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Privacy Policy

This web­site (hence­forth “web­site”) is pro­vi­ded by the Ham­bur­ger Hafen und Logis­tik Akti­en­ge­sell­schaft (hence­forth “us” or “we”). Fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on regar­ding the pro­vi­der of the web­site may be found in our Legal.

A. Handling of personal data

The fol­lo­wing pro­vi­des infor­ma­ti­on about how per­so­nal data is hand­led when using this web­site. Whe­re not descri­bed other­wi­se in the fol­lo­wing sec­tions, the legal basis for hand­ling your per­so­nal data ari­ses from the neces­si­ty of hand­ling it for the pur­po­se of pro­vi­ding the func­tion­a­li­ties reques­ted by you on this web­site (Sec­tion 6(1)(b) of the Gene­ral Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­ti­on (GDPR)).

B. Use of the website

Calling up the website

When you call up our web­site, your brow­ser auto­ma­ti­cal­ly trans­fers cer­tain data to our web ser­ver in order to pro­vi­de you with the infor­ma­ti­on you have cal­led up. In order to make your visit to our web­site pos­si­ble, the fol­lo­wing data is coll­ec­ted, brief­ly stored and used:

  • IP address
  • Date and time of the request, time zone dif­fe­rence from Green­wich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Con­tent of the request (spe­ci­fic page)
  • Ope­ra­ting sys­tem and its access sta­tus / HTTP sta­tus code
  • Data volu­me transferred
  • Web­site from which the request comes
  • Brow­ser, lan­guage and ver­si­on of the brow­ser software.

To safe­guard our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rests, we also store this data for a limi­t­ed time to allow deri­va­ti­on of per­so­nal data in the case of unaut­ho­ri­sed access or attempt­ed access to local ser­vers (Sec­tion 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

2. Use of cookies

a) What cookies are

We use coo­kies on this web­site. Coo­kies are small text files that are stored in your device memo­ry via your brow­ser. Coo­kies store cer­tain infor­ma­ti­on (e.g. your pre­fer­red lan­guage or site set­tings), which can be retur­ned to us by your brow­ser when you visit the web­site again (depen­ding on the life of the cookies).

b) How you can limit the use of cookies

You can con­fi­gu­re or enti­re­ly deac­ti­va­te the use of coo­kies in your brow­ser set­tings at any time. Howe­ver, this may lead to a limi­ta­ti­on in the func­tion­a­li­ty or user-fri­end­li­ne­ss of our website.

3. Newsletter

Our web­site gives you the opti­on to sign up for our news­let­ter to recei­ve emails that keep you up-to-date with new online maga­zi­ne artic­les. We requi­re only your email address for regis­tra­ti­on. We use a dou­ble opt-in pro­cess for the pur­po­se of sig­ning up for our news­let­ter. Once you have signed up on our web­site, we will send a mes­sa­ge to the email address you have pro­vi­ded reques­t­ing con­fir­ma­ti­on. Your con­sent con­sti­tu­tes the legal basis for the pro­ces­sing of your data (Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR). You may unsub­scri­be from our news­let­ter at any time. To do so, you can eit­her click on the unsub­scri­be link found in every news­let­ter you can object to the pro­ces­sing of your data. To do this, plea­se refer to the cont­act details in this website’s legal noti­ce or get in touch with our data pro­tec­tion officer.

Our news­let­ters are sent via Mailchimp, an email news­let­ter plat­form ope­ra­ted by the US com­pa­ny Rocket Sci­ence Group LLC, 675 Pon­ce De Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlan­ta, Geor­gia 30308, USA. When you pro­vi­de us with your data (your email address as well as fur­ther, optio­nal details) in order to sub­scri­be to our news­let­ter, this will be saved on Mailchimp’s ser­vers in the USA. Mailchimp uti­li­ses this infor­ma­ti­on for mai­ling pur­po­ses and for sta­tis­ti­cal ana­ly­sis of news­let­ters on our behalf. Mailchimp’s data pri­va­cy poli­cy can be found at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/. Data is trans­fer­red on the basis of the EU Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Clau­ses. Mailchimp is obli­ged to pro­cess per­so­nal data in com­pli­ance with the EU Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Clauses.

4. Use of SalesViewer® technology

This web­site uses Sales­View­er® tech­no­lo­gy from Sales­View­er® GmbH on the basis of the web­site operator’s legi­ti­ma­te inte­rests (Sec­tion 6 para­graph 1 lit.f GDPR) in order to coll­ect and save data on mar­ke­ting, mar­ket rese­arch and opti­mi­sa­ti­on purposes.

In order to do this, a java­script based code, which ser­ves to cap­tu­re com­pa­ny-rela­ted data and accor­ding web­site usa­ge. The data cap­tu­red using this tech­no­lo­gy are encrypt­ed in a non-retrie­va­ble one-way func­tion (so-cal­led hash­ing). The data is imme­dia­te­ly pseud­ony­mi­sed and is not used to iden­ti­fy web­site visi­tors personally.

The data stored by Sales­view­er® will be dele­ted as soon as they are no lon­ger requi­red for their inten­ded pur­po­se and the­re are no legal obli­ga­ti­ons to retain them.

The data recor­ding and sto­rage can be repea­led at any time with imme­dia­te effect for the future, by cli­cking on https://www.salesviewer.com/opt-out in order to pre­vent Sales­View­er® from recor­ding your data. In this case, an opt-out coo­kie for this web­site is saved on your device. If you dele­te the coo­kies in the brow­ser, you will need to click on this link again.

5. Transfer of data for processing on our behalf

We use spe­cia­li­sed ser­vice pro­vi­ders to pro­cess some of your data. We careful­ly sel­ect and regu­lar­ly moni­tor our ser­vice pro­vi­ders. They pro­cess per­so­nal data via order pro­ces­sing exclu­si­ve­ly on our behalf and strict­ly in accordance with our ins­truc­tions on the basis of cor­re­spon­ding agreements.

Data will only be pro­ces­sed out­side the EU/the Euro­pean Eco­no­mic Area whe­re an ade­qua­te level of data pri­va­cy is guaranteed.

6. Information about your rights

You have the fol­lo­wing rights based on the appli­ca­ble data pro­tec­tion laws:

  • Right to infor­ma­ti­on about the data we have stored about you
  • Right to rec­ti­fi­ca­ti­on, dele­ti­on or limi­ta­ti­on of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data
  • Right to object to pro­ces­sing that ser­ves our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rests, a public inte­rest or pro­fil­ing, unless we can demons­tra­te com­pel­ling legi­ti­ma­te grounds for the pro­ces­sing that over­ri­de your inte­rests, rights and free­doms, or the pro­ces­sing ser­ves the enforce­ment, exer­cise or defence of legal claims
  • Right to data transferability
  • Right to com­plain to a super­vi­so­ry authority

You can revo­ke the con­sent you gave for the coll­ec­tion, pro­ces­sing and use of your per­so­nal data at any time with future effect. More detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on rela­ting to this can be found in the respec­ti­ve sec­tions abo­ve, which descri­be data pro­ces­sing based on your consent.

Should you wish to exer­cise your rights, plea­se direct your con­cerns to the cont­act per­son named below.

C. Contact

For mat­ters rela­ting to data pro­tec­tion plea­se cont­act our Data Pro­tec­tion Offi­cer:
Wri­te an Email

D. Amending the data protection declaration

We reser­ve the right to update this data pro­tec­tion decla­ra­ti­on from time to time. Updates to this data pro­tec­tion decla­ra­ti­on will be published on our web­site. Chan­ges app­ly from the date of their publi­ca­ti­on on our web­site. We the­r­e­fo­re recom­mend that you regu­lar­ly visit our web­site and take note of any pos­si­ble updates.

Stand: 1. Okto­ber 2022