We, at Windward Ltd., (or “us”, “we” or “our”), put great efforts in making sure that we secure the personally identifiable information related to you (“Personal Information”) and use it properly.
This policy (the “Privacy Policy”) explains our privacy practices for processing Personal Information related to you as a user of our services, solutions and products (the “Services”), or as a visitor to our website available at: https://windward.ai/,or any of its pages (respectively, the “User” and “Site”).
We process Personal Information subject to the terms of this policy.
The summary of this policy will give you a quick and clear view of our practices. Please take the time to read our full policy.
How do we collect the Personal Information? – We collect the Personal Information related to you, directly from you, and thorough the use of “cookies” on our Services and Site. Read more.
The purposes of use of the Personal Information – We collect the Personal Information related to you, for various business purposes as further detailed in ‘The purposes of use of the Personal Information’ section of this Privacy Policy. Read more.
Cookies– We use cookies to make it easier for you to log-in and to facilitate the Services and the Site activities. Read more.
Sharing Personal Information with third parties – We share information with our Vendors as necessary to facilitate our business. We will share information when we change our corporate structure, and we will share the information with our affiliated entities. Read more.
Cross-border transfer – We use cloud based services to store and process data in the European Union and in the United States and will store them at additional sites, at our discretion. These Vendors provide us adequate security and confidentiality commitments. Read more.
How do we secure the Personal Information? – We implement physical, electronic and organizational procedures to secure your Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration or destruction. Read more.
Aggregated and analytical information – Aggregated data is not identifiable. We use standard analytical tools for legitimate business purposes. Read more.
Your Choice – You may opt-out of our mailing lists and terminate your use of our Site. Termination of our Services is subject to the terms of the Customer’s services agreement with us. Our Services do not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. Read more.
Accessing Personal Information related to you – At any time you can request access to Personal Information related to you. Read more.
Your EU data subject rights – If we process Personal Information related to you when you are in the EU, further terms apply to our processing in relation to your rights as a data subject under EU data protection laws. Read more.
Data retention– We retain different types of Personal Information for different periods, depending on the purposes for processing the information, our legitimate business purposes as well as pursuant to legal requirements. Read more.
Changes to this Privacy Policy – We will update this Privacy Policy from time to time after giving proper notice. Read more.
Contact us – Please contact us here or at our offices located in Mermaid House, 2 Puddle Dock, London, EC4V 3DB, UK.
Overview of our services
Our Services provide our “ Customers”, i.e. entities which engage in contractual relationship for the provision of our Services, whom primarily consist of governmental and corporation entities within the maritime ecosystem, decision supporting data analytics and insights in the maritime trade domain.
As a rule of thumb, the Personal Information we collect is related to our former and current employees, job candidates, and to the extent that our Customers have provided us with personal contact details, rather than corporate business contact information, then such personal contact details as well. As such, the Personal Information we collect primarily used for regulating our employment relationships, recruitment processes and business relationships with our Customers, and vendors and/or suppliers which engage with us for the provision of services, goods or assets (each a “Vendor”).
You provide most of the Personal Information related to you through the registration and login processes to our Services and through the submission of your details on our Site. Note, that you are not required by law to provide us with any information about you.
1. Personal Information obtained from Users about our Customers and about our Users’ engagement with our Services and Site:
- Usernames;
- E-mail addresses;
- The time and date of the log in; and
- The Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your access device to the Internet;
As part of our Services, our Users may provide us with Personal Information regarding our Customers’ own vessels, which includes but is not limited to the vessel’s beneficial owner, commercial and technical managers, commercial controller, operator, and ISM manager.
Details about the device, operation system and browser used by the User, such as browser type, version, and time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform.
To the extent that a Customer, or anyone on its behalf, has provided us with personal contact details, rather than corporate business contact information (e.g., [email protected]), then the aforementioned information will constitute Personal Information of such User. Please note that to the extent that contact details provided by the Customer contain corporate business contact information, this would not qualify as Personal Information.
2.Personal Information about our Vendors’ and Customers’ representatives that is required for the provision of our Services or for our business engagement with them, such as: names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
In most cases the contact details information that we hold about our Vendors will not constitute Personal Information, whether because our Vendors are not individuals or because the information provided does not contain direct identifiers.
3.Personal Information related to employees and candidates.
As part of our ongoing employment relationship with our employees, we collect Personal Information regarding current and former employees, through our HR systems, as further detailed in our Employees Privacy Notice.
We collect Personal Information from job candidates, who can submit their application for certain available positions through the ‘Careers’ webpage on our Site. For further information please see our Candidates Privacy Notice.
4.Personal information we obtained from third parties data sources:
Such Personal Information comprised of name, identification number, address, vessel ownership data and business contact details and is being provide to our Customer through our Services.
5.We also offer, through the ‘Sign UP’ button on our Site, the opportunity to participate in our events, like webinars, through the ‘Subscribe’ button on our Site the opportunity to subscribe to our news-letters, and through the ‘Contact Us’ form and links to our corporate email address available on the Site, the opportunity to reach out to us. The Personal Information collected by us through these, will only be used for the purpose of evaluating the subject matter of such form and contacting the person who sent it.
The Services and Site are not directed to children under 16 years of age and we do not intentionally or knowingly collect Personal Information on such Users.
