1. About GMC Link
GMC Link is an online maritime careers platform connecting seafarers with crewing companies. Seafarers may create professional profiles, maintain sea-service and document records, and apply to vacancies. Crewing companies may publish vacancies and review applicants.
The platform is operated by GeoMarine Crew Link Gocha Musharbadze, identification code 61009015468, registered at Batumi, Georgia. Contact: info@gmc-link.com.
GMC Link is a platform and is not itself a crewing agency or employer. GMC Link is not a party to an employment or recruitment relationship formed through the platform and does not guarantee employment.
2. Acceptance and eligibility
By creating an account, accessing the platform, purchasing a paid service, or otherwise using GMC Link, you agree to these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy, Refund Policy, and applicable Service Terms.
You must provide information that is accurate, current, and not misleading. You are responsible for keeping account information up to date.
If you use GMC Link on behalf of a company, you represent that you are authorized to bind that company.
3. Accounts and security
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for activity performed through your account, except where caused by GMC Link's failure to apply appropriate security measures.
You must promptly notify GMC Link if you suspect unauthorized access, credential compromise, impersonation, or another security incident involving your account.
One person or company may maintain only one account of each applicable account type unless GMC Link expressly permits otherwise.
4. Acceptable use
- Do not upload forged, altered, stolen, or unlawfully obtained documents.
- Do not misrepresent qualifications, certificates, identity, sea service, employment history, or other professional information.
- Do not publish fraudulent vacancies or request payment from seafarers for recruitment or job placement where such payment is prohibited.
- Do not scrape, bulk-copy, resell, or systematically extract platform data without written authorization.
- Do not interfere with platform operation, bypass security controls, probe systems without authorization, deploy malware, or attempt unauthorized access.
- Do not impersonate another person or company or use another person's account.
- Do not use Premium or AI features to process another person's documents without appropriate authorization and a lawful basis.
5. User content and responsibility
Seafarers are responsible for the accuracy, legality, and lawful submission of their profiles and uploaded documents. Crewing companies are responsible for the accuracy and legality of vacancies and other content they publish.
You grant GMC Link the limited rights necessary to host, store, transmit, display, and process your content to operate the service and provide features you request. This does not transfer ownership of your personal data or intellectual property.
GMC Link may remove content that violates these Terms, applicable law, security requirements, or the rights of others.
6. Applicant data received by crewing companies
When a seafarer applies to a vacancy, the crewing company receives the seafarer's profile, CV, and the documents the seafarer chose to share with that application. The company processes this data as an independent controller and is responsible for processing it lawfully. Crewing companies must:
- use applicant data only to assess the application and for recruitment connected with it;
- not sell, publish, or pass applicant data to third parties, except to a shipowner or employer for that recruitment, or where the law requires it;
- keep downloaded or exported applicant data (CVs, documents, CSV exports) secure, and delete it once it is no longer needed for that purpose;
- comply with applicable personal data protection law and, where it applies, the recruitment and placement rules of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006.
7. Privacy and personal data
GMC Link processes personal data according to its Privacy Policy. The service is designed around data minimisation, purpose limitation, access controls, appropriate security, and defined retention.
GMC Link may process profile information and uploaded identity/professional documents where necessary to provide the platform, facilitate applications, provide requested Premium features, maintain security, process payments, and comply with law.
Where a third party processes data on GMC Link's behalf, GMC Link will use appropriate contractual and technical safeguards as required by applicable law.
8. Payments and payment-card security
Payment transactions are processed through the designated payment provider. The current Privacy Policy states that Bank of Georgia processes card payments, tokenizes card data, and that card data does not touch GMC Link's servers.
GMC Link will not request or intentionally retain card security codes such as CVV/CVC after authorization. Where payment-card data is handled by a payment provider, the provider's applicable terms and security controls also apply.
Nothing in these Terms is intended to represent that GMC Link itself is PCI DSS certified unless GMC Link has obtained and can substantiate the applicable validation.
9. Premium services
Premium features are governed by the Premium Service Terms. Premium may include AI document recognition, reviewed auto-fill, additional CV templates, and AI CV summaries.
Premium does not guarantee employment, improve a user's hiring ranking, or give preferential treatment to applications.
10. Intellectual property
GMC Link and its licensors retain rights in the platform, software, branding, designs, and original materials except for content supplied by users or third parties.
You may use the platform only for its intended lawful purpose. No license is granted to copy, modify, distribute, reverse engineer, or commercially exploit the platform except where permitted by law or written agreement.
11. Suspension and termination
GMC Link may suspend or close an account where reasonably necessary to protect users, the platform, security, legal compliance, or third-party rights, including material breaches of these Terms. Where reasonably possible, GMC Link will provide notice and an opportunity to address the issue.
Account closure does not automatically erase information that GMC Link must retain to satisfy legal, accounting, security, fraud-prevention, or dispute-resolution obligations.
12. Availability and disclaimers
The platform is provided on an ‘as available’ basis. GMC Link does not guarantee uninterrupted availability, error-free operation, or that every vacancy or application will result in employment.
Third-party services, including payment and AI providers, may affect availability or functionality.
13. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, GMC Link is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost opportunities, or actions of other users, including hiring decisions made by crewing companies.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
14. Changes
GMC Link may update these Terms. Material changes will be announced through the platform or another appropriate channel where required. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance only to the extent permitted by applicable law.
15. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are intended to be governed by the laws of Georgia, subject to mandatory consumer-protection and other applicable legal rights. Disputes that cannot be resolved amicably shall be submitted to the competent courts of Georgia unless mandatory law provides otherwise.