Privacy policy

By using the vessel.market site and accepting the Terms of Service you also agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you must not use vessel.market site.

1. Introduction

1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; in this policy we explain how we will treat your personal information.

1.2 By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

2. Collecting personal information

2.1 We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths).
Information that you provide to us when registering with our website (including your email address).
Information that you provide when completing your profile on our website (including your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details and employment details)
Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address)
Information that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services
Information that you post to our website for publication on the internet
Information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through our website (including the communication content and meta data associated with the communication)
Information of error logs from the website which will help in fixing application defects
Other information contained within the standalone website database may also be transferred to us to be used for backup purposes or to assist in application updates/maintenance

2.2 Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

3. Using your personal information

3.1 No Personal information will be submitted to us through the website, except if agreed to in writing.

3.2 We may use your personal information to:

Administer our website and application.
Personalise our website for you.
Enable your use of the services available on our website and application.
Supply to you services purchased through our website.
Send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you.
Send you non-marketing commercial communications.
Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested.
send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter).
send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications).

3.3 If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.

3.4 Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website, and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.

3.5 We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third parties direct marketing.

4. Disclosing personal information

4.1 We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy or for any other consideration.

4.2 We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

4.3 We may disclose your personal information:

To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling.
To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

4.4 Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

5. Retaining personal information

5.1 This Section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.

5.2 Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

5.3 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data.

To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

6. Security of your personal information

6.1 We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information however we provide no warranty as such.

6.2 We will store all the personal information you provide on a third party server with standard security features.

6.3 You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

6.4 You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

7. Amendments

7.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

7.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

7.3 We may notify you of changes to this policy by email through a message on our website.

8. Your rights

8.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:

The payment of a fee wherever applicable.
The supply of appropriate evidence of your identity.

8.2 We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

8.3 You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

8.4 In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

9. Third party websites

9.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.

9.2 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

10. Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

11. Cookies

11.1 Our website uses cookies.

11.2 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

11.3 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

11.4 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.