Data protection
GDPR Compliance Overview
Global Ship Broker is designed around workspace separation, protected discovery and data minimization for sensitive maritime workflows.
IMAP and email hashes
The ingestion layer deduplicates circulars with SHA-256 hashes of message attributes. Hashes are used to prevent duplicate processing and are not designed to expose original message content.
Vessel IMO metadata
IMO numbers and vessel identities can be masked in protected listings. Verified users may see partial data, while full disclosure is gated through access approval or bid-handshake workflows.
Personal contact signatures
Broker names, direct emails and phone or WhatsApp numbers extracted from signatures are treated as operational contact data. They can be scrubbed from public views and are disclosed only inside authorized workflows.
LLM minimization
Parsing requests are scoped to the minimum operational fields needed to structure the circular. Provider configuration should use retention-limiting options where available.
Rights requests
Users may request export, correction or deletion of eligible personal data by contacting support@globalshipbroker.com. Commercial transaction records may be retained where audit, legal or security obligations require it.
Last updated: May 30, 2026. This page is an operational compliance overview and is not a substitute for a signed Data Processing Agreement.