This Privacy Policy describes how the Journal of Maritime Medicine website (“the Site”) collects, uses and protects information when you visit or use https://jmaritimemed.com.
This text is provided for general information only and does not constitute legal advice. Privacy and data protection requirements vary between jurisdictions; you should ensure that your use of the Site complies with local law.
1. Who We Are
The Site is operated as an online project under the name Journal of Maritime Medicine, focused on clinical, operational and medico-legal topics related to healthcare at sea and in remote maritime environments.
The primary contact for privacy-related questions is:
Email:admin@jmaritimemed.com
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Information you provide directly
We may collect information that you choose to provide when you interact with the Site, including:
- Details submitted via the contact form, such as your name, email address, role and message content.
- Information sent by email in connection with enquiries or potential consulting work.
- If commenting is enabled in future: the information you enter in comment forms.
2.2 Technical and Usage Data
When you visit the Site, basic technical information may be collected automatically, such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited and the time and date of your visit. This is typically used in aggregate to maintain security and understand how the Site is being accessed.
3. Comments and User Accounts
At present, public commenting and user registration may be disabled or limited. If comments or user accounts are enabled in future:
- Data shown in the comment or registration form, and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, may be collected to help detect spam and maintain security.
- An anonymised string created from your email address (a “hash”) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at
https://automattic.com/privacy/.
After approval of a comment, a profile image (if any) may be publicly visible in connection with that comment.
4. Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device to help websites function and remember certain information. The Site may use cookies for purposes such as:
- Determining whether your browser accepts cookies.
- Maintaining login sessions for administrators or authorised users.
- Remembering display preferences in the WordPress admin area.
Any cookies set for logged-in administrators do not normally affect general visitors. If additional analytics, security or consent tools are enabled in future, those services may set their own cookies; we aim to use them in a proportionate and privacy-conscious way.
You can usually configure your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being set. Disabling cookies may affect some aspects of Site functionality.
5. Embedded Content and External Links
Articles on this Site may include embedded content (for example videos, images or articles) from other websites. Embedded content behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website directly.
These external sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that external site. We do not control the privacy practices of those third parties.
The Site may also contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those sites and encourage you to review their policies separately.
6. How we use your information
Information collected via the Site may be used for purposes such as:
- Responding to your enquiries or requests, including potential journal contributions or consulting work.
- Maintaining the security and integrity of the Site and its content.
- Improving the clarity and usefulness of the Site based on aggregated usage patterns.
- Complying with legal or regulatory obligations where applicable.
7. How Long We Retain Information
We generally retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law. For example:
- Contact form submissions and related correspondence may be kept for a period of time to follow up on your enquiry and maintain records of consulting work.
- If comments or user accounts are enabled, comments and basic account details may be retained to preserve the functionality and context of the Site.
8. Your Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights in relation to your personal information, such as the right to request access, correction or deletion of data we hold about you.
To raise a question about your data, please contact us via the
Contact page, explaining the nature of your request. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests and may not be able to comply with requests that conflict with legal, regulatory or legitimate record-keeping