Privacy Policy.

Effective Date: 13 Oct 2024

Sea of Competency ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website [website address] (the "Site") or use our services. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using the Site or our services, you signify your agreement to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you may not access or use the Site or our services.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

Contact us: This may include your name, email address, phone number, and any other information you choose to provide in your message.

Subscribe to our newsletter: This may include your email address.

Enroll in our programmes: This may include your name, contact information, payment information, and any other information necessary to process your enrollment and provide our services.

We may also collect certain information automatically when you visit the Site, such as:

Log data: This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

Cookies: We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Site and hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use your information to:

Provide and improve our services: To operate our website, fulfill your requests, process your enrollment, provide customer support, and improve our services.

Communicate with you: To send you updates, newsletters, promotional materials, and other information related to our services.

Personalize your experience: To tailor content and offers to your interests.

Analyze website usage: To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Site.

Protect our rights and interests: To prevent fraud, enforce our Terms of Service, and protect our rights and interests.

3. Legal Basis for Processing

Our legal basis for collecting and using your personal information will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where:

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We have your consent to do so;
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Where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you (e.g., to deliver our services); or

Where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.

4. Disclosure of Your Information  We may disclose your information:

To service providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in providing and improving our services (e.g., payment processors, email marketing platforms).

To comply with legal obligations: We may disclose your information to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes.

To protect our rights: We may disclose your information to protect our rights, property, and safety, or the rights, property, and safety of others.

5. Data Security  We have implemented reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

6. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

7. Your Data Protection Rights

You have the following data protection rights:

Access: You have the right to access your personal information.

Rectification: You have the right to have your personal information corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete.

Erasure: You have the right to request the deletion or removal of your personal information where there is no compelling reason for us to continue processing it.

Restriction: You have the right to 'block' or suppress further use of your personal information.

Objection: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information.

Data portability: You have the right to obtain and reuse your personal information for your own purposes across different services.

Withdraw consent: If you have given your consent to the processing of your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at fernsmaritime@gmail.com. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

8. Children's Privacy

Our services are not directed to individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at fernsmaritime@gmail.com.

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes).

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

fernsmaritime@gmail.com