Who We Are
Our website address is: https://aajs.com. Shipping International is a digital maritime news and heritage archive. We are dedicated to restoring the “Digital Maritime Heritage” that we first launched in 1995 from our Houston-based servers and 128 kbps IDSL lines.
Comments and News Submissions
The ability to upload news, articles, or comments is currently on hold. If we re-open these features in the future, we will collect the data shown in the submission forms, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to assist in spam detection.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the site.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies last for one year. If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies; this contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, or articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with that content.
Advertising & Analytics
To support our heritage mission, this site uses Google AdSense to serve advertisements. Google uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
Heritage
Data & Your RightsAs this is a heritage site, we host historical professional directory information (such as shipyard records) from our 1995–2002 archives.
- If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
- You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Real-Time Communication
We provide a live chat service (the AAJS Digital Assistant) powered by tawk.to. This service uses cookies to recognize your browser and track your session so we can provide consistent support as you navigate the site. No personal data is shared with third parties.
Where Your Data Goes
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Information
For any privacy inquiries or to request updates to heritage shipyard listings, please contact the Administrator at: admin@aajs.com