Your privacy is important to us. It is the policy of the Maritime Career Guide to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you on the Maritime Career Guide website and other sites we own and operate. We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide you with a service. We do this by fair and legal means, with your knowledge and consent. We also inform you why we are collecting it and how it will be used. We only retain the information collected for as long as necessary to provide the requested service. When we store data, we protect it through commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. We do not publicly share personally identifiable information or with third parties, except when required by law. Our website may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites and cannot accept responsibility for their respective privacy policies. You are free to refuse our request for personal information, understanding that we may not be able to provide some of the desired services. Your continued use of our site will be considered acceptance of our practices regarding privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, please contact us.

**Security and Trust of the Maritime Career Guide website**
The site is trusted and secure for user navigation as indicated by the Verification. The page verifies site information to identify potential security issues. Navigation verified by Google’s security tool shows that the site is safe.

**Cookie Policy of Maritime Career Guide**
What are cookies? As is common practice on almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are small files downloaded to your computer, to enhance your experience. This page describes what information they collect, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored; however, this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.

**How do we use cookies?**
We use cookies for various reasons, detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry-standard options to disable cookies without disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, as they may be used to provide a service you use.

**Disabling cookies**
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting your browser settings (check your browser’s Help for how to do this). Please be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit. Disabling cookies will generally result in disabling certain functionalities and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

**Cookies we set**
Account-related cookies: If you create an account with us, we will use cookies for managing the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out of the system, however, in some cases, they may remain afterward to remember your site preferences upon logging out.

Login-related cookies: We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember that action. This prevents you from having to log in every time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure you can only access restricted resources and areas by logging in.

Email newsletter-related cookies: This site offers newsletter or email subscription services, and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications valid only for subscribed/unsubscribed users.

Processing order-related cookies: This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities, and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered across pages so that we can process it properly.

Survey-related cookies: Periodically, we offer surveys and questionnaires to provide interesting information, useful tools, or to better understand our user base. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already participated in a survey or to provide accurate results after page changes.

Form-related cookies: When you submit data through a form, such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember user details for future correspondence.

Site preference cookies: To provide a great experience on this site, we provide functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page affected by your preferences.

**Third-party cookies**
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you may encounter through this site. This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted web analytics solutions, to help us understand how you use the site and how we can improve your experience. These cookies can track items such as how long you spend on the site and the pages visited, so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please visit the official Google Analytics page.

Third-party analytics are used to track and measure the use of this site, so we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies can track items such as the time you spend on the site or the pages visited, which helps us understand how we can improve the site for you. Periodically, we test new features and make subtle changes to how the site appears. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience while on the site while understanding which optimizations our users appreciate the most. As we sell products, it is important for us to understand the statistics on how many visitors to our site actually make a purchase; therefore, this is the type of data that these cookies will track. This is important for you as it means that we can make accurate business forecasts that allow us to analyze our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

**User Commitment**
The user commits to making appropriate use of the content and information that the Maritime Career Guide offers on the site and with a non-limiting character: A) Not engaging in activities that are illegal or contrary to good faith and public order; B) Not disseminating propaganda or content of a racist, xenophobic nature, or gambling, games of chance, any type of illegal pornography, glorification of terrorism, or against human rights; C) Not causing damage to the physical (hardware) and logical (software) systems of the Maritime Career Guide, its suppliers or third parties, by introducing or disseminating computer viruses or any other hardware or software systems that can cause the aforementioned damage.

**Blocking cookies:** The user can block and/or disable cookies from any site, including ours, at any time. To perform this procedure, access your browser settings. See below for help guides for major browsers: Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Safari.

**More information**
We hope this has clarified things, and as mentioned earlier, if there is anything you are unsure whether you need or not, it is generally safer to leave cookies enabled if you interact with one of the features you use on our site. This policy is effective from December 2024.