Privacy Policy
Introduction
A privacy policy is a statement that discloses some or all of the ways a website collects, uses, discloses, and manages the data of its visitors and customers. It fulfills a legal requirement to protect a visitor or client's privacy. This Privacy Policy explains our practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your information through your use of our digital assets (the “Services”) when you access the Services through your devices.
Please read the privacy policy carefully and make sure you fully understand our practices in relation to your data before using our services. If you have read this policy, fully understood it and do not agree with our approach, you must stop using our digital assets and services. By using our services, you accept the terms of this privacy policy. Further use of the services constitutes your acceptance of this privacy policy and all changes to it.
In this Privacy Policy we inform you about:
- What data we collect
- How we collect information
- Why we collect this data
- Who we share this data with
- Where the data is stored
- How long the data will be kept
- How we protect the data
- How we deal with minors
- Updates or changes to the privacy policy
What type of information do we collect?
We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.
How do we collect information?
When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated below only.
Why do we collect such personal information?
We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:
- To provide and operate the Services;
- To provide our users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
- To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages. If you provide your email address or other contact information, we may send you administrative and promotional emails. You may opt out of such promotional communications at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in those emails or sending an email to info@aaashippingintelligence.com;
- To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
- To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
Who do we share this data with?
We can pass on your data to our service providers in order to operate our services (e.g. storage of data via third-party hosting services, provision of technical support, etc.).
We may also disclose your information in the following circumstances: (i) to investigate, detect, prevent or take action against illegal activities or other misconduct; (ii) to establish or exercise our rights of defense; (iii) to protect our rights, property, or personal safety, and the safety of our users or the public; (iv) in the event of a change of control at us or at one of our affiliated companies (by way of a merger, acquisition or purchase of (essentially) all assets, etc.); (v) to collect, hold and / or manage your data using authorized third-party providers (e.g. cloud service providers), insofar as this is appropriate for business purposes; (vi) to work with third parties to improve your user experience. To avoid misunderstandings, we would like to point out that we can transfer or pass on or otherwise use non-personal data to third parties at our own discretion.
Please note that our services enable social interactions (e.g. post content, information and comments publicly and chat with other users). We would like to point out that any content or data that you provide in these areas can be read, recorded and used by other people. We do not recommend posting or sharing information with others that you do not want to make public. If you upload content to our digital assets or otherwise make it available as part of the use of a service, you do so at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users or members of the public with access to your data or content. You acknowledge and confirm that copies of your data can still be accessed by third parties even after they have been deleted on cached and archived pages or after a copy / storage of your content has been made.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
When you visit or access our services, we authorize third parties to use web beacons, cookies, pixel tags, scripts and other technologies and analysis services (“tracking technologies”). These tracking technologies can enable third parties to automatically collect your data in order to improve the navigation experience on our digital assets, to optimize their performance and to ensure a tailor-made user experience, as well as for security and fraud prevention purposes.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is downloaded to your computer when you access certain websites. As a rule, cookies enable a website to recognize a user's computer.
Why do we use cookies?
We can use cookies and similar technologies for different purposes, for example: i) for security reasons and to protect against fraud as well as to detect and prevent cyber attacks; ii) to provide you with the services you have selected; iii) to monitor and analyze the performance, operation and effectiveness of our services and iv) to improve your user experience.
Your options:
To find out more about cookies and how to recognize which cookies have been set and how to manage, delete and block them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Alternatively, it is also possible that your browser blocks cookies as a matter of principle. To do this, you have to change the cookie settings in your browser accordingly. You can usually find these settings in the menu of your browser under "Options" or "Preferences".
Please note that deleting our cookies or deactivating future cookies or tracking technologies may mean that certain areas or functions of our services are no longer available to you or your user experience is otherwise impaired.
The following links may be useful, or you can go to the Help option in your browser.
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Google Chrome
• Cookie settings in Safari (OS X)
• Cookie settings in Safari (iOS)
• Cookie settings in Android
To refuse and prevent the use of your data by Google Analytics on all websites, read the following instructions: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We can update this cookie policy. We ask you to visit this page regularly to keep up to date with the current status with regard to the use of cookies.
We may provide advertising through our services and our digital assets (including websites and applications that use our services) that may also be tailored to you, such as: ads based on your recent browsing habits on websites, devices or browsers.
To provide these advertisements to you, we may use cookies and / or JavaScript and / or web beacons (including clear GIFs) and / or HTML5 local storage and / or other technologies. We can also use third parties, such as network advertisers (i.e. third parties who show advertisements based on your website visits) to serve targeted advertisements. Third-party advertising network providers, advertisers, sponsors and / or website traffic measurement services may also use cookies and / or JavaScript and / or web beacons (including clear GIFs) and / or Flash cookies and / or other technologies to measure ads effectiveness and customize advertising content for you. These third-party cookies and other technologies are subject to the specific privacy policy of the respective third party and not this one.
Where do we store the data?
Non-personal data
Please note that our company, as well as our trusted partners and service providers, are located around the world. For the purposes outlined in this privacy policy, we store and process all non-personal data that we collect in different legal systems.
Personal data
Personal data may be maintained, processed and stored in the United States, Ireland, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel and to the extent necessary for the proper provision of our services and / or required by law (as further explained below) in other jurisdictions.
How long will the data be kept?
Please note that we keep the collected data for as long as is necessary to provide our services, to comply with our legal and contractual obligations to you, to resolve disputes and to enforce our agreements.
We can correct, supplement or delete incorrect or incomplete data at our own discretion at any time.
How do we protect the data?
The hosting service for our digital assets provides us with the online platform through which we can offer you our services. Your data can be stored via the data storage, databases and general applications of our hosting provider. It stores your data on secure servers behind a firewall and offers secure HTTPS access to most areas of its services.
Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by us and our hosting provider, we cannot and will not guarantee the absolute protection and security of the data that you upload, publish or otherwise pass on to us or others.
For this reason, we would like to ask you to set secure passwords and, if possible, not to provide us or others with confidential information, the disclosure of which, in your opinion, could cause you significant or lasting damage. Since e-mail and instant messaging are not considered secure forms of communication, we also ask you not to pass on any confidential information via any of these communication channels.
We will only use your personal data for the purposes set out in the privacy policy and only if we are convinced that:
- the use of your personal data is necessary to perform or conclude a contract (e.g. to provide you with the services or to provide customer service or technical support);
- the use of your personal data is necessary to comply with legal or regulatory obligations, or
- the use of your personal data is necessary to support our legitimate business interests (provided that this is done at all times in a manner that is proportionate and respects your data protection rights).
As an EU resident you can:
- request confirmation as to whether or not personal data relating to you is being processed and request access to your stored personal data and certain additional information;
- request the receipt of personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format;
- request the correction of your personal data that is stored by us;
- request the deletion of your personal data;
- object to the processing of your personal data by us;
- request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, or
- submit a complaint to a supervisory authority.
Please note, however, that these rights are not unlimited and may be subject to our own legitimate interests and regulatory requirements. If you have general questions about the personal information we collect and how we use it, please contact us as detailed below.
In the course of providing the services, we can transfer data across borders to affiliated companies or other third parties and from your country / legal system to other countries / legal systems worldwide. By using the services, you consent to the transfer of your data outside of the EEA.
If you are based in the EEA, your personal data will only be transferred to locations outside the EEA if we are convinced that there is an adequate or comparable level of protection of personal data. We will take appropriate steps to ensure that we have adequate contractual arrangements with our third parties to ensure that appropriate security measures are in place so that the risk of unlawful use, alteration, deletion, loss or theft of your personal data is minimized and that these third parties act in accordance with applicable law at all times.
California Consumer Law Rights:
If you use the Services as a California resident, you may be entitled under the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") to request access to and deletion of your information.
To exercise your right to access and delete your data, please read below how to contact us.
We do not sell users' personal data for the intentions and purposes of the CCPA.
Users of the Services who are California residents and are under the age of 18 can request and obtain the deletion of their published content by email at the address provided in the “Contact Us” section below. These requests must all be marked with “California Removal Request”. All requirements must include a description of the content that you wish to be deleted and sufficient information to enable us to locate the material. We will not accept communications that are not flagged or properly delivered, and we may not be able to respond if you do not provide sufficient information. Please note that your request does not ensure that the material will be completely or completely deleted. For example, material you post may be republished or reposted by other users or third parties.
How do we deal with minors?
The services are not intended for users who have not yet reached the legal age of majority. We will not knowingly collect information from children. If you are under the age of majority, you should not download or use the Services or provide any information to us.
We reserve the right to request proof of age at any time so that we can verify if minors are using our services. In the event that we become aware that a minor is using our services, we can prohibit these users from accessing our services and block them, and we can delete all data stored by us about this user. If you have reason to believe that a minor has passed on data to us, please contact us as explained below.
Privacy policy updates
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
Contact Us
If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, or if you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, please contact us at info@aaashippingintelligence.com or send us mail to:
Jon-Inge Aarskog
Aarskog Analytics and Advisory GmbH
Buchenweg 92
22926 Ahrensburg
Germany
Tel.: +49 41027796430
E-Mail: info@aaashippingintelligence.com