Privacy notice
What we hold, why, and what you can ask us to do with it.
Who we are
The Boat Index is run by Towpath Digital Ltd (company number 16913912, registered in England and Wales), the controller of the personal data described here.
Boat records
A boat record holds details about a boat, not a person. We never show owners' names, contact details or licence numbers. Most records come from public boat records collected in April 2026. If a record says something about you, use correct or remove a record.
If you look up a boat
You don't need an account. The public pages set no cookies and run no advertising scripts. We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. It sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device and doesn't identify you: it records the page, the site you came from, and your browser, device type and country. Cloudflare does this for us and on our instructions. The servers keep short-term logs (your IP address, the page asked for, the time) to keep the site running and secure.
If you report a boat
We keep your name, what you saw and, if you give it, your email, so we can deal with the report and pass it to the boat's owner if the boat is claimed. We never show your details publicly.
If you have an account
We hold your email address, the boats you claim and what you add to them, such as an emergency contact. Signing in uses cookies that are needed to keep you signed in. You can ask us to delete your account and what you added at any time.
Who we share it with
We don't sell personal data. We use service providers to host the site and its database, to deliver the site and count visits (Cloudflare) and to send email; they process data only on our instructions.
Your rights
You can ask to see, correct or delete the personal data we hold about you, or object to how we use it, using correct or remove a record. We'll reply within one month. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
Last changed 20 October 2026.