Privacy & Cookies
Last Updated: October 4, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Otter Aquatics handles information connected with your use of otteraquatics.com and your communications with us.
Otter Aquatics is a diving editorial publication based in Miami, Florida, covering scuba diving news, gear, training, destinations, liveaboards, marine life, conservation, and related underwater topics.
Information From Readers
You can browse Otter Aquatics without providing your name or directly contacting us. Like most websites, however, certain technical information may be generated when you visit.
This may include your IP address, browser and device type, operating system, approximate location derived from technical data, referring page, pages viewed, date and time of access, and information about how visitors navigate the site.
If you email us, we receive the information you choose to include in your message. This can include your name, email address, attachments, photographs, story details, corrections, or other information you voluntarily provide.
We use this information only where reasonably connected with operating, maintaining, understanding, protecting, and improving the site or communicating with readers.
Story Tips and Editorial Messages
Otter Aquatics invites divers and other members of the underwater community to send news tips, corrections, gear information, destination updates, and relevant first-hand observations.
When you send material to us, we may retain your message while we assess it, correspond with you, verify information, maintain editorial records, or handle a correction. Sending information does not guarantee that it will be published.
Please avoid sending sensitive personal information that is unnecessary for your message. If information concerns another person, you should only provide material you are entitled to share.
For privacy questions concerning information you have sent to Otter Aquatics, contact [email protected].
Cookies and Site Analytics
Otteraquatics.com may use cookies and similar technologies needed for basic website operation and to understand how the site is being used.
Cookies are small pieces of information stored through a browser. Depending on the site’s configuration, they may support functions such as maintaining site preferences, measuring visits, understanding which articles readers find useful, identifying technical problems, or protecting the website against misuse.
We may also use analytics tools that process technical and usage information in aggregated or similar forms. This helps us understand general readership patterns and improve site structure, performance, and editorial coverage.
We do not name a particular analytics provider in this Policy because the services supporting the website may change. Where a third-party provider processes information, its own privacy terms may also apply.
Most browsers provide controls for deleting, limiting, or blocking cookies. Restricting some cookies can affect how certain website functions operate.
External and Embedded Content
Articles may refer readers to external resources or include content supplied through third-party platforms, such as video, social media, or other embedded media.
When you interact with embedded content or leave otteraquatics.com for another website, that third party may collect information according to its own privacy practices. Otter Aquatics does not control the privacy policies, cookies, or data-handling practices of independent external websites.
A link to another site is provided for editorial or informational purposes and does not make its privacy practices part of this Policy.
How Information May Be Used
Information associated with visits or reader communications may be used to:
- operate, maintain, and secure Otter Aquatics;
- understand site traffic and general reading patterns;
- investigate technical problems or misuse;
- respond to reader messages and privacy requests;
- review corrections and editorial submissions;
- evaluate news tips or information submitted for possible coverage;
- improve existing articles, navigation, and site performance;
- comply with applicable legal obligations when required.
We do not ask readers to create accounts or provide payment information simply to read our editorial content.
Service Providers
Some website functions may depend on third parties that provide services such as hosting, security, analytics, email delivery, spam prevention, or technical infrastructure.
These providers may process limited information where necessary to perform their services. Their handling of information may also be governed by their own terms and privacy policies.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to valid legal process, protect the website and its users, investigate abuse, or defend legitimate rights. We do not describe ordinary editorial sources or reader correspondence as public simply because information has been sent to us.
Retention and Security
We retain personal information only for as long as it is reasonably useful for the purpose for which it was collected, for legitimate editorial or operational records, or where retention is required or permitted by applicable law.
Different information may therefore be kept for different periods. An ordinary reader enquiry, an editorial correction, a security record, and a story submission do not necessarily require the same retention period.
We take reasonable measures intended to protect information handled through the site and our communications. No website, email system, storage platform, or method of internet transmission can guarantee absolute security, so we cannot promise that information will never be accessed, lost, altered, or disclosed improperly.
Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live and which privacy laws apply, you may have rights concerning personal information associated with you. These may include rights to request access to information, ask for inaccurate information to be corrected, request deletion in applicable circumstances, or object to or restrict certain uses of personal information.
Residents of jurisdictions that provide additional privacy rights may also have rights relating to disclosure, sale or sharing of personal information, sensitive information, or certain forms of targeted advertising where those activities and laws apply.
Otter Aquatics does not assume that every statutory privacy right applies in every situation. Requests are considered according to the circumstances and applicable law, and we may need enough information to reasonably verify the request before acting on it.
To make a privacy request, email [email protected].
You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection or privacy authority in your country, state, or region if you believe your privacy rights have been violated.
Children’s Privacy
Otter Aquatics publishes general diving and underwater editorial content and is not designed as a service directed specifically at children under 13.
We do not knowingly seek personal information from children under 13 through the site. If a parent or guardian believes that a child has provided personal information to us, they may contact us so the matter can be reviewed and appropriate action taken.
Changes to This Policy
The website, its publishing formats, and the technical services supporting it may change over time. We may update this Privacy Policy when our data practices change, when new site functions are introduced, or when an update is otherwise appropriate.
The current version will be identified by the Last Updated date shown at the top of this page.
Privacy Contact
Questions about this Policy or personal information associated with Otter Aquatics can be sent to:
Otter Aquatics
Miami, Florida, USA
Email: [email protected]
Please include enough detail for us to understand the privacy issue or request without sending unnecessary sensitive information.