Your privacy is very important to us. At Quest Dive Adventures we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Quest Dive Adventures Inc. (“Quest Dive Adventures”) operates several websites including questdive.com, and ultimateadventuretravel.com. It is Quest Dive Adventures’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Quest Dive Adventures collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Quest Dive Adventures’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Quest Dive Adventures’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Quest Dive Adventures may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Quest Dive Adventures also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Quest Dive Adventures only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Quest Dive Adventures’s websites choose to interact with Quest Dive Adventures in ways that require Quest Dive Adventures to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Quest Dive Adventures gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Quest Dive Adventures updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Quest Dive Adventures collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Quest Dive Adventures. Quest Dive Adventures does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Quest Dive Adventures may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Quest Dive Adventures may monitor the most popular pages on the questdive.com site or use spam screened to help identify spam. Quest Dive Adventures may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Quest Dive Adventures does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Quest Dive Adventures discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Quest Dive Adventures’s behalf or to provide services available at Quest Dive Adventures’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Quest Dive Adventures’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Quest Dive Adventures will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Quest Dive Adventures discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Quest Dive Adventures believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Quest Dive Adventures, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Quest Dive Adventures website and have supplied your email address, Quest Dive Adventures may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Quest Dive Adventures and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Quest Dive Adventures takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Quest Dive Adventures uses cookies to help Quest Dive Adventures identify and track visitors, their usage of Quest Dive Adventures website, and their website access preferences. Quest Dive Adventures visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Quest Dive Adventures’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Quest Dive Adventures’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Quest Dive Adventures, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Quest Dive Adventures goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Quest Dive Adventures may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Quest Dive Adventures and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Quest Dive Adventures may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Quest Dive Adventures’s sole discretion. Quest Dive Adventures encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
The week is structured following this general format:
- A presentation early in the evening (usually before dinner so that people can concentrate, but during “cocktail hour” so everyone is relaxed).
- Morning dives concentrate on the subject of the previous night’s presentation.
- At lunch, they look at the photos that were shot in the morning, either on camera or on computers.
- People use noon-time feedback to fine-tune their afternoon shooting.
- At the end of the day, people download photos and bring Sandy a thumb drive with examples that they want to show or talk about.
- At the beginning of each evening’s presentation sample photos shot during the day are reviewed so that everyone (as a group) can see and learn from each others’ work.
- The presentation for the next day’s shooting follows.
No identify as to who shot which sample photo is given, to encourage people to contribute photos for the discussions; that way there is a nice mix of great shots and ones for which the shooter had problems or questions.
Sandy is in the water whenever participants are, to provide coaching. They also know that whenever they see him, whether on the boat, on the dock, in the hotel lobby, in the bar or wherever, he is always available to them.
Prior to the trip, Sandy downloads the camera manuals for all the cameras that are being shot during the trip so he is conversant with every camera being used.
During the trip, Sandy always presents the brands of camera equipment that your shop sells as being available for equipment selections.
We handle cost by estimating what it will cost Sandy to go (plus a small profit) and divide that cost among the participants. It is added into the cost of the trip and so becomes “painless” for the participants.
You can use marketing of the trip to encourage divers to begin shooting (and thus sell them cameras and photo gear without needing to stock it not knowing whether you can sell it or not).
This is a trip that will set you apart from the other shops in your area as well as creating another dive trip opportunity for your divers.
Week end shop courses and presentations can also be arranged.