M.E.S Marine Ltd is committed to respecting your privacy and to complying with applicable data protection and privacy laws.

You can visit our website without disclosing any personally identifiable information about yourself (although please note that we may use cookies and collect other non-personally identifiable information about your browsing activity – see our cookie policy for detailed information).

If you do submit personal information you can be assured that we will use your personal information only to support your continuing relationship with M.E.S Marine Ltd.

We have provided this Privacy Policy Statement to help you understand how we collect, use and protect your information when you visit our website and when you generally use our services.

We wish to help you make informed decisions, so please take a few moments to read the sections below and learn how we may use your personal information.

Personal Information Collection

We endeavour to collect and use your personal information only with your knowledge and consent and typically when you use our services, make customer enquiries, register for information or other services or request product information.

The type of personal information we may collect could include, for example, your name and postal address, telephone number and email address.

If you choose to provide us with personal information it will be used in support of the intended purposes stated at the time at which it was collected, and subject to any preferences indicated by you.

Non-personal Identifying Information

We may also collect non-personally identifying information about your visit to our websites based on your browsing activities. This information may include the pages you browse. This helps us to better manage and develop our site, to provide you with a more enjoyable, customised service and experience in the future, and to help us develop and deliver better services tailored to your individual interests and needs.

How will we use your information?

We may use your information for a number of purposes which includes: managing and administering your account; delivering any services or information requested by you; responding to complaints or enquiries.

We may also undertake market and product analysis based on your use of our services and contact you with information about new developments, services and special offers by post, telephone and automated means such Email and the internet (subject to any preferences expressed by you).

If you have consented to receive details of services and events you can contact us at any time to have your details removed from lists used by us for any or all of those purposes, to update your information or to otherwise tell us how you would like to receive information about our services – the choice is yours.

To update your marketing preferences please email service@mes-marine.co.uk and tell us what you want us to do (i.e. ‘opt-out Email or opt-in Email’), simply by writing opt-in or opt-out in the subject header of your email. We will do this within 1 month of receiving your request.

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When will we disclose your information to others?

Please note that M.E.S Marine Ltd does not sell your personal information to third parties.

M.E.S Marine Ltd may be obliged to disclose your personal information to meet any regulatory requirements (for example to register a new product i.e. new Outboard Motor) or obligations in accordance with applicable law.

Social media, blogs, reviews

Any social media posts or comments you send to us (on the mes-marine.co.uk Facebook page, for example) will be shared under the terms of the relevant social media platform (e.g. Facebook/Twitter) on which they are written and could be made public.

Other people, not us, control these platforms. We are not responsible for this kind of sharing. We recommend you should review the terms and conditions and privacy policies of the social media platforms you use.

Any reviews, posts or comments you make about us, our products and services on any of our reviews or user community services will be shared with all other members of that service and the public. Any comments you make on these services and on social media in general must be not offensive, insulting or defamatory. You are responsible for ensuring that any comments you make comply with any relevant policy on acceptable use of those services.

How long do we keep your information for?

To make sure we meet our legal data protection and privacy obligations, we only hold on to your information for as long as we actually need it, for the purposes we acquired it for in the first place.

In most cases, this means we will keep your information for as long as you continue to use our services, and for a reasonable period of time afterwards. After that we will delete it other than where we lawfully can keep any data for audit or legal reasons.

We shall keep data on our prospect database subject to an individual’s right to unsubscribe or be forgotten at any time.

Access to your Information

You can write to us at any time to obtain details of the personal information we may hold about you. Please write to: Data Protection Officer, M.E.S Marine Ltd. Unit 17 Drome Road, Deeside Industrial Estate, Deeside, Flintshire. CH5 2NY.

Please quote your name and address together with your email address. We would be grateful if could also provide brief details of what information you want a copy of (this helps us to more readily locate your data).

We will take all reasonable steps to confirm your identity before providing you with details of any personal information we may hold about you.

Information Security

M.E.S Marine Ltd recognises that its customers are increasingly concerned about how companies protect personal information from misuse and abuse and about privacy in general. M.E.S Marine Ltd is constantly reviewing and enhancing its technical, physical and managerial procedures and rules to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, accidental loss and/or destruction. Our website and management portal is covered by HTTPS.

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Please be aware that communications over the Internet, such as emails are not secure unless they have been encrypted. Your communications may route through a number of countries before being delivered – this is the nature of the World Wide Web/Internet. M.E.S Marine Ltd cannot accept responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of personal information that is beyond our control.

Privacy Support

M.E.S Marine Ltd reserves the right to amend or modify this Privacy Policy Statement at any time and in response to changes in applicable data protection and privacy legislation.

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on our website so you know what information we collect and how we use it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will tell you. You will have a choice as to whether or not we are able to use your information in this different manner.

Monitoring and or recording of all your Communications

Monitoring of your emails, text messages and other communications may take place in accordance with UK law, and in particular for business purposes, such as for quality control and training, to prevent unauthorised use of M.E.S Marine Ltd’s website, to ensure effective systems operation and in order to prevent or detect crime.

COOKIE POLICY

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