Last Updated: September 29, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit this website (the “Website”), contact us, or subscribe to our newsletter. It should be read together with our Terms of Use.
The Website is operated by Natallia Bulko (“we,” “us,” or “our”), who is the controller of the personal information collected through it, meaning that she decides how and why that information is used.
You do not need to provide any personal information to read the Website. We collect personal information only when you choose to give it to us:
Our hosting provider automatically records certain technical information when you visit the Website, such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and the date and time of your visit, in server logs used to operate the Website, keep it secure, and diagnose technical problems.
Under data protection law, we must have a legal basis for using your personal information. When you subscribe to our newsletter, we rely on your consent to send it to you, and you may withdraw that consent at any time by unsubscribing. When you write to us, we rely on our legitimate interests in responding to your inquiry, considering any proposal you make, and, where you send a question, answering it in a future article without identifying you. We also rely on our legitimate interests to keep the Website secure.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information, and we do not use it for automated decision-making or profiling.
We use Mailchimp, an email service provided by Intuit Inc., to manage our subscriber list and send the newsletter. When you subscribe, your first name and email address are stored by Mailchimp. Mailchimp may record whether you open our emails or click on links in them. You can unsubscribe at any time by using the link at the bottom of every newsletter, and we will remove you from our list. For more information, see Mailchimp’s privacy policy.
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device. The Website does not use cookies for advertising, analytics, or tracking, and it does not set cookies when you read its pages.
To run the Website, we share personal information, only as far as necessary, with the following service providers:
We may also disclose information where the law requires us to do so.
We keep messages sent through the contact form or by email for as long as needed to respond, follow up, and maintain our correspondence with you, and we delete them once they are no longer needed for these purposes. We keep newsletter subscriptions until you unsubscribe.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete the personal information we hold about you, to restrict or object to our use of it, and, where we rely on your consent, to withdraw that consent. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@themaritimelawblog.com.
We maintain pages for The Maritime Law on LinkedIn and Instagram. When you interact with those pages, the platform’s own terms and privacy policy apply, and the platform may share aggregated statistics with us about how our pages are used. Please remember that anything you post publicly on social media can be seen and used by others.
The Website contains links to third-party websites, such as court websites, legislation databases, and news sources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites, and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised version on this page and update the “Last Updated” date above. Changes take effect when posted unless stated otherwise.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, please contact us at info@themaritimelawblog.com.