Privacy policy · updated 15 November 2026
Privacy: what we collect, and what we do not
The short version: we collect what you type into the room-request form, to answer it. Advertising and analytics cookies are written only if you click Accept. The Google map on the front page loads only when you ask for it.
Responsible for your data
The site is published by Gul Maria Yacht Media, Brooklyn, United States. Questions, access and deletion requests: hello@gulmariayacht.com. Because the site serves visitors in Canada, we follow the principles of Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and of Québec's Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector: collect only what is needed, say why, keep it safe, let people see and delete it.
Room requests
- What: name, email, phone if given, number of guests, dates, room preference, trip purpose, your message, the page you sent it from, and your consent.
- Why: to check availability and rates with the hotel or a booking partner and to reply to you. Nothing else — no newsletter, no resale.
- Who sees it: our desk; and, when you ask us to go ahead, the hotel or the booking partner, who need your name and dates to hold a room.
- Where: the form goes to our server, hosted by DigitalOcean in Toronto, Canada, through Cloudflare, and from there to our desk.
- How long: as long as needed to answer the request and keep a record of any booking made from it; ask us and we delete it.
- Never: we do not ask for or store payment card details.
Google Tag Manager, Google Ads and your choice
The site includes a Google Tag Manager container (GTM-NSCFZQ4Q) used by the publisher to measure Google Ads: which ads bring visitors who send a room request. It is set up with Google's Consent Mode. Until you choose, every consent signal — advertising storage, ad user data, ad personalisation, analytics storage — is set to 'denied', and no advertising or analytics cookies are written. Under Consent Mode, Google may still receive limited technical signals without cookies.
If you click Accept, those four signals change to 'granted' and Google may set its cookies (for example for Google Ads conversion measurement). If you click Decline, nothing changes. Your choice is kept in your browser's local storage under the name gmy_consent for six months, and the Manage cookies link in the footer of every page lets you change it at any time. When a room request is sent, the page records a 'maple_request' event in the data layer; it is passed to Google only if you accepted.
Tag Manager itself is loaded a few seconds after the page or at your first interaction, so that the page draws quickly.
Google Maps
On the front page the map is a drawing until you press 'Load the Google map'; only then does your browser contact Google. On the getting-there page the Google map is part of the page and loads as you scroll to it. In both cases Google receives your IP address and may set cookies under its own policy. The 'Open in Google Maps' links take you to Google's site.
Servers and logs
Cloudflare, Inc. delivers the site and protects it from abuse; DigitalOcean, LLC hosts it. Both process IP addresses and technical request data to do so. Our fonts and images are stored on our own server, so loading a page does not contact a font service.
Your rights
You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, by writing to hello@gulmariayacht.com. In Québec you may also contact the Commission d'accès à l'information, and in the rest of Canada the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. The site is meant for adults; we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.