Siem Shipping UK Ltd.
Privacy Policy
Your Privacy
Siem Shipping UK Limited’s (“Siem Shipping”, “we” or “our”) website (“the Website”) provides general information on our fleet, our agents and the services we provide. We hope that you find your visit informative and interesting.
Whilst our website is mainly aimed at a business audience, we also provide a contact form for potential candidates to send in CVs and accompanying information in relation to job vacancies that we may advertise or where an individual would like to make a speculative application.
What is the purpose of this Privacy Policy?
Siem Shipping UK Limited. is a “data controller” and our registered address is 40 Brighton Road, Sutton, SM2 5BN, England. We use our website to provide you with information about our fleet, our agents and the services we provide.
Our website allows you to contact us if you wish to discuss your requirements with us. We may also collect personal information from you if you submit a CV or other information to apply for a job or enquire as to whether we have any vacancies.
If you have any queries about the Website, this Privacy Policy or how we use your personal information, please contact gdpr@siemshipping.com.
This Privacy Policy relates to your use of the Website and tells you:
- What personal information we collect about you when you use the Website
- How we collect your personal information in the Website
- How we use your personal information
- Who we may share your personal information with
- Any transfer of personal information outside of the EEA
- How long we keep your personal information
- What we do to protect your personal information
- What choices you have in relation to your personal information
- Personal Information we process about you
- What information we process about you
We may collect the following information about you:
- your name and address
- your mobile phone number
- your email address
- your current employer
- for job applicants, CV information including training, employment history, hobbies, interests
Personal Information you give us
Using our online application form
We collect personal information from you if you submit a job application to us via our online application form.
Personal Information we collect automatically:
- When you use the Website, we may collect certain information automatically such as:
- IP addresses (the name and internet address your device uses to identify itself to us)
- Your activity in our website including times and dates of visits
Cookies
A cookie is a small file of data which our website places on your computer’s hard drive.
We do not use cookies. However, our website contains links to other websites and these websites will have their own privacy policies and may collect and use your personal information in a different way to us. You should read their own privacy policy.
Most computers automatically accept cookies, but you can change your settings so that you will not receive cookies and you can also delete existing cookies from your computer. If you do change your settings, you may find that some parts of a website will not function properly. To find out how to delete cookies or adjust their settings please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
How we use your Personal Information
Our legal basis for using your information
The law only allows us to use your personal information in certain limited circumstances. When you submit information to us on our website, we will process that information in order to comply with your request for further information or to process your application for a job which we will do with your consent.
If you submit a job application then we may keep your CV on file for up to a year. We believe that our legitimate interests in ensuring that we have access to suitable candidates for future roles does not override your interests and fundamental rights. You can request us to delete your information at any time.
Sharing your Personal Information
Our Business Partners
Your information may be accessible by our electronic communications providers and our analytics and search engine providers.
The following organisations are used by us:
- Google Analytics
- Google Search Console
Legal Requirements and Law Enforcement
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:
If we sell our business, in which case the personal information that we hold will be part of the transferred assets.
If we are required by law, or in order to enforce our website terms of use. This includes exchanging information with other organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction and also law enforcement agencies.
Third Party Privacy Policies
The Website may contain links to websites owned by other organisations. If you follow a link to another website, these websites they will have their own privacy policy. We suggest that you check the policies of any other websites before giving them your personal information as we cannot accept responsibility for any other website.
Keeping your Personal Information
How we store your personal information
The security of your personal information is important to us.
We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard personal information. We use encryption technology where appropriate to enhance privacy and help prevent information security breaches. We use industry-standard measures and processes for detecting and responding to inappropriate attempts to breach our systems.
We may transfer personal information from a European Union Member State to a country outside of the EEA. If we do, we will ensure that we enter into a data transfer agreement which gives you enforceable rights and legal remedies and provides adequate levels of protection for any personal information that is transferred outside of the EEA.
All third parties who provide services to the website are required to sign contract requiring them to have appropriate technical, administrative and physical procedures in place to ensure that your information is protected against loss or misuse.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers or on secure servers operated by a third party. Information on our third-party providers can be found above.
Retention of information
We only hold your personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes for which we collected your information.
We have a company retention policy which sets out timescales for the retention of information. Our document retention periods are available on request to gdpr@siemshipping.com.
We have set these timescales in accordance with any applicable legislation and where none exists then we will keep your information for a period of 7 years after which time it will be deleted.
Emails
If you chose to send us information via email, we cannot guarantee the security of this information until it is delivered to us.
Your rights
Access to information
You have the right to access information that we hold about you. If you wish to receive a copy of the information that we hold, please contact at gdpr@siemshipping.com or write to us at the address above.
Changing or deleting your information
You can ask us at any time to change, amend or delete the information that we hold about you or ask us not to contact you with any further marketing information. You can also ask us to restrict the information that we process about you.
You can use the check boxes on the forms we use to collect your information, or you can also request that we change, amend, delete your information or restrict our processing by emailing us at gdpr@siemshipping.com or writing to us at the address at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.
Right to prevent Automated decision making
You have a right to ask us to stop any automated decision making. We do not intentionally carry out such activities, but if you do have any questions or concerns we would be happy to discuss them with you and you can contact us at gdpr@siemshipping.com.
Transferring Personal Information
You have the right to request that your personal data is transferred by us to another organisation (this is called “data portability”). Please contact us at gdpr@siemshipping.com with the details of what you would like us to do and we will try our best to comply with your request. If may not be technically feasible, but we will work with you to try and find a solution.
Complaints
If you make a request to us under this Privacy Policy and you are unhappy with the response, you can ask for the request to be reviewed under our internal complaints procedure. Our internal complaints procedure allows your request to be reviewed by the Deputy Group Compliance Manager who will do their best to try and resolve the issue.
If you have been through the internal complaints procedure and are still not happy with the result, then you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. They can be contacted as follows:
Website: www.ico.org.uk
Telephone: 03031231113
Address: Information Commissioners Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Changes to our Privacy Statement
We review our Privacy Policy on a frequent basis to check that it accurately reflects how we deal with your information and may amend it if necessary. You should check this page regularly to see the most up to date information.
We last updated this Privacy Policy on 4 June 2019.
How to Contact us
We welcome questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy which can be sent to gdpr@siemshipping.com.