Security Matters

We are committed to the on-line security and privacy of our users and employ software processes and management procedures to ensure that this is effective.

• The site is secured by GeoTrust. This ensures that any information that you send over the Internet is protected by high-level 128 bit encryption and cannot be viewed by anyone else over the Internet.
• Our company details and domain name ownership have been fully authenticated by GeoTrust and you can verify this by clicking on the site seal certificate.
• Secure on-line Credit card payments are made via WorldPay and we do not have access to any credit card details provided by companies that use this facility. We would never ask you for your credit card details in an e-mail or a phone call.
• All new clients are authenticated before being issued with a password to access the site, which has resulted in a high rejection rate thus far. This, combined with the fraud detection measures employed by WordlPay ensures a high level of protection to the maritime personnel that sign up to use this service.
• We would never ask you to supply us withn your logon details in an unsolicited e-mail or phone call.
• You should also avoid opening file attachments with unsolicited e-mail claiming to be from marine-recruitment.com. Almost all viruses forge the sender's address using e-mail addresses found on an infected computer, to disguise their origin and frequently use deceptive tactics to persuade the recipient to open the infected mail and attachment. These will commonly use subject lines with security alerts or indicate that your user account has been suspended, your password has been updated, or similar. If you are not expecting an e-mail from us and you receive an e-mail with an attachment please contact us, using the contact form provided to see if we sent it BEFORE you open the e-mail.

This is a particular problem in the shipping industry, where large numbers of e-mail addresses for shipping companies and agencies have been stored in the address books of maritime personnel around the world. It only requires one of these computers to become infected for high volumes of infected e-mail to be sent to shipping companies and seafaring colleagues in the user's address book, using a different company or colleague's address as the sender.

• To protect you from the above risks, no e-mail address are displayed with the details of companies or individuals who register to use this service. Instead a mail form is provided for initial contact purposes.