Privacy Policy

Privacy statement

Tschudi Shipping Company AS appreciates your interest in our services and your visit to our websites. We take the privacy of our customers and website users and the security of their personal information very seriously. In this Privacy Statement we inform you what personal information we collect, how and why we use this, and how you can control its use. More detailed description of the processing personal information, please see our Principles for processing Personal Data.

This Privacy Statement is general for Glarona AS, Tschudi Shipping Company AS and its subsidiaries' (“Tschudi Group”) websites.

Why do we collect and store your personal data?

In order for us to provide you the services and respond to your requests, questions, service requirements, complaints, etc. we need to collect personal data for correspondence purposes and/or for providing you a service. In any event, we are committed to ensuring that the information that we collect and use is appropriate for the purpose and does not constitute an invasion of your privacy.

What kind of personal data do we collect and store?

When you visit our website, we collect only the personal data, that you decide to share with us via the contact, feedback or application forms available on our website, such as name, e-mail, contacts.

When you use our services, we collect the following personal data: (i) your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, payment information and other information you that may be needed for providing you the service (ii) information about your satisfaction with our services such as survey responses, client satisfaction (iii) other information that you choose to share with us.

When you apply for a vacancy at sea, we collect the personal data, which is presented in the job application form available on our website. Working at sea is regulated by special laws and regulations, which explains the detailed information we request. However, if you choose not to answer some of the questions, you still qualify as an applicant and can submit the data directly to the recruitment officer.

How will we use the personal data we collect about you?

We will process (collect, store and use) your personal data pursuant to European General Data Protection Regulation and local laws. We will do our utmost to keep your information accurate and up-to-date, and will not keep it any longer than required.

We will retain your personal information as needed to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and use it as necessary to comply with our business requirements, legal obligations and rights, including resolving disputes, protecting the assets and enforcing the agreements.

Will we share your personal data with anyone else?

We will share your personal data with Tschudi Group companies. We may pass your personal data to third-party services providers contracted to or associated with Tschudi Group in the course of providing our services to you. Any legal entity in the Tschudi Group and third party that we may share your personal data with are obliged to keep your details securely, and to use them only to respond to requests, questions, service requirements, complaints, etc. on our behalf. If we wish to pass your sensitive personal data to a third party we will only do so once we have obtained your explicit consent, unless we are legally required to do otherwise.

How is your personal data secured?

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. We implemented suitable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to secure information against loss, misuse or damage and unauthorized access or disclosure. We take all reasonable precautions to keep your personal data secure and require any third party that processes your personal data for us to do the same. In particular:

The access to our databases containing user information is restricted and protected by digital certificates We review regularly and upgrade, if needed, our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures in order to avoid any unauthorized access to our systems We restrict access to personal data to our employees, contractors and third parties, who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations.

Links to other Websites

This website contains links to other external websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other such sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Cookies

We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a small text file created by some internet sites on your computer when you visit a site. If a cookie exists, it may be read when you return to the site for a subsequent visit. Tschudi Group uses cookies to assist in the collection of visitor statistics. If you do not wish to receive cookies, please configure your internet browser's security settings to reject cookies before it is stored. You will still be able to use our website if you have disabled cookies.

How can you contact us?

If you have any questions about the personal data we hold about you or if you wish to request deletion or correction of your personal data, please send a written request to privacy@tschudigroup.com. Your request will be directed to the appropriate Tschudi Group company.

Validity and amendments of the privacy statement

Tschudi Group is entitled to unilaterally amend the Privacy Statement at any time, in compliance with
applicable law. Any changes we may make to our Privacy Statement will be posted on this web-page.