Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 2019

Cruise Jobs Guide is a property of Webix Ltd ("Webix"). Webix Ltd is an events and online media company that also provides information about how to find employment within the cruise industry.

We take data protection very seriously and understand the importance of protecting your privacy and Personal Information. "Personal Information" is information that identifies you as an individual such as your name, date of birth, email address, IP address and CV.

How do we collect information from you?

We collect and use your Personal Information in accordance with this our Privacy Policy.

You provide your Personal Information to us freely when you register your details along with your CV to be able to submit job applications via our website ("Website").

Please do not submit any Personal Information to us if you do not wish us to collect it.

We also collect Personal Information from:

  • our websites;
  • cookies ("Cookies");
  • publically available information; and
  • other tools and applications (our "Online Content").

What Personal Information do we collect?

Personal Information we collect about you may include the following:

  • General identification and contact information: your name; address; email; IP address; telephone number; Skype ID; gender; date of birth; nationality; residence; current location; physical attributes including photos
  • Information enabling us to provide products and services: age, location
  • Marketing preferences: enter a contest or prize draw or other sales promotion, or respond to a voluntary customer satisfaction survey
  • Statistical information: aggregate statistical information about site visitors and users for internal use and for other lawful purposes. We provide this information to customers, advertisers, suppliers and other reputable third parties. Where we provide such information we will provide this in an anonymous format and not include any Personal Information.

When you access our website online, we store some information about you. This is anonymous and used for statistical purposes.

What legal basis do we rely on to process your Personal Information?

Consent

Webix processes your data with your consent. We rely on consent when we send promotional material. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. When your consent is withdrawn, we will cease to process data and permanently delete all Personal Information we hold about you.

The processing is necessary to fulfil a contract

Webix may process your data when we need to do this to fulfil a contract with you, such as to send your CV to an employer or recruiter for a specific job application.

Legitimate Interest

Webix also processes your data when it is in our legitimate interests to do this and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.

Our legitimate interests include:

  • ensuring the security and integrity of our Services and in ensuring that our Websites operate effectively;
  • selling and supplying goods and services to our customers;
  • protecting customers, employees and other individuals and maintaining their safety, health and welfare;
  • promoting, marketing and advertising our products and services;
  • sending promotional communications which are relevant and tailored to individual customers;
  • understanding our customers' behaviour, activities, preferences, and needs;
  • improving existing products and services and developing new products and services;
  • handling customer contacts, queries, complaints or disputes; and
  • fulfilling our duties to our customers, colleagues, shareholders and other stakeholders.

The processing is necessary because of a legal obligation that applies

Webix may process your data to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations eg preventing, investigating and detecting crime, fraud or anti-social behaviour and prosecuting offenders, including working with law enforcement agencies.

Who do we share your Personal Information with?

Webix may make Personal Information available to:

Employers, recruiters and other agents

In the course of our business to help you search for and get a job, Webix may make Personal Information available to third parties such as employers, recruiters and other intermediaries and agents and other business partners.

Our service providers

This includes external third-party service providers, such as accountants, auditors, experts, lawyers and other outside professional advisors; IT systems, support and hosting service providers; printing, advertising, marketing and market research and analysis service providers; document and records management providers; technical engineers; data storage and cloud providers and similar third-party vendors and outsourced service providers that assist us in carrying out business activities.

Governmental authorities and third parties involved in court action

Webix may share Personal Information with governmental or other public authorities (including, but not limited to, workers' compensation boards, courts, law enforcement, tax authorities and criminal investigations agencies); and third-party civil legal process participants and their accountants, auditors, lawyers and other advisors and representatives as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) to comply with applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our group companies; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and that of our group companies, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit our damages.

How we use Personal Information?

We use Personal Information to do some or all of the following:

  • Communicate with you as part of our business;
  • Send you important information regarding changes to our policies, other terms and conditions, Websites and other administrative information;
  • Provide improved quality, training and security and manage other commercial risks;
  • Carry out market research and analysis, including satisfaction surveys;
  • Provide marketing information to you (including information about other products and services offered by selected third-party partners);
  • Personalize your experience on the Website by presenting information and advertisements tailored to you;
  • Allow you to participate in contests, prize draws and similar promotions, and to administer these activities. Some of these activities have additional terms and conditions, which could contain additional information about how we use and disclose your Personal Information, so we suggest that you read these carefully;
  • Facilitate social media sharing functionality;
  • Manage our infrastructure and business operations, and comply with internal policies and procedures, including those relating to auditing; finance and accounting; billing and collections; IT systems; data and website hosting; business continuity; and records, document and print management;
  • Resolve complaints, and handle requests for data access or correction;
  • Comply with applicable laws and regulatory obligations (including laws outside your country of residence), such as those relating to anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism; comply with legal process; and respond to requests from public and governmental authorities (including those outside your country of residence);
  • Establish and defend legal rights; protect our operations, rights, privacy, safety or property, you or others; and pursue available remedies or limit our damages.

International Transfers of Personal Information

Personal Information which you supply to us is generally stored and kept inside the European Economic Area.

However, due to the nature of our global business and the technologies required, your Personal Information may be transferred to third party service providers outside the EEA, in countries where there may be a lower legal level of data protection. In such situations, we transfer the minimum amount of data necessary, anonymise it where possible and enter legal contracts to aim to ensure these third parties handle your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the European levels of data protection.

Security

Webix is committed to keeping your personal data safe and secure from unauthorised access to or unauthorised alterations, disclosure or destruction of information that we hold.

Our security measures include:

  • encryption of our services and data;
  • review our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures;
  • restrict access to personal access to personal information to Webix employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us and who are subject to contractual confidentiality and processing obligations.

Marketing and Advertising

Marketing communication from Webix

The use of this Website is free of charge for candidates. From time to time we may send you transactional and marketing emails. You have to permanently delete your account on this Website to opt out from receiving such emails.

Online Behavioural Advertising

We partner with third-party advertising networks so that we and other advertisers can display advertising which is more relevant to you and your interests on our Web site or on other sites that you visit and assess the performance of that advertising. We and our ad network partners may utilise cookies or web beacons along with other codes such as your Identifier for Advertising (IFA) or Android ID for your phone to better understand your interests from the web pages you interact with and the search terms you use on our site to build a picture of the category of interests or preferences you have and to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Our ad network partners do not collect and do not have access to any information from which you can be directly identified such as your real name or address or email. They may, however, anonymously track your Internet usage across other websites in their networks beyond these Sites. To learn more about the use of this information or to choose not to receive tailored advertising by opting out, you can visit either the Network Advertising Initiative or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) or visit the privacy statements of our partners: Google, Media.net and Switch Concepts. Please note that if you opt-out you will continue to receive generic advertising that has not been targeted to you and your interests.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information which we store on your computer. Our system will issue cookies to your computer when you log on to the site. Cookies make it possible for you to log on to and use the site during your visit.

There is no personally identifiable information held on cookies. An example of a cookie is below:
PHPSESSID,bc2c1f85d35203b2e415c7e314312d06

We also use cookies to detect which country you are logged in from and which currency is your preferred choice.

Cookies also allow us to monitor website traffic and to personalise the content of the site for you.

Some of the cookies used on this website are set by third party advertising systems such as Google Adsense, Media.NET or Switch Concept. They will enable the ad server display ads more relevant to you.

You may set up your computer to reject cookies although, in that case, you may not be able to use certain features on our site.

Your Rights

You have the following rights:

  • the right to ask what personal data that we hold about you at any time free of charge;
  • the right to ask us to update and correct any out-of-date or incorrect personal data that we hold about you free of charge;
  • the right to ask us to permanently delete any information we hold about you.

Please contact us if you wish to exercise any of the above rights.

Children and minors

This Website is not directed towards individuals under the age of eighteen (18), however we are aware due to the nature of some of the job offerings, those between 14 and 18 may use the Services.

Individuals under the age of thirteen (13) are expressly prohibited from using the Website, unless parental consent is provided and we are notified.

Third Party Privacy Practices

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties to which the Website links. The inclusion of a link on the Website does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us. Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations or any other software application developer or provider, social media platform, operating system or wireless service provider, or device manufacturer, including any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with our Social Media Pages.

Please note that although we require customers who use our services, such as employers seeking to recruit staff, to agree to use the information made available solely for recruitment-related purposes, we do not control their use of any information that they have access to as part of receiving our services.

Please be aware your current employer may be our customer and user of the Website. We cannot restrict the customers who access profiles on our database and cannot be held responsible for any eventuality.

Who to contact about your Personal Information

The data controller responsible for your information is Webix Ltd, registered with the Information Commissioner's Office No. Z2765918.

If you have any questions about this policy or our use of your Personal Information you can email us or write to the Data Protection Officer, Webix Ltd, Woodlands Grange, Woodlands Lane, Bristol, BS32 4JY, United Kingdom.

If you do not think we are handling your Personal Information adequately, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office. Further information, including contact details, are available at https://ico.org.uk.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We review this Privacy Policy regularly and reserve the right to make changes at any time to take account of changes in our business and legal requirements. We will place updates on our website.

Please take a look at the "LAST UPDATED" date at the top of this Privacy Policy to see when it was last revised.

The Website is operated by Webix Ltd, registered in England. Registered number: 07677005. Registered address: Woodlands Grange, Woodlands Lane, Bristol, BS32 4JY, United Kingdom.