Privacy Policy

It is Columbia Shipmanagement’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.columbia-shipmanagement.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “www.columbia-shipmanagement.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Like most website operators, Columbia Shipmanagement collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Columbia Shipmanagement’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Columbia Shipmanagement’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Columbia Shipmanagement may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Columbia Shipmanagement also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://columbia-shipmanagement.com blog posts. Columbia Shipmanagement only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Certain visitors to Columbia Shipmanagement’s websites choose to interact with Columbia Shipmanagement in ways that require Columbia Shipmanagement to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Columbia Shipmanagement gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at https://columbia-shipmanagement.com to provide a username and email address.

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Columbia Shipmanagement and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Www.columbia-shipmanagement.com uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Columbia Shipmanagement discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Columbia Shipmanagement’s behalf or to provide services available at Columbia Shipmanagement’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Columbia Shipmanagement’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Columbia Shipmanagement will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Columbia Shipmanagement discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Columbia Shipmanagement believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Columbia Shipmanagement, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://columbia-shipmanagement.com and have supplied your email address, Columbia Shipmanagement may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Columbia Shipmanagement and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Columbia Shipmanagement takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Columbia Shipmanagement may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Columbia Shipmanagement may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Columbia Shipmanagement does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Columbia Shipmanagement uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Columbia Shipmanagement uses cookies to help Columbia Shipmanagement identify and track visitors, their usage of https://columbia-shipmanagement.com, and their website access preferences. Columbia Shipmanagement visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Columbia Shipmanagement’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Columbia Shipmanagement’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Columbia Shipmanagement’s use of cookies.

Those who engage in transactions with Columbia Shipmanagement – by purchasing Columbia Shipmanagement’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Columbia Shipmanagement collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Columbia Shipmanagement. Columbia Shipmanagement does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

If Columbia Shipmanagement, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Columbia Shipmanagement goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Columbia Shipmanagement may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Columbia Shipmanagement may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Columbia Shipmanagement’s sole discretion. Columbia Shipmanagement encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

In case IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transfered to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP-anonymisation is active on this website.

Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

The IP-address, that your Browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us

Marketing Department – [email protected].