PRIVACY POLICY

Thank you for your interest in our website. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we inform you in detail about the handling of your data.

I.              Legal basis for the collection and processing of personal data

As far as we obtain your consent for the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for the processing of your personal data.

When processing your personal data to fulfil a contract between you and COSCO, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing operations that are necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures.

As far as the processing of personal data is necessary for the fulfilment of a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR serves as legal basis.

If processing is necessary to protect a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and if the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh the former interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing.

II.            Data Deletion and Storage Duration

Your personal data will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage is no longer applicable. Beyond this, data may be stored if this has been provided for by the European or national legislator in EU regulations, laws or other provisions to which the person responsible is subject. The data will also be blocked or deleted if a storage period prescribed by the aforementioned standards expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for the conclusion or fulfilment of a contract.

III.           Your Rights

Instruction for revocation in case of consent

You have the right to revoke your data protection consent at any time. The revocation of consent shall not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation.

Instruction on the rights of those affected

We will be happy to provide you with information as to whether and which of your personal data is stored by us. In addition, you have the right to correction (Art. 16 GDPR), the right to limitation of processing (Art. 18 GDPR), the right to cancellation (Art. 17 GDPR), the right of objection (Art. 21 GDPR) and the right to data transferability (Art. 20 GDPR).

Instructions on the right of complaint

Without prejudice to these rights and the possibility of recourse to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you may at any time exercise your right of appeal to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State where you are staying, working or suspected of infringing, if you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you is contrary to data protection legislation (Art. 77 GDPR).

IV.           Providing the website

When using the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security. (The legal basis is the legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR)

Within the scope of weighing up the interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, we have taken into account and weighed up our interest in the provision and your interest in processing your personal data in conformity with data protection regulations. Since the following data may be technically necessary to provide our service in order to be able to offer you our website and also to guarantee stability and security, in particular protection against misuse, we have come to the conclusion that these data can be processed - with a state-of-the-art guarantee of data security - taking your interest in data protection-compliant processing into due consideration.

We may collect the following data:

·         Operating system used

·         Information about the browser type and version used

·         Internet service provider of the user

·         IP-Address

·         Date and time of the call

·         If applicable, manufacturer and type designation of the smartphone, tablet or other end devices

·         Name of the page called up

·         Referrer URL (source URL from which you came to the website)

·         log files

The log data mentioned are only stored anonymously. The purpose of processing your data is to provide you our service and to secure and stabilize our website. Our legitimate interest in the processing also lies in the purposes described. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para 1 lit.f GDPR.We will delete the log-files after 30 days.

The collection of data for the provision of the website and the storage of data in log files is absolutely necessary for the operation of the website. Consequently, there is no possibility of objection on the part of the user.

V.            Cookies

We use cookies on various pages to make your visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions. These are small text files that are stored on your computer. The cookies we use are deleted from your hard disk after the end of the browser session (so-called session cookies). You can deactivate the use of cookies in the settings of your browser. However, this may lead to restrictions in the use of our website.

There are different types of cookies:

Session cookies are temporary cookies that are stored in the user's Internet browser until the browser window is closed and the session cookies are deleted.

Persistent cookies are used for repeated visits and stored in the user's browser for a predefined time.

First-party cookies are set by the website the user visits. Only this website may read information from cookies.

Third-party cookies are set by organizations that are not operators of the website that the user visits. These cookies are used by marketing companies, for example.

The cookies used on this website are:

We use cookies to operate the website properly, to provide basic functionality and to tailor our websites to your preferred areas of interest. The legal basis for the use of cookies is Art. 6 Para.1 lit.f GDPR.

Our legitimate interest in data processing within the meaning of Art. 6 Para.1 lit.f GDPR also lies in the aforementioned purposes.

You can delete cookies already stored on your terminal device at any time. If you wish to prevent the use of cookies, you can refuse the acceptance of cookies in your browser. Please refer to your browser manufacturer's instructions to find out how this works in detail.

VI.           Contact us

We collect personal data when you voluntarily provide it to us, for example when you contact us. The personal data transmitted to us in this way will of course only be used for the purpose for which you made them available to us when contacting us.

You can also contact us via a contact form on our website (“feedback”). The following information is mandatory: The Feedback-Theme, Your Name, Your E-Mail, Your Cellphone, Your Employer and your Address. We need this information to process your request. You can also tell us how you have found us. We use ReCaptcha to prevent bots.

A communication of this information takes place expressly on voluntary basis and with your consent. If this involves information on communication channels (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number), you also agree that we may contact you via this communication channel in order to respond to your request.

The purpose of processing your data is to process and respond to your request. Our legitimate interest in the processing also lies in the purposes described. The legal basis for the processing of the data that you send us in the course of contacting us is Art. 6 para 1 lit.a GDPR respectively Art. 6 para.1 lit. f GDPR. If the contact aims at the conclusion of a contract, then additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

We will delete your data, which we have received in the course of contacting you, as soon as it is no longer needed to achieve the purpose for which it was collected, i.e. your request has been completely processed and no further communication with you is necessary or desired by you. You can contact our data protection officer at any time to delete the data relating to your enquiry (contact see below). However, we may not be able to process your request completely.

VII.         Data Deletion and Storage Duration

We will delete the data we have received in the course of contacting you as soon as it is no longer needed to achieve the purpose for which it was collected.

VIII.        Identity and Contact Details of the Controller

The person responsible within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

COSCO SHIPPING (Europe) GmbH

Herrengraben 74

20459 Hamburg

Contact:

Phone: +49 (4)0 - 3600160

E-Mail: ceham.recep@coscoshipping.de

Data Protection Officer

For these concerns also feel free to contact our data protection officer

Daniela Schott

Beim Strohhause 17

20097 Hamburg

DSchott@intersoft-consulting.de

IX.          Links to websites of other providers

Our websites may contain links to websites of other providers to which this data protection declaration does not apply. If the use of other providers' websites involves the collection, processing or use of personal data, please observe the data protection information of the respective providers.

X.            Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this data protection declaration at any time in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. Current status is November 2018.