Privacy policy
General
MESPAS recognizes the importance of your privacy. As part of normal operations, we collect and, in some cases, disclose information about you. This privacy policy is meant to inform MESPAS users about what information we collect and how we treat this information. By using our services, you agree to the terms of our privacy policy. All references in this privacy policy to “we,” “us,” or “our” refer to MESPAS and its subsidiaries. All references in this privacy policy to “you” or “your” refer to the users of our services.Based on Article 13 of the Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation and the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), every person has a claim to the protection of their privacy as well as to protection against abuse of their personal data. We comply with those regulations. Furthermore, we comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the EU. The protection of your data is very important to us and we give priority to protect and keep it confidential. All of your data will be processed fairly and proportionately. The privacy policy is only valid for the software MESPAS provides. Insofar as external links provide access to different websites we refer to their policies. We do not guarantee their data protection.
Information Collection and Use
MESPAS may collect and ask you for personally identifiable information when you visit or use our website or portals, including your full name, company address, telephone number, e-mail address, a password, and other identifying information. We may also receive personally identifiable information about you from our business partners. We also automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie information, and the page you requested. We may use this information for several general purposes to:
- Customize the content you see
- Fulfil your requests for certain services and information
- Contact you
- Audit, research and analyse our website and portals and the services that we provide
- Ensure the technical functioning of our services
- Develop new services
Right to Information
You can access the personal data that we collect on our website or portals by logging in and viewing your account, or by contacting the administrator of your company. If you discover errors in your personally identifiable information on our website or portals, you can correct it by editing your account, or by contacting the administrator of your company.
Cookies
Our website and the aforementioned tools use cookies. Cookies are text files that are permanently or temporarily saved on your computer when you visit a website. If you visit the website again the cookies return the information to the server. They can only be read by the server that originally saved them. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can deactivate this function anytime. You can regulate your browser to be notified as soon as cookies are sent. However, part of our websites will not function properly if you deactivate cookies. We encourage you to allow cookies to use our website without restrictions.Information sharing and disclosure: MESPAS will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. To the extent permitted by law, we will only send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:
- We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested
- We need to send your information to companies who work on behalf of MESPAS to provide a product or service to you or MESPAS (unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us)
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process
- We find that your actions on our website or portals violate the "Terms and Conditions of Use" or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.
Disclosure of Personal Data
Personal data will only be disclosed to third parties if a ship manager wishes to send your company a request or place an order. If it is required by law or for prosecution, MESPAS will adhere to Swiss law.
Security
MESPAS website and portals have reasonable security measures to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Presently, the website and portals utilize Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology for all transmissions.
Changes to the Terms
We reserve the right, at any time, to modify, alter, or update the terms and conditions of this privacy policy without prior notice. Modifications shall become effective immediately upon being posted on our website and portals. Therefore, we encourage you to check our privacy policy on a regular basis.Your continued use of the website and portals after modifications are posted constitutes an acknowledgement and acceptance of the privacy policy and its modifications.
Reject MESPAS Privacy Policy
You can choose to reject this privacy policy:a) as a new user by selecting the reject button in the registration process
b) as an existing user by asking your MESPAS administrator to delete you as a user
Further, you can contact MESPAS at gdpr@mespas.com and ask for the removal of all your personal data. If you are the only user of your company, your company will be deleted.