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Privacy Notice

Thank you for visiting our website www.nauticalenergysolutions.com.

 

This privacy policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

 

By visiting our website, you are a) accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy and b) warrant to us that you are over 18 years of age.

 

The terms “Nautical Energy Solutions,” “NES”, “the Company,” or “the Group” may be used for convenience and refer to Nautical Energy Solutions Limited and its subsidiaries and affiliates, each of which are separate and distinct legal entities.

 

Further, the words “we,” “us,” “our,” and “ourselves” are used to refer generally to the companies of the Nautical Energy Solutions Group.

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1. Data Controller

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Nautical Energy Solutions Limited is the data controller and is responsible for your personal data.

 

Our Contact Details are:

Company:  Nautical Energy Solutions Limited

Email: gdpr@nauticalenergysolutions.com

Registered address: Madison Building, Midtown, Queensway, Gibraltar, GX11 1AA, Gibraltar

 

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details above.

 

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).

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2. What information we may collect and how data is collected

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You may give us your personal data by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, by filling in forms on the website or otherwise.

 

We may collect or use the following information:

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Contact Information (name, address, title, email, telephone numbers and other contact information) you or your employer may provide.

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Identification information:

 

  • Information as may be required for Know Your Customer and Anti Money Laundering requirements (such as proof of identity and proof of address) you or your employer may provide or sourced from third parties used for our identity checks or public domain e.g. Companies House.

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  • Information as may be required for actual or potential employment or provision of services (such as your role, skills, education and qualifications, benefit package and payment details) you or your employer may provide.

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Transaction Information includes records of meetings and decisions, project details, managing and evaluating investments, details about payments to and from you and details of products and services you have purchased from us or provided to us.

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Technical Information / User Data, website user information (including user journeys and cookie tracking) you may provide or sourced from analytics tracking systems. Information relating to enquiries, compliments or complaints via the website.

 

We do not collect Sensitive Data about you, however occasionally some Sensitive Data, such as ethnicity, may be revealed to us on your passport or where KYC/AML checks reveal criminal issues, or health or religious related information if we are arranging events or dining you are intending to participate in. 

 

3. Uses of your personal information

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Most commonly we will use your data to carry out our business services activities with customers and suppliers or otherwise when you communicate or engage with us and respond to your enquiries received via our website.

 

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. Please refer to the table below for how we use your data and the applicable lawful bases we reply upon for processing your data.

Privacy Notice Table

4. How long we keep information

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We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.

 

We may retain your personal data for a longer period, depending on a number of factors, including whether we are in a legal or other type of dispute, laws or regulations we are required to comply with.

 

5. How we protect your personal data

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We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

 

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

 

6. Who we share your personal information with

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We may need to share your personal data with other companies in the Nautical Energy Solutions group:

 

  • where support and functions are provided by other group companies, such as in relation to our website hosting and operation, IT systems and support and maintenance;

  • to meet our customer needs where providing services across offices/locations;

  • for authorisations/approvals with relevant decision makers;

  • for reporting purposes and/or

  • where systems and services are provided on a shared basis, such as compliance.

 

Where a Nautical Energy Solutions group company processes your personal data on our behalf (as our processor), we will make sure that they have appropriate security standards in place to protect your personal data. In addition, we will enter into a written contract imposing appropriate security standards on them.

 

Access rights between members of the Nautical Energy Solutions group are limited and granted only on a need-to-know basis, depending on job functions and roles.

 

We may ask third parties to carry out certain business functions for us, such as our IT support, back up and server hosting providers. We will disclose your personal data to these parties (as processors) so that they can perform those functions. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

We may disclose your personal data to third parties who will receive it (as controllers) such as statutory and regulatory bodies. And we may also disclose your personal data to third parties with your consent or as directed by you.

 

Below is a list of the categories of recipients with whom we are likely to share your personal data:

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  • IT support, website and data hosting providers and administrators;

  • Consultants, professional advisors including lawyers and accountants;

  • Insurers, auditors and inspectors;

  • Banks and payment processors in relation to payments to/from us;

  • Analytics and search engine providers;

  • Business partners; and

  • Statutory and regulatory bodies.

 

7. Your legal rights

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Under date protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful basis of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.

 

Information about your rights can be obtained at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).

 

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please email us at gdpr@nauticalenergysolutions.com.

 

We will try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or we have received several requests. In such case, we will notify you.

 

8. Third-party links

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The website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins or applications. Clicking on these links may allow third parties to obtain information about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements or use of your personal data. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

 

9. Cookies

 

For more information about the cookies we use and how to change your cookie preferences, please refer to www.nauticalenergysolutions.com/cookie-policy.

 

10. Changes to our Privacy Policy

 

We will review our Privacy Policy regularly. Updates we may make to our Privacy Policy will be posted on this page. The version was updated in March 2025.

 

11. Your duty to inform us of changes

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It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

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