The Society of Maritime Industries Limited ("the Society") - Web Site Privacy Policy
The following statement reflects the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web Site http://www.maritimeindustries.org as well as any information services related to this Web Site.

Notice
The Society gathers only the information which is essential to providing good service to its members, subscribers, advertisers and Web Site visitors. The Society does not sell, lease or license confidential information to third parties except for those third parties directly involved in the delivery and service of the Society’s products and services. Any sharing of information is fully disclosed and done with the permission of all necessary parties.

The Society uses your Internet Protocol (IP) address to help diagnose problems with its server and to administer our Web Site. This site also collects the referring URL for tracking Web traffic referred from other sites. Details of how the Society collects and uses information related to individual Web users and companies is described below.

Personal Information
On occasion the Society will collect personal contact information through the Web Site for registration with the Society, registration at any function organised by the Society or to provide other services. The purpose of collecting the information is to enable the Society to deliver requested services and to contact the individual about the requested service if necessary. No credit card information will be handled through the Web Site.

The personal contact information will be kept in an active database and will be used for future communications from the Society only with explicit permission from the individual. The Society does not disclose personal information without the consent of a data subject, as those terms are defined in the Data Protection Act 1998. Such data also will not be sold, leased or combined with other data to create personal user profiles.

Email Links and Web-Based Forms
The Society uses email links and web-based forms to allow you to contact the Society directly with questions, comments or to register an interest in joining or subscribing. The Society does not sell, lease or license this information to third parties. This information is used to respond directly to your questions or comments. The Society may file your comments for the purposes of evaluating how to improve the Web Site or services, or it may review and discard the information.

Outbound Links
This site contains links to other sites. The Society encourages partner sites to comply with the current best practices for the electronic collection of personal and confidential information. However, the Society is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other sites or their associated companies and partners. The Society recommends that you review the privacy policy on other sites to ensure that you understand how they address issues related to the use of your personal information.

Choice / Access
The Society requires user consent before collecting or using any personal information. Users may review, modify or remove from active use their information in the Society’s database, choose to no longer receive communications or service at any time by contacting the Society.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Employees of the Society are made aware of the security and privacy practices, and where appropriate, their obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 as amended from time to time, through periodic training as needed.

Changes
The current version of the privacy policy will be that displayed at any particular time. The Society will not necessarily automatically inform subscribers or visitors to the Web Site of any change to this privacy policy, and accordingly users are responsible for checking prior to use of the Web Site.