Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how personal data is collected, used and protected when you visit Superyacht Engineers, contact us, request resources, book sessions or interact with our related services.
Plain-language summary: we only ask for the data we need to respond to you, send requested resources, manage professional enquiries, provide training or mentoring information and improve the website. We do not sell your personal data.
1. Who is responsible for processing your data?
The data controller is Riccardo Peirano, operating under the Superyacht Engineers brand. This website is part of a professional ecosystem that may include Superyacht Engineers, Blue Life, Yacht Training Hub and related professional initiatives.
Contact for privacy matters: contact form on this website.
2. What personal data may we collect?
Depending on how you use the website, we may process the following categories of personal data:
- Identification data: name and surname if you provide them.
- Contact data: email address, phone number or social profile if you provide them.
- Professional information: role, sector, training interest, career goals or message content submitted through forms.
- Booking or service information: session requests, mentoring interests or course-related enquiries.
- Technical data: IP address, browser, device type, approximate location derived from technical data, pages visited and cookie preferences.
- Communication data: emails, form submissions or messages sent through the website or related platforms.
We do not intentionally request special-category data such as health information, religious beliefs, political opinions or similar sensitive data through this website.
3. Why do we process your data?
| Purpose | Examples | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Responding to enquiries | Answering messages sent through contact forms or email. | Consent and/or pre-contractual request. |
| Sending requested resources | Free guides, lead magnets, training information or requested materials. | Consent. |
| Managing training, mentoring or consulting interest | Yacht Training Hub, mentoring sessions, professional guidance or service enquiries. | Pre-contractual or contractual request. |
| Website operation and security | Basic technical operation, anti-abuse measures, consent storage and service continuity. | Legitimate interest and legal obligation where applicable. |
| Analytics and improvement | Understanding how visitors use the website, improving navigation and content. | Consent, where non-essential cookies or tracking tools are used. |
| Embedded media and social content | YouTube, TikTok or similar embedded media and external platform interactions. | Consent, where required. |
4. Forms and first-layer information
When you submit a form on this website, the basic purpose is to process your data in order to respond to your request, send the requested resource or manage the professional enquiry you have initiated.
Forms should include or be accompanied by a short privacy notice linking to this full Privacy Policy. This follows the layered information approach recommended by the Spanish Data Protection Authority.
5. Do we send commercial communications?
We may send professional information, resources, training updates or service-related communications when you have requested them, shown interest in them or given consent.
You may ask us to stop sending this type of communication at any time by contacting us through the website.
6. Who may receive your data?
We may use third-party service providers to operate the website and deliver requested services. These providers may process data on our behalf or under their own terms when you interact directly with their platforms.
- Hosting provider: to host and serve the website.
- Formspree or form service providers: to process contact form submissions.
- Cal.com: for scheduling or booking sessions where used.
- Hotmart: for course sales, access, payment and delivery where used.
- YouTube / Google: for video content and embedded media where used.
- TikTok: for embedded social media content where used.
- LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X or other social platforms: when you click external links or interact with those services.
- Email or communication providers: to manage communications with you.
- Professional advisers or authorities: where legally required.
We do not sell your personal data.
7. International transfers
Some third-party providers may be located outside the European Economic Area or may process data internationally. This may apply to platforms such as Google/YouTube, TikTok, Hotmart, Cal.com, Formspree or social media platforms.
Where applicable, such transfers should be based on appropriate legal safeguards, contractual mechanisms, adequacy decisions or the provider’s own data transfer framework.
8. How long do we keep your data?
We keep personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, unless a longer period is required by law.
- Contact form data: for the time necessary to respond and manage the relationship.
- Training or service enquiries: for the duration of the enquiry, relationship or applicable follow-up period.
- Legal, billing or contractual data: for the legally required period where applicable.
- Cookie preferences: for the period defined in the cookie consent system or until you reset your preferences.
9. Your data protection rights
You may exercise the following rights where applicable:
- Right of access: to know what data we process about you.
- Right of rectification: to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Right of erasure: to request deletion of your data where legally possible.
- Right to restriction of processing.
- Right to object to certain processing.
- Right to data portability, where applicable.
- Right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting processing carried out before withdrawal.
To exercise your rights, contact us through the website contact form.
If you believe your data protection rights have not been respected, you may contact or lodge a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos.
10. Cookies
This website uses essential cookies and may use analytics or embedded media cookies depending on your consent. You can accept, reject or configure non-essential cookies through the cookie banner or the cookie settings panel.
For more information, see our Cookie Policy.
11. Embedded content and external links
This website may include links to external platforms or embedded content from third-party services. When you click an external link or interact with embedded content, the third-party platform may process your data under its own privacy policy.
We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, Hotmart, Cal.com or other services before using them.
12. Security
We apply reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data from unauthorised access, loss, misuse or disclosure. No online system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, but we work to keep the website and data processing proportionate and responsible.
13. Children
This website is intended for professionals, trainees and adults interested in the superyacht industry. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
14. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when the website changes, when new services or platforms are added, or when legal requirements evolve. The latest version will be published on this page.
Last updated: April 2026
This document is a practical privacy policy prepared for the website. It is not a substitute for personalised legal advice. For full legal compliance, it should be reviewed by a data protection professional or legal adviser familiar with your exact business setup.