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Online Training Programme and Mobile Application

The ITF Seafarers’ Trust online training programme and mobile application, “OSH Ports”, is available to download on laptops and mobile devices in the Google Play Store. The app is an educational programme providing information on the fundamentals of occupational safety and health in ports. The programme is supported by the ILO International Training Centre in Turin.

Terms and Conditions

The purpose of this app is to increase awareness of the fundamental principles of occupational safety and health in the port environment. It is not and does not purport to be a fully comprehensive training on all aspects of safety and health in ports. The programme has been developed by experts in the subject and is provided free of charge. All information given is understood to be accurate at the time of writing. Users agree to provide the information required to facilitate the provision of the service, monitor its usage and contribute to efforts to increase worker participation in occupational safety and health at work, including engagement with trade unions.

Why we collect your information & the types of information we collect

The ITF Seafarers’ Trust (The Trust, we, us, our) need to collect some personal information in order to facilitate use of the App and to comply with our legal and financial duties. The App collects data from users including: name, email, location data and data about your usage of the app. This information is used to provide the app services to you and to provide anonymised statistical data about usage of the app. Users are also invited to provide survey data relating to occupational safety in ports.

How long we keep your information

We will not keep information for longer than is necessary, and will destroy it securely once it is no longer needed or if you withdraw your consent for us to retain your personal data. Where a user accesses one of our apps, we may retain anonymised statistical information indefinitely. We may retain basic information including name, email and location.

Special information we collect

Certain types of personal information are more sensitive than others. These “special categories of data” about you includes information about health, union membership, disability, race, ethnicity, criminal offences (or alleged offences), political opinions, biometrics or religion. We may collect and receive special information about you. We have identified below the types of special information we may collect or receive, how we will use it and why we will use it.

What we collect and how we use it

Information that you give us or that we receive when using our services:

• Trade union and trade union membership information

We may use this information to facilitate your involvement in union-led OSH activities.

Sharing your information with others

We may share contact and other personal information with partner organizations in with an interest in occupational safety and health in ports, such as ITF affiliated trade unions. However, except as required by law, we do not disclose information to any organisations not involved in the specific subject and purpose of the App or use it for any other purposes.
However, we will not share your personal information unless you have previously given us informed and specific permission to do so, in order to meet our compliance and regulatory obligations or where we are required to do so by law.
We will not sell your data to any third party.

Where your information will be held

Your data may be transferred to, stored or processed at a location outside of the European Economic Area by the Trust or third parties acting on our behalf. The Trust will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this policy.
We will only transfer data to jurisdictions outside the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) where the appropriate safeguards set out in the GDPR are in place.

Your rights

You may have certain rights in relation to your personal data including a right to access or to correct the information that we hold on you.
We’ve listed the rights you may have over your personal data and how you can use them below.
These rights will only apply in certain circumstances. They will generally not be available if there are outstanding contracts between us, if we are required by law to keep the information or if the information is relevant to a legal dispute.

• You can ask us to confirm if we are processing your information;
• You can ask for access to your information;
• You can ask to correct your information if it’s wrong;
• You can ask us to delete your information;
• You have a right to be forgotten and you can ask that our systems stop using your information;
• You can ask us to restrict how we use your information;
• You can ask us to help you move your information to other companies – to help with that, you have a right to ask that we provide your information in an easily readable format to another company;
• You can ask us to stop using your personal data, but only in certain cases; and
• You have the right to complain to the relevant supervisory authority.