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Security policy & privacy
- At www.marinetechnet.com we are dedicated to safeguarding and preserving your privacy when visiting our site or communicating electronically with us.
- This Privacy Policy, together with our terms of use, provides an
explanation as to what happens to any personal data that you provide to
us, or that we collect from you.
- We do update this Policy from time to time so please do review this Policy regularly.
- In operating our website we may collect and process the following data about you:
- Details of your visits to our website and the resources that you
access, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data,
weblogs and other communication data.
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our
website, such as when you registered for information or make a
purchase.
- Information provided to us when you communicate with us for any reason.
- Note that any financial information will not be stored on www.marinetechnet.com
- Why we collect personal information about you
- To provide you with our online services which are detailed on our website.
- Use of Cookies
- On occasion, we may gather information about your computer for our
services and to provide statistical information regarding the use of
our website to our advertisers.
- Such information will not identify you personally it is statistical
data about our visitors and their use of our site. This statistical
data does not identify any personal details whatsoever.
- Similarly to the above, we may gather information about your
general internet use by using a cookie file. Where used, these cookies
are downloaded to your computer automatically. This cookie file is
stored on the hard drive of your computer as cookies contain
information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They
help us to improve our website and the service that we provide to you.
- All computers have the ability to decline cookies. This can be done
by activating the setting on your browser which enables you to decline
the cookies. Please note that should you choose to decline cookies, you
may be unable to access particular parts of our website.
- Our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no
control. Such cookies (if used) would be downloaded once you click on
advertisements on our website.
- Use of Your Information
- The information that we collect and store relating to you is
primarily used to enable us to provide our services to you. In
addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:
- To provide you with information requested from us, relating to our
products or services. To provide information on other products which we
feel may be of interest to you, where you have consented to receive
such information.
- To meet our contractual commitments to you.
- To notify you about any changes to our website, such as improvements or service/product changes, that may affect our service.
- If you are an existing customer, we may contact you with
information about goods and services similar to those which were the
subject of a previous sale to you.
- Further, we may use your data, or permit selected third parties to
use your data, so that you can be provided with information about
unrelated goods and services which we consider may be of interest to
you. We or they may contact you about these goods and services by any
of the methods that you consented at the time your information was
collected.
- If you are a new customer, we will only contact you or allow third
parties to contact you only when you have provided consent and only by
those means you provided consent for.
- If you do not want us to use your data for our or third parties you
will have the opportunity to withhold your consent to this when you
provide your details to us on the form on which we collect your data.
- Please be advised that we do not reveal information about
identifiable individuals to our advertisers but we may, on occasion,
provide them with aggregate statistical information about our visitors.
- Storing Your Personal Data
- We may transfer data that we collect from you to locations outside
of the European Economic Area for processing and storing. Also, it may
be processed by staff operating outside the European Economic Area who
work for us or for one of our suppliers. For example, such staff maybe
engaged in the processing and concluding of your order, the processing
of your payment details and the provision of support services. By
submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or
processing. We will take all reasonable steps to make sure that your
data is treated securely and in agreement with this Privacy Policy.
- Data that is provided to us is stored on our secure servers.
Details relating to any transactions entered into on our site will be
encrypted to ensure its safety.
- The transmission of information via the internet is not completely
secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to
us electronically and transmission of such data is therefore entirely
at your own risk. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a
password so that you can access certain parts of our site, you are
responsible for keeping this password confidential.
- Disclosing Your Information
- Where applicable, we may disclose your personal information to any
member of our group. This includes, where applicable, our subsidiaries,
our holding company and its other subsidiaries (if any).
- We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:
- Where we sell any or all of our business and/or our assets to a third party.
- Where we are legally required to disclose your information.
- To assist fraud protection and minimise credit risk.
- Third Party Links
- You mind find links to third party websites on our website. These
websites should have their own privacy policies which you should check.
We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies
whatsoever as we have no control over them.
- How you can help keep your personal information secure
- As you would expect of us, we will take all reasonable measures to
ensure that the personal information you provide through our website is
held and managed securely. However, there is not a lot that you can do
to help keep your personal information safe – not just on our website,
but whenever you provide information online.
- Here are some simple ways you can improve the security of you information:
- Use a secure browser
- Encryption is the process through which sensitive information is
scrambled before it is transmitted so that it remains private even if
it is intercepted. 128-bit versions support it.
- Two popular browsers that support 128 – bit encryption are:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.5 and later versions
- Netscape Navigator version 6 and later versions
- Security upgrades for some older browser versions are available. We
recommend that you contact your preferred browser provider for further
information.
- www.marinetechnet.com runs on a secure https platform.
- Access To Information
- The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access the
information that we hold about you. Please note that any demand for
access may be subject to payment of a fee of £10 which covers our costs
in providing you with the information requested. Should you wish to
receive details that we hold about you please contact us using the
contact details below.
- Contacting Us
- We welcome any queries, comments or requests you may have regarding this Privacy Policy. Please do not hesitate to contact us.
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