Privacy Policy

You do not need an account to use Sailor's Reality. We do not ask for your name, email, phone number, seafarer documents, or employer details. Submissions about shipping companies are anonymous and cannot be linked back to you by us.

When you contribute a report about a company, you may share details such as salary ranges, promotion timelines, relief reliability, work culture, food quality, overtime practices, crew nationality mix, internet quality and general onboard experience, along with your rank, fleet type and an approximate time period.

This information is about a company and a voyage experience — not about you as an identifiable person. Please do not include your own name, the names of crew members, contact details, or any other information that could identify a specific individual. If you do, you are sharing it voluntarily and it may become publicly visible.

Reports are stored without any account, login, or persistent user identifier tied to a real person. We do not build profiles of contributors and we cannot tell you which reports came from a particular device or person, because we do not record that link.

Suggestions sent through the "Suggest an improvement" feature are also anonymous and are stored separately from company reports.

Like most websites and apps, our hosting and security infrastructure may automatically process limited technical information when you connect, including your IP address, browser or app version, device type and operating system, and the pages you request. This is used to keep the service running, prevent abuse and spam, and diagnose errors. We do not use it to identify you personally.

We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. We may use essential browser local storage to keep the app working smoothly (for example, remembering a draft or a basic preference). The Android app wraps the same website and behaves the same way. If you create an administrator account, a secure session token is stored so you can stay signed in — this applies only to platform administrators, not ordinary visitors.

We may use privacy-respecting, aggregate analytics to understand how many people use the platform and which features are helpful. Any such analytics are measured in aggregate and are not used to identify individual seafarers or sell data to third parties.

We use the information described above to publish anonymous company insights, calculate aggregate statistics and confidence levels, moderate content and prevent spam, maintain security, and improve the platform. We do not sell your data, and we do not share it for advertising.

Anonymous company reports are retained so they remain useful to other seafarers over time, and may be removed or hidden by moderators if they are inaccurate, abusive, or violate our Terms of Use. Technical logs used for security are kept only as long as needed for that purpose. Because reports are anonymous, we generally cannot locate and delete a specific contribution on request unless it contains enough detail to identify it.

Because Sailor's Reality has no accounts and stores no link between a report and the person who submitted it, there is no profile or login to delete. You can still ask us to remove specific community-submitted content or any data you believe relates to you.

To request removal, email sailorsreality@gmail.com and include enough detail for us to find the specific report — for example, the company name, the rank or fleet mentioned, the approximate date it was posted, or a link to the page. We review every request and will remove or hide content that is inaccurate, abusive, contains personal information, or otherwise violates our Terms of Use. We aim to respond within 30 days.

You can also flag any report directly on a company page using the Report content button, which sends it to our moderators for review.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or request deletion of personal data we hold about you. Since we intentionally avoid collecting personal data, we usually hold none. If you believe a report contains personal information about you or should be removed, contact us at sailorsreality@gmail.com and we will review it.

Sailor's Reality is intended for working seafarers and professionals and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16. If you believe a minor has submitted information, contact us and we will remove it.

Sailor's Reality serves a global maritime community. By using the platform you understand that anonymous, non-personal content may be stored and processed on servers located outside your country. We apply the same privacy standards regardless of where you connect from.

We may update this policy as the platform evolves or as regulations change. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last updated" date above. Continued use of Sailor's Reality after changes means you accept the revised policy.

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