Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. The legal basis for each processing activity is set out below; where we rely on Your consent, we ask for it separately.

1. Data Controller

The responsible party (Controller) for data processing in accordance with the GDPR is:

Sea Sentinel AI UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Leopoldstraße 32, 80802 München, Germany
Represented by: Julien Jaacks
Email: hello@sea-sentinel.ai
Website: https://sea-sentinel.ai

2. Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation: The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions:

• Account: A unique account created for You to access our Service.
• Company: (referred to as "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our") refers to Sea Sentinel.
• Cookies: Small files placed on Your device containing browsing history or session details.
• Personal Data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual (Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR).
• Service: Refers to the Website and our electronic communications (Newsletters).
• Service Provider: Any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of the Company (Data Processor).
• Usage Data: Data collected automatically, such as IP address, browser type, and duration of visit.

3. Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

• Contact Data: Email address, first name, and last name (provided voluntarily via forms).
• Usage Data: Collected automatically (IP address, browser version, time/date of visit, unique device identifiers).
• Newsletter Metrics: If you subscribe, we collect engagement data (open rates, link clicks) via our Service Provider Brevo.

Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

In accordance with Art. 13 GDPR, we inform you of the legal bases of our data processing:

• Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR): For sending newsletters and evaluating newsletter engagement.
• Performance of a Contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR): To manage Your Account or respond to direct inquiries/requests.
• Legitimate Interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR): To maintain website security, prevent fraud, and optimize website performance, and to identify which companies visit our website (see Section 5, Leadfeeder).

4. Newsletter and Brevo

We use Brevo (Sendinblue GmbH) as our marketing platform to send newsletters. Brevo is a service provider based in Germany/EU.

• Double Opt-In (DOI): To ensure that the email address owner actually wishes to receive the newsletter, we use a double opt-in procedure. You will receive a confirmation email after signing up; you must click the link therein to be added to the list.
• Tracking Pixels: Our newsletters contain web beacons (pixels) to track opens and clicks. This allows us to tailor content to subscriber interests. Legal Basis: Your consent provided during signup. You can revoke this at any time by unsubscribing.
• Data Processing Agreement: We have entered into a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) with Brevo to ensure they process your data strictly in accordance with GDPR requirements.

5. Tracking Technologies and Cookies

• Website Cookies: Our website does not use non-essential or tracking cookies. Apart from the strictly necessary technical cookies described at the end of this section, none of the services described here store information on Your device. The only other exception is the opt-out marker described under Leadfeeder below, which is stored only at Your request.
• Analytics (Plausible): We use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-friendly web analytics service hosted within the EU, to measure aggregate website traffic. Plausible does not use cookies and does not collect or store any personal data or personally identifiable information; all metrics are aggregated and cannot be used to identify or re-identify an individual visitor. Legal Basis: Our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in understanding and improving the use of our website.
• Company identification (Leadfeeder): On our homepage we use the website tracker of Leadfeeder Finland Oy, part of Leadfeeder Group GmbH ("Leadfeeder"), to find out which companies visit our website. When You open the homepage, Your browser loads Leadfeeder's script, which sends Your IP address, the pages You view, the time and duration of Your visit and the referring page or campaign parameters to Leadfeeder. Leadfeeder compares the IP address with its database of which organisations use which networks and shows us the name, industry and location of the company the visit came from, together with the pages viewed. This only works when You browse from a company network; the purpose is to understand which businesses are interested in our services, not to identify You as an individual, and we do not combine this data with other information to identify individual persons.
  • No cookies: We have configured the tracker to run without cookies. It does not store any identifier on Your device, so separate visits cannot be linked to You.
  • Legal Basis: Our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in understanding which businesses are interested in our services and in focusing our sales and marketing on them. Our services are offered exclusively to businesses; the data shown to us relates to companies, not to private individuals.
  • Processor: Leadfeeder processes the data on our behalf under a Data Processing Agreement (Art. 28 GDPR). Leadfeeder hosts the data in the EU/EEA (Amazon Web Services). Some of its sub-processors are located in the USA; these transfers are safeguarded by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR).
  • Storage period: We delete visit data as soon as it is no longer needed for the purposes above, and at the latest when our contract with Leadfeeder ends.
  • Opt-out: You can object to this processing at any time. Opt out of Leadfeeder tracking This stores the marker ldfdr_opt_out in Your browser's local storage, and our homepage no longer loads the Leadfeeder script in that browser. The opt-out applies to the browser and device You use; if You delete Your browser data, You need to opt out again. We also do not load the script if Your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. Blocking scripts from lfeeder.com (for example with a content blocker) has the same effect.
• Technical Cookies: Our Service Provider (Brevo) may use technical cookies necessary for the functionality of subscription forms (e.g., anti-spam measures). These are "strictly necessary" under the TDDDG.

6. Retention and Transfer of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

• Newsletter data is stored until you unsubscribe.
• Usage data is generally deleted after a short period unless required for security investigations.
• Leadfeeder visit data is deleted as described in Section 5.

Data Transfers: Your information is processed at the Company's operating offices and in the EU-based data centers of our Service Providers (Brevo, Plausible, Leadfeeder). Some of Leadfeeder's sub-processors are located in the USA (see Section 5). We do not transfer your personal data to third countries outside the EEA without ensuring an adequate level of protection, such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

7. Your Rights (Data Subject Rights)

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right to Access (Art. 15 GDPR): You can request a copy of the data we hold about you.
• Right to Rectification (Art. 16 GDPR): You can request the correction of inaccurate data.
• Right to Erasure (Art. 17 GDPR): You can request the deletion of your data ("Right to be forgotten").
• Right to Restriction of Processing (Art. 18 GDPR).
• Right to Data Portability (Art. 20 GDPR): To receive your data in a machine-readable format.
• Right to Object (Art. 21 GDPR): You may object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Withdrawal of Consent: You can withdraw your consent for the newsletter at any time via the "Unsubscribe" link.

Information on Your right to object (Art. 21 GDPR): Where we process Your data on the basis of our legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), You have the right to object at any time on grounds relating to Your particular situation. Where the processing serves direct marketing, including the company identification by Leadfeeder described in Section 5, You may object at any time without giving reasons, and we will then stop that processing. To object, use the opt-out in Section 5 or write to hello@sea-sentinel.ai.

Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For users in Bavaria, the competent authority is: Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA) Website: https://www.lda.bayern.de

8. Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us. We use TLS/SSL encryption for data transmission on our website. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 16 (the standard age for digital consent in Germany). We do not knowingly collect information from children.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights, You can contact us:

• By email: hello@sea-sentinel.ai
• By visiting this page on our website: https://sea-sentinel.ai