Privacy notice
World Yacht Insurance is a trading name of Costas Matheou, a licensed insurance agent in Cyprus, and he is the controller for the details you send us. We use them to prepare and place your yacht-insurance enquiry, and for nothing else. We do not sell data, and we run no advertising or analytics tracking on this site.
Who is responsible for your data
The controller is Costas Matheou, trading as World Yacht Insurance, a licensed insurance agent supervised by the Cyprus Insurance Companies Control Service (ICCS), certificate 6882.
You can reach us at info@worldyachtinsurance.com for anything on this page, including a request to see, correct or delete what we hold.
What we collect
Only what an underwriter needs in order to quote. The quote form asks for it up front rather than after a phone call, so nothing is gathered without you seeing it.
- Contact details: your name, email address and phone number, and your postal address.
- Vessel details: type, make and model, year built, length, hull material, flag, agreed value and home berth.
- Cruising details: the areas and countries you plan to navigate, and any notes you add.
- Operating details: your experience, qualifications, and any claims or declarations you tell us about.
- Technical data: your IP address, used to rate-limit the form against automated abuse, and held only for that purpose.
- We do not ask for payment-card details, identity documents or health data anywhere on this site.
Why we use it, and on what legal basis
To take the steps you have asked for before a contract is entered into: pre-qualifying your yacht and passing the enquiry to the broker chain so the market can quote. Where you tick the consent box, we also rely on your consent to contact you about that enquiry.
We rely on legitimate interests for a narrow second purpose: preventing automated abuse of the form, and keeping a record of enquiries and the terms we quoted.
Who receives it
Your enquiry has to travel along the distribution chain to be quoted at all. These are the only recipients, and none of them is an advertiser.
- AKD Insurance (A.K. Demetriou Insurance Brokers Ltd), the contracted broker in Cyprus we introduce business to.
- London Marine Insurance Services Ltd, the Lloyd's-accredited broker in the United Kingdom that arranges and places the cover (FCA firm reference 308599).
- Underwriters at Lloyd's of London, who assess the risk and would pay a valid claim.
- Resend, our email delivery provider, acting as a processor so the enquiry reaches the desk.
- Vercel, our hosting provider, acting as a processor.
- We never sell or rent your details, and we do not pass them to any other insurer, broker or comparison site.
Where it goes
Cyprus and the European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom, because the Lloyd's-market broker and the underwriters are in London. Transfers to the United Kingdom rely on the European Commission's adequacy decision for the UK.
How long we keep it
Enquiries that do not proceed are kept for up to 24 months, so we can pick up the thread if you come back to us and so we can show what terms were quoted and when.
Where cover is placed, the record is kept for as long as the insurance relationship needs it and for the period the broker and underwriters are required to retain their own records.
Ask us to delete it sooner and we will, unless we are required to keep it.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you can ask us for a copy of what we hold, have it corrected or erased, restrict or object to how we use it, and ask for it in a portable form. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time.
If you are not satisfied with how we have handled your data, you can complain to the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection in Cyprus, or to the supervisory authority where you live.
Last updated 14 August 2026. This notice describes what this website actually does with your details. It is not legal advice, and it does not replace the privacy notice of the broker or the underwriters who receive your enquiry.
World Yacht Insurance is a trading name of Costas Matheou, a licensed insurance agent in Cyprus, and introduces business through AKD Insurance (A.K. Demetriou Insurance Brokers Ltd, Cyprus). Cover is arranged and placed at Lloyd's of London by London Marine Insurance Services Ltd, a Lloyd's-accredited broker authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority, firm reference 308599. World Yacht Insurance is not an insurer and does not carry risk.
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- every underwriting question asked upfront
- a licensed Cyprus agent reviews every enquiry
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