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The MSC is committed to ensuring your privacy is protected. This policy sets out how the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) collects, processes and stores your personal data when you visit our website (www.msc.org) or otherwise provide personal data to us. This policy is intended to be read and understood by those individuals, who are therefore referred to in this document as “you”.
When you visit our website, we collect standard internet log information and details of user behaviour patterns. Information MSC collects from you when you visit our website may include:
MSC collects this information to understand users' browsing behaviour and how users engage with the website. This information assists us in identifying areas for improvement on our website. We collect this information using cookies in accordance with the Cookie section (section 7) of this policy.
If you opt in to receive marketing communications from us you consent to the processing of your data to send you such communications, which may include newsletters, blog posts, surveys and information about new events. We retain a record of your consent.
You can choose to no longer receive marketing communications by contacting us at info@msc.org or clicking unsubscribe from a marketing email. If you unsubscribe to marketing communications, it may take up to five business days for your new preferences to take effect. We shall therefore retain your personal data in our records for marketing purposes until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive marketing emails from us.
The MSC will never sell your personal information to any third party.
A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred (through your browser) from a website to the hard drive of your computer. The cookie identifies your browser but will not let a website know any personal data about you, such as your name and/or address. These files are then used by websites to identify when users revisit that website.
Our website uses cookies so that we can recognise you when you return, potentially personalising your settings and preferences. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can change your browser settings either to notify you when you have received a cookie, or to refuse to accept cookies. Please note that our website may not operate efficiently if you refuse to accept cookies.
Cookies installed by Google Analytics are used to analyse the traffic on our website and understand how our users use our website (for example, which pages they visit the most, the source where they have come from or if they get error messages from our web pages). The cookies store information in an anonymous form. These cookies have a lifespan of up to 24 months. Google uses analytics data for product improvement, benchmarking, technical support and for improving the way we use Google products. For more information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, please see:
You can opt out from sharing information with Google through Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
Google Ads are used to show you personalised advertisements that you may find interesting.
These cookies have a lifespan of up to 24 months. To find out more on how to opt out of Google’s personalised ads, please see here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en-GB
Cookies set by Youtube are used to:
These cookies have a lifespan of up to 5 months.
DoubleClick cookies are used by Google for advertising purposes, to:
These cookies have a lifespan of up to 12 months.
Cookies set by Facebook are used for advertising purposes, to:
These cookies have a lifespan of up to 2 months. To manage your Off-Facebook Activity, click here.
Cookies set by LinkedIn are used to:
track website users on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the user’s preferences (advertising)
These cookies have a lifespan of up to 24 months. To opt out of LinkedIn advertising cookies, click here.
These cookies are used to enable Share and Follow buttons so as to share content across social networks and to present relevant content (advertising).These cookies have a lifespan of up to 14 days.
MailChimp uses session cookies to remember changes as users move from page to page, it does not use cookies to track contacts. Links and images are used to track open and clicks for email campaigns.
More information on how MailChimp uses cookies
Disable cookies: If you wish to prevent cookies from tracking your activity on our website or visits across multiple websites, you can set your browser to block certain cookies or to notify you when a cookie is set. If you block cookies, certain features on our website may not work. For more information on how you can customize your browser’s cookie setting please visit the link to your web browser below:
If you register with us, we shall retain your personal data we will keep a record of the correspondence only for as long as we need it. In most circumstances this means no longer than 2 years.
If you receive marketing communications from us, we shall retain your personal data until you opt out of receiving such communications.
If you have contacted us with a question or comment, we shall retain your personal data for 6 months following such contact to respond to any further queries you might have.
If any provision of this policy is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, then such provision shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties and all other provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
This policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales, and you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
We may change the terms of this policy from time to time. You are responsible for regularly reviewing this policy so that you are aware of any changes to it. If you continue to use our website after the time we state the changes will take effect, you will have accepted the changes.
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