The “www.tts-northamerica.com Privacy Policy” was last updated in February 2021.

TTS Teconja TCI Shipping North America Inc. (together with its divisions and/or parent companies, collectively, “TTS” or “we” or “our”) is committed to providing information and activities relating to its line of products and services featured on the www.tts-northamerica.com website (the “Site”). Our content includes information about our services, and TTS’s origins and community.

TTS respects privacy rights and is committed to safeguarding the personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) entrusted to us by our clients and visitors to our Site. TTS has implemented this Privacy Policy to govern the use of Personal Information that we collect through the Site, including Personal Information you send to us. This Privacy Policy does not govern Personal Information collected from any other source or in any other manner. This Privacy Policy is intended to provide you with information as to: (i) the type of information that is collected, (ii) how the collected information is used and with whom it is shared; (iii) how we intend to protect the information; and (iv) how you can access such information and have it modified and/or removed.

This Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time. We will post changes to the Site, and we reserve the right to make changes without prior individual notice. Such changes are effective upon posting. Please review this Privacy Policy often so that you will remain abreast our current policies, including its policies concerning the gathering and use of information that may be collected on our Site. You are responsible for making sure you are aware of the provisions of the Site’s most current Privacy Policy. You can tell when the Privacy Policy was last modified by checking the “updated” date.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference in and made a part of our Terms and Conditions of Use of the Site, and explains how users’ information and data is collected and used.

California Privacy Rights

Pursuant to California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), residents of the State of California have the right to request from companies conducting business in California certain information regarding such business’ disclosure within the immediately preceding calendar year of that California resident’s Personal Information to third parties (and in some cases affiliates) for their direct marketing purposes. Alternatively, the law provides that a company may comply, as we do, by disclosing in its privacy policy that it provides consumers choice (opt-out or opt-in) regarding sharing Personal Information with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes, and information on how to exercise that choice. At this time, we do not share Personal Information with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. However, if we do so in the future, we will provide you with a choice prior to sharing your Personal Information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If you do not opt-in or if you do not choose to opt-out at the time teconja.com offers that choice, we will not share your information with that identified third party for its direct marketing purposes.

In addition, if you are a California resident, you have the right to delete the Personal Information we have collected from you.

If you are a California resident who would like information on how to exercise your rights concerning third party disclosures or the deletion of your Personal Information, you may send an email to this address

t.tessen@tts-northamerica.com

 

or mail your request to

 

Attn: Privacy Officer

TTS Teconja TCI Shipping North America Inc.

350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5220

New York, NY 10118

 

In the request, please specify which right you are seeking to exercise and the scope of the request. We will confirm receipt of your request within 10 days.

We have a duty as the holder of certain Personal Information to verify your identity when making requests to know or delete Personal Information and to ensure that dissemination of that information would not cause harm to you if it were distributed to another person. To verify your identity, we will request and collect additional Personal Information from you to match it against our records. We may ask for additional information or documentation if we feel it is necessary to confirm your identity with the necessary degree of certainty. We may communicate with you through email, a secure message center, or other reasonably necessary and appropriate means. We do have the right to deny requests under certain circumstances. In such cases, we will notify you of the reasons for denial. We will not provide you with specific pieces of Personal Information if the disclosure creates a substantial, articulable, and unreasonable risk to the security of that Personal Information, your account with us, or the security of our systems or networks. In no event will we disclose, if we have collected it, your Social Security number, driver’s license number or other government-issued identification number, financial account number, any health insurance or medical identification number, an account password, or security questions and answers.

Collection and Use of Information

Personal Information is information that uniquely identifies you, such as your name, address, email address and telephone number. At times, the Site may collect your Personal Information. For example, we collect your Personal Information, with your consent, if you subscribe to our newsletters, or send us an email, and provide us with your name, address, telephone number and/or email address. Any information collected about you from the Site may be associated with other information that the Site has collected about you.

IP Address

An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your internet service provider when you log on. The Site anonymizes the collection of IP addresses via Google Analytics, which you can read more about here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en. Some IP address information is collected, which may help us identify information including, but not limited to, geographic trends and/or usage information. However, full IP addresses identifying individuals are not collected.

Other Information

When you access the Site, the Site will automatically receive some information about your use of the service. The type of information that is automatically collected by the Site includes, but is not limited to, such things as the date and time of access of the Site, the anonymized Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer that you are using, the domain and host from which you access the Internet, your browser software and operating system, the referring website address, and the specific activities you are engaged in while visiting the Site. This aggregate tracking information is used to help us to improve and enhance the website experience for all of its visitors.

Your Consent

We only collect, use and/or disclose your Personal Information with your consent. We will ask for your affirmative consent when we collect your Personal Information, such as when we ask for your e-mail address or for your consent to our use of cookies, as explained below. Your consent may also be given for a particular purpose. For example, when you submit your Personal Information to us by emailing us or providing us with reviews, you are consenting to the collection, handling, use and disclosure of your Personal Information for the purposes of responding and/or posting your reviews.

Use of Your Personal Information

We use your Personal Information, with your consent, unless otherwise indicated, for the purposes for which it is submitted, such as to reply to your emails and inquiries, and to allow you to participate in promotions. Your Personal Information may also be used in the following ways:

• to deliver materials, information and services to you,
  • to give you notice of and/or resolve any problems that may arise in connection with our services,
  • to better understand the needs and interests of our customers,
  • to analyze the success of our products and services and Site,
  • to manage the Site’s interactive functionality,
  • to help the Site improve and enhance the experience for all of its visitors, and customize the content on our Site,
  • for compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations, without your consent,
  • as otherwise reasonably required to provide customer services and maintain the Site,
  • to investigate potential breaches of the Terms and Conditions of the Site, without your consent,
  • to investigate potentially unlawful activity, without your consent,
  • for any other purpose outlined in this Privacy Policy and/or the Terms and Conditions of which this Privacy Policy is a part, and
  • as permitted by law.

We may, under certain circumstances, also use your Personal Information to contact you via direct postal mail and/or electronically to the extent such activity is permitted by law, and, with your consent, regarding your relationship with us. This information may also be used to help the Site and its commercial partners deliver targeted advertisements, promotions and other initiatives to you, but only if you affirmatively consent to such uses.

Opting in and opting out of electronic communications

At certain points where Personal Information is collected on our Site, there will be a box to indicate that you wish to receive certain information or communications from us. You may also opt out of receiving electronic communications, such as emails from TTS, at any time, using the “Unsubscribe” links provided in those emails. In all of our electronic communications, you will be given the opportunity to opt out of receiving future communications. You may also opt-out or change your preferences by sending an email to t.tessen@tts-northamerica.com.

Use of Your Personal Information Within TTS’s Affiliated Entities

In order to provide you with efficient and reliable services and to improve product and service options available to you, we may share your Personal Information with our affiliated entities with your consent, in which case your personal information will be collected, used, disclosed, managed and stored in accordance with this policy as set forth herein. Our affiliates are companies controlled or owned by us, or companies that control us, or are under common control with us. If you use the Site from any country outside the United States, the various communications will necessarily result in the transfer of information across international boundaries, and by visiting the Site, you consent to these transfers as required or permitted by applicable law.

Use of Your Personal Information by Our Service Providers

From time to time, we may hire third parties to assist us with certain functions and services, such as data processing, computer software and website maintenance and development, promotional and marketing services, customer service, professional, legal or accounting services and/or business and sales analysis. We may share your Personal Information, without restriction (and regardless of whether you have chosen to limit our sharing of your Personal Information as collected on the Site), with such companies that we hire to perform services for us. In such situations, we require that these companies agree to maintain the confidentiality of your Personal Information and to comply with the safeguards described in this Privacy Policy. These companies have access to the Personal Information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes. Furthermore, in compliance with privacy laws, we also provide our opt-out lists to non-affiliated third-party companies so that communications sent by those companies on our behalf do not get sent to addresses appearing on our opt-out lists.

If TTS Changes Ownership

We may also share your Personal Information as required to allow for a change in ownership of TTS’s and/or any of TTS’s affiliated entities and/or of any business(es) to which the Site relates, and the related transfer of user information to the new owner. In the event of any such change of ownership, your Personal Information will continue to be protected by the terms of this Privacy Policy unless and until you are notified of a change.

Requirements of Law

Your Personal Information may be disclosed to non-affiliated third parties as either permitted by, or to comply with, applicable laws and regulations. We may disclose Personal Information if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected illegal activities or fraud, situations involving the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms and Conditions, or otherwise in accordance with applicable law. For example, TTS may disclose your Personal Information to comply with investigations by regulatory authorities or enforcement agencies in the United States of America or elsewhere, or to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud. Furthermore, TTS may disclose your Personal Information if it has a reasonable good faith basis to believe that it is required to do so by law, compelled by court order or legal process, or is reasonably necessary and/or appropriate to: (i) protect the rights, property and/or safety of TTS or any other person or entity; or (ii) prevent or take action concerning any alleged: (a) illegal activity or (b) breach of the Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy of the Site.

Do Not Track Signals

Certain web browsers provide users with an option by which you may have your browser send a “Do Not Track” signal to the website that you are visiting, advising the recipient website that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. However, the way browsers communicate such “Do Not Track” signals is not yet uniform and accordingly, our Site does not take any action in response to such signals. In the event a final standard is developed and accepted, we may reassess how we should respond to such signals.

Use of Cookies

The Site makes use of “cookies” – small data files which we may send to your computer on the basis of the information that we have collected about your visit. They contain information allowing us to recognize when you are visiting the Site and to keep track of your preferences. Through the use of a cookie, we also may automatically collect information about your online activity on our Site, such as the web pages you visit, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on our site. Cookies are stored in your computer’s browser or on your hard disk and can then be retrieved by the website.

Cookies Employed by the Site.

• Website functionality cookies. These cookies enable you to browse our online services and use features such as shopping baskets and wish lists.
  • Website analytics cookies: We use these cookies to measure and analyze how our customers use our online services. An example is counting the number of different people visiting our Site or using a particular feature, rather than the total number of times the Site or feature is used. This allows us to continuously improve our online services and your shopping experience.
  • Customer preference cookies. When browsing or shopping online, our online services will remember preferences you make (for example your user name, language or location). This improves your experience and makes your browsing simpler, easier and more personal to you.
  • Social sharing cookies. We use cookies to allow you to share content directly on social networking/sharing sites like Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest. Examples would be if you wanted to ‘like’ or ‘tweet’ about a product advertised on our online services.
  • Advertising cookies. We place adverts on a number of third-party websites. We use cookies to control how often you are shown a particular advert on those websites, so you do not see the same advert too frequently. We do not collect any personal data within these cookies.
  • Third-party cookies. Some of the cookies described above are stored on your machine by third parties when you use our online services. We have no control over these cookies or how the third parties use them. They are used to allow third parties to provide a service to us, for example analytics. For more information on these cookies and how to disable them, please see the individual third party’s privacy policy listed below.

Third Party Type of cookie Link to Privacy Policy

Google (Google Analytics) Analytics
Google Analytics collects information anonymously, and uses cookies, and anonymized IP addresses, and reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Link to Privacy Policy

https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated?hl=en

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

How to Reject or Opt Out of Receiving Cookies

If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the help and support section on your internet browser for instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Please note that our Site cannot always control third-party cookies stored on your machine from our online services and that setting your cookie preferences with us will not stop those third-party cookies from being stored on your machine. Therefore, you must manage these cookies directly with the relevant third party. Please see our “Third Party Cookies” section above for more information. Information on deleting or controlling cookies is also available at www.AboutCookies.org. Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.

If you want to know more about how cookies work and how to manage or delete them, visit the World Wide Web Consortium’s website (or, for third party cookies, visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/).

Disclosure of Information to Non-Affiliated Third Parties

TTS does not sell or market the Personal Information collected on the Site to non-affiliated third parties for their marketing purposes without your express consent. Other aggregated and/or anonymous information may be disclosed without your consent. TTS may disclose aggregated statistics about visitors to its Site, along with anonymous information concerning individual visitors of its Site. We may combine anonymous information and/or aggregate information we collect with additional anonymous information collected from other sources. We may share anonymous information (including aggregate information) we collect regarding our users with third parties (such as advisors, promotional sponsors, and investors) for various business purposes, including conducting general business analysis and developing website content and services.

Retention of Personal Information

Personal Information is retained to deliver our services, to otherwise fulfill identified or apparent purposes, and for record-keeping. At some point TTS may elect to destroy, erase or anonymize your Personal Information. Once anonymized, TTS undertakes not to re-identify the information.

Information posted on the Site may continue to be displayed on this Site, or on any successor website for as long as the Site or any successor Site is available and, may be archived by third party Sites. You may request access to your Personal Information in order for it to be updated or removed by writing to t.tessen@tts-northamerica.com. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we reserve the right to refuse requests for the removal of Personal Information from the Site.

Your Privacy Choices – Limiting Information Sharing/Accessing Your Information

You may have the right to request access to the Personal Information that we hold about you, which includes the right to amend or correct that information, as appropriate, and to receive an account of how it has been used and a list of the organizations to whom it has been disclosed. In some circumstances, you may have the right to object to our use of that Personal Information. You may request access and update your Personal Information by writing to t.tessen@tts-northamerica.com.

To protect the confidentiality of your information and respect your wishes for how it is used, we will not share Personal Information about you with our affiliated entities without your consent. As noted above, you may also opt-out of receiving electronic communications from us at any time. You may make your privacy choice at any time and it will remain in effect until you change it.
If you would like to check, change, or confirm your privacy choices please contact us at: t.tessen@tts-northamerica.com.

Protection and Security of Information

We maintain reasonable standards of confidentiality and security for the Site and the Personal Information collected from the Site. Physical, technical, electronic and managerial procedures have been employed to safeguard the security and integrity of Personal Information collected through the Site. The Personal Information you provide is secured using industry standard security technology. TTS also restricts its own employees’ access to Personal Information. However, it is possible that someone may intercept or access communications, transmissions and/or Personal Information.

In the event that TTS determines that there has been a security breach that results in the unauthorized disclosure of Personal Information to a third party, we will promptly notify consumers whose Personal Information it reasonably believes has been compromised by posting information on the Site and, if email contact is possible, then also by sending an email notification with respect to the situation.

You acknowledge that the security of online transactions you conduct using the Site cannot be guaranteed. To the fullest extent permitted at law, TTS shall not accept responsibility for misuse or loss of, or unauthorized access to, your Personal Information.

Use of the Site by Children

You must be 18 years of age to use the Site. TTS does not knowingly collect or maintain information from children under the age of 13, and no part of the Site is designed with the intention of attracting such children.

Links to Other Websites and Services

The Site may contain links to other websites that are not controlled and/or maintained by us. Please be aware that these other Site may have different privacy policies which may subject you to different privacy practices. Please review the privacy policies of such other websites for information concerning what information is collected on such websites and how it is used. TTS is not responsible for the contents or privacy practices of any linked site or any link on a linked site.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or complaints concerning this Privacy Policy or our handling of your Personal Information you may contact us at

t.tessen@tts-northamerica.com

or

Attn: Privacy Officer

TTS Teconja TCI Shipping North America Inc.

350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5220

New York, NY 10118