Privacy Policy
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://aajs.com.
Shipping International – The Maritime Net Magazine is a digital maritime news platform and heritage archive operated by AAJS. Our mission is to preserve and restore the digital maritime heritage first established in 1995 through our original Houston-based servers and early internet infrastructure.
Today, AAJS combines historical maritime archives with contemporary market intelligence, vessel tracking, bunker information and editorial analysis for the global maritime community.
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data
We process personal data in accordance with applicable data protection legislation, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Depending on the circumstances, we process personal data based on one or more of the following legal grounds:
- Your consent
- Our legitimate interests in operating and improving the website
- Compliance with legal obligations
- The performance of a contract or requested service
Comments and News Submissions
The ability to submit comments, articles or news content is currently suspended.
Should these features be reintroduced, we may collect information provided through submission forms, including your name, email address, IP address and browser user agent string for moderation, spam prevention and security purposes.
Media
If you upload images to the website in the future, you should avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors may be able to download and extract location data from uploaded images.
Cookies
Our website uses essential cookies required for website functionality and security.
If commenting features become available, you may choose to save your name, email address and website information in cookies for your convenience. These cookies would remain active for one year.
If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie may be set to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this website may include embedded content, such as videos, images, maps or articles from external websites.
Embedded content behaves in the same manner as if you had visited the external website directly. These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, employ additional tracking technologies and monitor your interaction with their content.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party services you access through embedded content.
Advertising & Analytics
To preserve a high-performance, privacy-focused experience for our maritime community, AAJS does not display third-party advertising networks and does not participate in behavioural advertising programmes.
We do not use advertising platforms such as Google AdSense, nor do we place marketing or behavioural tracking cookies on your device.
Heritage Archives
As a maritime heritage platform, AAJS maintains historical professional information, including shipyard records, directories and related maritime reference material originating from our 1995–2002 archives.
These records are preserved for historical, research and educational purposes.
If you believe historical information relating to you is inaccurate, outdated or requires review, please contact the Administrator using the details provided below.
Real-Time Communication
AAJS provides a live support service through the AAJS Digital Assistant, powered by tawk.to.
This service uses cookies and session data to provide consistent support and improve your user experience while navigating the website.
tawk.to processes information on our behalf solely for the purpose of delivering chat functionality. For additional information, please refer to the tawk.to privacy policy.
Data Retention
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this policy, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and maintain website security.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information involved and applicable legal requirements.
Your Rights
Subject to applicable law, you have the right to:
- Request access to your personal data
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of personal data
- Restrict or object to certain processing activities
- Request a copy of your personal data in a portable format
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
These rights may be subject to legal, archival or security-related limitations.
Where Your Data Goes
Visitor comments, if enabled in the future, may be checked through automated spam detection services.
Some website functionality may rely on carefully selected third-party providers acting on our behalf under appropriate data protection arrangements.
Contact Information
For privacy-related enquiries, requests concerning your personal data or questions regarding historical archive content, please contact:
Administrator – AAJS