Privacy Policy

Privacy policy for HydrogenShipbuilding.com. Information about data collection, cookies, and your rights under GDPR.

Last updated: February 22, 2026

HydrogenShipbuilding.com (“we”, “us”, or “our”) operates the website https://hydrogenshipbuilding.com. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information when you use our website.

Information we collect

HydrogenShipbuilding.com does not require user registration or login. We do not directly collect personal information such as your name, email address, or phone number unless you voluntarily contact us via email.

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies and similar technologies, including:

  • Your IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Pages visited and time spent on those pages
  • Referring website address
  • Device type and operating system
  • Approximate geographic location (country/region level)

Cookies and tracking technologies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. We and our third-party partners use cookies and similar tracking technologies for the following purposes:

  • Analytics cookies: We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. This helps us improve content and user experience. Google Analytics collects information anonymously and reports website trends without identifying individual visitors.
  • Advertising cookies: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other websites on the internet. These cookies enable Google and its partners to provide you with ads that may be relevant to your interests.

Third-party advertising

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. Google AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your browsing activity.

Third-party vendors and ad networks may also use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect or receive information from this website and elsewhere on the internet, and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads.

For more information about how Google uses data when you use our site, visit: How Google uses information from sites that use our services.

Opting out of personalised advertising

You can opt out of personalised advertising in several ways:

  • Google Ads Settings: Visit Google Ads Settings to manage your ad personalisation preferences or opt out entirely.
  • NAI Opt-Out: Visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page to opt out of third-party ad cookies.
  • DAA Opt-Out: Visit Your Ad Choices (Digital Advertising Alliance) to opt out of interest-based advertising.
  • Browser settings: Most browsers allow you to manage or block cookies through their settings. Note that blocking all cookies may affect website functionality.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit the site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they visited prior to coming to our site.

Google Analytics uses cookies to collect this information. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is transmitted to and stored by Google. Google may use the data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Data shared with third parties

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. However, as described above, third-party services embedded in our website (Google Analytics, Google AdSense) may collect data in accordance with their own privacy policies:

Hosting is provided by GitHub Pages, subject to GitHub’s Privacy Statement.

Children’s privacy

Our website is not directed at children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Google AdSense does not serve personalised ads to users identified as minors.

Your rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Access: Request information about the data collected about you.
  • Deletion: Request deletion of your personal data.
  • Opt-out: Opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal data, or of personalised advertising.
  • Correction: Request correction of inaccurate personal data.
  • Portability: Request a copy of your data in a portable format.

For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), the legal basis for processing your data is your consent (which you can withdraw at any time) and our legitimate interest in understanding website usage to improve our service.

For users in California (CCPA/CPRA), you have the right to know what personal information is collected about you, to request its deletion, and to opt out of its sale.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at hello@hydrogenshipbuilding.com.

Data retention

We retain analytics data as configured by Google Analytics (default retention period). Cookie data is retained for the duration set by the respective cookie. We do not maintain any separate user database.

Data security

Our website is served over HTTPS to ensure secure data transmission. As a static website hosted on GitHub Pages, we do not operate server-side databases or store user data on our infrastructure.

Changes to this policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, contact us at:

hello@hydrogenshipbuilding.com