Effective Date: 20 August 2026
Last Updated: 20 August 2026
1. Introduction
Don Marine Global Resources Ltd. (“Don Marine”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information entrusted to us.
Don Marine Global Resources Ltd. is an indigenous Nigerian service provider operating within the marine, oil and gas sectors. Our activities include marine services and transportation, shipboard maintenance and supplies, vessel inspections and assessments, engineering support, marine equipment supply and trading, work management training, crew mentorship, and related technical services.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, protect, disclose, and otherwise process personal information when you visit our website, communicate with us, request our services, engage with us as a client, supplier, contractor, employee, consultant, trainee, or otherwise interact with Don Marine.
We are committed to handling personal data fairly, lawfully, transparently, and responsibly in accordance with applicable Nigerian data-protection requirements, including the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (NDPA).
2. Who We Are
Don Marine Global Resources Ltd.
Registered/Business Address:
1 Ette Etukudo, off Umana Ndon,
Eket, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Email: donmarineglobal@aol.com
Telephone: +234 802 606 2124
For privacy-related enquiries, requests, or concerns, please contact us using the details above.
3. Personal Information We May Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect information such as:
Contact Information
- Full name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Business or residential address
- Company or organisation name
- Job title or position
Business and Service Information
- Service enquiries and requests
- Project information
- Contract and commercial information
- Supplier and contractor information
- Vessel or marine-operation information where relevant to a service
- Correspondence and communications with us
Employment and Professional Information
Where relevant to recruitment, employment, consultancy, training, or professional engagement, we may collect:
- Curriculum vitae/resume information
- Educational and professional qualifications
- Certifications and licences
- Employment history
- References
- Training and competency information
Website and Technical Information
When you use our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, depending on the website configuration and technologies in use. This may include:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device information
- Operating system
- Pages visited
- Date and time of visits
- Referring website
- General website usage information
We will only collect information that is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.
4. How We Collect Personal Information
We may obtain personal information:
- Directly from you when you contact us;
- When you submit an enquiry or request for services;
- When you communicate with our personnel;
- When you enter into a contract or business relationship with us;
- During recruitment or professional engagement;
- During training, crew mentorship, inspections, assessments, or technical services;
- From authorised representatives of your organisation;
- From suppliers, contractors, business partners, or other authorised third parties;
- Automatically through our website or digital systems where applicable; and
- Where permitted or required by applicable law, from publicly available or regulatory sources.
5. Why We Use Personal Information
We may process personal information for legitimate and necessary business purposes, including:
- Responding to enquiries and requests;
- Providing marine, engineering, technical, inspection, training, supply, and related services;
- Preparing quotations, proposals, contracts, invoices, and other business documents;
- Managing relationships with clients, suppliers, contractors, consultants, and business partners;
- Carrying out recruitment and workforce administration;
- Delivering training, crew mentorship, and competency-related activities;
- Managing vessel inspections, assessments, maintenance, engineering, and project activities;
- Communicating important information relating to our services;
- Maintaining business and operational records;
- Protecting the safety and security of our personnel, clients, contractors, facilities, and operations;
- Preventing fraud, misuse, unauthorised access, or other unlawful activity;
- Complying with applicable laws, regulations, contractual obligations, and lawful requests from competent authorities;
- Improving our services, systems, website, and customer experience; and
- Establishing, exercising, or defending legal rights and claims.
6. Lawful Basis for Processing
Where applicable, Don Marine processes personal information on one or more lawful bases recognised under applicable data-protection law.
These may include:
Consent
Where consent is legally required, we will request it before processing your personal information for the relevant purpose. You may withdraw consent where applicable.
Contractual Necessity
We may process information where it is necessary to enter into or perform a contract with you or your organisation.
Legal Obligation
We may process information where processing is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Legitimate Interests
We may process information where necessary for legitimate business interests, provided those interests do not override your applicable privacy rights.
Other Lawful Grounds
Where applicable, we may rely on other lawful grounds recognised under Nigerian data-protection legislation.
7. Data Minimisation
We aim to collect and process only personal information that is adequate, relevant, and reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it is collected.
We do not intentionally collect excessive personal information where it is unnecessary for our business, contractual, operational, legal, or regulatory purposes.
8. Sharing of Personal Information
We do not sell your personal information.
Where necessary and lawful, we may disclose personal information to:
- Our employees and authorised personnel;
- Professional advisers and consultants;
- Contractors and service providers;
- Technology, hosting, communication, or other service providers;
- Clients and business partners where necessary for the performance of services;
- Financial institutions or payment providers where required for transactions;
- Insurers and professional advisers;
- Government, regulatory, law-enforcement, or other competent authorities where legally required;
- Auditors and other professional service providers; and
- Other parties where you have authorised or where disclosure is otherwise permitted or required by law.
Where we engage third parties to process personal information on our behalf, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate privacy and security obligations apply.
9. International Transfers
Where personal information is transferred, stored, or processed outside Nigeria, Don Marine will take appropriate steps required by applicable data-protection law.
Where necessary, we will consider the adequacy of the destination jurisdiction and appropriate safeguards applicable to the transfer.
10. Cookies and Website Technologies
Our website may use cookies or similar technologies to provide functionality, improve website performance, understand website usage, and remember certain preferences.
Cookies may include:
- Essential cookies required for website functionality;
- Preference cookies used to remember settings;
- Analytics cookies where analytics services are implemented; and
- Other technologies that may be introduced as our website develops.
Where consent is required for non-essential cookies, we will provide an appropriate mechanism for managing or withdrawing consent.
You may also be able to control cookies through your browser settings.
The specific cookies and third-party technologies used on our website may change over time. This Privacy Policy should therefore be read together with any cookie notice displayed on the website.
11. Data Security
Don Marine takes reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against:
- Unauthorised access;
- Unauthorised disclosure;
- Loss or destruction;
- Accidental alteration;
- Unlawful processing; and
- Other forms of misuse.
Security measures may include access controls, confidentiality obligations, secure systems, appropriate authentication practices, staff awareness, and other safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information and the risks involved.
However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
12. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, satisfy contractual or operational requirements, comply with legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, establish or defend legal claims, or otherwise fulfil legitimate business purposes.
When personal information is no longer required, we will take reasonable steps to securely delete, destroy, anonymise, or otherwise dispose of it in accordance with applicable requirements.
13. Your Data Protection Rights
Subject to applicable law and any lawful limitations, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including:
- The right to be informed about the processing of your personal information;
- The right to request access to personal information we hold about you;
- The right to request correction or rectification of inaccurate information;
- The right to request restriction of certain processing;
- The right to object to certain processing;
- The right to request deletion or erasure in appropriate circumstances;
- The right to data portability where applicable;
- The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
- Rights relating to automated decision-making where applicable; and
- The right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data-protection supervisory authority.
These rights are subject to applicable legal conditions and exemptions.
The Nigeria Data Protection Commission identifies rights including access, rectification, objection, restriction, portability, erasure, and rights relating to automated decision-making under the NDPA framework. (National Pedagogy Directorate)
14. How to Exercise Your Rights
If you wish to exercise a data-protection right or ask us a privacy-related question, contact:
Don Marine Global Resources Ltd.
1 Ette Etukudo, off Umana Ndon,
Eket, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Email: donmarineglobal@aol.com
Telephone: +234 802 606 2124
When making a request, please provide sufficient information to enable us to understand and respond to your request.
We may need to verify your identity before providing access to personal information or acting on certain requests.
15. Accuracy of Personal Information
We take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information we hold is accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
You should notify us if any personal information you have provided to us changes or is inaccurate.
16. Third-Party Websites
Our website may contain links to websites, platforms, or services operated by third parties.
These third-party websites have their own privacy practices and policies. Don Marine is not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third-party websites that we do not control.
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party website before providing personal information.
17. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are primarily intended for business, professional, and industrial purposes.
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children where such collection is not appropriate or permitted by law.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us in circumstances where it should not have been collected, please contact us so that we can take appropriate action.
18. Data Breach and Security Incidents
If Don Marine becomes aware of a personal-data breach that requires notification under applicable law, we will take appropriate steps to investigate, contain, mitigate, and address the incident and make any notifications required by law.
We may also take measures to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.
19. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect:
- Changes in our services or business operations;
- Changes in applicable laws or regulatory requirements;
- Changes to our website or technology;
- Improvements to our privacy practices; or
- Other legitimate operational requirements.
When we make material changes, we may update the Last Updated date displayed at the top of this Privacy Policy and, where appropriate, provide additional notice.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
20. Complaints
If you have a concern about how Don Marine handles your personal information, we encourage you to contact us first so that we can investigate and attempt to resolve the matter.
You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC), Nigeria’s data-protection supervisory authority. The NDPC provides mechanisms for data subjects to exercise their rights and raise privacy concerns. (National Pedagogy Directorate)
21. Contact Us
For questions, requests, complaints, or other matters concerning this Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, please contact:
Don Marine Global Resources Ltd.
Address:
1 Ette Etukudo, off Umana Ndon,
Eket, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Email: donmarineglobal@aol.com
Telephone: +234 802 606 2124
22. Important Notice
This Privacy Policy is intended to provide a clear description of Don Marine’s privacy practices for its website and business interactions. It should be reviewed against Don Marine’s actual website configuration, internal data-processing activities, contracts, cookie technologies, third-party service providers, retention procedures, and applicable regulatory obligations before publication.
Where Don Marine’s actual processing activities differ from the practices described above, this Privacy Policy should be updated accordingly.
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