Effective Date: September 6, 2026
Last Updated: September 6, 2026
Gypsea Bleu respects your privacy and is committed to being transparent about how information may be collected, used, stored, and shared when you visit our website.
This Privacy Policy applies to Gypsea Bleu, located at https://www.gypseableu.com/, and explains the types of information we may collect from visitors, how that information may be used, how advertising and artificial intelligence services may be used, and the choices available to you regarding your personal information.
By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Who We Are
Gypsea Bleu is a sailing, scuba diving, travel, adventure, treasure hunting, boating, gear-review, and lifestyle website operated by Michael Bourg.
Website: https://www.gypseableu.com/
Gypsea Bleu
411 Walnut Street
PMB 25853
Green Cove Springs, FL 32043
USA
Phone: 904-957-0478
Email: michael@gypseableu.com
2. Information We May Collect
The information we collect depends on how you interact with Gypsea Bleu.
Information You Provide Voluntarily
You may provide personal information when you contact us, leave a comment, subscribe to a newsletter, complete a form, participate in a promotion, send us an email, communicate with us through social media, or submit photographs, videos, stories, or other content.
This information may include your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, social media username, message content, or other information you voluntarily provide.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through public comments or other publicly visible portions of the website.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit Gypsea Bleu, our website, web hosting provider, WordPress installation, analytics services, advertising services, security services, and other technology providers may automatically collect certain information.
- Internet Protocol (IP) address
- Browser type
- Operating system
- Device type
- Referring website
- Pages viewed
- Approximate geographic location
- Date and time of access
- Links clicked
- Advertising interactions
- Cookie identifiers
- Device identifiers
- Other technical information regarding your visit
We may use this information for website operation, analytics, advertising, security, troubleshooting, fraud prevention, and improving the visitor experience.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Gypsea Bleu and third-party services used by the website may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, local storage, IP addresses, device identifiers, and similar technologies.
These technologies may be used to operate the website, remember visitor preferences, analyze website traffic, measure website performance, prevent fraud and abuse, provide advertisements, personalize advertisements, limit how frequently advertisements are displayed, measure advertising effectiveness, provide embedded content, support affiliate tracking, and improve website functionality.
Cookies are small data files stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device. Some cookies may be necessary for the website to function. Others may be used for analytics, advertising, affiliate tracking, or personalization.
You can usually configure your browser to block or delete cookies. Doing so may affect the operation of some portions of the website.
4. Google AdSense and Advertising
Gypsea Bleu uses Google AdSense to display advertisements.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to Gypsea Bleu and/or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its advertising partners to serve advertisements to visitors based on their visits to Gypsea Bleu and other websites on the Internet.
Google and other advertising partners may use cookies, IP addresses, browser information, device information, approximate location, previous website visits, ad impressions, ad interactions, and other online activity to select, deliver, personalize, measure, and report on advertisements.
Personalized Advertising
Google may display personalized advertisements based on information relating to a visitor’s previous online activity, interests, demographic information, location, previous searches, website visits, or other factors.
Visitors may manage personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. Visitors may also learn about choices relating to interest-based advertising at AboutAds.info.
Non-Personalized Advertising
In certain circumstances, Google may serve non-personalized advertisements. Non-personalized advertisements are generally based on contextual information, such as the content of the page being viewed or a visitor’s general geographic area, rather than a visitor’s previous browsing behavior.
Even non-personalized advertisements may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as frequency capping, fraud prevention, and aggregated advertising reporting.
Other Advertising Vendors
In addition to Google, other third-party advertising vendors, ad networks, authorized buyers, or advertising technology providers may participate in the delivery of advertisements on Gypsea Bleu.
These companies may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies according to their own privacy policies. Gypsea Bleu does not control the privacy practices of independent third-party advertising companies.
For more information about how Google uses information from websites that use Google services, visit Google’s partner sites privacy information.
5. Consent for Advertising and Cookies
Depending on your location, Gypsea Bleu may display a cookie or privacy consent message that allows you to accept, reject, or manage certain uses of cookies and personal information.
Visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and other jurisdictions may be asked to provide consent before certain advertising cookies or personalized advertising technologies are used.
Your available choices may depend on your geographic location and applicable law. You may be able to change your consent selections through the website’s cookie or privacy settings where such functionality is available.
6. Artificial Intelligence and AI-Assisted Content
Gypsea Bleu uses artificial intelligence and AI-assisted technologies in connection with the creation, editing, management, and improvement of website content.
AI tools may be used to assist with drafting articles, editing and proofreading, research assistance, summarizing information, organizing content, creating titles and headings, search engine optimization, creating descriptions and metadata, generating or editing images, creating video descriptions, creating captions and subtitles, developing website content, assisting with WordPress website administration, brainstorming ideas, and formatting content.
Some articles, images, graphics, descriptions, or other materials appearing on Gypsea Bleu may therefore be created or edited with the assistance of artificial intelligence. AI assistance does not necessarily mean that an entire article, photograph, illustration, or other work was generated by AI.
Whenever possible, we attempt to review AI-assisted content before publication. However, artificial intelligence systems can make mistakes, misunderstand information, or generate inaccurate information.
Readers should independently verify important information, particularly information involving safety, health, medical matters, boating, scuba diving, travel requirements, laws, regulations, finances, or other important decisions.
7. Personal Information and AI Services
Gypsea Bleu may use third-party artificial intelligence platforms and services to assist with website operations and content creation.
Information submitted to an AI provider may be processed according to that provider’s own privacy policies, data-processing practices, and terms of service.
We do not intentionally submit sensitive visitor information to artificial intelligence services without a legitimate reason to do so.
In limited circumstances, information contained in communications, comments, submitted materials, website content, or other records may be processed using technology tools, including AI-assisted tools, for purposes such as responding to inquiries, moderating content, detecting spam or abuse, organizing information, improving website content, managing website operations, creating summaries, or providing visitor support.
Visitors should avoid sending highly sensitive personal information through Gypsea Bleu unless it is necessary.
8. AI-Generated Images and Media
Some photographs, illustrations, graphics, thumbnails, banners, logos, or other visual materials appearing on Gypsea Bleu may be created or modified using artificial intelligence.
AI-generated imagery may be used for illustrative or editorial purposes. When a photograph or image is intended to represent an actual product, destination, vessel, individual, event, or other factual subject, we attempt to distinguish between illustrative AI-generated material and authentic photographs when doing so is important to understanding the content.
9. Comments
If visitors leave comments on the website, we may collect the information entered into the comments form along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent information.
This information may be used to help detect spam, abuse, or malicious activity.
If you use an email address associated with the Gravatar service, an anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to Gravatar to determine whether you use that service. After approval of your comment, your profile image, if applicable, may be publicly visible alongside your comment.
Anything you voluntarily publish in a public comment should be considered publicly available information.
10. Contact Forms and Email
If you contact Gypsea Bleu through a website contact form, email, telephone call, social media message, or other communication method, we may retain the information you provide.
We may use that information to respond to your request, answer questions, maintain business records, follow up on previous communications, address technical issues, or respond to privacy requests.
We will not sell your email address simply because you contacted us.
11. Analytics
Gypsea Bleu may use website analytics services, including services provided by Google or other companies, to understand how visitors find and use the website.
Analytics services may collect information such as IP address, device type, browser, approximate location, pages viewed, time spent on pages, referral source, links clicked, and interactions with website content.
We use this information primarily to understand website traffic, determine which articles visitors find useful, improve website performance, and develop future content.
Analytics providers process information according to their own privacy policies.
12. Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on Gypsea Bleu may include embedded content such as YouTube videos, maps, social media posts, photographs, product widgets, advertisements, videos, affiliate widgets, or other external content.
Embedded content from another website generally behaves in the same manner as if you visited that third-party website directly.
Those third parties may collect information about you, use cookies, employ additional tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with their embedded content.
For example, if we embed a YouTube video, Google or YouTube may receive information relating to your interaction with that video.
Gypsea Bleu does not control how independent third-party websites collect or use information.
13. External Links
Gypsea Bleu frequently links to other websites, including manufacturers, dive operators, travel providers, retailers, social media platforms, marinas, boating services, hotels, airlines, tour operators, affiliate retailers, and other third parties.
Once you leave Gypsea Bleu and visit another website, that website’s privacy policy and terms apply.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites.
14. Product Reviews and Affiliate Links
Gypsea Bleu publishes product reviews and recommendations involving scuba equipment, boating gear, cameras, electronics, sailing equipment, travel products, treasure-hunting equipment, and other products and services.
Some links on Gypsea Bleu may be affiliate links.
If you click an affiliate link, the retailer, affiliate network, or other third party may use cookies, tracking parameters, pixels, or similar technology to identify that you arrived through Gypsea Bleu.
If you later make a qualifying purchase, Gypsea Bleu may receive a commission or other compensation. This generally does not increase the price you pay unless clearly stated otherwise.
Affiliate networks and retailers may collect information according to their own privacy policies. Compensation does not change our commitment to providing our genuine opinions about products or services we review.
15. Email Newsletters and Marketing
If Gypsea Bleu offers an email newsletter or mailing list and you voluntarily subscribe, we may use your email address to send new article notifications, website updates, announcements, travel information, product reviews, sailing content, scuba content, promotions, or other Gypsea Bleu content.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link provided in the email or by contacting michael@gypseableu.com.
Administrative or transactional communications may still be sent when necessary.
16. How We Use Information
We may use information collected through Gypsea Bleu to operate and maintain the website, respond to questions and messages, moderate comments, prevent spam and fraud, protect website security, analyze website traffic, display advertisements, measure advertising performance, improve articles and website features, troubleshoot technical problems, communicate with subscribers, manage affiliate programs, assist with AI-supported website operations, comply with legal obligations, and protect our rights or the rights of others.
We do not intend to collect more personal information than reasonably necessary for these purposes.
17. How We Share Information
Gypsea Bleu does not sell personal contact lists or visitor information in the traditional sense of selling customer information for money.
However, information may be collected, processed, disclosed, or shared with service providers necessary to operate, advertise, analyze, and maintain the website.
These providers may include Google, Google AdSense, analytics providers, advertising networks, website hosting providers, WordPress-related services, security providers, email providers, newsletter services, spam-prevention services, cloud providers, artificial intelligence providers, affiliate networks, social media platforms, and other technology providers.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, regulation, subpoena, court order, legal process, governmental request, or to protect the safety, property, security, or legal rights of Gypsea Bleu, our visitors, or others.
18. How Long We Keep Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, our legitimate operational needs, legal obligations, dispute resolution, fraud prevention, security, or enforcement of agreements.
Comments and related metadata may be retained indefinitely so that follow-up comments can be recognized and moderated appropriately.
Messages and correspondence may be retained for business and recordkeeping purposes. Technical logs may be retained temporarily by our hosting provider, security providers, advertising providers, analytics providers, or other technology services.
19. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and applicable privacy law, you may have rights concerning your personal information. These may include the right to request access to personal information we hold about you, request correction of inaccurate information, request deletion of certain information, object to certain processing, restrict certain processing, request a portable copy of certain information, withdraw consent when processing is based on consent, opt out of certain targeted advertising, opt out of certain data sharing, or opt out of certain forms of profiling.
To make a privacy request, contact michael@gypseableu.com.
You may also contact us by mail:
Gypsea Bleu
411 Walnut Street
PMB 25853
Green Cove Springs, FL 32043
USA
Or by telephone at 904-957-0478.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain privacy requests. Privacy rights vary by jurisdiction, and requests may be subject to exceptions allowed by law.
20. U.S. State Privacy Rights
Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional privacy rights under applicable state law. Depending on the law and whether it applies to Gypsea Bleu, these rights may include requesting information about personal data collected, requesting access to personal information, requesting correction, requesting deletion, obtaining a copy of personal data, opting out of targeted advertising, opting out of certain profiling, or opting out of certain sales or sharing of personal information.
You may submit such requests using the contact information provided in this Privacy Policy.
Nothing in this section represents that a particular state privacy law applies to Gypsea Bleu if the website does not meet the applicable legal thresholds.
21. European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
Visitors from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and other jurisdictions may have additional privacy rights.
Where applicable, processing may be based on consent, contractual necessity, compliance with legal obligations, legitimate interests, or another lawful basis recognized under applicable law.
Because Gypsea Bleu is operated from the United States, information submitted through the website may be transferred to and processed in the United States or other countries where our technology providers operate.
Visitors in these jurisdictions may be presented with a consent-management interface relating to advertising cookies, analytics, personalized advertising, and other data-processing activities.
22. Children’s Privacy
Gypsea Bleu is a general-audience website and is not directed toward children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, please contact michael@gypseableu.com. We will review the matter and take appropriate action.
23. Data Security
We take reasonable measures intended to protect personal information and maintain the security of the Gypsea Bleu website.
However, no website, server, database, wireless transmission, email system, artificial intelligence service, or Internet-based communication method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You provide information over the Internet at your own risk.
24. Data Breaches and Security Incidents
If we become aware of a security incident involving personal information, we may investigate the incident, take reasonable steps to contain or remediate it, notify relevant service providers, and provide legally required notifications where applicable.
25. Social Media
Gypsea Bleu may maintain accounts on platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media networks.
If you interact with us through one of these services, information you provide may also be collected or processed by that social media company. Your interactions with those platforms are governed by their respective privacy policies.
26. Photos, Videos, and User-Submitted Content
Gypsea Bleu publishes photographs, videos, dive footage, travel content, boating content, and other media.
If you voluntarily submit photographs, videos, testimonials, stories, comments, or other material to us for possible publication, we may communicate with you regarding permission to use that material.
We will not intentionally publish private personal information supplied solely through private correspondence unless we have permission or another lawful reason to do so.
27. Do Not Track and Privacy Signals
Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting or other privacy preference signals.
Because standards for these signals continue to evolve, Gypsea Bleu may not respond uniformly to every signal.
Where applicable law requires recognition of a particular opt-out or privacy preference mechanism, we will endeavor to honor it as required.
28. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically as Gypsea Bleu grows, website features change, advertising services change, AI services change, analytics services change, affiliate programs change, service providers change, or privacy laws and regulations evolve.
When significant changes are made, the Last Updated date at the top of this policy will be revised.
Visitors are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
29. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, how information is handled on Gypsea Bleu, Google AdSense, artificial intelligence use, or if you would like to exercise a privacy right, please contact:
Gypsea Bleu
411 Walnut Street
PMB 25853
Green Cove Springs, FL 32043
USA
Phone: 904-957-0478
Email: michael@gypseableu.com
Website: https://www.gypseableu.com/
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