, press material, or story details, we may use them to prepare or publish Old Sea Dogs articles. Where a photo credit is supplied, we aim to show that credit with the image, such as "© Michael Hodges" or the credit supplied by the rights holder.
Sharing Information
We do not sell personal information. Information may be shared with service providers that help operate the website, email, hosting, security, analytics, or advertising. We may also disclose information where required by law or to protect the site and its readers.
Keeping Information
We keep information only for as long as needed for the reason it was provided, for editorial records, or where we have a legitimate need to keep it. Published articles, captions, and photo credits may stay online as part of the editorial archive unless changed or removed.
Your Choices
You can ask about information you have sent to Old Sea Dogs, request a correction, or raise a privacy concern by emailing [email protected].
Changes To This Policy
This policy may be updated as the site develops, including when new advertising, analytics, or publishing tools are added.