This privacy policy ( Policy ) describes how Marubeni Transport
Service Corp. ( MTS , we ,
our or us ) collects, uses,
and discloses personal information about you when you visit our website (the Site )
or when we conduct our businesses
and services; how we protect this information; and your rights in relation to
this information under applicable law. If you are a California resident, please
refer to the section 4, Your California Privacy Rights below for additional
information regarding our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal
information.
Personal information we collect
We collect personal information about
you from a variety of sources. We collect information from you directly (e.g.,
when you contact us), automatically when you visit our Site (e.g., data
collected from cookies), and from other sources, including commercially
available sources, such as public databases (where permitted by law).
The categories of information that we may collect directly from you
include the following:
Identifiers, such as your name, postal address, telephone number, email address,
account name, social security number, passport number, national ID number, and
other similar identifiers;
Demographics, such as your gender, age, veteran status, ethnic background and disability status;
Financial, medical, or health insurance information, such as bank or credit card numbers, or
insurance policy number;
Pictures, audio, and video, such as photographs for identification, voice
recordings of business calls, or information collected via video cameras at our
facilities;
Professional information, such as employer, salary, job title, experience,
skill, or expertise;
Education information;
Inferences regarding preferences or other characteristics; and
Sensitive personal information, such as religious or
philosophical beliefs.
Information we automatically collect about you
We and our service providers and business partners may collect
information about you automatically through the use of cookies and similar
technologies including information about your online activities over time and
across different websites or online services. These categories of information include:
Identifiers, such as unique device identifiers, IP addresses, and other persistent
identifiers;
Geolocation data, such as precise location;
Commercial information, such as products or services purchased, content
downloaded from our sites, or other purchasing or consumption histories or
tendencies;
Internet or other electronic network activity
information, such as
information regarding your interaction with any websites, applications, or
devices associated with our business; and
Sensitive personal information, such as precise
location.
We may collect information from other sources. For example:
Identifiers- We collect contact information such as email addresses from marketing
vendors;
Commercial information- We collect information on your purchasing
history and potential interests from data supplementation services;
Public and Government Record Information- We may collect information about you from
public sources, including court records and government agencies;
Biometric Information- We collect biometric information from
authentication services;
Demographics, such as your gender, age, or veteran status provided by data
supplementation services or government sources;
Professional information, such as employer, salary, or job title from
references, recruiters, or employment-related services;
Education information from background check providers;
Internet or other electronic network activity
information; and
Sensitive personal information, as described above
and defined under applicable law.
We will keep your
personal information for as long as we have a relationship with you. Once our
relationship with you has come to an end, we will retain your personal
information for a period of time that enables us to:
Maintain
business records for analysis and/or audit purposes;
Perform
internal research to assess and improve our business;
Comply
with record retention requirements under the law or other relevant legal or
regulatory requirements or internal document retention policy;
Defend
or bring any existing or potential legal claims; and
Deal
with any complaints regarding the services.
2.
How and why we use your
personal information
We may
use your personal information for the following business purposes:
Identification and
authentication: We use your identifiers to verify your identity and to protect the
security of your personal information;
Operating our
business: We process your personal information to provide you with our products
or services, to assess your ability to provide us with your products or
services, or to conduct due diligence including Know Your Customer/Know Your
Shareholder diligence for assessment of business relationships;
Communicating with
you:
We may use your personal information to communicate with you about your use of
our services;
Marketing: We may use your
personal information to understand your preferences better and to appropriately
personalize our marketing;
Exercising our
rights:
We may use your personal information to exercise our legal rights where it is
necessary to do so, for example to detect, prevent and respond to fraud claims,
intellectual property infringement claims or violations of law or our terms and
conditions;
Complying with our
obligations: We may process your personal information to comply with legal or
regulatory requirements, where this is required by law or regulation, such as
in response to court orders, to comply with privacy or financial regulations,
or to cooperate with law enforcement, other government entities, or lawful
investigations; and
Protecting against
harm:
We may use personal information as we deem necessary to protect the rights and
safety of us, you, or others.
We may aggregate
or de-identify any information collected about you and we may use that
aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose.
3.
personal information we disclose to other parties
We may disclose certain categories of your personal information to our
service providers, business partners, or affiliates.
Information we disclose
In order to achieve our business purposes, we may disclose your personal
information in the following circumstances:
Service providers
and business partners: We engage service
providers and business partners to assist us with operating our businesses and
providing you with our services. These service providers or business partners
may perform various services, help us process business, support email and
messaging services, analyze information, and conduct compliance related
activities. Some of our service providers or business partners may engage their
own service providers or business partners to further assist us. Unless
otherwise specified, these companies will only use your personal information in
the ways described in this Policy.
Marubeni group
companies: MTS has affiliates
around the world. Our affiliates work closely with each other to provide you
access to our services. We may disclose your personal information to Marubeni
group companies for marketing purposes, security, compliance, optimization of
products and services, and internal reporting. Unless otherwise specified, Marubeni
group companies will only use your information in the ways described in this
Policy.
To comply with law
or cooperate with reasonable requests:
We may disclose your personal information to law enforcement agencies, courts,
other government authorities or other third parties where we believe necessary
to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation. We may disclose personal
information as we deem reasonably necessary to support lawful investigations or
otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of you or any other party.
In the context of a
transaction: We may disclose your
personal information to potential transaction partners, service providers,
advisors, and other third parties in connection with the consideration,
negotiation, or completion of a corporate transaction in which we are acquired
by or merged with another company or we sell or transfer all or a portion of
our assets or business.
We may disclose the
following categories of your personal information to these parties for our
business purposes:
Demographics;
Commercial information;
Public and Government Record information;
Biometric information;
Geolocation data;
Internet or other electronic network activity
information;
Financial, medical, or health information;
Pictures, audio, and video;
Professional information;
Education information;
Inferences drawn from any of the above
information categories; and
Sensitive personal information.
4.
Your California Privacy Rights
This section provides California residents with additional information
regarding our collection, use, and disclosure of their personal information.
We do not sell or share your personal information as those terms are
defined under California law.
We do not use or disclose your
sensitive personal information for purposes other than those described under
California law.
You may have rights in relation to your personal information under California
law, as described below. In the event you would like to exercise one of your
rights or if you are an authorized agent submitting a request on behalf of a
California consumer, please contact us at https://www.marubeniamerica.com/contact.html or
at 1-212-450-0156. We will ask
you to provide name and contact information.
Please note that we may
require additional information from you in order to honor your request, and we may decline your request as
permitted under applicable law.
Right to know: Users exercising this right may request information
about the personal information that we collect, use, disclose, share and sell;
Right to deletion: Users exercising this right can ask us
to delete their personal information we have collected;
Right to correct: Users exercising this right can ask us to correct
inaccurate personal information that we maintain about them; and
Right to be free from discrimination: Users may freely exercise these rights without
fear of being denied goods or services. We may, however, provide a different
level of service or charge a different rate reasonably relating to the value of
your personal information.
5.
Do Not Track Signals
We do not currently respond to web browser do not track signals or
other mechanisms that provide a method to opt out of the collection of
information across websites or other online services. If we do so in the
future, we will describe how we do so in this Policy.
6.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Policy or our use of your personal
information, please contact us at https://www.marubeniamerica.com/contact.html
or at 1-212-450-0156.
7.
Changes to the Policy
We may modify or update this Policy
from time to time. We encourage you to visit this Policy at least once per year
to learn about any changes to the way we collect, use, or disclose your
personal information. If we make a material change to this Policy, we will take
reasonable steps to notify you, as required by applicable law.
Effective Date: 12/01/2023