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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.
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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.
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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.
- 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. service.
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We would never ask you to supply us withn your logon details in an unsolicited e-mail or phone call.
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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.
Your responsibilities
To protect yourself and others that you deal with over the Internet from the risk of viruses and other malicious processes:
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Make sure that you have antivirus software installed on your computer and that you update your virus definitions reguarly - at least once a week.
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If you connect to the internet via a broadband connection, make sure that you have firewall in place.
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Scan your computer for spyware on a regular basis. (Yahoo offers a free spyware scanner with its browser toolbar) You should also read the terms and conditions of any software you download from the internet as spyware programmes are sometime installed with the software and this may form part of the conditions you agree to when downloading the programme.
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Keep any user ID's and passwords required to logon to any web sites you are registered with in a safe place and do not disclose them to anyone.
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If you use an Internet Cafe or a computer that is shared with others, make sure that you do not select the option to "remember me" that is available on some sites, which automatically logs you in when you visit that site again. If the computer you are using presents you with a prompt, offering to save your logon details so that you do not have to re-enter them the next time you visit that site, you should also say no.
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