Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 24, 2026
Tropical Boat Rentals respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide when visiting tropicalboatrentals.com, contacting us, or using our boat rental services.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, how we use it, and the choices you may have regarding your information.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:
Name
Email address
Phone number
Rental dates or availability requests
Boat rental preferences
Information submitted through website contact or booking forms
Communications you send to us by email, phone, text message, or through the website
Information necessary to complete or manage a boat rental reservation
When required for a rental, additional information such as identification, boating qualifications, rental agreements, or payment information may be collected directly by Tropical Boat Rentals or through a third-party service provider.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
IP address
Browser type
Device type
Operating system
Pages viewed
Referring website
Approximate geographic location
Date and time of your visit
Website interactions and traffic data
This information helps us understand how visitors use our website and improve its performance and usability.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect to:
Respond to questions and availability requests
Process and manage boat rental reservations
Communicate with you regarding your rental
Provide customer service
Send reservation confirmations or other transaction-related communications
Maintain rental and business records
Improve our website, services, and customer experience
Monitor website performance and traffic
Protect our website, customers, boats, and business from fraud, misuse, or security threats
Comply with legal, regulatory, insurance, or safety requirements
If you provide a telephone number, we may use it to contact you regarding your inquiry, reservation, rental, or customer service request.
Marketing text messages or promotional communications will only be sent when permitted by law and, where required, after obtaining appropriate consent.
3. Cookies and Analytics
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to improve website functionality, understand visitor activity, and measure website performance.
These technologies may collect information such as your browser, device, pages visited, time spent on the website, and how you arrived at the website.
We may use analytics services such as Google Analytics or similar tools to help us understand website traffic and visitor behavior.
You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect some website functionality.
4. Third-Party Services
Tropical Boat Rentals may use third-party companies to help operate our website and provide our services. These may include:
Website hosting providers
Website analytics providers
Email and communication providers
Online form providers
Booking or reservation systems
Payment processors
Security and spam-prevention services
Google Maps and other embedded website services
Advertising or marketing platforms
These providers may receive information necessary to perform services on our behalf and may maintain their own privacy policies and data practices.
If payments are processed through a third-party payment processor, Tropical Boat Rentals may not directly receive or store your complete credit or debit card information.
5. Payments and Reservations
When online booking or payment services are available, information submitted during the reservation or payment process may be processed by third-party booking or payment providers.
Those providers may collect information such as your name, billing information, payment information, contact information, and transaction details according to their own privacy policies.
Tropical Boat Rentals will use reservation information as necessary to manage your rental and provide our services.
6. Sharing of Information
We may share personal information with service providers when reasonably necessary to operate our business, process reservations, provide customer service, maintain our website, or comply with legal obligations.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to:
Comply with applicable law, regulation, court order, or legal process
Protect the rights, safety, or property of Tropical Boat Rentals, our customers, or others
Investigate suspected fraud or misuse
Enforce agreements or policies
Complete a business transaction involving the sale, transfer, or restructuring of the business
Tropical Boat Rentals does not sell personal information to third parties for money.
7. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing rental services, maintaining business and transaction records, resolving disputes, satisfying insurance requirements, and complying with legal obligations.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information involved.
8. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.
However, no website, electronic communication, or Internet-based system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should use appropriate caution when transmitting information online.
9. Your Privacy Choices
Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, which may include the ability to request:
Access to personal information we maintain about you
Correction of inaccurate personal information
Deletion of certain personal information
Information regarding how your personal information is used
Withdrawal of certain previously provided permissions or consents
Not every request or right applies in every situation.
To submit a privacy-related request, contact us using the information listed below. We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
10. Email and Marketing Communications
If you receive promotional emails from Tropical Boat Rentals, you may unsubscribe using the instructions included in the communication or by contacting us directly.
Reservation confirmations, rental instructions, safety information, billing communications, or other service-related messages may still be sent when necessary to provide services you requested.
11. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.
Tropical Boat Rentals is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party website you visit.
12. Children's Privacy
Our website and boat rental services are intended primarily for adults and are not directed toward children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13. If we become aware that such information has been collected without appropriate authorization, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our website, services, technology, business practices, or legal requirements.
When changes are made, the updated Privacy Policy will be posted on this page and the Effective Date at the top of the policy will be updated.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
14. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how Tropical Boat Rentals handles personal information, please contact us:
Tropical Boat Rentals
91 Ave A
Marathon, FL 33050
Phone: 305-481-7006
Email: tropicalboatrentals@gmail.com
Website: tropicalboatrentals.com