{"id":2299,"date":"2017-04-17T12:43:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T12:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trytemplate.wpengine.com\/?page_id=2299"},"modified":"2025-06-16T09:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:42:25","slug":"privacy-policy-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.virtualmaritime.academy\/fr\/privacy-policy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Last Updated: June 1 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Virtual Maritime Academy (we or us) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.<\/p>\n<p>This policy (together with our website terms of use and any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.\u00a0 Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. \u00a0By visiting virtual-maritime-academy.com (our site) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.<\/p>\n<p>For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is 9383-3911 Quebec Inc. 11075 Boul Henri-Bourassa, CP 65054, Quebec, Quebec, Canada, G1G 3X8.<\/p>\n<p>Information we may collect from you.<\/p>\n<p>We may collect and process the following data about you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The information you give us. \u00a0You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site, or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. \u00a0This includes information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to our service, search for a course, book a place on a course, or purchase and participate in a course on our site, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our site.<\/li>\n<li>The information you give us may include your name, address, email address and phone number, financial and credit card information, personal description and photograph.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Information we collect about you. \u00a0With regard to each of your visits to our site, we may automatically collect the following information.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type, and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;<\/li>\n<li>information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); courses you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.<\/li>\n<li>Information we receive from other sources.\u00a0 We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. \u00a0In this case, we will have informed you when we collected that data that it may be shared internally and combined with data collected on this site. \u00a0We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.<\/li>\n<li>Google Analytics or other software will be used in order to help us understand how our users interact with our site. \u00a0The information gathered from this service is anonymous, but will ultimately help us shape a better user experience for our customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0Cookies<\/h3>\n<p>Please see our\u00a0Cookie Policy\u00a0page for details<\/p>\n<p>We use information held about you in the following ways:<\/p>\n<p>The information you give to us.<\/p>\n<p>We will use this information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products, and services that you request from us;<\/li>\n<li>to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;<\/li>\n<li>to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. \u00a0If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (email or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. \u00a0If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. \u00a0If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data.<\/li>\n<li>to notify you about changes to our service;<\/li>\n<li>to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Information we collect about you.<\/p>\n<p>We will use this information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;<\/li>\n<li>to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;<\/li>\n<li>to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so;<\/li>\n<li>to allow you to participate in e-learning courses where you have purchased an e-learning course via our site;<\/li>\n<li>as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;<\/li>\n<li>to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;<\/li>\n<li>to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.<\/li>\n<li>Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and the information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Disclosure of Your Information<\/h3>\n<p>We may share your personal information with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and its subsidiaries, as defined by Canadian Law.<\/p>\n<p>We may share your information with selected third parties including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you.<\/li>\n<li>Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others.\u00a0 [We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). \u00a0We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in SW1). \u00a0We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers\u2019 wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.<\/li>\n<li>Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.<\/li>\n<li>Credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We may disclose your personal information to third parties:<\/p>\n<p>In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If Virtual Maritime Academy\u00a0or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.<\/li>\n<li>If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our website terms of use and other agreements or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Virtual Maritime Academy, our customers, or others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Where We Store Your Personal Data<\/h3>\n<p>The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). \u00a0It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA, who work for us or for one of our suppliers. \u00a0Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your booking, the delivery of a course, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. \u00a0By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. \u00a0We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.<\/p>\n<p>All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. \u00a0Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. \u00a0We ask you not to share a password with anyone. \u00a0You may already be aware that the Data Protection legislation requires data processors such as Virtual Maritime Academy to keep the data they process secure at all times, so we will need to specify here how this will be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. \u00a0Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site, and any transmission is at your own risk. \u00a0Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.<\/p>\n<h3>Your Rights<\/h3>\n<p>You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. \u00a0We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. \u00a0You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.\u00a0 You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at course @ virtualmaritime.academy.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the opt-out on the form on which the data is collected, individuals must also be given the ability to opt out of marketing at any later date.<\/p>\n<p>Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates.\u00a0 If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.\u00a0 Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.<\/p>\n<h3>Access to Information<\/h3>\n<p>The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. \u00a0Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. \u00a0Any access request may be subject to a fee of $10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.<\/p>\n<h3>Changes to Our Privacy Policy<\/h3>\n<p>Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. \u00a0Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.<\/p>\n<h3>Contact<\/h3>\n<p>Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to course @ virtualmaritime.academy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Updated: June 1 2025 Virtual Maritime Academy (we or us) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. 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