Privacy Policy

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their “Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

By viewing or using this site, you agree to be bound by these terms, conditions, and laws. If you do not agree with any term in this Legal Notice and Privacy Policy, please do not use this site.

All content (everything you see, read, or hear) on this website is owned or controlled by Open Blue Sea Farms, Inc, a Delaware corporation.  Worldwide copyright laws protect all content on this site. Unless we provide you with express permission to do otherwise on this website with respect to specific information, you may download content only for your personal use for non-commercial purposes, but no modification, other use, or further reproduction of the content is permitted. Please note that Open Blue conducts business primarily in North America. We operate in Panama, Florida, Nova Scotia and the Netherlands. We make no representations that the contents of this site will be available or appropriate in every jurisdiction in which this site may be accessed. You are responsible for any laws governing the use of a website.

IP addresses

IP addresses are recorded to help diagnose hosting issues and to track a user’s session to determine which parts of the site users are visiting. IP addresses are not linked to anything personally identifiable. This means that a user’s session will be tracked, but the user will be anonymous.

Forms and Newsletter Sign-up

Forms on this site may request users to provide personal information for the purposes identified on the form. This information is collected for internal use only and is not shared.

We do not collect personally identifiable information from people unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly. We do not require you to register or provide information to us in order to view our site. If you sign up for our e-newsletter or if you use the “Contact Us” features of this site, we use the information you supply for the purpose of providing the services you have requested. If you specifically agree to follow-up contacts by us or asked to be put on our mailing list when you signed up, we may also contact you from time to time. You can always change your preference for follow-up contacts just by clicking “unsubscribe” any email or by emailing us at any time at info@openblue.com. We may put together information about our users in a way that your personal identity would not be revealed and then share that information with some of our business partners. We will not share information that might reveal your identity with anyone outside of Open Blue.

In the “Contact Us” section of this site, we ask for some personally identifiable information, such as your name, address and phone number. We use this information only if we need to contact you directly because our attempts to contact you by email were unsuccessful. We do not use the information internally for any other purposes and we do not share it with anyone outside of Open Blue. We do not use your e-mail address for any purpose other than responding to the message you have sent or email communication you have agreed to receive.

This site may contain links to other sites but cannot be held responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these sites.

Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. In most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not as they are used to provide a service that you use.

Auto Blocked Cookies

On Openblue.com website, cookies are automatically blocked until they are not accepted. Be aware that by not accepting cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you accept cookies.

The Cookies We Set

• Account related cookies. If you create an account with Open Blue, we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases, they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
• Login related cookies. We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember site preferences. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
• Email newsletters related cookies. This site offers the newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribe/unsubscribed users.
• Forms related cookies. When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
• Site preferences cookies. In order to provide you with a great experience on this site (like language choice etc.), we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

• Vimeo is a video content visualization service provided by Vimeo, LLC that allows this Website to incorporate the content of this kind on its pages. We use Vimeo Video on our website.
• Google Map and Store Finder – We use this to indicate our stores
• We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

New Cookies

As we are updating our website from time to time, so there may be some new features which use cookies, but not listed.  We update these from time to time.

More Information

Hopefully, that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not, it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. If you are still looking for more information, then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

Contact

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at:

Open Blue Sea Farms, Inc.
382 Northeast 191^st Street
Miami, Florida
33179
info@openblue.com