Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://oceanintegrity.org. Ocean Integrity is dedicated to protecting the world’s oceans through innovation, collaboration, and sustainable action.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the information shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. This helps us detect and prevent spam.

Media

If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images that include embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract location data from images.

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 you do not have to re-enter your details when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.
• If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie will be set to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the external website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell or trade your personal data. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service, and technical data may be shared with trusted service providers solely for website functionality and security.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For registered users, 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.

Your Rights 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. 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. Depending on your location, data may be transferred to servers outside your country to ensure website functionality and security.