Data Privacy
Information on data processing for use of the websites www.assc-ship.com and www.rickmers-history.com for the processing of customer and prospective customer:
1. Controller
Responsible for the above-mentioned data processing is in the sense of article 4 sect. 7 GDPR:
The Asian Spirit Steamship Company GmbH & Cie. KG (hereinafter „ASSC Ship“)
Alsterufer 26
20354 Hamburg
Germany
Tel.: +49 (40) 808 172 300
E-Mail: info@assc-ship.com
2. Subject of data protection
The subject of data protection is personal data. According to Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR, this is all information relating to an identified or identifiable person. This includes, for example, information such as name, postal address, e-mail address or telephone number, and possibly also usage data such as the IP address.
3. Scope and purpose of data collection and storage
In the following we will explain the scope of data collection, storage and use (hereinafter „data processing“, used in accordance with Art. 4 No. 2 GDPR) and the purpose of the respective data processing within the scope of the websites (Section 4), customer and prospective customer data processing (Section 5) at ASSC SHIP.
4. Data processing within the scope of website use
In principle, the use of the websites is possible without providing personal data. An exception is the IP address. We require this at short notice.
Without Internet Protocol addresses, or „IP addresses“ for short, the Internet will not function. In computer networks, an IP address represents an address so that web servers and/or individual end devices can be addressed and reached. Without an IP address, the web server and the end devices cannot communicate – and therefore cannot display anything. The web server on which the websites are hosted is therefore pinged with a data request – from you, you want to use the websites. To deliver the data, the web server must know the IP address. Consequently, the web server must process your IP address at this moment of the data request.
The legal basis for this data processing is regularly Art. 6 para. 1 b) GDPR, as we need your IP address in order to be able to send you the websites and the information they contain.
In addition, the web server records the following data with each call following data and information from the computer system of the calling computer:
– Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
– Content of the request (exact site)
– Access status/HTTP status code
– Amount of data transmitted in each case
– Website from which the request comes
– Browser
5. Data processing for customer and prospective customer enquiries via the websites
If you contact us by e-mail as a customer or interested party, you must at least leave or send us the following personal data:
– e-mail address –
first name and surname –
telephone number (if applicable) –
your request
These data are used exclusively to process your request and to be able to get back to you afterwards. The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 b) GDPR, since we could not come back to you and your described request if we did not receive any personal contact data from you.
6. Earmarked use of data, recipient of data, transfer of data
We observe the principle of the purpose-related use of data. We collect, store and use all the above-mentioned data only for the purposes already mentioned.
In addition to the persons responsible (cf. item 1), our IT service provider and our hosting provider Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co KG is the recipient of your data. We have concluded an order processing contract with these service providers so that the service providers process data solely according to our instructions and under our control. In addition, they hold Google LLC data, as we have integrated Google Maps on www.assc-ship.com.
7. Duration of processing, deletion of data
7.1 Deletion periods within the scope of website use in accordance with Section 4
In the event of incorrect page views, the data is stored in error files and deleted after seven days. In all other cases the logs store the IP address alienated. For this purpose the last three digits are removed, i.e. 127.0.0.1 becomes 127.0.0.*. IPv6 addresses are also alienated. It is therefore no longer possible to assign the calling client. The alienated IP addresses are deleted after 60 days.
7.2 Deletion periods for customer and prospective customer data in accordance with section 5
Customer data are stored for up to 10 years in accordance with the statutory retention periods from § 257 para. 4 HGB (German Commercial Code), § 147 para. 3 AO (German Fiscal Code) and then deleted. The period begins at the end of the calendar year in which the respective data was collected.
Data of prospective customer will be deleted four years after a last contact point, as long as no retention periods under commercial law have to be observed according to § 257 HGB. In this case, the data will be limited in use in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR to the fulfilment of the obligation to retain data and will be deleted after expiry of the above-mentioned periods. The period begins at the end of the calendar year in which the respective data was collected.
8. Rights of the persons concerned (including rights of information, revocation, objection and deletion)
As a data subject, you have the following rights against ASSC SHIP as the person responsible:
You have the right to request information regarding the data we process about you.
You may at any time object to the processing of your data, provided that the requirements of Art. 21 GDPR are met, and you may at any time revoke any consent you may have given to the processing of the data. If consent to data processing is revoked or the use of the data is objected to, this shall not affect the lawfulness of data processing up to the time of revocation or objection.
Furthermore, you can have the data processed by us corrected, restricted or deleted at any time. We expressly point out that there may be legal obligations – such as storage obligations – to continue to store data. In this case the data can only be restricted. This means that the data is processed exclusively for the purpose of fulfilling the legal obligations and is not used otherwise.
In addition, you also have the right to data transferability in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR and the right to complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR.
If you have any questions, please contact us at any time under info@assc-ship.com.
April 2020