Skip to content Skip to footer

Who we are

Our website address is: https://shipip.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Additional information

How we protect your data

What data breach procedures we have in place

What third parties we receive data from

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

IQ Solutions SA becomes a Green Award Incentive Provider

Green Award welcomes IQ Solutions SA as an incentive provider. With reference by the Chairman of the Green Award Foundation, Captain Dimitrios to the ceremony (presentation of Green Award Flag and a Plaque) on 7 June 2022 at Posidonia Exhibition, Athens. The Greek company provides certified cyber secure ICT Solutions and Services for the Maritime Industry. They give a complete managed information technology and communications for vessels with a Green Award certificate a discount of:

• 10% for certified companies (seagoing shipping)
• 15% for certified seagoing ships
• 15% for certified inland ships
• 10% for other participating Incentive Providers
The team of IQ Solutions SA is highly skilled engineers and consultants, experienced in large and complex IT projects, tackle the cyber security in the most credible, effective, and highly professional manner. IQ Solutions SA is a Maritime ICT Integrator with unique Intellectual Property, offering ICT solutions Type Approved for Cyber Security by IACS members & Flag States.

From left to right: Jan Fransen, Executive Director of the Green Award foundation, Capt. Dimitrios Mattheou, Chairman of the Green Award foundation, Panagiotis Gavalas, IQ Solutions Director of Operations and Paris Papanastasiou CEO and Managing Director of IQ Solutions.

Specialized products & services are presented below:
• VCell Cyber
Type Approved/certified for Cyber Security (by BV and ABS) end-to-end vessel ICT solution, providing a managed, enhanced, fully controllable and monitored ICT environment, consisted of highly available, redundant, and secure infrastructure covering servers, clients, managed networking, and printing.
• VTalos
Universal Vessel USB Protection Unit, certified by ABS, designed to control, and protect from a sensitive onboard Cyber Security issue, the use of USB devices on vessel networks & devices.
• Ermis
Augmented Reality solution for vessels making onboard remote view, inspection, assistance and knowledge transfer direct and immediate, without the need of shore experts to be physically present onboard.

Captain Dimitris Mattheou, Chairman of the Green Award Foundation comments, “We are happy to welcome IQ Solutions to the Green Award scheme and see many synergies. Digital integrations become a greater reality for the maritime industry.Quality standards is not only what they promise but also what they provide. Green Award, along with IQ Solutions and the rest of our distinguished incentive providers, fairly represent the determined, passionate, faithful, devoted and pioneering sailors of Green Shipping.”
Source: IQ Solutions SA