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Last Updated: April 03 2023

Thank you for visiting the Cookies Policy of Marine Engineering News™. This Cookies Policy explains how Marine Engineering News™ (collectively, “Marine Engineering News”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and shares information about you (“you”, “yours” or “user”) when you access or use our websites (“Services”).

Users are responsible for any third-party data they provide or share through the Services and confirm that they have the third-party's consent to provide such data to us.

Information We Collect

We may collect and combine information about you when you access or use the Services, including:

Contact Information: such as:

1. Email address

Log and Usage Information: such as browser type you use, hardware model, operating system, IP address, unique device identifiers, access times, pages viewed, links clicked, and browsing behavior such as time spent, what site you came from, what site you visit when you leave us, and browsing behavior.

How We Use Your Information

We use information we collect about you to provide, maintain, and improve our Services and other interactions we have with you. For example, we use the information collected to:

1. Facilitate and improve our online experience;

2. Provide and deliver products and services, perform authentication, process transactions and returns, and send you related information, including confirmations, receipts, invoices, customer experience surveys, and product or Services-related notices;

3. Process and deliver promotions;

4. Respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service;

5. If you have indicated to us that you wish to receive notifications or promotional messages;

6. Detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect our rights and property and others;

7. Comply with our legal and financial obligations;

7. Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities;

8. Provide and allow our partners to provide advertising and marketing targeted toward your interests.

How We May Share Information

We may share your Personal Information in the following situations:

Third Party Services Providers. We may share data with service providers, vendors, contractors, or agents who complete transactions or perform services on our behalf, such as those that assist us with our business and internal operations like shipping and delivery, payment processing, fraud prevention, customer service, gift cards, experiences, personalization, marketing, and advertising;

Change in Business. We may share data in connection with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company, joint venture, corporate reorganization, insolvency or bankruptcy, financing or sale of company assets;

To Comply with Law. We may share data to facilitate legal process from lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement demands as permitted by law.

With Your Consent. We may share data with third parties when we have your consent.

With Advertising and Analytics Partners. See the section entitled “Advertising and Analytics” below.

Data Security

We implement commercially reasonable security measures designed to protect your information. Despite our best efforts, however, no security measures are completely impenetrable.

Data Retention

We store the information we collect about you for as long as necessary for the purpose(s) for which we collected it or for other legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.

Legal Bases For Processing Personal Data

We may process your Personal Data under applicable data protection law on the following legal grounds:

Contractual Necessity: we may process your Personal Data to enter into or perform a contract with you.

Consent: where you have provided consent to process your Personal Data. You may withdraw your consent at any time.

Legitimate interest: we process your Personal Data to provide our Services to you such as to provide our online user experience, communicate with you, provide customer service, market, analyze and improve our business, and to protect our Services.

Storage of Information in the United States

Information we maintain may be stored both within and outside of the United States. If you live outside of the United States, you understand and agree that we may transfer your information to the United States, and that U.S. laws may not afford the same level of protection as those in your country.

Changes to this Cookies Policy

Marine Engineering News™ may change this Cookies Policy from time to time. We encourage you to visit this page to stay informed. If the changes are material, we may provide you additional notice to your email address or through our Services. Your continued use of the Services indicates your acceptance of the modified Cookies Policy.