About Us
We are a small team of surfers, dedicated to improving surfing in Taiwan.
Our Story
The seeds of Swelleye began way back in 2012 as a personal project, when our founder was on a mission to find surf-related info in Taiwan. As a beginning surfer (definitely a kook!), he was eager to find details about local surf spots, surf shops, surf forecasting, and the surf community in general. To his surprise, there was very little quality content anywhere online.
So, in the founder's spare time, he began gathering details on local surf spots and surf businesses. After a couple of years, a detailed list of about 40 surf spots and 200 surf businesses was in hand. With the nudging from a couple of the founder's surf buddies, he decided to build a simple website in order to share the info with the Taiwan surf community.
Being passionate about surf forecasting, the founder also looked into adding local surf reports and forecasts to the website. At the same time, he created a survey to ask local surfers what they wanted most. One of the questions was, "Would surf cams be helpful to you?" and to the founder's surprise, 73% of surfers answered "YES"! So he did more research, and a couple more years later, the first surf cam went up at Double Lions in Yilan. By 2017, swelleye.com was live, featuring 3 surf cams, 44 surf spots, over 200 surf businesses, and a few surf blog articles!
Since then, Swelleye has been growing steadily, now with 11 surf cams and a small, awesome team of surfers dedicated to improving Taiwan's surf community. We are always looking to improve our services for you, our valued customer. If you ever have feedback, good or bad, please reach out. We’d love to hear from you!
Keep surfing, and let's keep Taiwan's beaches clean and beautiful 🤙
The Swelleye Team
Mission
Be the authoritative source of surf cams, surf forecasting, and surf information in Taiwan; inspire a better surf culture and lifestyle in Taiwan; invest in projects that educate and implement solutions to Taiwan's environmental issues.
Vision
Our vision is to create a better surfing experience for Taiwan’s surfers. We also envision a Taiwan with clean beaches, clean oceans full of healthy marine life, beautiful lush mountains, healthy agriculture, and an environment that is clean and sustainable. We believe in educating surfers (especially Taiwan’s youth) on the practices to achieve this. To do our part in fulfilling these goals, we donate at least 3% of our net profits, as well as our time, towards the education and improvement of Taiwan’s environment.
When you support Swelleye, you support a beautiful, healthy, and sustainable Taiwan.
Purpose
Our main purpose at Swelleye is to create value for Taiwan’s surfers, to provide tools and knowledge so that every surfer can improve. We also strive to support all of Taiwan’s surf businesses, so that the entire surf industry and surf community in Taiwan can thrive. Lastly, we aim to build a profitable and sustainable business, so that we can also do our part in helping build a sustainable Taiwan.
Swelleye donates at least 3% of our net profits, as well as our time, towards the education and improvement of Taiwan’s environment. Our vision is to create a better surfing experience for Taiwan’s surfers. We also envision a Taiwan with clean beaches, clean oceans full of healthy marine life, beautiful lush mountains, healthy agriculture, and an environment that is clean and sustainable. We believe in educating surfers (especially Taiwan’s youth) on the practices to achieve this. When you support Swelleye, you support a beautiful, healthy, and sustainable Taiwan.
We strive to promote and educate environmentalism in Taiwan, sponsor environmental events (beach cleanups, free educational seminars, school educational events, etc.), and donate employee hours to the cause.
Swelleye aims to educate surfers about ocean safety, surf etiquette, wave sharing, and how to have more stoke in and out of the water!
We also do our part in creating an environmentally-friendly working environment; reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Swelleye strives to partner with companies that support our core values. We aim to work with companies that not only work to make a profit, but also work to create a better Taiwan and environment.
Learn more about "3% for Taiwan," view previous and future events, and learn how you can help!
Created
: April 21, 2017
Updated
: January 27, 2024
Welcome to swelleye.com, brought to you by Swelleye, Ltd. (台灣哪衝浪有限公司), a registered limited liability company located in Yilan City, Taiwan. Please take time to read our Privacy Policy below.
Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy governs the privacy terms of our Website, located at www.swelleye.com. Any capitalized terms not defined in our Privacy Policy, have the meaning as specified in our "
Terms & Conditions
."
Your Privacy
Swelleye.com follows all legal requirements to protect your privacy. Our Privacy Policy is a legal statement that explains how we may collect information from you, how we may share your information, and how you can limit our sharing of your information. You will see terms in our Privacy Policy that are capitalized. These terms have meanings as described in the "Definitions" section below.
Definitions
"Non Personal Information" is information that is not personally identifiable to you and that we automatically collect when you access our Website with a web browser. It may also include publicly available information that is shared between you and others.
"Personally Identifiable Information" is non-public information that is personally identifiable to you and obtained in order for us to provide you within our Website. Personally Identifiable Information may include information such as your name, email address, and other related information that you provide to us or that we obtain about you.
Information We Collect
Generally, you control the amount and type of information you provide to us when using our Website.
As a Visitor, you can browse our website to find out more about our Website. You are not required to provide us with any Personally Identifiable Information as a Visitor.
Computer Information Collected
When you use our Website, we automatically collect certain computer information by the interaction of your mobile device or web browser with our Website. Such information is typically considered Non Personal Information. We also collect the following:
COOKIE POLICY
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or device by websites that you visit. Websites use cookies to help users navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. Cookies that are required for the website to operate properly are allowed to be set without your permission. All other cookies need to be approved before they can be set in your browser. Please note that we never place Personally Identifiable Information in our cookies.
Cookies will typically be placed on your computer or device whenever you visit us online. This allows swelleye.com to remember your computer or device and serve a number of purposes, including keeping you logged in if you are a Swelleye PRO subscriber. If you are an active Swelleye PRO subscriber and want to access your Swelleye PRO services and view the live streams, you will need to enable cookies on your device and allow swelleye.com to always use cookies.
Following is swelleye.com's cookie declaration report, detailing the cookies used on the website. You can update your swelleye.com cookies at any time below.
THIRD PARTY TRACKING TOOLS
We also use third party tracking tools to improve the performance and features of our Website. These third party tracking tools are designed to collect only Non-Personal Information about your use of our Website. However, you understand that such tools are created and managed by parties outside our control. As such, we are not responsible for what information is actually captured by such third parties or how such third parties use and protect that information.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
We use Remarketing with Google Analytics to advertise on third party sites to you after you visited our Site. We and our third party vendors, like Google, use first party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Site.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the
Google Ads Settings
page. Google also recommends installing the
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.
AUTOMATIC INFORMATION
We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our Website, if any, as well as the name of the website to which you're headed when you leave our website. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the Internet, your Internet Website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system. We use all of this information to analyze trends among our Users to help improve our Website.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we receive from you as follows:
CUSTOMIZING OUR WEBSITE
We may use the Personally Identifiable information you provide to us along with any computer information we receive to customize our Website.
• Sharing Information with Affiliates and Other Third Parties
We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties for marketing purposes. We may provide your Personally Identifiable Information to affiliates that provide services to us with regards to our Website (i.e. payment processors, Website hosting companies, etc.); such affiliates will only receive information necessary to provide the respective services and will be bound by confidentiality agreements limiting the use of such information.
DATA AGGREGATION
We retain the right to collect and use any Non Personal Information collected from your use of our Website and aggregate such data for internal analytics that improve our Website and Service as well as for use or resale to others. At no time is your Personally Identifiable Information included in such data aggregations.
LEGALLY REQUIRED RELEASES OF INFORMATION
We may be legally required to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information, if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties including you and/or other Members; and/or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of TermsFeed, our Users, employees, and affiliates.
Facebook Data Deletion Instructions
Swelleye Login is a Facebook login app. Though we do not save your personal data in our server, according to Facebook policy, we must provide a "User Data Deletion Instructions URL."
If you want to delete your Facebook Login App data that is associated with Swelleye,
you can do so at this webpage
, or simply follow the steps below:
1. Go to your Facebook Account’s "Setting & Privacy" menu. Click “Settings”
2. Scroll down and click “Apps and Websites”
3. Find and click “Swelleye”
4. Click the “Remove” button
Protecting Your Child's Privacy
Our Website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 13 ("Child"), though we realize we may have a Child attempt to make purchases through our Website. We do not verify the age of our Users nor do we have any liability for verifying a User's age. If you are a Child, please seek the permission of a parent or guardian before using our Website. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your Child is using our Website, please contact us to remove your Child's account; we reserve the right to ask you for verification of your relationship to the Child before we honor such a request. If we discover that a Child has created an account on our Website, we will immediately delete the account as soon as we discover it, we will not use the information for any purpose, and we will not disclose the information to third parties. However, as parent of such a Child, you understand that you are legally liable for any transactions created by the Child.
Links to Other Websites
Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not under our direct control. These websites may have their own policies regarding privacy. We have no control of or responsibility for linked websites and provide these links solely for the convenience and information of our visitors. You access such linked Websites at your own risk. These websites are not subject to this Privacy Policy. You should check the privacy policies, if any, of those individual websites to see how the operators of those third-party websites will utilize your personal information. In addition, these websites may contain a link to Websites of our affiliates. The websites of our affiliates are not subject to this Privacy Policy, and you should check their individual privacy policies to see how the operators of such websites will utilize your personal information.
Our Email Policy
We fully comply with international laws regarding SPAM. You can always opt out of further email correspondence from us. We agree that we will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third-party without your permission.
Privacy Policy Updates
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. You should review this Privacy Policy frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we may notify you on our Website, by a blog post, by email, or by any method we determine. The method we chose is at our sole discretion. We will also change the "Updated" date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. Any changes we make to our Privacy Policy are effective as of this Updated date and replace any prior Privacy Policies.
Questions or Feedback
Swelleye welcomes your questions and feedback. If you have any questions or feedback about our Privacy Practices or this Policy, or have suggestions on how we can better serve you and the surfing community,
please feel free to contact us
.
Created
: April 21, 2017
Updated
: January 27, 2024
Welcome to swelleye.com, brought to you by Swelleye, Ltd. (台灣哪衝浪有限公司), a registered limited liability company located in Yilan City, Taiwan.
Please take time to read our terms and conditions. By subscribing to swelleye.com, you agree to the following terms and conditions.
Swelleye reserves the right to modify these conditions at any time. Modifying these terms and conditions becomes effective as soon as this page is modified. It is the user's responsibility to check this page for modifications.
Swelleye's webpages are under continued development. Swelleye reserves the right to change these pages, their content, features, cam locations, video availability, video player technology, and layout without notice. By subscribing to swelleye.com, the user agrees to these conditions.
User Fees and Payment
By subscribing to Swelleye PRO, you agree to pay for all subscription fees and charges incurred. These fees will be automatically billed to your credit card selected during the signup process. Your "My Account" page will display your subscription renewal information, payment schedule, and payment history. If you wish to cancel your Swelleye PRO subscription, please fill out the "Cancel Subscription" form on your "My Account" page or contact us via email: subscriptions (at) swelleye (dot) com. If you would like to replace your existing credit card with a new one, or would like to update your existing credit card, please fill out the "Payment Method" form on your "My Account" page or contact us via email: subscriptions (at) swelleye (dot) com
Swelleye PRO Subscription Pricing
• Monthly: NTD$175 per month (including tax)
• Yearly: NTD$145 per month (including tax), billed NT$1,750 once a year
Single User
Only one individual may access his or her Swelleye PRO Subscription Service at the same time using the same user name or password, unless otherwise agreed to by Swelleye. This Agreement is personal to you, and you may not assign your usage rights to anyone. Swelleye.com employs software to alert multiple usage violations of single Swelleye PRO accounts. Sharing an account will result in the immediate termination, without notice and without refund, of your Swelleye PRO Subscription Service.
You can access your Swelleye PRO Subscription Service on as many supported devices as you please, but you can only stream to one device at a time. If you have further questions, don't hesitate to contact us.
Surf Camera Location
We reserve the right to change, without notice, the location of cameras.
Swelleye.com Video / Availability
Live Streaming Video feeds are uploaded based on availability of these video feeds. Swelleye surf cams are located at isolated beach communities. Video will be available daily, unless affected by poor broadband connection, power outage, telephone line outage, or poor local weather conditions.
Swelleye.com Video / Required Video Player
The Swelleye video player is a lightweight HTML5 player that uses Apple HLS to play streams on any browser and any device. It also provides Flash playback as a fallback for older browsers. It is the user's responsibility to have the appropriate, updated software to view swelleye.com video.
Copyright and Limitations on Use
All swelleye.com content is the property of Swelleye and is protected by Copyright. You may not use, distribute, modify, transmit, reproduce, broadcast, license, transfer, sell, display, or create derivative works from the content on swelleye.com, in any way, without the prior written consent of Swelleye. You may not post the Content for any public or commercial use.
Trademarks
The marks and designs associated with any marks on the website are trademarks and/or service marks of Swelleye or its licensors. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Any use of trademarks, service marks, product names and company names or logos, including the reproduction, modification, distribution or republication of same without the prior written permission of Swelleye is strictly prohibited. Other trademarks, service marks, trade names and company logos referenced are the property of their respective owners.
User Privacy
We respect the privacy of our users and are committed to protecting the personal information that you share with us. We have established a Privacy Policy to describe our policies and practices with respect to the information that we collect from our users. Please view our
Privacy Policy
, or feel free to contact us for more information.
Feedback
Swelleye welcomes your comments and feedback. If you have any questions or comments about our policies, or have suggestions on how we can better serve you and the surfing community,
please feel free to contact us
.
Created
: April 21, 2017
Updated
: March 11, 2024
We believe that Swelleye PRO is a great service, and we want you to receive more value than what you paid for it. If you are not satisfied for any reason, we offer you a 30-day money-back guarantee on all Swelleye PRO subscriptions. To cancel your subscription and receive a refund within 30 days of initial purchase, please take the following steps:
1) Submit an e-mail request to support (at) swelleye (dot) com, with the subject: "30-day Money-Back Guarantee"
2) Please provide the following information so that we can expedite your refund:
• Name on Swelleye PRO Account
• E-Mail Address on Swelleye PRO Account
• Form of payment billed (Visa, MasterCard, etc.)
• Last 4 digits on Credit Card billed
• Date of subscription purchase
• What we can do to improve Swelleye PRO.
Once we've processed your cancellation and refund, we will contact you with an estimate for when your refund will be credited to your bank account.
* Note that if you have previously had a Swelleye PRO subscription, you will not be eligible for the 30-day money-back guarantee on your current subscription.
Help Taiwan's surfers "See the surf first!" Join Swelleye's growing surf cam network and receive special benefits as a Swelleye Surf Cam Host.
Why host a Swelleye Surf Cam?
Swelleye is Taiwan's original and largest network of live-streaming surf cams. We help surfers find more waves, save more gas, and help improve Taiwan's environment!
We donate at least 3% of our net profits, as well as our time, towards the education and improvement of Taiwan’s environment.
When you host a Swelleye surf cam, you also support a beautiful, healthy, and sustainable Taiwan.
Interested in hosting a Swelleye Surf Cam?
Benefits to you and/or your business:
Free Advertising for your website, business, or vacation rental. We place a 125 x 125 pixel ad on all pages of the website, free of charge.
Free Internet Cable. We pay for your high-speed internet cable.
Free “Swelleye PRO Yearly Subscription” (value of NT$1,750 per year) so that you can watch all the live streams of Taiwan's surf spots anytime.
Our skilled camera team will ensure a quick and painless installation of one of our cameras. All maintenance and associated costs will be covered by Swelleye, and you can relax knowing that your property is more secure with one of our cameras onsite.
If you would like to list your surf-related business, update your current business listing, or remove your current business listing, please fill out the form below.
All listings on swelleye.com are free, and include your own business page with your business information, services, website links, photos, videos, and map location. You can review a sample business listing
here
.
Swelleye is pleased to offer your company the opportunity to advertise on swelleye.com.
We offer customized advertising packages scaled to meet your business needs. We can target your advertising locally or Taiwan-wide. We offer a range of advertising solutions which include high-impact banner ads, box ads, sponsor ads, as well as surf cam live-stream sponsorship.
We measure and analyze the results of your advertising and provide you with monthly analytics, allowing you to easily assess whether you are achieving your advertising goals and receiving a return on your investment.
Please
click here
to view our Media Kit. For a Chinese version Media Kit, please
click here
.
To request more information, please fill out the form below or contact Brent Calkins at 0981-148-894
We look forward to collaborating with you!
Swelleye strives to provide the best service possible. This can only be achieved through good communication and excellent support. We welcome any questions or feedback you may have, and we look forward to helping you. We also appreciate any suggestions you may have to make swelleye.com better. We are here to serve you, so please feel free to contact us anytime. Thank you.
Swelleye, Ltd. 台灣哪衝浪有限公司
Tax ID# 43776761
7F-10, 32 Gongyuan Road, Jiaoxi Township, Yilan County 262
Phone: 0981-148-894
Email: support (at) swelleye (dot) com
See the surf first!
See the surf first!
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See the surf first!
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