1. General Information

Horizon Marine Consultancy, operated by Michael Neuhaus, takes the protection of your personal data seriously.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal data may be collected when you visit this website or contact Horizon Marine Consultancy, how this data is used, and what rights you have under applicable data protection law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Controller

Horizon Marine Consultancy
Michael Neuhaus
Hamburg, Germany

Email: marineconsultancy@horizonmn7.com
Phone: +49 176 81965644

2. Personal Data

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable person.

Depending on how you use this website, the following information may be processed:

• Name
• Company
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Subject of your enquiry
• Information contained in your message
• Technical information relating to your visit
• Information submitted through the contact form
• IP address associated with a contact-form submission

3. Hosting and Website Operation

This website is hosted and operated using WordPress.com, provided by Automattic.

When you visit the website, technical information may be processed as part of providing and securing the website. This may include information such as your IP address, browser information, device information, requested pages, referring URL and timestamps.

The processing of technically necessary information is carried out to provide, secure and maintain the website and to prevent abuse, security incidents and technical problems.

Where processing is necessary for the operation and security of the website, the legal basis may be our legitimate interest in operating and securing our website in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, where applicable.

4. Contact Form

You can contact Horizon Marine Consultancy through the contact form provided on this website.

Depending on the fields you complete, the form may collect your name, company, email address, telephone number, subject and the content of your message.

The information you provide is used to process and respond to your enquiry and, where applicable, to communicate with you regarding maritime consultancy, marine assurance, training or related services.

Where your enquiry concerns the preparation or performance of a contract, processing may be based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. In other cases, processing may be based on our legitimate interest in responding to business enquiries and maintaining business correspondence under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, where applicable.

Form submissions are processed using the WordPress.com Form functionality. Responses are stored in the Jetpack Forms system unless response storage is disabled. WordPress.com states that stored form responses can include the sender’s name, date, form information and IP address.

Form responses may also be delivered by email to the configured recipient.

WordPress.com states that its form functionality includes spam protection provided through Akismet.

Please do not submit passwords, payment information or other highly sensitive information through the contact form.

5. Email and Telephone Communication

If you contact Horizon Marine Consultancy by email or telephone, the information you provide may be processed for the purpose of responding to your enquiry and managing the resulting business communication.

Where your communication concerns a potential contractual relationship, processing may be based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR where applicable. Otherwise, processing may be based on our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries and maintaining business correspondence under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Where necessary, information may also be retained in connection with contractual, legal or accounting obligations.

6. Jetpack Statistics

This website uses Jetpack Statistics, a website analytics service provided through WordPress.com, to understand how visitors use the website and to measure website traffic.

Jetpack Statistics may process information such as page views, video plays, outbound link clicks, referring URLs, search engine terms, country, region and city.

Technical information may also be processed, including IP address, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp, browser language and country code.

Where consent is required for the relevant statistics processing or associated storage or access on the user’s device, processing takes place only after the visitor has provided the required consent through the consent management mechanism.

Where processing is based on consent, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. Consent may be withdrawn at any time through the available consent settings.

According to WordPress.com, detailed Jetpack Statistics logs are retained for 28 days.

The website operator does not receive information that identifies individual visitors through the Jetpack Statistics interface.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies for purposes including the technical operation, security and functionality of the website and, where enabled and permitted, website statistics.

Information about the cookies and similar technologies used on this website, including their purposes and categories, is provided in the Cookie Policy.

Where the law requires consent for the storage of information on a user’s device or access to information already stored on that device, the relevant consent mechanism is used.

You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the website.

8. Recipients and Service Providers

Personal data may be processed by service providers involved in operating this website, providing technical infrastructure, processing form submissions, providing spam protection or providing website statistics.

This includes WordPress.com and Automattic as the website hosting and platform provider, as well as services used to operate the website and its contact forms.

Where a service provider processes personal data on our behalf, appropriate contractual and data-protection safeguards are used where required.

Personal data is not sold to third parties.

9. International Data Transfers

Some service providers used to operate this website may process personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

Where personal data is transferred to a country outside the EEA, applicable legal safeguards for international data transfers are relied upon where required, such as an adequacy decision or appropriate contractual safeguards.

WordPress.com states that Automattic provides a Data Processing Agreement containing contractual safeguards for relevant data processing and international transfers.

10. Data Retention

Personal data is retained only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, unless a longer retention period is required by law.

Contact enquiries may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to handle the enquiry, maintain business correspondence, establish or defend legal claims, or comply with applicable legal and accounting obligations.

Form responses may remain stored in the Jetpack Forms system until they are deleted or otherwise removed in accordance with the applicable WordPress.com functionality and retention settings.

According to WordPress.com, detailed Jetpack Statistics logs are retained for 28 days.

11. Your Rights

Under applicable data protection law, you may have the following rights:

• Right of access to your personal data
• Right to rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data
• Right to erasure
• Right to restriction of processing
• Right to data portability
• Right to object to certain processing
• Right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority.

12. Right to Lodge a Complaint

If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates applicable data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

You may contact the supervisory authority responsible for your place of residence or work, or for the place of the alleged infringement.

13. International Website Use

Horizon Marine Consultancy provides services to an international audience. Visitors may access this website from countries outside the European Union and the European Economic Area.

This Privacy Policy describes the data-processing practices applicable to this website and is intended to provide information to visitors regardless of their location.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, the services used, legal requirements or business practices.

The current version published on this page applies.

Last updated: September 2026