Union Maritime Limited of Portland House 69-71 Wembley Hill Road, Wembley, Middlesex, England, HA9 8BU. Union Maritime Limited acts as data controller in respect of the personal information that we process. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you. Under the data protection rules, we are required to notify you of the information set out in this privacy notice.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, how we handle your personal information, or you would like to update the information we hold about you, please email compliance@unionmaritime.com.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time by updating this page in order to reflect changes in the law and/or our privacy practices.
Personal information that we’ll process in connection with all of our services, if relevant, includes:
We will collect personal information from the following general sources:
From other sources such as Fraud Prevention Agencies, Credit Reference Agencies, other lenders, HMRC, DWP, public ally available directories and information (for example, telephone directory, social media, internet, news articles), debt recovery and/or tracing agents, other organisations to assist in prevention and detection of crime, police and law enforcement agencies.
We need all the personal information listed primarily to allow us to perform our contract with you and to enable us to comply with our legal obligations.
We process your personal information for a number of purposes, including:
Some of the grounds for processing will overlap, and in some cases, there will be several grounds which justify our use of your personal information.
We will only process your personal information when the law allows us to. In most cases, we will process your personal information where it is necessary:
Where we rely on the legitimate interests as a reason for processing personal information, we have considered whether those interests are overridden your rights and freedoms and have concluded that they are not.
Where the basis for processing is legitimate interests, the legitimate interest is the purpose for which we process the data – e.g. for data we process during the recruitment process, the legitimate reason for processing that data is recruitment.
We may also process your personal information in the following circumstances, but this is likely to be rare:
On occasion we include links to third parties on this website. Where we provide a link it does not mean that we endorse or approve that site’s policy towards visitor privacy. You should review their privacy policy before sending them any personal data.
We may share information with the following third parties for the purposes listed above:
Where we are relying upon your consent to process personal data, you can withdraw this at any time by contacting compliance@unionmaritime.com.
We are based in the UK but sometimes your personal information may be transferred outside the European Economic Area. If we do so we’ll make sure that suitable safeguards are in place, for example by using approved contractual agreements, unless certain exceptions apply.
We are unable to provide you with our services if you do not provide certain information to us. In cases where providing some personal information is optional, we will make this clear.
In this section monitoring means any: listening to, recording of, viewing of, intercepting of, or taking and keeping records (as the case may be) of calls, email, text messages, social media messages, in person (face to face) meetings and other communications.
We may monitor where permitted by law and we’ll do this where the law requires it, or to comply with regulatory rules, to prevent or detect crime, in the interests of protecting the security of our communications systems and procedures and for quality control and staff training purposes. This information may be shared for the purposes described above.
We do not make automated decisions.
Unless we explain otherwise to you, we will hold your personal information based on the following criteria:
Here is a list of the rights that all individuals have under data protection laws. They don’t apply in all circumstances. If you wish to use any of them, we’ll explain at that time if they are engaged or not. The right of data portability is only relevant from May 2018.
You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office which enforces data protection laws: https://ico.org.uk/. You can contact us using the details above.
You have the right to object to certain purposes for processing, in particular to data processed for direct marketing purposes and to data processed for certain reasons based on our legitimate interests.