Privacy notice.

Life Beyond Sea is an independent consultancy run by Aritra Chakrabarti. If you have any question about how your information is handled, write to [email protected] and you will get a reply from the person who runs the business, not a support desk.

Nothing is collected simply because you read this website. There is no advertising network, no tracking pixel and no profiling.

When you submit the enquiry form, you provide your name, email address, and optionally your phone number, current rank or shore profile, years at sea, target country, and anything else you choose to write. Those answers are stored in Google Forms and the linked Google Sheet.

When you book a consultation call, the booking platform NeetoCal collects your name, email and the details you enter at booking, along with the payment information needed to take the fee. Payment card details are handled by the payment provider and are never visible to Life Beyond Sea.

When you send an email, that message and your address sit in a Zoho mailbox.

Your information is used to answer your enquiry, to prepare for and hold a consultation call, and to provide the services you engage. That is the whole purpose. The legal basis is your request to take steps before entering a contract, and the legitimate interest in replying to people who contact a business.

You will not be added to a marketing list. Nothing is sold, rented or shared with universities, agents or any other third party for their own purposes.

Enquiry responses sit with Google (Google Workspace), bookings with NeetoCal, email with Zoho, and the website itself is hosted by Cloudflare Pages. These providers process the data on instruction as service providers. Some of them operate servers outside the European Economic Area, and they rely on standard contractual clauses for those transfers.

Enquiries that do not become clients are deleted within two years. Records relating to clients are kept for as long as the engagement requires, and afterwards for the period any applicable tax and accounting rules require.

You can ask for a copy of what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, ask for it to be deleted, object to its use, or ask for it to be sent to you in a portable format. Write to the address above and you will get an answer within one month.

If you are in the European Union and believe your data has been mishandled, you may complain to your national data protection authority. In France that is the CNIL.

This website sets no cookies of its own and does not use browser storage to track you. Pages you open on third-party platforms, such as the booking page or the enquiry form, follow their own policies.