COOKIE POLICY

Last updated: August 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how vlcyachts.com uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit the VLC Yachts website.

It explains what these technologies are, why they may be used, which types of cookies may be placed on your device, and how you can accept, reject or change your preferences.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Legal Notice.

1. WEBSITE OPERATOR

The website vlcyachts.com operates under the commercial name VLC Yachts.

For complete information concerning the website operator, business address and legal identification details, please consult our Legal Notice.

Website: https://vlcyachts.com
Commercial Name: VLC Yachts
Location: Valencia, Spain
Telephone / WhatsApp: +34 648 78 42 05

For privacy and website-related enquiries, users may contact VLC Yachts through the contact methods identified in the Legal Notice and Privacy Policy.

2. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small data files that a website or associated service may store on a user's device when the website is accessed.

Cookies and similar technologies can perform different functions, including:

• Enabling essential website functionality

• Maintaining technical website operation

• Remembering certain user preferences

• Managing cookie-consent choices

• Measuring website usage

• Understanding how visitors interact with website pages and features

Some technologies perform functions similar to cookies even if they do not technically store a traditional cookie.

For the purposes of this Cookie Policy, references to cookies also include comparable storage or tracking technologies where applicable.

3. TYPES OF COOKIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE

The VLC Yachts website may use different categories of cookies according to their purpose.

STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES

Strictly necessary cookies are required for the website or a service the user expressly requests to function properly.

They may be used for purposes such as:

• Website security

• Technical operation

• Network management

• Form functionality

• Cookie-consent management

• Maintaining essential website preferences

• Providing functionality specifically requested by the user

These cookies do not require consent where their use is strictly necessary for the provision of the website or a service requested by the user.

Where technically possible, they are limited to the functions necessary to operate the website.

PLATFORM ANALYTICS

With the user's consent, the website may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors interact with the site.

The current website platform identifies this category as Platform Analytics.

Hostinger may use cookies and similar technologies for this purpose, including the Amplitude analytics service, to collect website usage information intended to help understand site interaction and improve website and platform performance.

These analytics are activated only where the user has provided the required consent through the cookie-consent mechanism.

Analytics information may include technical or usage data such as:

• Pages or sections visited

• General interaction with the website

• Technical browser or device information

• Navigation events

• Website performance information

• General usage patterns

Analytics technologies must not be activated solely because a visitor continues browsing the website.

4. COOKIES THAT REQUIRE CONSENT

Cookies and similar technologies that are not strictly necessary will only be activated where the required consent has been obtained.

Where consent is required, users must be able to make a genuine choice.

The website therefore provides controls that allow users to:

• Accept optional cookies

• Reject optional cookies

• Manage available cookie preferences where configuration options are provided

Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent access to the essential content and functions of the VLC Yachts website unless a particular optional external functionality genuinely requires the relevant technology.

5. COOKIES THAT DO NOT REQUIRE CONSENT

Certain technical cookies may be exempt from consent requirements where they are strictly necessary to provide the website or a service expressly requested by the user.

Examples may include technologies necessary for:

• Website security

• Load balancing

• Session management

• Essential form functionality

• Saving cookie-consent preferences

• Providing a technical feature directly requested by the user

The exemption applies according to the actual purpose for which the technology is used.

A cookie is not exempt merely because it is described as technical.

6. FIRST-PARTY AND THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

Cookies may also be classified according to the entity responsible for them.

First-party cookies

First-party cookies are managed from the website domain or by technology operating on behalf of the website operator.

They may be used for essential site functionality, security, consent management or other permitted website functions.

Third-party cookies

Third-party cookies or similar technologies may be provided by external services integrated with the website.

Where third-party technologies are used, their operation and data processing may also be governed by the privacy and cookie information of the corresponding provider.

The VLC Yachts website currently uses the Hostinger website platform, and the platform identifies Amplitude as a technology that may be used for Platform Analytics with user consent.

7. CURRENT COOKIE CATEGORIES

The cookie-consent system currently identifies the following categories:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Purpose:
Technologies essential for the website to function correctly.

Consent required:
No, where they are strictly necessary.

Status:
Always active where required for essential functionality.

Platform Analytics

Purpose:
To understand website usage and interaction and to support improvements to the website experience and platform.

Platform / Provider:
Hostinger

Analytics technology identified by the platform:
Amplitude

Consent required:
Yes.

Status:
Activated only after the user gives the corresponding consent.

8. DETAILED COOKIE INVENTORY

The exact cookies and similar technologies used by the website may change when:

• Website functionality is modified

• The hosting or website platform is updated

• New integrations are introduced

• Existing integrations are removed

• Analytics or security technology changes

For this reason, the cookie inventory should reflect the technologies actually detected and used by the website at the time of consultation.

Where individual cookies are used, the relevant information should identify, where applicable:

• Cookie or technology name

• Provider

• Purpose

• Category

• Whether it is first-party or third-party

• Expiry or retention period

The VLC Yachts cookie configuration should be reviewed periodically to ensure that this information remains consistent with the technologies actually deployed on the website.

9. COOKIE CONSENT

When you first visit the website, a cookie notice may be displayed, allowing you to choose whether to accept non-essential cookies.

Where optional cookies are used, consent must be:

• Freely given

• Specific

• Informed

• Unambiguous

• Given through a clear affirmative action

Optional cookies are not authorised merely because a visitor:

• Continues browsing

• Scrolls the page

• Closes a notice without making a choice

• Remains inactive

• Uses another website function unrelated to consent

Do not use a pre-selected option in favour of optional cookies to obtain consent.

10. ACCEPTING OR REJECTING COOKIES

Where consent is required, the cookie interface should make both acceptance and rejection clearly available.

Users should be able to choose between:

ACCEPT
Allows the optional cookie categories selected or offered through the consent interface.

REJECT
Rejects optional cookies while allowing strictly necessary technologies to remain active.

COOKIE SETTINGS
Where available, allows users to choose between different optional purposes or categories.

The ability to reject optional cookies should be presented in a manner that is as accessible and visible as the option to accept them.

11. CHANGING OR WITHDRAWING YOUR CONSENT

Users may change or withdraw their cookie choices at any time.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

The website should provide a permanent mechanism, such as:

Cookie Settings

or

Manage Cookie Preferences

through which users can review or change their choices.

Where technically necessary, changing cookie settings may involve removing previously stored optional cookies or preventing them from being used again.

12. COOKIE CONSENT RETENTION

Cookie preferences may be stored so that the website does not repeatedly request the same choice during every visit.

Consent and preference records should only be retained for an appropriate period and should be renewed when required, particularly where:

• The purposes of processing change

• New cookie categories are introduced

• New relevant third parties are added

• The consent mechanism materially changes

• Applicable legal requirements require renewed consent

Users may nevertheless change their preferences at any time through the available cookie settings.

13. ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGIES

Analytics technologies may help us understand how visitors use the website.

Where enabled with consent, analytics may help assess information such as:

• Frequently visited pages

• General navigation behaviour

• User interaction with website functions

• Technical website performance

• Aggregate usage patterns

These analytics support website and service improvement.

The website's current platform configuration identifies Amplitude as the analytics technology used in connection with Hostinger Platform Analytics.

Analytics technologies requiring consent must remain disabled until the user has made the appropriate choice.

14. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

The website may contain or link to third-party services, including potentially:

• Communication platforms

• Social networks

• Mapping services

• Embedded content

• External websites

• Marine-industry resources

• Other third-party platforms

A simple link to a third-party website does not necessarily mean that third-party cookies are installed on vlcyachts.com.

However, where third-party content is embedded directly into the website, the corresponding provider may use cookies or similar technologies.

Where such technologies are not strictly necessary, they should not be activated before the required consent has been obtained.

Users should consult the privacy and cookie information of the relevant third-party provider when accessing external websites or services.

15. WHATSAPP AND EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION LINKS

The VLC Yachts website may provide links allowing users to contact the business through WhatsApp or other external communication services.

Selecting an external communication link may redirect the user away from vlcyachts.com to a website, application or service operated by a third party.

Once the user accesses the external service, that provider's privacy and cookie practices apply.

Including a link to an external communication platform does not mean that VLC Yachts controls the cookies or technologies used by that third-party service.

16. SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS

The website may display links or icons relating to social-media platforms.

Where these elements operate solely as external links, the third-party platform normally becomes involved when the user chooses to follow the link.

If social-media plugins, embedded feeds or similar interactive technologies are introduced in the future, the cookie configuration and this Cookie Policy should be reviewed before those technologies are activated.

17. BROWSER COOKIE CONTROLS

Most web browsers allow users to manage cookies through their browser settings.

Depending on the browser, users may be able to:

• View stored cookies

• Delete individual cookies

• Delete all cookies

• Block cookies

• Block third-party cookies

• Restrict certain storage technologies

• Configure how cookies are handled

Blocking all cookies through the browser may affect essential website functionality.

Browser controls operate separately from the cookie-consent preferences available directly through the VLC Yachts website.

18. DO NOT TRACK AND SIMILAR BROWSER SIGNALS

Browsers and devices may provide privacy-related signals or controls.

The technical response to these signals may vary according to the website platform, browser and technologies in use.

Users should therefore use the website's cookie-consent controls when they wish to make or modify choices regarding optional cookies.

19. PERSONAL DATA AND COOKIES

Certain cookies or similar technologies may involve the processing of information that constitutes personal data under applicable data-protection legislation.

Where personal data is processed through cookies or similar technologies, the processing is also subject to the applicable data-protection requirements.

For further information regarding:

• The identity of the data controller

• Purposes of personal-data processing

• Legal bases

• Data retention

• Recipients

• International transfers

• Data-subject rights

• Procedures for exercising those rights

Please consult the Privacy Policy.

20. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

Where a third-party cookie or analytics provider processes information outside the European Economic Area, international data transfers may occur.

Where applicable, such transfers must be carried out using an appropriate mechanism recognised under applicable data-protection legislation.

Information relating to the processing practices and international transfers of a third-party provider should also be available through that provider's privacy documentation.

The presence and nature of any international transfer should be reviewed as part of the website's periodic cookie and privacy audit.

21. UPDATES TO THE COOKIE POLICY

VLC Yachts may update this Cookie Policy where necessary to reflect:

• Changes to the cookies or technologies used

• Changes to website functionality

• Changes to third-party providers

• Changes to the website platform

• Legal or regulatory developments

• Changes to consent mechanisms

• Technical or security requirements

The current version will be published on this page.

The date of the latest revision appears at the top of the Cookie Policy.

22. PERIODIC COOKIE REVIEW

The website's cookies and similar technologies should be reviewed periodically.

This review should verify:

• Which cookies are actually being installed

• Which technologies operate before consent

• Which technologies operate after consent

• Providers involved

• Purposes

• Cookie categories

• Expiry periods

• Third-party transfers

• Whether the Cookie Policy remains accurate

• Whether the consent banner reflects the current configuration

When new non-essential technologies are introduced, update the cookie-consent configuration before activating those technologies for users who have not consented.

23. HOW TO MANAGE YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES

You can review or change your choices using the Cookie Settings or Manage Cookie Preferences control available on this website.

You can:

• Accept optional cookies

• Reject optional cookies

• Review available cookie categories

• Change a previous choice

• Withdraw consent

Strictly necessary cookies required for the operation of the website cannot normally be disabled through the website's cookie-preference system.

24. CONTACT

For questions concerning this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies on vlcyachts.com, please use the contact details provided in the Legal Notice or contact VLC Yachts through the website contact form.

VLC Yachts
Real Club Náutico de Valencia
Camino del Canal 91
Bloque 3, Local 21-B
46024 Valencia, Spain

Telephone / WhatsApp: +34 648 78 42 05

Website: https://vlcyachts.com

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