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Privacy Policy

James Fisher and Sons plc – Privacy Policy

Martek Marine Ltd is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy explains how we process your data and the ways in which it is used to be GDPR compliant. If you have any questions regarding the processing of your data, please email us at [email protected]

GDPR relates to the General Data Protection Regulation that came into effect on the 25th of May 2018.

Information Collected

Martek Marine collect details provided by you on registration together with information we learn about you from the use of our products or services, and visits to our website, and other websites accessible from them. We also collect information about any transactions that you undertake with us.

We may collect additional information in connection with your participation in any promotion or competitions offered by us, along with information provided when you give feedback. We also monitor customer traffic patterns and site usage to improve our service to you.

We will not be collecting information about browsing habits outside of our own domains plus personal information relating to you and your private life, such as gender and age.

Use of Your Information

We will use your information to provide a personalised and tailored service when we communicate with you. We may contact you by post, email, telephone or fax for these purposes.

We like to ensure that we continually improve our service to you, and so from time to time, we may ask to hear your views and opinions on our products and service. This may be by post, email, telephone or fax.

There may be instances where it is necessary to communicate with you, in any event, for administrative or operational reasons relating to our products or service.

This data is held in a state of the art highly protected data storage environment within the UK and will be used to:

Email

We use the CommuniGator platform to send emails. Both the CommuniGator data centre and its support professionals are located within the EU.

By submitting your information into one of the page.martek-marine.com or martek-marine.com data capture points, you are confirming the following:

Should you wish to stop receiving emails from Martek Marine, you may:

Please note, we cannot accept unsubscribe requests through any other channel.

Disclosure of Your Information

Your information may be passed on to associated agencies who are directly involved with the products and services we provide. We will never pass your details to anyone else.

Data Security

Due to the open nature of the internet, transmitting data to Martek Marine must only be done via approved data transmission channels. We will endeavour to ensure your data is transmitted to us using the known best practice approaches. It’s important to note, any data you send to us is sent at your own risk.

Once your data is received, it will be stored within the Martek Marine secure data environment, where we have robust processes and procedures to keep it safe.

Your Rights

Martek Marine is working hard to ensure it sets an exemplary standard in data management and usage. Specifically, under the proposed GDPR you have the right to request the following:

  1. The right to be informed
  2. The right of access
  3. The right to rectification
  4. The right to erasure (or be forgotten)
  5. The right to restrict processing
  6. The right to data portability
  7. The right to object
  8. Rights in relation to automatic decision making and profiling

For more information on GDPR and your rights please see
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-reform/overview-of-the-gdpr/

If you have questions concerning the processing of your personal data you should contact the Data Protection Officer: Talisa Vallance, Martek Marine, Adwick Park, Rotherham, S63 5AB.

In the event that you have not received a response within 30 days, you have the right to contact The ICO, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF, Email: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email or telephone: 0303 123 1113.

Cookies

‘Cookies’ are a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website’s computer and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. For more information about Cookies and how to disable them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org

During the course of any visit to martek-marine.com, the pages you see, along with a short text file called a ‘cookie’, are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like finding out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors. Some cookies also help us by showing how our users use and move around the site and which services they like or don’t like. When looking at this information, we do so on an anonymous and aggregate basis without viewing any of your personal details.

Misrepresentation

Whilst Martek Marine has taken care to ensure the accuracy of this site and its content, Martek Marine accepts no liability for any damage, costs, injury or financial loss of any kind incurred as a result of reliance on the information or opinions within this site.

Hypertext links within this site lead to other websites, some of which are not under the control of Martek Marine. All links are provided with no warranty for the information provided within them and Martek Marine accepts no liability for any damage, costs, injury or financial loss of any kind caused by the contents of those websites.

Copyright

This website is governed by the law of the United Kingdom and any disputes shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. Copyright and Trademark Copyright: © Martek Marine 2019

The copyright in this website is owned by or licensed to Martek Marine. Unless stated to the contrary, the material in this website is copyright to Martek Marine. Reproduction is limited to downloading to a local hard disk for your personal use. The content of this website may not be copied or otherwise incorporated into or stored in any other website, electronic retrieval system or in any other publicly available form without the prior written consent of Martek Marine. The website is protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act.