Who we are
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Privacy Statement
Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd respects your privacy. Privacy and the protection of your personal data is important to us and we are committed to protecting the integrity, availability and confidentiality of your personal data. This Privacy Statement outlines your rights to privacy and our commitment to safeguarding personal data. It is meant to help you understand how we process and protect your personal data. “Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’).
Controller
Eastern Shipping Co.Ltd processes personal data as an employer, as a supplier of services, for marketing purposes and in connection with visits to this website.
As controller, Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd processes personal data for the following main purposes:
(i) Customer and supplier information
Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd processes personal data regarding customers and suppliers as well as any third parties required for the performance of contractual obligations. This personal information may be exchanged between the various legal entities within Eastern Shipping, but will not be disclosed to other businesses, unless otherwise stated in the service contracts.
The information being processed is contact information for customers and suppliers.
Personal data is stored in a separate database and deleted five years after completion of the customer relationship.
The legal basis for this processing is that the processing is necessary for fulfilling a contract or that it is in our legitimate interest to meet request and to improve our business and services and these interests are not overridden by the rights to data protection.
(ii) Marketing
Eastern Shipping processes personal data for marketing purposes. This personal information may be exchanged between the various legal entities within Eastern Shipping, but will not be disclosed to other businesses.
Eastern Shipping processes contact information of potential customers in a separate database. The information is obtained from publicly available sources, such as the websites of companies, or from direct contact with the company in question. The purpose of this processing of personal data is to promote marketing for our services and coordinate this marketing effort.
The legal basis for the above processing is that Eastern Shipping has a legitimate interest in contacting potential customers to promote our services, and in our opinion this interest is not overridden by the interests of the data subject. Reference is here made to the fact that we only process contact information relating to the data subjects position at his/her employer.
Personal data relating to potential customers will be deleted within one year after they were added to the database, unless a customer relationship is established – or consent to further storage is given.
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(iii) Other purposes
Eastern Shipping may also use personal data for other additional purposes. Any such purposes will be identified at the time of collection and we will inform you of the purpose of the processing in accordance with applicable law requirements.
Data protection
We take data protection seriously and have adopted appropriate security measures to protect your personal data against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, theft, alteration, disclosure or destruction. We will restrict access to your personal data to those who have a legitimate need for such access.
Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd will provide training to employees and third parties where relevant to promote awareness of the group’s policy surrounding data protection. Wilhelmsen group complies with legal requirements and avoids unacceptable legal risks.
Retention of personal data
Eastern Shipping will only retain personal data as long as this is necessary for the purposes described above. When storage is no longer necessary, we will delete, destruct or anonymize the relevant personal data.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
We may update this Privacy Statement at any time. We encourage you to check our Privacy Statement regularly for any changes in order to stay informed about how Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd protects and uses your personal data.