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API Marine (API) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy was developed to share with you our information collection practices and the options you have when visiting our Website. You can be assured the information we collect is used to provide a more personalized experience for users of our site.

Who is Collecting Your Information

API and its affiliates are the sole owners of the information collected. We do not sell, share, rent, or loan this information to any third party. However, we may use and share aggregated information that does not personally identify you with Third parties in order to improve our site for the benefit of our users. We may also share our information with affiliates of API.
API requires certain personal information such as Company Name, Contact Name, phone number, fax number, credit card information, and special identifiers to enable our customers access to special pricing pages and forums on our Website and affiliated websites. This information is strictly used to validate the user for access to restricted information on our site or process orders requested by our customers. All information obtained through our website is voluntarily provided by you our customer. You can be assured that API is committed to maintaining your personal information in a secure and confidential manner.
Affiliates of API, Inc. include SBT, SEI, Watercraft Superstore, PWCToday, Alligator Point Research Center, Sage Ryan Real Estate. Information that may be shared with our affiliates is handled in the same secure and confidential manner as is consistent with API's policy of handling secure data.

Protection of Privacy of Children Younger than 13

API and its affiliates do not target children under the age of 13, and we do not expect to sell any of our products or services to children.

What is Collected and How Do We Use It?

You can visit APIMarine.com without providing any personal data to us. However, certain sections of our site do require users to register in order to access special pricing or place orders through our online shop. Information collected would include Company Name, Business Name, phone number, fax number, email address, billing and shipping address and in some instances a security question that requires your input in order to identify you. In addition, when using our Online Shop for your purchases you will be required to provide payment information that may include credit card name, number, expiration date and security code. If you qualify for online dealer pricing you set your own password to secure non authorized use of your information. You do have the option to place orders directly with API without providing this information through our website.
API collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our affiliated companies.
API also provides online forms to open dealer accounts and to update credit card information on file with API. These forms require customers to print, complete and fax or email to our accounting and administrative offices in Florida. This information is maintained in the customers account on a secured server with limited access. Password protections are also used to limit access to your information from unauthorized use.
This information is used to administer your account with API and access is limited to those employees using the information to administer your account or process your order. We also use this information for General purposes such as customizing our advertising and the content you see, improve our services, contact you, conduct research and provide anonymous reporting for internal use.

Cookies

By use of this site, you consent to our use of cookies. A “cookie” is a piece of data stored on your hard drive containing information about you. Cookies do not contain any registration information that would personally identify you, as all such data is secured behind our firewall. We do not use cookies to track your usage on other web sites or the Internet in general.

Sharing

We may share information with our affiliated companies. We do not rent, sell or share any of your personal information with companies that are not affiliated with API. Any information obtained will only be used by API and its affiliates. API and its affiliates may release information when required to do so by law (for example, under a subpoena, court order or other regulatory requirement or to maintain or protect the security of the site.) or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violation of API’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

Security

API uses secure connections during transmission of any personal date you provide.

Edit or Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

You can edit your API account information at any time. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the API service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the API Newsletter, that are considered part of your API account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

Notification of Changes to this Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes in a prominent location on our site. If at any time point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Contact Us

Please let us know if you have questions about our Privacy Policy. Comments and suggestions can be sent to:
API Marine
1311 65th Place
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
or by calling 954.975.7373