Privacy Policy - The Maritime Post

Privacy Policy

The Maritime Post Privacy Policy

Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us.

Hence, we have developed this policy so that you can understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose, and make use of personal information. This Privacy Policy may be revised or updated at any time and we encourage you to check back often to ensure that you are familiar with the most recent version and the terms of our Privacy Policy.

Who we are

The Maritime Post is a Digital media organization operating on our registered web-address: https://themaritimepost.com/

We can be contacted via e-mail or through various social media platforms as listed below:

Email: [email protected] 

Facebook: The Maritime Post Facebook Page

Instagram: The Maritime Post Instagram Handle

Twitter: The Maritime Post Twitter Handle

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We do not have your personal information unless it was provided to us in one of the following ways:

1) By sharing your e-mail address when subscribing to our newsletter or while commenting on a post, an email address must be provided. The email address is not visible to the public nor is it shared with external sources.

(2) By providing personal information when you submit news tips, articles, or newsletters to our editorial team or by submitting a report via our Contact Form,

(3) By sharing personal information when you post comments on our posts,

(4) By sharing contact information (Twitter username, Instagram username, or Facebook account name) while connecting with us through various social networking sites,

(5) By participating in a survey where an email address is requested. We may also ask for other information at other times but at no time will you be required to share any personal information to gain complete access to our site.

Comments

On our website we use Facebook comments plugin, if you make a comment on The Maritime Post website, only your name and Facebook Profile picture will be displayed in the public, and your profile could be visited by clicking on your name from the comments section, no other information will be revealed from our end, unless you have revealed any of your personal information in your comment.

We never censor comments, even if they are of critical nature. However, we reserve the right to delete those comments that are off-topic, “spammy” in nature, abusive, use excessive foul language, or include ad hominem attacks.

Once a comment is made public on The Maritime Post website, we will not remove it by request. As a user, you are responsible for your own communications and are responsible for the consequences of their posting.

Contact forms

The information submitted through any Contact Forms on The Maritime Post website is stored for a period of 6 Months for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through the contact forms or by any means for any kind of marketing purposes.

Cookies and Advertisement

Our collaborators, supporters, and website plugins may use cookies on our site such as advertisements, which maintain whether you have visited the site before or not. We do not have control over these cookies after permission to advertisers have been granted. However, no identifiable information is attached to such cookies. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the advertising opt-out page.

We partner with a third-party ad network to either display advertising on our Site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other Web sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.

The User can allow or forbid the use and acceptance of cookies on his/her computer. If cookies are blocked by the User, it may prevent the User from being able to register or perform other interactive functions of the Site, but it will not affect the User’s ability to perform general navigation within the Site.

Email information collected for sending newsletters or promotional mails is not stored or used for any other purpose. Such information is not shared with any other parties.

Analytics

In addition to basic contact information, our analytic trackers may also collect information that is in no way personally identifiable. We use regular analytic applications, such as Google Analytics and Jetpack in order to track the visits to our site, which in turn includes the domain name, time, date and page visited. This may include the operating system you are working on, the Internet browser you are using, and the screen resolution of your computer.

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data with any third party except as mentioned in the Analytics section and for sending push notifications via One Signal, only if you opt in to receive communications from our end.

How long we retain your data

Only the data submitted through the Contacts form is submitted for 6 months, and if you have subscribed to our push notification sent via One Signal then we store the information provided by you till you decide to remain subscribed to our notifications, we do not continue to store your data once you have decided to unsubscribe from our push notifications other than that we do not maintain any records of your data.

What rights you have over your data

You have full control over your data. Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of Interest Based Advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com

Where we send your data

Third parties (such as Analytics apps, etc) have access to your data as noted within this agreement. We will never sell, rent, or lease your Personal Data to a third party.

Contact information

If you have any questions regarding privacy while using our website, or have questions about our practices, please contact us via email at [email protected]

How we protect your data

We use reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.