Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 11, 2026

September 11, 2026 — Described our service providers by the category of processing they perform rather than by name, and now provide the current named list on request and to customers under their data processing agreement. No change to what we collect, why, how long we keep it, or your rights.

August 30, 2026 — Added a Singapore PDPA section (rights, transfer safeguards, and how we support organizations' obligations as their data intermediary), disclosed optional integrations that receive data only when enabled, and made the analytics retention schedule more precise.

August 4, 2026 — Added a mobile application section covering the camera, photo library, and microphone permissions used by the Seamind iOS app, and confirmed that the app uses no advertising identifiers and no cross-app tracking.

July 18, 2026 — Expanded the service-provider disclosure to fully reflect the categories of processing that operate the Platform, and clarified the AI providers’ no-training terms and US data residency.

July 15, 2026 — Expanded the AI disclosures to cover document search and indexing.

June 14, 2026 — Added crew & professional profile data, expanded the security and AI assistant disclosures, US data residency and EU/UK transfer terms, GDPR/CCPA rights, and a delete-on-termination commitment.

1. Introduction

Seamind, Inc. (“Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy. This policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at seamind.xyz (the “Site”) and use our maritime learning, crew management, and fleet operations platform (the “Platform”). If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use the Site or Platform.

2. Information We Collect

A. Information You Provide to Us

  • First name and last name
  • Work email address
  • Company or organization name
  • Any information you submit through our contact form (including messages)
  • Information provided when signing up for demos or early access

B. Information Collected Through Authentication

When you sign in to the Platform, we collect profile information through our authentication provider, including your name, email address, email verification status, profile picture, organizational membership, and role.

C. Learning Activity Data

When you use the Platform for training, we collect learning activity data, including:

  • Course progress and completion status
  • Quiz responses, scores, and time spent on assessments
  • Session duration and activity timestamps
  • Training module interactions and navigation

D. Crew and Professional Profile Data

Where your organization uses our crew management product, we collect and process professional and identity information that you or your organization's administrators provide, which may be sensitive. This can include:

  • Identity documents, such as passports, seafarer's identification documents (seaman's books), and other government-issued IDs
  • Professional certificates and credentials (for example, STCW certificates, licenses, and medical certificates), including their issue and expiry dates and verification status
  • Employment and sea-service history, such as rank or position, vessel assignments, and embarkation and disembarkation dates
  • Next-of-kin and emergency contact details
  • Profile photographs and contact information

Why we collect it: to operate crew management for your organization — building and maintaining crew profiles, verifying documents and certificates, supporting office review and approval workflows, and meeting maritime compliance, audit, and fleet management requirements.

Legal basis: we process this data as a processor on behalf of your organization. Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, our lawful bases are the performance of a contract with your organization, compliance with legal obligations (including maritime regulatory requirements), and our legitimate interests in operating the Platform. Any special-category or otherwise sensitive data is processed only as permitted by applicable law and your organization's instructions.

E. Automatically Collected Information

When you visit the Site, we may automatically collect:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device information
  • Pages visited
  • Time spent on pages
  • Referring URLs

This data is collected via our web analytics provider.

F. Mobile Application (iOS)

The Seamind iOS app provides the same Platform experience as the web application. With your permission, it uses the following capabilities on your device:

  • Camera and photo library — so you can photograph or select certificates, travel documents, and profile photographs to upload to your crew profile.
  • Microphone — only when you choose to dictate a message to the AI assistant. The recording is transcribed to text and is not retained as audio.

These permissions are requested only when you first use the relevant feature, and you can revoke them at any time in your device settings. The app does not use advertising identifiers and does not track you across other apps or websites.

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect to:

  • Provide and operate the Platform, including delivering training content and tracking progress
  • Generate AI-powered learning insights based on your training performance
  • Provide fleet-wide analytics and compliance reporting to your organization
  • Respond to inquiries and contact requests
  • Improve the Site, Platform, and user experience
  • Analyze traffic and usage patterns
  • Comply with legal obligations, including maritime training compliance requirements

We do not sell your personal information.

4. AI Features and Data Processing

The Platform includes AI-powered features such as an AI tutor and personalized learning insights. When you use these features:

  • AI Chat: Your messages and relevant course context are sent to our AI service providers to generate responses. We do not send your email address or other personal identifiers to AI providers.
  • Learning Insights: Aggregated performance data (such as course completion rates, quiz scores, and time spent) may be processed by AI services to generate personalized learning recommendations. Raw personal data is not shared.
  • Document Search: Training content and, where your organization uses our crew management product, uploaded credential documents are indexed so they can be searched with AI assistance. This indexing and search happen within our own cloud environment, and the content is not used to train any provider's models. Search results follow the same permission rules as the rest of the Platform: staff can search only their own organization's documents, and crew members only their own.

Where the AI assistant can surface platform data — such as crew profiles, credentials, or analytics — it operates within the following guardrails:

  • It acts only within your own permissions and organization, and can access only the data you are already authorized to see.
  • It can perform only a limited, predefined set of operations, and nothing outside them.
  • Any change to your data requires human approval; the assistant does not make changes on its own.
  • Your data is not used to train third-party AI models.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • Authentication cookies: To maintain your signed-in session on the Platform
  • Content delivery cookies: Used to deliver training content securely to your browser

We use a third-party web analytics provider for website usage analysis. You can disable cookies in your browser settings, though some features of the Platform may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

6. Third-Party Service Providers (Subprocessors)

We use third-party service providers (“subprocessors”) to operate the Platform. Each processes personal data only on our behalf and on our instructions, under a written data processing agreement that imposes data protection obligations consistent with our commitments to customers. None is permitted to use your data for its own purposes, and none of our AI providers is permitted to train models on it.

These providers perform the following categories of processing:

  • Cloud hosting and infrastructure — application hosting, databases, encrypted file storage, and delivery of content to your browser
  • Identity and access management — authentication, single sign-on, and account provisioning
  • AI model inference and processing — the models behind assistant chat, learning insights, document analysis and indexing, and voice transcription, each engaged under terms that prohibit training on your data
  • Analytics — storage and processing of learning, usage, and product-interaction data used for reporting
  • Email delivery — transactional and notification email
  • Security, abuse prevention, and quality monitoring — bot and abuse protection, secure access for integrations, and monitoring the quality of AI output
  • Optional integrations — providers behind features your organization can switch off, such as flight search, map display, and cross-conversation memory for the AI assistant. While such a feature is off, no data reaches that provider at all and the rest of the Platform is unaffected

The current named list. We maintain an up-to-date list naming each subprocessor, its location, and what it does. You may request it at support@seamind.xyz. Customers with a data processing agreement in place receive that list, together with advance notice of any addition or replacement, in accordance with that agreement.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites linked from our Site.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal information according to the following schedule:

  • User account data: Retained while your account is active and for a reasonable period thereafter
  • AI assistant usage analytics: Automatically deleted after 2 years
  • Learning analytics: Retained while your organization's account is active, for reporting and compliance purposes
  • Training records: Retained for the life of your organization's account, and thereafter as required to support maritime compliance auditing requirements. Raw activity records are retained for at least 12 months
  • Crew and professional profile data: Retained for as long as your organization maintains an active account, and thereafter only as required to meet maritime compliance and audit obligations
  • Contact form submissions: Retained only as long as necessary to respond and follow up

Deletion on termination: When your organization's subscription ends, we delete or return personal data we hold on its behalf in accordance with our agreement with your organization, except for records we are legally required to retain. Personal data contained in routine backups is not immediately purged; instead, those backups age out and are overwritten on their normal backup cycle.

8. Data Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect your information, including:

  • Encryption of data in transit and at rest
  • Authentication required for every access to the Platform
  • Role-based, least-privilege access controls
  • Segregation of each customer organization's data, so that one organization cannot reach another's records
  • Automated malware scanning of uploaded files
  • Protections against automated abuse and excessive-request traffic
  • Logging and audit trails covering access to, and changes in, sensitive records such as document verification, payroll, and contract events

However, no system is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Data Residency and International Transfers

The Platform's core databases and file storage are hosted in the United States. Some of the service providers described in Section 6 process data in their own United States-based environments. If you access the Site or Platform from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States.

For customers and users in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (and the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, where applicable) as the mechanism for transferring personal data to the United States. A copy of the relevant safeguards is available on request at support@seamind.xyz.

Singapore: where personal data is transferred out of Singapore to us, we contractually commit — through our data processing agreement with your organization — to provide a standard of protection comparable to the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA), consistent with the PDPA's Transfer Limitation Obligation, and we impose equivalent obligations on our own service providers.

10. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have some or all of the following rights with respect to your personal information:

  • Access your personal information and request a copy of it
  • Correct inaccurate or incomplete data
  • Request deletion of your data
  • Object to or restrict processing
  • Data portability — receive your data in a portable format
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

EEA / UK (GDPR and UK GDPR): in addition to the rights above, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority. Where we act as a processor on behalf of your organization, we will direct certain requests to your organization as the controller.

Singapore (PDPA): you have rights of access to and correction of your personal data, and the right to withdraw consent to its collection, use, or disclosure. Where we process your personal data as a data intermediary on behalf of your organization, we will refer your request to your organization and assist it in responding. You may also complain to the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) of Singapore.

California (CCPA/CPRA): you have the right to know what personal information we collect and how it is used and shared, the right to delete and to correct your personal information, the right to opt out of any “sale” or “sharing” of personal information, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. We do not sell your personal information.

To exercise these rights, contact us at: support@seamind.xyz

11. Children's Privacy

The Site and Platform are not intended for individuals under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal data from minors.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.

13. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact:

Seamind, Inc.
Email: support@seamind.xyz