Version 2026-11-08.4-private-test
Functional test — registration is open for testing with synthetic data and test ID images. Operator details and legal review remain incomplete; this notice is still a draft.
The data controller and privacy contact have yet to be published.
We use your email address, account identifier and sign-in records to manage access and protect your account. For email sign-in, we store a protected password hash and use a cookie to keep you signed in for up to seven days. Hosting and optional ChatGPT sign-in may use their own essential cookies. ShipLife does not add advertising or analytics cookies.
We use your profile details and photos, gender and dating preferences, cabin type, position, company, ship, contract dates and port visits to show relevant profiles. We use likes, passes, matches, messages and read and mute settings to run dating and chat features. Approved members can see a profile you choose to make visible and relevant port overlap. Matched members can see their shared messages. Dating preferences and messages can reveal sensitive information about your sex life or sexual orientation.
Authorised reviewers check crew-ID photos and profile photos manually. Pending profile photos are visible only to you and authorised reviewers. Before submitting an ID, cover information unrelated to crew verification, such as document numbers, barcodes, birth date and address. We keep review decisions, blocks, reports and records of admin actions to handle safety issues. If a chat is reported, authorised admins can read that conversation, including messages before and after the report. We log their access. Photo watermarks use a code linked to the viewer’s account to help investigate unauthorised sharing.
The draft bases are performance of the service contract for account and requested features (GDPR Article 6(1)(b)), consent for dating data and explicit consent for information revealing sex life or sexual orientation (Articles 6(1)(a) and 9(2)(a)), and legitimate interests in verifying crew status and preventing abuse (Article 6(1)(f)). The operator is reviewing these bases. We record your consent and the notice version. Dating-data consent is separate from choosing whether to show your profile.
OpenAI Sites hosts ShipLife and supports optional ChatGPT sign-in. Cloudflare provides infrastructure for the app and its storage. Processing locations, international transfers, safeguards and provider retention are still being confirmed.
We delete crew-ID photos after review. Pending ID photos expire after seven days and are removed when cleanup runs. Rejected profile photos are deleted. Review decisions and notes stay with your account. Account, profile and activity records are kept while you have an account. Unmatched conversations are kept for safety reporting. Live messages and reports are removed when either participant deletes their account. Deleting your account removes your live account records and media. Provider logs and backups have separate retention periods.
In My profile → Privacy & data you can manage your privacy, export your account data, or delete your account and withdraw dating-data consent. You can also edit or hide your profile. Where applicable, you can ask the controller for access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability or object to processing. You can complain to your data protection authority. In Sweden, this is Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY), https://www.imy.se/.