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Privacy Policy

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A. Name and contact details of the controller
B. Contact details in matter of data protection
C. Scope of processing of personal data, the purpose of processing
1. Website and creation of logfiles
2. Contacting (contact forms, e-mail)
3. Website visitor statistics Google Analytics in case of consent.
4. Postal advertising (letter mail)

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A. Name and contact details of the controller

BELFORT AND SONS CARGO SERVICES L.L.C

Office 102, Block B, Al Goze Street,
Al Quoz, Dubai, UAE
Postal Code: 72800

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B. Contact details in matters of data protection
E-mail: info@belfortandsons.com

C. Scope of processing of personal data, the purpose of processing

1. Website and creation of logfiles

a) Description of data processing, storage
Each time our website is accessed, our system automatically collects data and information from the computer system of the accessing computer. The following data is collected:

  • Information about the browser type and version used
  • User’s operating system
  • IP address
  • Date and time of access
  • websites from which the user’s system accessed our website (referrer URL)
  • Subpages of our homepage accessed by the user
  • Name of the accessed files
  • Message as to whether the access was successful

This data is deleted from the system log files after 7 days unless its further processing is exceptionally necessary to protect our legitimate interests (e.g. to initiate blocking of IP addresses, filing of a criminal complaint). If such an exceptional case exists, the data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for this purpose. This data will not be stored and/or merged with other personal data of the user.

b) Purpose of the data processing

The data mentioned under a) are collected,

  • To enable the delivery of the website to the user’s computer.
  • To ensure the security of our web server and trouble-free operation of our website, e.g. monitoring to prevent or detect hacker attacks;

c) Disclosure/recipient of the data

The collected data is stored at our web hosting provider. This provider works on our behalf and provides us with storage space for our website. In addition, our web hosting provider provides other related services, e.g. stores the associated data processing operations, and ensures that the website is accessible on the Internet. The service provider is located in the European Union or in a country of the European Economic Area, or in a third country. The data collected in accordance with a) will not be transmitted to third parties unless this is necessary in the event of attacks on our IT, see above under b), for example in the context of filing a criminal complaint with the law enforcement authorities.

d) Possibility of objection
The collection of the IP address is necessary for the provision of the website and the storage of the data in log files is mandatory for the operation of the website. Consequently, there is no possibility of objection on the part of the user. With regard to the other personal data processed in accordance with 1 a), you have the right to object to the processing at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation, cf. the further information under section D.

2. Contacting (contact forms, e-mails)

a) Description of data processing, purpose, storage
It is possible to contact us via the e-mail addresses given by us in the imprint and on the subpages. We then record the personal data transmitted with the e-mail. The data is used and stored for the purpose of responding to the inquiry, e.g. if you contact us about a freight offer or you apply to become a freight carrier. We use our own e-mail server for this purpose.
If you contact us via one of our contact forms, your message will be stored on our mail server. This forwards your message internally to a specific e-mail address assigned to the respective contact form together with the contact person of our company. After viewing your message, it will be processed directly or forwarded to the relevant department/person within our company for a response and stored on our local IT system.
The data transmitted by e-mail/contact form will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary to achieve the purpose for which they were collected, unless,
– we need them for the assertion, exercise, and defense of legal claims, or
– we have another legitimate interest in processing them and your interests worthy of protection do not outweigh this;
– as far as these are part of our backup: deletion of the data from backups is not possible for us and also not required due to the security of the processing, the integrity, and confidentiality of the data to be ensured.

3. Website visitor statistics “Google Analytics” in case of granted consent.

(a) Brief Description, Consent
The tool is deactivated when you visit our website. If you consent to its use, we record your anonymized surfing behavior when you visit our website and then evaluate it statistically. We use the tool “Google Analytics” for this purpose. The software is set so that we process your IP address shortened.
Consent can only be given via the automatically displayed cookie consent box (tool selection window). This is displayed in the center when the page is called up. If you select “Grant consent (allow all cookies)”, you give us permission to collect, analyze and process the data that is generated during your visit to the website, see the further information under b).

b) Scope of data processing, USA, storage, deletion
If you have given us your consent, we record your surfing behavior when you visit our website and then evaluate it statistically. For this purpose, we use “Google Analytics”, a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, text files. These are text files that are stored in the Internet browser or by the Internet browser on the user’s computer system when you visit our website. A cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables a unique identification of the browser when the website is called up again or after a page change (calling up different sub-pages). We use the code extension “anonymize ip” when using the tool. For this reason, the last 80 of the 128 bits of your IP address are set to zero by Google within the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. In this way, it is no longer possible to assign the shortened IP address to the calling end device. When you visit our website or its individual pages, the following data is collected:

  • The shortened IP address of the user’s calling system.
  • The accessed website including subpage
  • The website from which the user arrived at the accessed website
  • The subpages that are called from the called website and whether actions are performed there (e.g. downloading a form).
  • The time spent on the website
  • The frequency of access to the website
  • Start and end time of the visit to the website
  • Screen resolution of the calling computer
  • Type of calling device (mobile device/PC/laptop)
  • Browser, the language setting of the browser used, and all add-ons used.
  • Flash version

The cookies used are called _ga, _ gid, among others, and have a validity of two years (_ga) or 24 hours (_gid).

The information collected by the cookies about website usage is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate access to our website. We can view this online and have statistical evaluations sent to us (reports on website activities). Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google has undertaken not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. For more information on Google’s terms of use and privacy policy, please visit www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ or policies.google.com. The information collected will be stored by Google on our behalf in order to create the aforementioned reports and view them online. The data is automatically deleted by Google after 14 months. The deletion takes place once a month. The reports we create on this basis are retrieved by us if necessary and stored for up to 5 years and then deleted again.
According to Google, the data is stored on its own servers or those of its affiliated companies. It is also possible that the data is stored on servers in the USA.

d) Purpose of data processing, disclosure
The processing of personal data of website visitors enables us to analyze the surfing behavior of our website visitors. This allows us to determine which information/which subpages of our website are of particular interest to website visitors and which website content is of little interest. In addition, we can see how quickly and how often newly created website content is read. The analysis enables us to optimize the website content according to the presumed special user interest. In addition, we can optimize our site for the Google search engine and measure the success of advertising on third-party sites.
The recipient of the anonymized data is Google Ireland Limited as an order processor. In addition, we evaluate the reports created, in which the data of the visitors are presented in summary form, internally and, if necessary, with the help of external marketing and web specialists. In addition, third parties have partial access to this via the tools mentioned in section 7.

f) Revocation of consent, other measures
You can revoke the consent given. The revocation will take effect only from the moment of exercise. To do this, we recommend that you use the following procedure to delete the cookie: You delete all existing cookies from your browser software and set it so that it does not accept new cookies or new cookies from third-party providers.
Alternatively, after deleting the cookies, you can refuse the setting of cookies in the privacy settings (via the cookie pop-up window that appears automatically) of this website. However, we would like to point out that in this case, you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookies and related to your use of the website (including the shortened IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

4. Postal advertising (letter mail)

a) Description of data processing, storage, purpose, disclosure, recipients
If you provide us with your name and postal address, we will store them for the possible future sending of postal advertising (letter mail) about our products & services, our company and for sending Christmas mail. If necessary, the data will be made available to an external service provider during franking and dispatch, which may be carried out by an external service provider. This service provider acts according to our instructions and on our behalf. This service provider is based in the European Union. No other data will be passed on to third parties. The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required to achieve the purpose for which they were collected or you have objected to the processing.