This policy is intended to explain how we handle your information with clarity and transparency. We believe it’s important that you understand our practices so you can make informed decisions about the use of our site. This is not the full policy for online tools that may be accessible through this site that require you to log in. The privacy, confidentiality and security policies for those tools will be clearly provided on their pages.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://shipitrating.agency. It is the main static site for The Ship-It Rating Agency or SIRA. SIRA is to be run by its members and is planned to be spun out from ownership by the founding organisation(s). The initial and current founding organisation is Arroware Ltd, a company registered in the UK. Please address any issues or questions about privacy of the information gathered on this site to info @ shipitrating.agency.
Data from Comments and Enquiries
If visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and may collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. This is to ensure a safe and welcoming environment for everyone to share their thoughts and opinions.
Media
If you upload images to our website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. We advise being mindful of your privacy when sharing media.
Cookies
Our website may use cookies to enhance your experience. Cookies are small text files stored on your device to remember your preferences and some of your actions on our site. For example, cookies can be used to remember you when you return to our website and to help us understand how you interact with our content. You can adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies if you prefer, but some parts of our site may not function as intended without them.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on our site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We respect your privacy and do not share your personal information with third parties unnecessarily. Data sharing is limited to partners who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also send visitor comments to be checked through an automated spam detection service. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained and could be retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. However, you can always request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
What rights you have over your data
In addition, if you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.