Privacy Policy

What we collect

TheCenterOf collects limited technical and usage information through normal website hosting, analytics, advertising, and security logs. This may include browser type, device information, referring pages, approximate location inferred from IP address, pages viewed, and basic interaction information.

If you contact us, submit a correction, or send feedback, we may receive the information you choose to provide, such as your message, name, email address, source links, and the page you are writing about.

Google advertising disclosures

TheCenterOf uses Google products, including Google Analytics and Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, device identifiers, browser information, pages viewed, interactions, and similar technologies to serve ads, limit repeated ads, personalize ads where permitted, measure ad performance, prevent fraud and abuse, and improve their services.

Third parties, including Google, may place and read cookies on users' browsers or use web beacons and IP addresses as a result of ad serving on this website. You can read Google's explanation here: How Google uses data when you use partners' sites or apps.

Analytics and advertising

We use Google Analytics to understand site usage and improve pages. We also use Google AdSense and related advertising technologies. These services may use cookies or similar technologies to measure ads, prevent abuse, personalize ads where allowed, and report performance.

You can manage cookies through your browser settings and, where applicable, through Google ad personalization and consent controls. Third-party providers maintain their own privacy policies, retention practices, and opt-out tools.

How information is used

• Operate, secure, and troubleshoot the website.
• Understand which boating and Great Loop pages are useful to readers.
• Review correction reports, broken-link reports, and policy requests.
• Display and measure advertising where ads are enabled.
• Improve navigation, page structure, and editorial coverage.

What we do not do

We do not knowingly collect sensitive personal information from casual readers. We do not ask readers to submit financial information, government identification, or private navigation data. We do not sell contact messages submitted through the site.

Your choices

You may block or delete cookies through your browser. You may use privacy tools provided by Google and other third-party services. If you submitted information directly to us and want it corrected or deleted, use the contact page and include enough detail for us to identify the request.

Third-party links

TheCenterOf links to marinas, boating resources, official agencies, manufacturers, maps, weather resources, and other external sites. Those sites are governed by their own privacy policies and terms. A link does not mean we control that site’s privacy practices.