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ABPmer
Quayside Suite
Medina Chambers
Town Quay
Southampton
SO14 2AQ
We value your privacy and take our obligations under privacy and data protection law very seriously. This Privacy Notice gives you information about how we process your Personal Information when you visit our Websites (defined below) or otherwise contact ABPmer.
This Privacy Notice does not cover the links within linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
In this Privacy Notice:
For more details about how ABPmer collects and uses Personal Information, including the Personal Information we collect when you visit our premises, please see our full Privacy Policy.
When we say “we”, “our”, “ABPmer” we mean ABP Marine Environmental Research Limited who is the “data controller” for the Personal Information collected and used in connection with the provision of marina services. This means we are responsible for deciding how we can use your Personal Information.
Personal Information means information about a living person by which that person can be identified either directly or indirectly.
Sensitive Personal Information is a special category of Personal Information which is particularly sensitive and which requires higher levels of protection, such as information about a person's health or sexual orientation.
We collect the following information about you:
Our Websites are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children via our Websites.
We may collect Sensitive Personal Information from you in the course of our business depending on the context of our particular relationship with you.
We collect Personal Information from you when you interact with our Website or contact us by telephone, email, post or in person.
In the course of us providing goods or services to you, you may provide us with Personal Information relating to third parties.
We will use this Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Notice. If you are providing Personal Information to us relating to a third party, you confirm that you have the consent of the third party to share such Personal Information with us and that you have made the Personal Information in this Privacy Notice available to the third party.
Your Personal Information may be used by us, our employees, service providers, and disclosed to third parties for the following nine purposes.
For each of these purposes, we have set out the legal basis on which we use your Personal Information.
The legal basis will fall into one of the following four categories, depending on the communication and the purpose for which it was sent:
Depending on the circumstances:
Where this involves the processing of sensitive personal information such as your disability status, we process such information with your explicit consent.
This processing is necessary for our legitimate business interests in order for us to manage our relationship with you and to improve/develop our products, services and staff training.
Depending on the context, this processing could be necessary for:
Depending on the circumstances:
The processing is carried out for our legitimate business interests because it enables us to develop and improve our services offered to you.
Depending on the circumstances:
The processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
Depending on the circumstances:
We may be required to obtain your Personal Information to comply with our legal requirements, to enable us to fulfil the terms of any contract that we have with or in preparation of us entering into a contract with you. For example, if you do not provide the relevant Personal Information to us such as your name and postal address, we will not be able to provide the relevant product to you or another person (as may be requested by you).
We will only retain your Personal Information for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. The length of time we hold on to your personal information will vary according to what that information is and the reason for which it is being processed, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements or defending any potential claim.
When it is no longer necessary to retain your Personal Information, we will delete or anonymise it.
We will always treat your Personal Information with respect and do not sell or trade your Personal Information. We may share your Personal Information with:
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your Personal Information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.
In addition, we limit access to your Personal Information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a need to know. They will only process your Personal Information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have also put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
Sometimes it is necessary for us to process or share your Personal Information outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), e.g. with our service providers located outside the EEA (i.e. our IT suppliers) or if you are based outside the EEA.
When we transfer Personal Information outside of the EEA, we will implement appropriate and suitable safeguards to ensure that such Personal Information will be protected as required by applicable data protection law (e.g. contractual protections).
For further information as to the safeguards we implement please contact our Data Protection Officer as detailed in the section "How to contact us".
You have certain rights with respect to your Personal Information. The rights may only apply in certain circumstances and are subject to certain exemptions. Please see the table below for a summary of your rights.
Summary of your rights
Right of access to your Personal Information
You have the right to receive a copy of your Personal Information that we hold about you, subject to certain exemptions.
Any access request is free of charge. We may require further information in order to respond to your request (for instance, evidence of your identity and information to enable us to locate the specific Personal Information you require).
Right to rectify your Personal Information
You have the right to ask us to correct your Personal Information that we hold where it is incorrect or incomplete.
Right to erasure of your Personal Information
You have the right to ask that your Personal Information be deleted in certain circumstances. For example (i) where your Personal Information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise used; (ii) if you withdraw your consent and there is no other legal ground for which we rely on for the continued use of your Personal Information; (iii) if you object to the use of your Personal Information (as set out below); (iv) if we have used your Personal Information unlawfully; or (v) if your Personal Information needs to be erased to comply with a legal obligation.
Right to restrict the use of your Personal Information
You have the right to suspend our use of your Personal Information in certain circumstances. For example (i) where you think your Personal Information is inaccurate and only for such period to enable us to verify the accuracy of your Personal Information; (ii) the use of your Personal Information is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of your Personal Information and request that it is suspended instead; (iii) we no longer need your Personal Information, but your Personal Information is required by you for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or (iv) you have objected to the use of your Personal Information and we are verifying whether our grounds for the use of your Personal Information override your objection.
Right to data portability
You have the right to obtain your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and for it to be transferred to another organisation, where it is technically feasible. The right only applies where the use of your Personal Information is based on your consent or for the performance of a contract, and when the use of your Personal Information is carried out by automated (i.e. electronic) means.
Right to object to the use of your Personal Information
You have the right to object to the use of your Personal Information in certain circumstances. For example (i) where you have grounds relating to your particular situation and we use your Personal Information for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party); and (ii) if you object to the use of your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes.
Right to object to decision which is based solely on automated processing
You have the right in certain circumstances not to be subject to a decision which is based solely on automated processing without human intervention.
Right to withdraw consent
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on consent to use your Personal Information.
Right to complain to the relevant data protection authority
You have the right to complain to the relevant data protection authority, which is in the case of us, the Information Commissioner's Office, where you think we have not used your Personal Information in accordance with data protection law.
If you wish to contact us about how we handle your Personal Information or this Privacy Notice or to exercise any of your rights, please contact the Group Data Protection & Security Officer at dataprotection@abports.co.uk, 077204 16654 or by post FAO Group Data Protection & Security Officer, Associated British Ports, 25 Bedford Street, London WC2E 9ES.
We will amend this Privacy Notice from time to time to ensure it remains up to date. Any changes we make to this Privacy Notice in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, we will give you reasonable notice of any changes. Please visit our Website to keep up to date with any changes. The current version will always be posted on our Website. This Privacy Notice was first published on 25 May 2018.
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How we use cookies
We may use cookies to compile or aggregate data about site traffic and interactions to offer better site experiences and tools in the future
We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
Managing cookies
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can set your browser to not accept cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since each browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn how to modify the way it treats cookies.
If you turn cookies off, some features of our website may not function properly or your user experience may be slowed.
For further information about controlling cookies visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/ You can also read your browser's built-in or online help for more information.
Opting out
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Do Not Track signals
Third party browsers may provide “do not track” signals for websites which are automatically applied by default and therefore do not necessarily reflect our visitor’s choice as to whether they wish to receive personalised ads. We do not respond to browser-based ‘do not track’ signals. You can learn more about do not track signals at https://allaboutdnt.com/.
ABPmer values your privacy and takes its obligations under privacy and data protection law very seriously.
This Privacy Notice sets out our commitment to you regarding how we may collect, process, use, protect or otherwise handle your information from this website (www.renewables-atlas.info).
This Privacy Notice will be subject to regular review and may change from time to time.
The current Privacy Notice was updated on 24th May 2018.
Information you provide directly
We collect contact or other information that you provide us voluntarily in connection with a particular activity, product or service, including your name, email address or telephone number. This includes when you contact us using a “Contact Us” form on the site, complete a download form or send us an e-mail.
Information we collect automatically
We also use technology to track patterns and behaviours of visitors to our websites. The web server will record log file data that your browser sends whenever you visit this site. These log files may include information such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the website, browser type, time and duration of your visit, and information about the content and webpages you view.
To ensure a smooth website experience and/or to track the patterns and behaviour of visitors we might use a “cookie”. This data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.
When you complete a particular form on this website we will tell you how we will use the information you provide. This may be to:
We would like to send you our e-zine that features insights, updates and links to downloads that might interest you. We will always ask for your consent to be added to our e-news mailing list and you have the right to be removed from this list at anytime.
We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
We may process your Personal Information without your knowledge or consent, where this is required or permitted by law.
When you browse this website we may aggregate your data with others’ to understand how the Website is used to improve the experience.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements or defending any potential claim.
When it is no longer necessary to retain your personal information we will delete or anonymise it.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your Personal Information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.
In addition we restrict access to your personal information to those who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve the service in accordance with this Privacy Notice. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We will always treat your personal information with respect and do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties without your consent.
This does not include website hosting partners and other parties 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 and comply with Data Protection Regulations.
If you make any offensive, threatening or otherwise objectionable comments, we may use such information to prevent such behaviour and to report this to the appropriate authorities for further investigation.
Sometimes it is necessary for us to share your personal information outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) e.g:
When we transfer personal information from the EEA to other countries in which applicable laws do not offer the same level of data privacy protection as in the UK, we take measures to provide an appropriate level of data privacy protection (e.g. contractual protections).
When we offer links to third-party information websites, these third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Email us at enquiries@abpmer.co.uk and we will update our records
Follow the instructions at the bottom of each e-news mailing or email us at enquiries@abpmer.co.uk and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.
Subject to certain legal conditions, you have the right to request a copy of the Personal Information ABPmer holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected and to object to or restrict our using your Personal Information. You may also make a complaint if you have a concern about our handling of your personal information.
If you would like to do any of the above please send an email to enquiries@abpmer.co.uk or use the Contact Us form on any of our websites.
We may request that you prove your identity by providing us with a copy of a valid means of identification in order for us to comply with our security obligations and to prevent unauthorised disclosure of data. We reserve the right to charge you a reasonable administrative fee for any manifestly unfounded or excessive requests concerning your access to your data, and for any additional copies of the personal information you request from us.
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.
If you have any comments or questions regarding this Privacy Notice or how we handle your personal information, please contact us at:
Medina Chambers, Town Quay, Southampton SO14 2AQ
Phone +44 (0) 2380 711840
Email: enquiries@abpmer.co.uk
We will amend this Privacy Notice from time to time to ensure it remains up to date. The current version will always be posted on our websites.
Last updated: 24 May 2018
ABPmer
Quayside Suite
Medina Chambers
Town Quay
Southampton
SO14 2AQ