AIS Fleet Privacy Policy

Effective: August 3, 2026

This policy explains how Saillogger LLC handles information when you use AIS Fleet. AIS Fleet is a sub-brand of Saillogger.com operated by Saillogger LLC. Saillogger LLC, a Washington State company, is responsible for the information described here.

1. Information we collect

• Account and sign-in information: your e-mail address, optional name, account and sign-in times, Terms acceptance, and security records for one-time sign-in codes. Requesting a code may create an account record even if you do not finish signing in.
• Technical and map information: essential cookies, IP address, browser or device information, request times, and activity used for security, troubleshooting, and measuring how AIS Fleet is used. If you allow browser location, it is used to center the map. Your browser stores your last map view, and AIS Fleet receives the area shown on the map so it can return nearby vessels.
• Vessel and service activity: your vessel association, MMSI, follows, fleets, and actions in AIS Fleet. Vessel identity and position reports may come from public AIS broadcasts or Saillogger systems rather than from you.
• Messages: direct and fleet messages, attachments, reactions, read state, and delivery information.
• Catalog photo contributions: the image, vessel association, optional public photographer credit, an internal uploader name or e-mail snapshot, and metadata in the file, which can include capture time and precise GPS location.
• Support and other communications: information you send when asking for help, reporting a problem, disputing a vessel association, or making a legal or privacy request.

2. How we use information

We use information to:

• create and secure accounts and provide maps, follows, fleets, messages, and photo features;
• link accounts to vessels and correct inaccurate or disputed associations;
• send sign-in codes and service or moderation notices;
• prevent abuse, investigate problems, enforce our Terms, and comply with law;
• answer support and privacy requests; and
• understand, maintain, and improve AIS Fleet and related Saillogger services.

Accepted AIS vessel catalog photos and data derived from them may also be used for commercial vessel-data products, datasets, partner integrations, and developing or training artificial intelligence, machine-learning, and computer-vision systems. The AIS Vessel Photo Contribution Agreement explains those uses. We do not use message content, account information, or photos uploaded outside the AIS vessel catalog contribution flow to train those systems.

Where law requires a reason for using personal information, we rely on providing the service you requested, our reasonable interests in operating and protecting it, your consent where required, or compliance with law.

3. Who can see or receive information

AIS vessel data is broadcast publicly and may appear to signed-in users. Approved catalog photos may appear publicly on Saillogger or AIS Fleet with their photographer credit, capture time, and location when included.

Direct messages are shared with the other participant. Fleet messages are shared with current fleet members, including people who may join while the message remains available. E-mail notifications may contain message text or image previews, creating copies outside AIS Fleet.

Authorized Saillogger staff may access information when reasonably needed for support, moderation, security, enforcement, and legal compliance. We also use providers for hosting, storage, e-mail, maps, monitoring, security, and support. They receive information only as needed to provide those services.

We may share information when required by law, to protect people or the service, to investigate misuse, at your direction, or as part of a merger, reorganization, financing, or sale of the relevant business.

If Saillogger accepts a catalog photo, it may use and share the photo and its included credit, capture time, and location for the purposes in the Contribution Agreement, including commercial products, datasets, partner integrations, and model development. We do not sell account information or message content.

4. How long we keep information

• Sign-in records: one-time sign-in codes expire shortly after they are issued, and account deletion removes the related records.
• Messages: messages, reactions, and stored attachments are ordinarily removed after 30 days, including unread messages. Cleanup may take additional time. Other participants, e-mail, screenshots, providers, or backups may keep copies longer.
• Catalog photos: you can delete a pending or published submission from your Photos page. If Saillogger accepted it, the permission already granted remains permanent, and existing derived data is not undone. The internal uploader snapshot may also outlive account closure.
• Accounts and operations: account, vessel-association, support, security, and legal records are kept while needed to provide the service, protect it, resolve disputes, comply with law, and complete backup cycles. An account record created by a code request may remain until it is deleted or closed.
• Browser map view: your last map view remains in your browser until it is replaced or you clear AIS Fleet’s site data.

5. Your choices and rights

You can decline browser location access, clear the saved map view through your browser, choose whether to provide a name or photo credit, delete your own catalog photo submissions, clear a conversation from your view, and stop using AIS Fleet. Clearing a conversation does not delete another participant’s copy, and deleting an accepted photo does not end the permission already granted for it.

Contact [email protected] to ask for access, correction, account closure, deletion, objection, restriction, or portability where those rights apply. You may also dispute a vessel association. We may need to verify your identity and may keep information when law or a legitimate operational need allows it. You may complain to your local privacy authority if applicable.

6. Cookies, security, and international processing

AIS Fleet uses essential cookies to keep you signed in and protect requests, and browser storage to remember your last map view. We measure how AIS Fleet is used with analytics we run ourselves rather than a third-party advertising service. It does not set cookies or send your e-mail address or another account identifier to analytics. Map and other service providers receive ordinary network information, such as your IP address and browser details, when their resources load.

We use reasonable safeguards, but no internet service can promise perfect security. AIS Fleet is operated from the United States, and information may be processed there and in other countries where our providers operate.

7. Children, changes, and contact

AIS Fleet is for people who are at least 18 and able to enter a contract. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Contact us if you believe a child has provided information.

We may update this policy as AIS Fleet changes. We will post the new effective date and give reasonable notice of material changes. We will ask for consent when the law requires it.

Saillogger LLC is registered in Washington State, United States. Questions and requests are welcome at [email protected].