Privacy Policy
Vessel Vanguard Group is committed to your privacy. Read the following for a clear explanation of how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your information.
Effective date: August 1, 2023
Overview
Vessel Vanguard Group LLC (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://www.vesselvanguard.com website, hereinafter referred to as the “Service”. This site is not considered a social site.
The website contain two areas. The first area is the general website open to public access for the purpose of attracting new customers to our Service and for sharing company and industry related information with our existing customers of the Service. The second area is available only to subscribers of our Service through a contract process. The details of how information and data entered in the subscriber Service may be used by Vessel Vanguard Group is provided in a separate contract and accessible only through a subscription with password protected access.
When using the publicly-accessible general website, you may be supplying data through your connection or you may be asked to supply non-sensitive personal data. Providing this information is voluntary. Data supplied directly by you or through your connection may be used for presenting information to you while you are connected to the site or in the future. Data may be used to contact you for consultation, advertising, analysis, selling or informing you of our products or products of our affiliates, sales and market research purposes and additional business related activities.
The following outlines our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of non-sensitive personal data when you use our general website and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service and for other business related activities that may lead to a sale of services or products to you from which Vessel Vanguard Group will benefit in a business manner. By using the site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy and Site Use Policy.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service and for other business related activities that may lead to a sale of services or products to you from which Vessel Vanguard Group will benefit in a business manner. By using the site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy and Site Use Policy.
Types of Data Collected
While using our site, we may ask you to provide us with certain non-sensitive personal information that can be used to contact or identify you. NSPD may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name
- last name
- Business Name
- Title or business area of responsibility
- Phone number
- Street address
- City
- State or Province
- ZIP or postal code
- Cookies
- Usage data
Usage Data
Tracking & Cookies Data
Examples of Cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. For site or Service operation.
- Preference Cookies. To remember preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies. For security purposes.
Use of Data
We use collected data for various purposes, such as:
- Provide and maintain access to our Service or site
- Notify you about changes to our Service or site
- Allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service or site when you choose to do so
- Provide customer support
- Gather, evaluate, and analyze information so that we can improve our Service or business
- Monitor the usage of our Service or site
- Detect, prevent and address technical issues
- Provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events unless you have opted not to receive such information
- Other business purposes as we determine
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the NSPD on the site or any Sensitive Personal Data (Personal Data) in the Service depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
We may process your Personal Data because:
- We need to configure and execute a contract with you
- You have given us permission to do so
- The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights
- To comply with the law
Retention of Data
Transfer of Data
Disclosure of Data
We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary:
- To comply with a legal obligation or if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
- To protect and defend our rights or property
- To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the site or Service
- To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
- To protect against legal liability
Security of Data
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
- The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
- The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
- The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
- The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
- The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where we relied on your consent to process your personal information.