Privacy Policy

Thanks for using OffshoreAlert or visiting one of our websites. This policy explains the what, how, and why of the information we collect when you visit one of our websites, or when you use our Services. It also explains the specific ways we use and disclose that information. We take your privacy extremely seriously, and we never sell lists or email addresses.

OffshoreAlert is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal information.

• We will be transparent about the information we are collecting and what we will do with it.
• We will use the information you give us for the purposes described in our Privacy Policy, which includes providing you with services you have requested and enhancing your experience with OffshoreAlert.
• We will also use the information to help us understand you better and so that we can give you relevant offers.
• If you tell us that you don’t want to receive marketing messages, we will stop sending them. We will, of course, continue to send essential information relating to a product or service you have purchased.
• We will put in place measures to protect your information and keep it secure.
• We will respect your data protection rights and aim to give you control over your own information.

You can access our full Privacy Policy below to help you to understand better how we use your personal information. In it, we explain in more detail the types of personal information we collect, how we collect it, what we may use it for and who we may share it with.

If you have further questions please get in touch with us by emailing help@offshorealert.com or writing to OffshoreAlert, 123 SE 3rd Ave. #173, Miami, Florida 33131 USA.

This Privacy Policy applies to all websites and web applications which link to this policy and are published by KYC News Inc. d/b/a OffshoreAlert, a State of Florida incorporated company (“Sites”).

The Sites may contain links to other Web sites for your convenience and information. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those sites.

If you wish to amend any of the personal information that we hold about you, or update your marketing preferences, you can do so at any time through your account.

If you have any queries about how we use your personal information, please contact us at help@offshorealert.com.  

This section details the information we may collect about you. We explain why, and how, we use it in later sections.

If you decide to create an account or inquire about one of our products or services, we’ll ask you to provide us with some specific information, for example:

• Basic personal details – such as your first name and last name;
• Personal contact details – such as address, phone number, mobile phone number, and email address;
• Work details – such as job title, department, company name, company address, work email address and office phone number;
• Log in details – such as username and password;
• Payment details – such as your billing address and credit card information.

On occasion, we will ask you to voluntarily provide additional information, for example:

• Your opinion of our products and services;
• Your preferences, including newsletters or web alert topics;
• Your career details, including your industry and interests;
• Information such as your dietary preferences and accessibility requirements when attending an OffshoreAlert event, which may be considered special categories of personal data.

In some circumstances, we collect information about you from our partners or from publicly available websites to help us better understand our audience and enhance the relevance of our content. For example, in some cases we obtain the contact details of potential speakers for OffshoreAlert events from public websites.

We use cookies (and similar technologies) and analytics tools across our Sites to collect information about you. This information can be used to improve the performance of the site, make advertising more relevant and enhance your user experience. We provide detailed information about cookies and similar technologies within our Cookie Policy ; examples include:

• Your usage – we use cookies to understand how our customers use our Sites and interact with our communications and journalism. For example, we use technology on our Sites, which records user movements, including page scrolling, clicks and text entered. (It does not record payment details.) This helps us to identify usability issues and improve the assistance we can provide to users and is also used for aggregated and statistical reporting purposes.
• Your device – we use cookies to understand what type of device you are using to show you the best version of the site.
• Your location and IP address – we use cookies to differentiate between legitimate activity and potential fraudulent activity on our Sites. For example, we use your location and IP address to determine if more than one person is using the same account, which is against our Terms.
• Your engagement with advertisements – we use cookies to understand what advertisements you have been shown, or clicked on, to bill our advertising partners, and to present you with advertisements that are more relevant to you.

If you wish to manage your cookies, please follow the instructions in the “How to manage cookies” section within our Cookie Policy.

We only process personal information where we have a lawful basis for doing so, such as the following:

• User consent – This is where you have given us explicit permission to process personal information for a given purpose. For example, if you requested to receive information about OffshoreAlert’s products and services, we would ask for your consent if we wanted to use your personal information for any other purpose. You have the right to withdraw this consent at any time. You can manage your preferences within your account or by contacting customer service.
• Legitimate business purposes – This is where we have a legitimate interest, as a business, to process personal information. For example, where we are aware of copyright infringements on our Site, it is in our legitimate interests as a business to identify those responsible. We take due care to balance our interests against your right to privacy.
• Contractual necessity – This is where we have to process personal information to meet our contractual obligations. For example, if you are a subscriber, we would need to process your email, billing address and payment information to fulfill your subscription.
• Legal obligation – This is where we have to process personal information in order to comply with the law. For example, we process and retain customer invoice information to comply with financial regulations.

We collect personal information for eight main reasons:

• To provide our service – We require some of your basic personal information so our services work as you would expect, for example, providing access to our digital content, notifying you of changes to our services and dealing with customer services queries.
• To improve and maintain performance – In order to provide you with the best possible user experience, we need to make sure that our products and services work as they should. Using personal information helps us understand how our readers use our Sites so we can make improvements. This includes testing proposed developments on our Sites, reaching out to our customers with market research surveys and hosting subscriber focus groups.
• To bill our customers – We, along with our authorized payments processors, securely process your payment information to take payments, give refunds and to detect and prevent fraudulent activity. We will also update your payment information in the event that a payment is unsuccessful. You can manage your payment information at any time by contacting customer services. If your subscription is provided by your employer under a group subscription, we may report how active you are for the purposes of billing.
• To monitor compliance with our policies and terms – We monitor for breaches of our terms and conditions and copyright policies. For example, we reserve the right to inform the subscription holder if, through use of a group subscription, you are using our content in breach of the terms and conditions or copyright policies of our Sites. We also monitor activity on our Sites to detect and prevent invalid or fraudulent traffic.
• To personalize our products and services – We improve your experience of our products and services by personalizing parts of our Sites and apps with the information you give us and what we learn about you. This includes showing you articles you may be interested in and recommending emails you may wish to sign up to. Where our Sites have such functionality, you can manage elements of personalization in your account.
• To communicate product changes and offers – We want you to get the most out of our products and services, including showcasing our latest content and newsletters. We will contact you with carefully-curated OffshoreAlert offers and promotions, exclusive event invitations and feature announcements. For example, if there are no updates on topics you follow in your web alerts, we will send you articles on other topics that we think you might be interested in. You are able to change your preferences at any time through your account or by contacting customer services. We also personalize our communications for strategic purposes. For example, we might offer group subscriptions to organizations with multiple office locations.
• To understand our users – We perform statistical, demographic and marketing analyses of Site users and their purchasing patterns for product development purposes. OffshoreAlert uses this information for analysis purposes, including analysis to improve customer relationships.
• For the purposes of advertising – We rely on advertising revenue in part to support our journalism. We need to process your information to understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant personalized advertising. We use the information you give us and the information we collect about you to serve you with the most appropriate advertisements.

We disclose personal information to facilitate the running of our business or to provide specific services you have requested. Commonly, we will disclose information to:

• Service providers – We engage service providers who help to support our business and improve our products. These service providers include, for example, fulfilment providers for delivery of our digital content and marketing; customer service agencies; organizations that host our Sites or databases; and providers of online surveys.
• Advertisers – We, and our advertising partners, use cookies to collect personal information and serve you with advertisements that we believe are relevant to you and your interests. There is more specific information about our advertising partners and data sharing in our Cookie Policy.
• Institutional customers – If your subscription is provided by your employer or educational institution under a group subscription or trial, we will provide your employer or educational institution with information about your level of activity on the site for the purposes of billing. This information is provided at a high level and your employer cannot track exactly what articles you have read. We may also provide current or prospective institutional clients with activity information about individual subscribers who registered using that entity’s corporate email address. We will always contact individual subscribers before doing so, and will respect any requests not to share this information.
• Social media providers – We share the information of our subscribers with social media partners for the following reasons:

• To prevent existing subscribers from being targeted with subscription offerings on social media platforms;
• To create lookalike audiences for the purposes of targeted advertising on social media platforms;
• To encourage users to get the most out of their subscription.

• Other users – Our Sites are publicly accessible and anyone around the world who accesses our Sites will be able to see anything you post, such as comments about an article. We encourage you to use a pseudonym when commenting on our Sites if you do not wish to be identifiable to other readers.
• Legal processes and successors in title – We may also disclose your information to comply with applicable laws, court orders or other valid legal processes, and to enforce or apply our terms of use, any subscription agreement, or any of our other rights. We may transfer or disclose your personal information to any entity which takes over or acquires the relevant OffshoreAlert business. We also share aggregated, non-identifiable information with third parties. Before sharing this information, we ensure that it cannot identify you as an individual. For example, we regularly release information about the size and growth of our audiences.

We retain the majority of your personal information for as long as your account is active and therefore open; this allows you to continue accessing our content, products and services.

If you become inactive and are not a subscriber, we may delete elements of the information associated with your account. We will normally warn you if your access is going to be withdrawn and give you the opportunity to retain your account.

Where we don’t need to keep all of your information in full, we will obfuscate or aggregate it, for example, web activity logs and survey responses. This is to ensure that we do not retain your information for any longer than is necessary.

It is sometimes necessary for us to keep your personal information for longer periods of time, for example:

• If there is a statutory requirement to retain it;
• If we require the information for legal reasons or there is a legitimate business need for us to retain it;
• To ensure we do not contact you if you have asked us not to.

We have appropriate technical and administrative security measures in place to help ensure that our users’ information is protected against unauthorized or accidental access, use, alteration, or loss. We use encryption technology, such as Transport Layer Security (TLS), to protect your personal information when you order products or services from us. More information about our approach to cyber security can be found in our Cyber Security Statement.

We operate a global business, so your personal information may be processed and stored outside the United States. For example, our global customer services team need to access information about you in order to respond to your queries.

Under data protection laws, you have rights as an individual in relation to the personal data we hold about you. These rights include:

• The right to object to direct marketing – your preferences, including in relation to direct marketing, can be found in your account;
• The right to access the personal data that we process about you;
• The right to request the deletion of your personal data;
• The right to request the rectification of your personal data – you can manage some of this information in your account.

You can exercise these rights through your account or by contacting customer services.

These rights to not extend to processing and collection of personal data by journalists or for journalistic purposes.

Personal information is collected by KYC News Inc. d/b/a OffshoreAlert, which is considered the “data controller” of your personal information under European Union and UK data protection law. Our address is OffshoreAlert, 123 SE 3rd Ave. #173, Miami, Florida 33131 USA.

Our Sites are not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not intentionally collect or use any information from children.

Our Sites contain links to third party websites which are not subject to this privacy policy. We are not responsible for their content, use of personal information, or security practices.

If you have a query in regards to the processing of your personal information, please contact customer service directly at help@offshorealert.com.

OffshoreAlert
Registered Office: 14 NE 1st Ave Suite 1400, Miami, FL 33132 USA

This policy is effective from May 24, 2018.

Any changes we may make to this privacy policy will be posted on this page. If changes are significant, we may choose to notify you by email or to clearly indicate on our home page that the policy has been updated.