Privacy Policy
(Last Updated on January 15, 2004)

Introduction

Nautical Data International, Inc. (“NDI”) is committed to keeping your personal information confidential and secure. We’ve provided this document to explain to you how NDI protects the privacy of individual customers’ personal information.

We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully and to check back periodically as this Privacy Policy may change from time to time.

Personal Information

Personal information includes any factual or subjective information, recorded or not, about an identifiable individual. This includes information of any type, such as:

• Age, name, home address, telephone number, ID numbers, income, ethnic origin, or blood type.
  
  
• Opinions, evaluations, comments, social status, or disciplinary actions.
  
  
• Employees files, credit records, loan records, medical records, existence of a dispute between a consumer and a merchant, intentions (for example, to acquire goods or services, or change jobs).

Personal information does not include the name, title, business address, or business telephone number of an employee of an organization.

 

Consent

Consent can be either express or implied. Express consent is clear and does not require any inference on the part of the organization seeking consent. Implied consent arises where consent may reasonably be inferred from the action or inaction of the individual. Consent can be obtained in person, by phone, facsimile, mail, email, via the Internet, etc.

Collection of Personal Information

NDI collects personal information about customers for the purposes of delivering products and services. There are many ways NDI collects personal information. We collect it via our website, facsimile, email, mail, and via telephone. 

Information we collect about you

NDI collects certain pieces of personal information about you in order to fulfill your requests and support the customer relationship. The following list is an example of what we would collect from you:

• Name
• Company Name (non-personal) if required
• Title (non-personal) if required
• Address (either home or business)
• Telephone number (either home or business)
• Credit Card details (if required)
• Email address

For each visitor browsing our website, we collect the following information as it relates to you:

For each Visitor:
Your domain name is automatically captured. NDI uses this information for Internal statistical purposes only.

For Anonymous FTP Users:
Domain name, IP address and email addresses are captured. This is used for internal statistical purposes and monitored to ensure no abuse of the system.

For FTP Users:
Both domain name and IP addresses are captured. This is logged and used solely to ensure the products that have been purchased by you have been properly downloaded and monitored to ensure no abuse of the system has taken place.

Use of Personal Information

NDI will use your personal information that we collect to provide you with products, services, updates, upgrades, notices, news releases, or other products and services that may better meet your needs and interest.

Disclosure of Personal Information

NDI does not sell or rent personal information to third parties. We will disclose certain pieces of personal information as necessary to our third party distributors, suppliers, etc., in order to complete a transaction you have requested, or as part of the terms and conditions for a particular service. When the third party acts solely on our behalf, NDI will ensure that your personal information is protected by a privacy protection clause in contracts to guarantee that the third party provides the same level of protection as our organization does.

Links to other Sites and Advertisements

NDI’s website may contain links to other websites and services. While we try to link only to sites and services that share our high standards and respect for privacy, please understand that we are not responsible for the content of, or the privacy practices employed by, other companies or websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to the NDI Services referencing this Privacy Policy.

Safeguards

The security of your personal information is important to us. NDI takes technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps to protect Personal Information that you have provided. We instruct our employees with access to your Personal Information that it is to be used only in adherence with the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

NDI may from time to time change its Privacy Policy, as new NDI Services are added or existing ones change. Please check this Privacy Policy regularly for updates by checking the date of "Last Update" at the top of this document. 

Access, Reviewing or Changing your Personal Information
NDI recognizes your right to access, review or change your Personal Information that we may have collected about you. To access what Personal Information we have about you, who we have disclosed your personal information to, or to request an update to your personal information, please send your written requests to:

Attention: Chief Privacy Officer

By Mail:
Nautical Data International, Inc.
100 New Gower Street, Suite 800
St. John’s, NL
A1C 6K3

Or Via Facsimile: 709-576-0636

Reference: Please state the purpose of your request.

Please ensure to include your full name, company name (if appropriate), address, telephone number, fax number, email address, or any other pertinent information so we can fully search our records. NDI will respond in writing to your written inquiry, within 30 days after the receipt of your request. 

Upon receiving written confirmation from NDI and after reviewing the personal information that we may have stored, you can submit, in writing, your request for any changes. Please be sure to refer to the reference number assigned to your Original Request as stated on our written confirmation letter.