Privacy policy

Marine Consult Ltd respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE

1.1 PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

This privacy notice applies to information obtained through this website and how we use it.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.

1.2 CONTACT DETAILS

If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact our internal GDPR team at info@marconbg.com

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the concerned supervisory authority for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the supervisory authority so please contact us in the first instance.

1.3 CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY NOTICE AND YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES

We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This version was last updated on 30.08.2018. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

1.4 THIRD-PARTY LINKS

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes your first name, last name, date of birth, gender, country of citizenship and residence, designation, company name, country;

• Professional and educational details;

• Contact Data includes email address, phone number and postal address;

• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website;

• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services;

• Cookies – We collect information about use of our website through cookies.

 

We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

2.1 IF YOU FAIL TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example to provide you our services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct interactions. You may give us your name, designation, country, email address, phone number, date of birth, gender, country of citizenship and residence, professional details by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you apply for our services;

         •request to be considered for employment;

          •give us feedback or contact us.

 

• Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, add-in and other similar technologies.

4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you;

• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests;

• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

 

4.1 PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE WILL USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data. The legal grounds for processing your data are:

·         Performance of a contract with you;

·         Necessary for our legitimate interests;

·         Necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

 

4.2 COOKIES

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

4.3 CHANGE OF PURPOSE

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose,please contact us. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Your personal data, although given by you to, or otherwise collected by us, may be shared freely among any of our Affiliates who adhere to the same policy on data protection.

We may also share your personal data with, or disclose it to, Key Third Parties for the performance of any contract we enter into with you, or for other specific and limited purposes, including (but not limited to):

•where we have your consent to do so;

•where we process the information for the purpose of protecting your vital interests, and/or for the purposes of preventative or occupational medicine;

•to protect our legitimate interests. For example (but without limitation), we may disclose your Personal Data to our legal, financial and other professional advisers in the event that it is required in connection with them providing advice to us;

•to comply with a legal obligation or regulatory requirement to which we are subject, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of business. For example (but without limitation), we may disclose your personal data to any person designated by a court, law-making or other public body, regulatory or other authority who has jurisdiction over us;

•to prevent, detect and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities, including bribery, corruption, fraud, money laundering (or any other criminal activity in any county or territory to whose jurisdiction we are subject). We may also disclose your personal data to banks/ other financial institutions/ law enforcement agencies/ regulators/ other relevant third parties to help recover funds that have entered your account erroneously or that were meant to be paid to you but have been paid to another person as a result of a misdirected payment;

•where permitted by law and it is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, and it is not inconsistent with the purposes listed in this privacy notice;

•to fulfil any other legitimate interest.

 

6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

Your personal data will only be shared with relevant subsidiary or associated or affiliated Companies of Marine Consult Ltd in order to proceed with job applications and or to manage your employment. This will involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Not all countries provide the same level of protection in relation to personal information as within the EEA. Where necessary to make such transfers, we will comply with our legal and regulatory obligations in relation to the personal information. This will include having a lawful basis for transferring personal information and putting appropriate safeguards in place to ensure an adequate level of protection for the personal information. Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

 

7. DATA SECURITY

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.  We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

 

8. DATA RETENTION

8.1 HOW LONG WILL WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

 

In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your data: see “Your Legal Rights” below for further information.

 

In some circumstances, we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

 

9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Please click on the links below to find out more about these rights:

 

• Request access to your personal data- This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it;

• Request correction of your personal data- This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us;

• Request erasure of your personal data- This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request;

• Request restriction of processing your personal data- This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:

• If you want us to establish the data’s accuracy.

• where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it.

• where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

• you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it;

• Request transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you;

• Right to withdraw consent where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

 

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at info@marconbg.com