Privacy policy

The protection of your personal data is important to us, and we will process your personal data only to the extent permissible under the applicable data protection legislation, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This privacy policy explains who we are, how we collect, share and use personal information, and how you can exercise your privacy rights. Personal information is any information that identifies or can be used to identify an individual directly or indirectly. Examples of personal information include, but are not limited to, first and last name, date of birth, email address and IP address.

Ocean Matcher is a web based tool that fuses improved ocean funding and impact with intelligent matchmaking utilizing advanced technologies such as language models and machine learning. The tool helps philanthropy search and find relevant projects through a web interface. Ocean Matcher will be a paradigm shift in the allocation of funding for the ocean, steering us closer to a healthier planet.

Information we collect and why we need it

1. Visitors to our website

When you visit https://www.app.oceanmatcher.com/ we use a third-party service, Plausible to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. Unique visitors, page views and visit duration. We do this to find out such things as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way that does not directly identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Plausible to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.

These are first-party cookies. Ocean Matcher as platform provider is Data Controller (Noa Ignite acts as Data Controller on behalf of Ocean Matcher platform provider until Ocean Matcher entity is established). Noa Ignite is our data processor and does not use the information for their own purposes. Data is stored in an Azure Database Postgres SQL database located in a European Tenant (Europe West). The information is protected by the EU standard contractual clauses (SCCs), which you may read more about here:

2. Logging in for the full experience

Ocean Matcher stores the following personal information:

For grantmakers:
Access through Ocean Matcher Explorer

  • Name

  • e-mail

  • Role

  • Organization

  • Picture

  • Address

  • Password

  • Accepted privacy terms and conditions



For grantees:
 Access through Ocean Matcher Connector

  • Project Contact person

  • e-mail

  • Organization and Organization number

  • Address

  • Website

  • Accepted privacy and terms and conditions

3. Tracking our logged in users

For the purposes of improving the functionality of the platform and user interaction, we will track and store user actions using business intelligence software. The legal basis for our processing is our legitimate interest in improving and developing the Ocean Matcher for the benefit of our users.

4. User interaction

We will communicate during the pilot through Slack and Slack data privacy terms will apply. When you add project data, the following personal information will be stored: Making use of these interaction features is voluntarily. If you are using these services as a private individual, the legal basis for our processing is fulfilling our agreement with you, entered into when sending us feedback or signing up for our newsletter. If you are using these services on behalf of a company or an organization, the legal basis for our processing is our legitimate interest in providing these services to the company or organisation you represent.

We use e-mail info to send  platform updates.

If you are using our services as a private individual, the legal basis for our processing is fulfilling our agreement with you, entered into when accepting the terms of use. If you are accessing our services on behalf of a company or an organisation, the legal basis for our processing is our legitimate interest in fulfilling an agreement with the company or organisation you represent.