Privacy Policy of GLOBAL TRAINING SYSTEMS PHILIPPINE INC,

GLOBAL TRAINING SYSTEMS PHILIPPINES INC operates the https://gts-phils.com/ website, which provides the SERVICE. This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service, the GLOBAL TRAINING SYSTEMS PHILIPPINE INC, website. If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at https://gts-phils.com/, unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.  

Information Collection and Use

HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect your personal information by using the following:
  • Website – when you create an account
  • Enrollment system – when you enroll in a course
  Global Training Systems Philippines Inc. collects personal information directly from you, our customers. Such personal information includes:
  • Full name
  • Date of birth
  • Home address
  • Mobile number
  • Email address
  • Signature
  • Seafarers Registration Number (SRN generated by the MARINA Integrated Seafarers Management Online System or MISMO)
  • Photo
  • Government issued ID (e.g., passport, driver’s license, seaman’s book)

USER’S ACCOUNT

When you create an account using Global Training Systems Philippines Inc.’s website, online enrollment system, we collect any personal information you provide directly, including:
  • Full name
  • Email address
  • Mobile number
When you create or update your account, we collect and store the following personal information:
  • Full name
  • Email address
  • Mobile number
  When you update your profile, we collect and store the following personal information:
  • Photo
  • Social media accounts (for Blended Learning)
  • Biography
 

WHY WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect your personal information due to the following purposes:

  • Strictly necessary for the enrollment process as required by the Maritime Industry Authority of the Philippines (MARINA)
  • Strictly necessary for your protection against fraudulent logins and unauthorized use of your account
  • Additional functionality when our system collects your browser preferences and settings
  • Improvement of our system’s performance when our system collects web traffic and website

visits

  • Improvement of our system’s performance when we collect feedbacks from you
  • Advertisements that are tailor made for you based on your preferences and settings
  • Identification of unique users across our website, enrollment system.
You can set your browser to alert you about attempts to place cookies on your computer. You may limit the types of cookies you allow or even refuse them altogether. If you do, you may not be able to use some important features of our website, enrollment system.

WHO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH

We share your personal information to the following: THE MARITIME INDUSTRY AUTHORITY OF THE PHILIPPINES We share the following personal information about you for compliance with MARINA’s requirements:
  • Full name
  • Date of birth
  • Home address
  • Mobile number
  • Email address
  • Signature
  • Seafarers Registration Number (SRN)
  • Photo
  • Government issued ID (eg. passport, driver’s license, seaman’s book)
 

GLOBAL TRAINING SYSTEMS PHILIPPINES INC. INSTRUCTORS AND ASSESSORS

We share the following personal information about you with your instructor and assessor for them to properly identify and grade you as well as to handle your inquiries and concerns:
  • Full name
  • Date of Birth
  • SRN No.
  • Signature
 

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

  We may disclose personal information about you to third parties in our sole discretion for the following reasons:
  • Required as part of a judicial, governmental, or legal order or proceeding
  • Required as part of a valid subpoena, warrant, or other valid request
  • Necessary in our discretion to protect against imminent harm to our employees, our properties, our IT infrastructure, other GTS-PI customers, or members of the public.
  • Necessary for the purpose of internal, external, and certification body audit
   

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.  

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive. Our website uses these “cookies” to collection information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
  • To facilitate our Service;
  • To provide the Service on our behalf;
  • To perform Service-related services; or
  • To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 18. In the case we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us    
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