Privacy Policy – Maritime Innovation & Business Council (MIBC)
Last Updated: [17.Nov.2025]
This Privacy Policy explains how Maritime Innovation & Business Council (MIBC) collects, uses, and protects your information when you join our group or take part in our activities.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following:
- Your name and contact details
- Your LinkedIn profile information
- Your job title, company name, and industry
- Any content you share in the group
- Messages you send to the admin team
If we launch our own website or live council, we may also collect:
- Email addresses
- Basic registration details
- Feedback or survey responses
We do not collect sensitive personal data.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use your information to:
- Manage your membership
- Keep our group safe and verified
- Share updates on events, posts, and activities
- Improve the group and future live council
- Connect members for collaboration
- Send notices, invites, and important information
We do not sell or rent your data.
3. Sharing of Information
We may share basic member information only when:
- You interact with other members
- You join events or discussions
- You ask us to connect you with someone
We do not share your information with outside companies without your permission, unless required by law.
4. Data Security
We take steps to keep your information safe.
This includes:
- Limited admin access
- Secure storage of files and data
- Monitoring for misuse within the group
No system is perfect, but we work to keep your information protected.
5. Your Rights
You can:
- Ask what data we hold
- Request correction of your information
- Ask us to delete your information
- Leave the group at any time
If you leave the group, we remove your data unless needed for legal reasons.
6. External Platforms
MIBC operates on LinkedIn at this stage.
Your information is also subject to LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy.
When we launch our own website or live council, we will update this policy.
7. Use of Content
Any posts or comments you share in the group may be visible to other members.
We may highlight your content only within the group or on related MIBC platforms, with credit.
8. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when needed.
If major changes happen, we will notify members.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Us
For questions or requests, contact:
Capt. Bhupender Sundriyal
Founder – Maritime Innovation & Business Council (MIBC)
admin@mibco.org