Policy
Privacy & takedown
This record is compiled from AIS transmissions — broadcasts vessels make publicly, by regulation, for safety at sea. Publishing derived port-call history is lawful and, we believe, legitimate; doing it respectfully is a design decision this site made before its first page was built.
What the record deliberately does not do
- No precise positions. Published coordinates are rounded to roughly 100 m. The record says in Port Hercule, never which berth.
- No live tracking. The map and pages show periodic snapshots — last recorded positions, refreshed at most hourly and often older. Minute-by- minute, berth-level tracking is not published.
- No people. Owner names, guest identities and crew details are never published, even where they are public knowledge elsewhere.
Takedown requests
Owners, operators or authorised representatives of a vessel may request its removal from the public record. Write to takedown@superyachtwatch.com from an address that lets us reasonably verify the connection to the vessel, naming the yacht and its MMSI.
Honoured requests remove the yacht’s page, its named entries and its marker on the map from the site. The yacht’s movements then contribute only to anonymised aggregate figures, such as a marina’s nightly count, from which no individual vessel can be identified. Removal is typically completed within a few days and confirmed by reply.
Site privacy
The site itself is static pages with no accounts. We use Google Tag Manager for visitor analytics — to see which pages are read, not to profile individuals. Our hosting provider additionally records standard access logs (IP address and requested page) for security and capacity purposes, as virtually all web hosting does.
Corrections to erroneous entries are welcome at the same address. This page is the policy in force; if it changes, the change will be dated here.