Privacy Policy

1. Information Code Alpha Safety May Collect

When you interact directly with Code Alpha Safety, we may collect information you voluntarily provide, such as your name, email address, phone number, company or vessel-related information, inquiry details, and other information you submit through our website, forms, email, phone, or other business communications.

Our website may also collect standard technical and usage information through cookies, analytics tools, or similar technologies, such as browser type, device information, pages visited, referral information, and general website interaction data.

2. How We May Use Information

We may use information collected directly by Code Alpha Safety to respond to inquiries, provide customer and maritime support, communicate about products or services, process or coordinate transactions, maintain business records, improve our website and services, protect our operations, and comply with applicable legal obligations.

3. Scan If Hurt™ Platform Information

Code Alpha Safety does not claim ownership of information users enter into their Scan If Hurt emergency profiles. The extent, if any, to which Code Alpha Safety may receive account or transaction information from Scan If Hurt depends on the applicable business and service relationship.

4. Emergency Profile Access

A Scan If Hurt Safety ID™ is designed to provide access to information and contacts that the profile owner chooses to make available through the associated emergency profile. Users should understand that information configured to be visible through a Safety ID may be viewed by a person who successfully accesses that profile through the applicable Scan If Hurt service.

Code Alpha Safety does not control how a person who accesses a profile may use information they are able to view.

5. Sharing and Service Providers

Code Alpha Safety may use service providers to support website hosting, forms, communications, analytics, payment or transaction functions, and other business operations. These providers may process information as necessary to perform services for Code Alpha Safety and subject to their applicable terms and privacy practices.

We may also disclose information when required by applicable law, legal process, or a valid governmental request, or when reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, security, or the integrity of our services.

Information handled directly by Scan If Hurt or its service providers is governed by Scan If Hurt’s applicable privacy disclosures.

6. Cookies and Analytics

CodeAlphaSafety.com may use cookies, analytics, and similar technologies to understand website use, maintain functionality, measure performance, and improve the visitor experience. The specific technologies used may change as our website and service providers change.

Where required by applicable law, we will provide appropriate choices or consent mechanisms for non-essential cookies or similar technologies.

7. Communications

Code Alpha Safety may use contact information you provide to respond to your request, provide service-related communications, and, where permitted or with required consent, send marketing communications. You may use the unsubscribe method included in applicable marketing emails to stop receiving those communications.

8. SMS Text Messaging

9. Data Security and Retention

Code Alpha Safety takes reasonable administrative and technical measures appropriate to the information and systems under its control. No website, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

We retain information collected directly by Code Alpha Safety for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including providing services, maintaining business records, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, and meeting legal obligations.

Retention and security practices for information stored within the Scan If Hurt platform are governed by Scan If Hurt’s applicable Privacy Policy.

10. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live, applicable privacy laws may provide rights concerning your personal information. These may include rights to request access, correction, deletion, or other control over certain personal information, subject to applicable exceptions.

For information held directly by Code Alpha Safety, contact [email protected]. For information held in a Scan If Hurt account or emergency profile, contact Scan If Hurt at [email protected].

11. International Users

Code Alpha Safety serves a mobile maritime community and our website may be accessed from locations outside the United States. Privacy rights and requirements vary by jurisdiction. Where applicable law provides additional privacy rights or requires additional notices or consent, those requirements may apply based on the user’s location and the nature of the interaction.

Availability of Scan If Hurt accounts or services in a particular country is determined by Scan If Hurt and its applicable service terms.

12. Children's Privacy

Code Alpha Safety does not knowingly collect personal information directly from children through the Code Alpha Safety website in a manner prohibited by applicable law. If a parent or guardian believes a child has provided personal information directly to Code Alpha Safety, please contact us.

Age requirements for Scan If Hurt accounts and services are governed by Scan If Hurt’s applicable policies and terms.

13. Third-Party Links and Services

Our website may contain links to Scan If Hurt or other third-party websites and services. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies. We encourage users to review the privacy policy of any service to which they provide personal information.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices, services, technology, or legal requirements. The current version will be posted on this page with an updated date.

15. Contact Us

Code Alpha LLC DBA Code Alpha Safety
Email: [email protected]

For questions concerning Scan If Hurt account information, emergency-profile data, platform privacy, or Scan If Hurt SMS messaging, contact Scan If Hurt at [email protected].