PRIVACY POLICY

Velamic™ protects your personal data through data privacy policy that sets out the safeguards and data privacy procedures – such as how we should handle access requests or complaints. Together, these ensure that appropriate data privacy safeguards are in place across our organization. Our policy reflects the standards contained in European data privacy laws and have been approved by data privacy regulators in Europe (the European Economic Area and Norway + Switzerland).

What personal data do we collect?

We collect personal data of our workers, candidates, suppliers, business contacts, shareholders and website users. We will always try to give individuals appropriate notice of what data will be collected and how it will be used. Whatever happens, we will only process that data if we consider it fair and lawful to do so.

  • Name, title, initials, address, telephone numbers, e-mail address;
  • Personalities – date of birth, marital status, occupation, test drive, hobbies, preferred payment method, preferred contact channel, company name, certificates of competency of yacht skipper;
  • Interests – details of your interests, including the type of crafts you are interested in;
  • Site usage and messages – how you use our site and whether you open our messages or forward them, including data collected in the form of ‘cookies’ and using other tracking technologies (our cookie policy can be found here with details on this);
  • Service and sales data – purchase data including customer ID number, contract number and whether a finance option has been selected, support and service, including complaints and claims;
  • Customer history data, customer satisfaction level, offers received, craft purchase data including model, configuration, purchase date, registration date, order date, delivery date, owner name, list price, warranty data, optional insurance data details of purchases of parts, accessories and lifestyle products, data collected during visits to the valued partner (e.g. enquiries, advice, sales consultant responsible, service history), complaints history, service history;
  • Craft service usage – how you use the craft you own and the services offered, configuration details – data on the features and current settings of your craft.

Will we share your personal data with 3-rd parties?

We may transfer personal data to our contracted service providers and advisors. Before we do so, we take steps to ensure that your personal data will be given adequate protection as required by relevant data protection laws and Velamic’s internal policies.

However, there will be other times when we need to share or disclose personal data you provide for a specific purpose, for example:

  • We may need to disclose your personal data to third parties in the event the process requires an involvement of the third party – a dealer, a distributor or a shipayard;
  • In the case we are running a joint event and have informed you that the data will be shared with our partners. But again, we will notify you as to why we are asking for specific information and it is completely up to you whether you want to provide it
  • We may need to disclose your personal data to third parties in the event that we sell or liquidate any part of our business or assets;
  • We will disclose or share your personal data to comply with any legal obligation, or to enforce or apply our Terms of Use; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Velamic, our clients, or others.

What about sensitive personal data?

We do not generally seek to collect sensitive personal data through this site or otherwise. In the limited cases where we do seek to collect such data, we will do this in accordance with local data privacy law requirements. If you choose to provide us with unsolicited sensitive personal data, you consent to our using the data, subject to applicable law as described in this privacy policy. The term “sensitive personal data” refers t the various categories of personal data identified by European and other data privacy laws as requiring special treatment, including in some circumstances the need to obtain explicit consent. These categories may include personal identity numbers, financial account information, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious, philosophical or other similar beliefs, membership of a trade union or profession or trade association, physical or mental health, biometric or genetic data, sexual life, or criminal record.

What about data security?

We take appropriate steps to maintain the security of personal data collected. Regarding your use of our websites you should understand that the open nature of the Internet is such that information and personal data may flow over networks connecting you to our systems without security measures and may be accessed and used by people other than those for whom the data is intended.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the sites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these sites, please note that these sites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or sites. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these sites.

Where will your personal data be processed?

As a global organization with global IT systems, personal data we collect may be routed, stored, or transferred to our vendors in accordance with data privacy laws.

Retention of your data

We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary. If you have an account with us, we will only keep the data while your account is active or for as long as needed to provide services to you and, as further needed for us to comply with our global legal and contractual obligations.

Your rights

You are entitled to know whether we hold personal data about you and, if we do, to have access to that personal data and require it to be corrected if it is inaccurate. We generally do not make decisions by purely automatic means, but if we do, you have the right to object.

COOKIES POLICY

Below is information about how Velamic™ and its affiliates (“we”) use cookies and other similar technology on this website.
By continuing to use this website you agree that we can place cookies and other similar technology on your device, including mobile device. By continuing to use your mobile device to access this website, you agree that the following information may be collected: your unique device identifier, mobile device IP address, information about your device’s operating system, mobile carrier and your location information (to the extent permissible under applicable law).

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a site and allow a site to recognize your device.

Why do we use cookies and similar technologies?

Cookies do a lot of different jobs, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that the advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

Does Velamic use cookies for marketing and analytics?

Yes, we may use information collected from our cookies to identify user behavior and to serve content and offers based on your profile, and for the other purposes described below, to the extent legally permissible in certain jurisdictions.
Some of the cookies we use don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. For example:

  • Performance cookies (see below)
  • Targeting cookies (see below) where you are not a registered user

In other cases we can associate cookie information (including information from cookies placed via our advertisements on third party sites) with an identifiable individual. For example:

  • If we send you a targeted email which includes web beacons, cookies or similar technologies we will know whether you open, read, or delete the message.
  • When you click a link in a marketing e-mail you receive from Velamic, we will also use a cookie to log what pages you view and what content you download from our websites, even if you are not registered at or signed into our site

Combining and analyzing personal data – as described above, we may combine data from publicly available sources, and from our different e-mail, website, and personal interactions with you (this includes information collected across our different websites such as our careers and corporate sites and information collected when you sign-up or log on to our sites or connect to our sites using your social media credentials (such as LinkedIn). We combine this data to better assess your experience with Velamic and to perform the other activities described throughout our privacy policy.

Do you use any cookies from third party companies?

Some cookies we use are from third party companies, such as Google Analytics to provide us with web analytics and intelligence about our sites. We try to minimize the number of 3rd party companies that have access to the cookies on the website. At the moment only Google Analytics cookies are set. These companies use programming code to collect information about your interaction with our sites, such as the pages you visit, the links you click on and how long you are on our sites. This code is only active while you are on our website. For more information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf, please refer to their privacy policies.

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TERMS OF USE

This document and our Privacy policy govern your use of the site and you should leave the site immediately if you do not agree with these provisions. Velamic™ reserves the right to update these documents at any time without notice.

Terms of use

By accessing and using this site, you accept the following terms and conditions, without limitation or qualification.

Any and all information on this Web site is licensed to Velamic™.

All the pages and content and all code and scripts used to implement this Web site are copyright and owned by Velamic™. The database is delivered and licensed by Aquamarine Karakum Ltd, Kyrenia, TRNC.

You may view the contents of this site for information purposes only. You may print and store to your hard disk one copy of the contents. All other copying, adaptation, reproduction and any redistribution of any information on this server (whether internally to your organization or externally, and whether for commercial use or not) is prohibited.

You may not copy, modify, upload, download, transmit, re-publish, display for redistribution to third parties for commercial purposes or otherwise redistribute any code or content from the site without the prior written agreement of Velamic™.

Information, products, processes and technologies described on this site may be subject to other intellectual property rights. These rights are reserved by Velamic™ or other owner thereof.

Links to the site

You may not create any links to this site without our express written permission. Any such links must not use any framing techniques or in any other way represent the site or the content as being connected with your organisation. You may not use any logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of any link without written express permission.

You may not use any meta tags or hidden text in your own sites which incorporate the velamic.com name or any company name or products without our express written permission.

Site information

Information on this site may not be accurate or current. Velamic™ may change any information on this site at any time without notice.

Trademarks

The Velamic™ logo as shown on this site is trademark of Velamic™. Images copyrights belong to their respective authors. All 3-rd party trademarks and logos are used in a classic fair use – fairly and in good faith, merely to describe goods or services or in nominative fair use – to refer to the owner of the mark or to their goods and services or to identify customer and business partner affiliation.

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