# Help center

Guides for using Yacht Marina Guide: browse marinas, submit listings, and manage your account.

Email support@yachtmarinaguide.fyi if a guide does not answer your question.

## Browse the directory

Find marinas, filters, and place pages.

- [How search and filters work](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/browse/how-search-works.md): Search marinas by name, place, and category.
- [Guides and store](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/browse/guides-and-store.md): Paid guides and digital products when enabled.

## Listings & owners

Add marinas, claim a profile, and suggest edits.

- [Submit a marina](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/listings/submit-a-listing.md): Use the public form when submissions are enabled.
- [Claim or suggest an edit](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/listings/claim-and-edit.md): Verify ownership or propose corrections.

## Newsletter & account

Email updates, sign-in, and privacy choices.

- [Newsletter and email](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/account/newsletter-and-email.md): Subscribe, confirm, and unsubscribe.
- [Privacy, terms, and refunds](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/account/privacy-and-terms.md): Legal pages and how we handle data.

## Academy and certificates

Courses, exams, certificates of completion, and membership at Yacht Marina Guide.

- [How the Academy works](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/academy/how-the-academy-works.md): Take a course, pass the exam, and earn a certificate of completion from Yacht Marina Guide.
- [Free and paid tiers](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/academy/free-and-paid-tiers.md): Which courses are free and which need the yearly membership.
- [How the exam works](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/academy/how-the-exam-works.md): Question types, the pass mark, attempts, and what happens after you pass.
- [Your certificate](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/academy/your-certificate.md): Find your certificate, print it, share it, and add it to LinkedIn.
- [How to verify a certificate](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/academy/verify-a-certificate.md): Check a certificate code on the verify page or through the JSON API.
- [Renewal and expiry](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/academy/renewal-and-expiry.md): When a certificate expires and how to ask for more time.
- [Membership, billing, and refunds](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/academy/membership-billing-and-refunds.md): Manage your membership, what cancelling does, and how refunds work.
- [Name, privacy, and removal](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/academy/name-privacy-and-removal.md): What the verify page shows about you, how to correct your name, and how to ask for removal.
- [What the certificate is and is not](https://yachtmarinaguide.fyi/support/articles/academy/what-the-certificate-is.md): A certificate of completion from Yacht Marina Guide, and what it does not mean.
