Privacy Policy for Maritime Finance PTY Ltd
Effective Date: 01/10/24
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://maritimefinance.co.za. Maritime Finance PTY Ltd (“we,” “our,” “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled responsibly. This privacy policy outlines our practices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your personal information.
2. Information We Collect
When you visit our website, we may collect the following types of information:
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Personal Information: When you fill out forms, subscribe to our newsletter, or interact with our services, we may collect personal information, including but not limited to your name, email address, and financial information.
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Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy can be found here: Gravatar Privacy Policy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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Media: If you upload images to our website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
3. Cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit our site. If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again for future comments. These cookies will last for one year.
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If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
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When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
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If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
4. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves the same way as if the visitor has visited those websites. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
5. Who We Share Your Data With
We may share your data with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, as long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
6. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically. For users that register on our website, we 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.
7. Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account on our 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. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, subject to our obligation to retain certain information for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
8. Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
9. Security of Your Information
We take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the effective date at the top. We encourage you to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at:
Email: [support@maritimefinance.co.za]
Address: 8H Radar Road, West Beach, Bloubergstrand, Cape Town
