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In compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

By accessing or using any part or service of the Website, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement.

The main language of the Website content is English (international maritime language).

These rules are written in English. The laws of UK will apply to any disputes arising out of or relating to these terms or the Services.

If you are not agree or do not understand any clause of these rules or found that you are not agree with these rules, being in process of using the Website already – you shouldn’t continue to use the Website and should delete your data via your account settings or ask the administration to do it instead of you.

The Website administration is not responsible for the incorrect understanding of these rules as well as for the incorrect translation from English to any other language by users.

By accepting this Agreement, you agree with following rules:

1. Public content

By submitting any public Content to the Website for inclusion on the Website, you grant Website administration a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content for the purpose of displaying, distributing, promoting, marketing or any other lawful use. If you leave information anywhere on the Website, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website, You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party.

2. Account security

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your user area account, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the account. You must immediately notify Website administration of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security. Website administration will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.

3. Payments

The Website is a FREEMIUM model and offers a lot of the main functional FOR FREE. There are also numerous PREMIUM online products and services for sale. The Website does not handle payments for these products directly, but rather refers these payments to a secure third-party payment processor which handles all aspects of the payment process. Once we have been notified by the payment processor that a payment has been made, access will be automatically granted to the online product or service being purchased as soon as possible, however we make no guarantees of timeliness or immediacy. If you believe that your payment was successful, but purchased service was not provided in reasonable time, you should contact Website administration directly with the appropriate notice. By purchasing any premium services on the Website you agree with the following: the Website just provides numerous online job-search and crew-selection services. It doesn’t guaranty an employment and doesn’t take part in the employment process. Any questions regarding the employment process should be addressed to an employer which provides vacancies or to a CV-holder directly.

4. Newsletter and notifications

If you choose to register and use any services on the Website merchantnavyinfo.com , you agree to receive a periodical newsletter from us. Our newsletter is made to keep you up to date with marine-related developments, updates, releases, new relevant vacancies, new CVs and other relevant items. You can also create your own subscriptions accordingly to your user account type: vacancies notifications, new applicants’ CVs notifications etc. You can unsubscribe from this mailing at any time you like by clicking the unsubscribe buttons inside of your account.

5. Responsibility of Website users and Visitors

By operating the Website, administration does not take responsibility for any or all of the contributed content, or that it believes such material to be accurate, truthful, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself from any kind of scam and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain users’ content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. Administration disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting to uses and visitors of the Website.

The Administration reserves the right to:

Modify the Website any time in its sole discretion. The Website is provided “as is”.
Change fees, services, expiry dates.
Decline users’ request for registration on the Website, or delete users’ accounts in case of infringement of this terms, also without an explanation.
Edit or delete any content published on the Website, if it doesn’t comply with these terms, is harmful to the Website or any third party, and at for its sole discretion for any reason.
Amend the Terms and Conditions unilaterally. It is your responsibility to check it periodically.

Privacy Policy and Personal Data protection:

1. The aim and mission of the Website:

Website is mainly constructed for the purposes and services of personal data provision in the form of resume / CV / profile by jobseekers to the potential employers for the aim of job finding. The minimum volume of requested user’s personal data is defined by the Website in connection with the main services functionality and proper operation of the system accordingly to the main aim and mission. No personal data, other than what is necessary, is requested!

The additional volume of personal information is defined by user accordingly to own understanding of the applying process for the aim of job finding.

2. Is your information being collected and processed?

Site user by creating and posting CV and / or other data on the Website and / or by sending CV and / or other similar emails to email addresses of companies and / or other users of the Website voluntarily provided by Website administration, as well as employers / companies / managers that have access to this Website, its unconditional consent to the processing of his personal data (contained in the summary, communications and / or other information collected and / or posted on the Website and / or sent to other users of the Website).

The Website will ask user for the consent for personal data processing in each separate case for his clear understanding of the purpose.

3. What is processing of information?

The processing of personal data includes any act and / or a set of actions that are associated with the collection, recording, accumulation, storage, adaptation, alteration, renovation, use and distribution (implementation, transfer), removing personal information in order to provide services of the Website.

4. What information is being collected?

The volume of personal information, provided by user under his consent, which may be processed and which can be included in the databases of personal data (including personal data base of CVs), is defined as any information about the user (which is housed in an executive summary and / or other data collected and / or on the Website and / or letters sent with it), which will become known to the Website administration, as well as to any third party using the Website

5.Why is it being collected?

The collection, storage and processing of personal data is to provide personalized services to the site user, including access to a private section, authorization, password reminder, publication and sending resumes, targeting advertisements, with users, including notifications, requests and information regarding use of the Site, services, processing of user requests, as well as other site services accordingly to the main aim and mission.

6. Who will it be shared with?

User gives his consent to the processing of personal data with the aim of the transmission of personal data to third parties (employers and / or their agents / or managers) accordingly to the main aim and mission of the Website. The full list of such third parties (employers) is published and regularly updated on the Website. User may also transmit his personal data to any other third party by his personal choice by technical means of Website.

Website administration is not responsible for further processing of personal data by third parties (employers and / or their agents / or managers) and doesn’t take part in the employment process.

7. How long we retain your personal data?

By accepting this Agreement, the user acknowledges that he understood his rights, and the purpose of the collection, storage and processing of personal data. The user also agrees that the period of processing of personal data is indefinite, until his request for a deletion / stop of processing.

8. Right to change and delete information

User can change (update, supplement) his personal data (account / profile / CV), or part of them at any time 24/7.User may complete remove / delete his Website’s user account / profile / CV and all personal data from the Website using the settings of his Website’s account at any time 24/7. User may also ask the administration to help with deleting his personal data in case of any difficulties.After a deleting of user account / profile / CV, the processing of personal data (by means / in connection with Web-site) is completely stopped.E-mail address once used for registration will be stored for indefinite time as a digital footprint to prevent multiply fraudulent registrations in future and mustn’t be used again.

Cookies Policy:

Cookies are small text files that website places on the computers and mobile devices of people who visit the website.

These files are then read by the website each time you return to the site. These text files allow a website to remember your device and how you interacted with the website, which is useful for a number of different purposes, such as: keeping you signed in; remember your language settings; remember your selected content for online comparison; provide high speed of operation; provide high standard of automated services; to collect some statistics to improve the work of website; sharing the website links to social networks; Website does not use cookies for: collection of any personal data (without user’s consent); transfer of any personal data to third parties (without user’s consent);

By continue using the website you hereby agree that we can use the cookies in accordance with the provisions described in this policy.

You can refuse to use cookies by selecting the appropriate cookies settings in your web-browser. You can find detailed instructions on the web-sites of your web-browser providers which may highly differ for each particular browser or its version.

Cookies of Third Parties

We use services provided by 2 third parties: Google Analytics (used for creating a statistics) Add This (used for sharing website pages links to social media) Each of them offers its own set of cookies, the disabling of which will negatively affect certain functions of the site

Advertising Cookies

The website is Advertisement-Free. We do not place any third party advertisements and do not use any advertising cookies.

Refund Policy:

If you are not 100% satisfied with your purchase, please contact Website administration with your claim within 7 days after the service activation. We will consider your information and make decision of a complete or partial refund, which will be made during following 7 business days. Refund is to be made the same way as the payment was performed.

DISCLAIMER!

Merchant Navy Info does not provide employment services and does not contact users directly. If you have received a message from someone claiming to represent Merchant Navy Info and offering you a job, please do not respond to this message and do not provide any personal information.
Our official domains and email addresses from which you can receive automatic notifications are:
info@merchantnavyinfo.com
If you have received a suspicious message or call, please report it to us using the feedback form.