Privacy Policy

This is a website operated by Atlantic Forwarding Ltd. (hereinafter “Atlantic Forwarding” or “we” “our,” or “us”). Atlantic Forwarding Ltd. is registered at Grosspeteranlage 29, 4052 Basel, Switzerland.

Atlantic Forwarding is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy accounts for the Personal Data collected, processed, and used via the website (hereinafter “Website”).

By using this Website, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy, where and as permitted by applicable law. If you do not consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Data as set forth in this Privacy Policy, please refrain from visiting this Website.

 

PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

Atlantic Forwarding collects and processes certain Personal Data from you and your devices.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

You may be required to provide us with your Personal Data when you are interacting with us via our Website.

In specific:

If you sign up to receive communications (via the following form: https://www.atlanticforwarding.com/contact/ including news, updates and promotions from Atlantic Forwarding, we may ask for a first and last name, country of residence, email address and telephone number.

We may also post job opportunities so that anyone can apply and submit a job application. To ensure that your profile matches the advertised position, Atlantic Forwarding processes your personal data for the recruitment process, including but not limited to your first and last name, country, district, city, address, postcode, e-mail address and telephone number, date of birth, gender, educational background and details included in your CV https://www.atlanticforwarding.com/careers/.

We may also use information about the use of Atlantic Forwarding’s information and communication systems (e.g., user credentials, login data, e-mail address, etc.,)

 

PURPOSE OF COLLECTION OF THE PERSONAL DATA

We use the information about you for the following business purposes:

  • To ensure that content from our Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer;
  • To notify you about any changes to our Website or services;
  • To provide you with our services;
  • To process your requests and inquiries;
  • To send you communications including news, updates and promotions at your request (Newsletter);
  • To process your online job application (Candidates);
  • To confirm your identity;
  • To debug, identify, and repair errors that impair the existing intended functionality of the Website;
  • To comply with legal obligations;
  • To prevent or investigate fraud or other unlawful activities, detect security incidents;
  • To protect the security and integrity of the Website.

 

LEGAL BASIS

Atlantic Forwarding processes personal data based on one or more of the following conditions:

  • Where you have given your consent (in which case, such consent may be withdrawn at any time and without alleging any justification);
  • Where necessary to fulfill contractual obligations to you;
  • Where the processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, or
  • Where the processing is carried out in Atlantic Forwarding’s legitimate interest.

 

REMARKETING

Remarketing consists of creating personalized ad campaigns for those users who have already visited our websites by previously consenting this purpose.

We use third party vendors to design and run advertising campaigns on online platforms. Third party vendors, including Google, show our ads on sites across the internet by using cookies to generate ads based on your past visits to our Website (Google Analytics). These advertising campaigns may appear on your phone or device to show information about Atlantic Forwarding’s products and services. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.

For more information click here:
https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en-GB

If you want to permanently opt out of Google’s or any vendors cookies, you will need to modify your preferences in the cookies settings or delete, block or disable cookies via your web browser settings. please check out our Cookie Policy for more information.

 

COOKIES

Like many other websites, Atlantic Forwarding use cookies to collect information about visitors’ use of the Website.  Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website.

Cookies are small text files assigned to your browser to collect internet log on and visitor tracking information (including IP address, browsing history, and geolocation data, where and as allowed by applicable law).

The information is used to track visitor use of the Website to compile statistical reports on Website activity. This helps us to provide you with a positive experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve our Website. We also may use cookies to provide you with information on products or services that may be of interest to you, where and as allowed by law. You may delete cookie files from the device you use to access our Website at any time by clicking on the Privacy or History tab typically found on the Settings or Options menu in your internet browser. Please note that in a few cases some of our Website features may not function if you remove the cookies from your browser.

For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes we use them for, you may consult our Cookie Policy.

 

DISCLOSURE OF THE INFORMATION

We may disclose your Personal Data to third parties who act on our behalf, such as our Website analytics provider. This is done in order to process the Personal Data for the business purposes outlined above. Such third parties, or agents are contractually bound to comply with similar and equally stringent undertakings of privacy, security and confidentiality.

We may also disclose your Personal Data to a third party if necessary to fulfill a request you have made, if we are required to do so because of an applicable law, court order or governmental regulation, or if such disclosure is otherwise necessary to support any criminal or legal investigation or proceeding.

 

DATA TRANSFER ABROAD

We may transfer Personal Data to countries other than the country in which the Personal Data was originally collected which may not have the same level of data protection as your country of residence. When we transfer your personal data to such other countries, we take the necessary measures required by law to ensure the protection of your Personal Data.

 

SECURITY AND DATA RETENTION

Personal Data will be collected and stored in good faith, in a proportionate manner, for the business purposes indicated above. In order to protect the Personal Data, we have implemented state-of-the-art technical and organizational measures. We will retain your Personal Data for no longer than is necessary to fulfil the business purposes for which it was collected. The precise period will depend on the reason why it was collected.

Those periods are also based on the requirements of applicable data protection laws, applicable legal and regulatory requirements and periods relating to the commencement of legal actions.

 

OTHER WEBSITES

Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from websites of our partners’ networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any Personal Data to the websites. Atlantic Forwarding does not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites. Any Personal Data you choose to give to unrelated Third Parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy.

 

DO-NOT-TRACK DISCLOSURE AND THIRD-PARTY TRACKING

Certain mechanisms may allow you to send web browser signals, known as “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) signals, indicating your choice to disable tracking on the Website. We do not respond to browser do not track signals at this time. We may not be aware of or able to honour and respond to every such mechanism. More information about “do not track” is available at www.allaboutdnt.org

 

YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

Under applicable laws and subject to any legal restrictions, you may have the following rights:

  • Right of access to your Personal Data
  • Right to rectify your Personal Data
  • Right to erasure of your Personal Data
  • Right to restrict of processing of your Personal Data
  • Right to object to the processing of your Personal Data

All data protection related requests should be addressed to the following email address : communications@bsl.atlanticforwarding.com or submitted via the following form: Privacy Web Form (onetrust.com).

If we do not handle your request in a timely manner, or if you are not satisfied with our response to any exercise of these rights, you are entitled to lodge a complaint with the  FDPIC https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html

 

CHANGES

We may revise this Privacy Policy at any time by amending this page and changes will be effective upon being posted unless we advise otherwise. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by means of a notice on our Website prior to the change becoming effective. By continuing to use the Website after changes are made to this Privacy Policy, you agree to such changes. We encourage you to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make. If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, we ask that you exit our Website immediately.

The Privacy Policy published on our Website is kept up to date.

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions in relation to this Privacy Policy, or you want to obtain more information about Atlantic Forwarding`s privacy practices, please contact us by email at DataProtection@atlanticforwarding.com.

Privacy policy last updated in August 2023.