Maritime Plymouth Privacy Statement
Statement concerning any open discussion area on Maritimeplymouth.co.uk
The views expressed in this [discussion group/ forum/ open
area] are solely those of the individual posters to the [discussion
group/ forum/ open area] and do not necessarily reflect the
views of Maritimeplymouth.co.uk. In posting messages to this
[discussion group/ forum/ open area] individual posters are
not acting as an agent, representative, or in any other capacity
for or on behalf of Maritimeplymouth.co.uk. Maritimeplymouth.co.uk
accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever and howsoever
arising in connection with any individual postings to this
[discussion group/ forum/ open area.
Privacy Statement
This privacy statement covers the site www.maritimeplymouth.co.uk.
If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement
and its implications, they should first contact Maritime Plymouth.
Maritime Plymouth
C/O Howard Marine Ltd.
Cattedown Industrial Estate
Plymouth
PL4 0PX
Tel +44 (0)1752 235110
Fax +44 (0)1752 235115
Email info@maritimeplymouth.co.uk
If they do not receive acknowledgment of their inquiry or
their inquiry is not satisfactorily addressed, they should
then contact Icetea LTD through their web site at www.icetea.co.uk
who will serve as a liaison with the web site to resolve users
concerns.
Information Collection
Maritime Plymouth is the sole owner of any information collected
on www.maritimeplymouth.co.uk, Maritime Plymouth may collect information
from our users at any point within our web site.
Communications
We may communicate with users regarding special offers, updates,
newsletters, service confirmations, service announcements
or customer service responses and enquiries using contact
information gathered from our web site. Communications could
be made using any contact information we have regarding a
user including email, postal, telephone or fax. If the user
wishes for any reason not to receive any or all communications
from us they may opt-out of these communications by contacting
us through our web site and specifying what they wish not
to receive. We may provide an alternative online opt-out service
for your connivance that will remove you from that specific
communications list automatically.
Service Registration
In order to use some of our web sites services or features
you may be required to register some personal information
in order to be granted access. Registration is completely
optional. Unless stated we are unfortunately unable to offer
anonymous access and users will be required to register to
gain access. During registration we may ask the user to provide
personal information and unique identifiers such as a username
and password. A user may request for their registration to
be cancelled at any time by contacting us through our web
site.
Ordering Information
We may request information from the user regarding the ordering
of products or services on our web site through an order form.
The user must provide information stated as required for the
order to be processed. Financial details may be required and
will be used for billing purposes and to fill customer’s
orders and if we have trouble processing an order provided
information would be used to contact the user.
User Profiles
We may store information collected through cookies, log files,
clear gifs, and/or third parties to create a profile of our
users. A profile is a collection of stored information regarding
users activities, viewing preferences and personal details
on our web site. User profiles enable us to provide tailored
offers and content to improve the relevancy of our products
and services. A users profile is treated as personal information
when linked to personal or identifiable information and in
such circumstances will not be shared with third parties.
We may however share information in aggregate form, which
will not contain personal or identification information that
can be traced back to a specific user and will provide an
overview of our users activities.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer
and contains specific data that can only be read by our web
site. We may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies
in order to provide certain services or identify users as
they browse our web site. Both session and persistent cookies
can be prevented and removed by specifying this in your Internet
browsers settings, please refer to your software’s help
files for further directions. Disabling cookies may prevent
you from using certain area of our web site such as restricted
member areas that require a password.
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site.
However, we have no access to or control over the content
and use of these cookies. This privacy statement only covers
the use of cookies by this web site only and does not cover
the use of cookies by any third parties.
Log Files
Like most web sites we may use log files to gather information
including internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type,
internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform
type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends,
administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate
and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
IP addresses and other information cannot be linked to personally
identifiable information. Aggregate information may be shared
with third parties.
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we
may need to disclose personal information when required by
law where we have a good-faith belief that such action is
necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a
court order or legal process served on our web site.
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We may share aggregated demographic information with our
partners, advertisers and other third parties. This information
is not linked to any personally identifiable information.
Sharing Users Personal Information
We may share specific users personal information under the
following circumstances:
We currently share none of our data.
Business Transitions
In the event Maritime Plymouth goes through a business transition,
such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling
a portion of its assets, users personal information will,
in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’
of having their information used for purposes not directly
related to our site at the point where we ask for information.
If no option is present then the user may safely assume that
their information will be used for internal use only. If the
user wishes for any reason not to receive any or all communications
from us they may opt-out of these communications by contacting
us through our web site and specifying what they wish not
to receive.
Users of our site are always notified when their information
is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our
users can make an informed choice as to whether or not they
should proceed with services that require an outside party.
External Web Site Links
This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware
that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such
other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they
leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each
and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected
by this web site.
Surveys, Contests and Competitions
From time-to-time our site may request information from users
via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or
contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has
a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Contact
information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes.
Anonymous survey information will be used for the purposes
of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this
site. Users personally identifiable information will not be
shared with third parties unless we give prior notice.
Tell A Friend
If a user elects to use any referral service provided by
this web site for informing a friend about our site, we will
ask them for the friend’s name and email address, which
will be used to send an automatic one-time email inviting
them to visit the site. This information may be stored and
used to contact the friend at a latter date, although the
friend may opt-out of receiving any further communications
and to request the removal of their information from our database
by contacting us through our web site.
Chat Rooms, Message Boards, and Public Forums
The privacy terms of this policy does NOT cover material
posted by users to publicly accessible areas of our web site.
When posting to publicly accessible areas of our web site
please keep in mind that all the details you specify including
any personal information will be posted for all users to view
and as a results you should not voluntarily disclose personal
information as we cannot safeguard your privacy. We track
every users posts on our web site and whilst we will not disclose
personal information to other users, we may publicly disclose
your name in reference to your posts.
Please note that we know who posts what on our web site and
we will ban users without notification, who post copyrighted,
defamatory or obscene content.
Security
We take every precaution to protect our users information
when stored online and offline. Access to sensitive information
is highly restricted and staff only have access to information
they require to perform a specific job. All data is protected
by password authentication and highly sensitive data is encrypted
when transferred and stored.
We only transfer highly sensitive data over a secure connection,
using a 128bit certified SSL, Secure Socket Layer. Data such
as credit card numbers, highly personal information and passwords
will often be encrypted and stored with additional security
precautions to ensure total privacy and safety.
We may collect your personal information through a secure
connection, although under certain situations this may not
be possible and your information will instead be transferred
over an open or unsecured connection. Please be aware that
although highly unlikely it is possible that someone could
intercept and read your information when sent over an open
connection. It’s the users responsibility to decide
whether to send information over an open connection or not
and we cannot be held accountable for held responsible for
information lost or intercepted over an open connection during
transportation to our possession.
Once we have received your data and whilst it remains in
our possession, the policies set out within this privacy statement
will automatically apply. If you have any questions about
the security of our web site you should contact us through
our web site.
Correcting/Updating/Deleting/Deactivating Personal
Information
If a users personally identifiable information changes or
if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way
to correct, update or delete/deactivate users personally identifiable
information. This can usually be done at the member information
page or by contacting us through our web site.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other
places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of
what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
If, however, we are going to use users personally identifiable
information in a manner different from that stated at the
time of collection we will notify individual users via email
and allow a period of time where the user can prevent their
information from being disclosed.
Questions or Comments
If users have any questions, suggestions or comments regarding
our privacy policy, please contact us through our web site.
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