Atlas Marine, LLC (“Atlas Marine,” “we” or “us”) has created this privacy policy in order explain our privacy practices. The following explains how we collect, use, share and protect your information, and how you can access your information and decide how it is used.

The Privacy Policy covers our activities online, including any our websites, such as www.atlasmarinetransportation.com (the “Site”).  It also covers our offline activities, such as collection of information through telephone or in person.  Our online and offline activities are referred to as the “Services.”

By using the Services, you hereby warrant and represent that you have read, understand and agree to all terms and conditions herein, including our Terms of Use, available here, which is incorporated herein by reference.  You further warrant and represent that you are giving Cargomatic permission to use and store such information consistent with this policy and our Terms of Use.

Please review this Privacy Policy carefully.

If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, do not give us any of your information.

Atlas Marine may provide additional or supplemental privacy policies to individuals for specific products or services that we offer at the time we collect personal information. These supplemental privacy policies will govern how we may process the information in the context of the specific product or service. 

Links and Information.

This website contains links to other websites. Please review Links from the Website of our Terms of Use, available here, for more information.

Information Received by Atlas Marine

Personal Information.

Atlas Marine collects personal information if you voluntarily choose to share such information. You may browse the Site without disclosing any personal information. However, to take advantage of particular opportunities provided through the Service, we may require that you furnish personal information for: 

(i) registration including your name, professional title, company name, phone number (including to use to call or text you in order to provide the Service) and email address; 

(ii) feedback or correspondence, such as information you provide when you contact us with questions, feedback, or otherwise correspondence with us online; 

(iii) demographic information such as your city, state, country of residence, postal code, and age; 

(iv) financial information, such as your billing name, address, and credit card number, ACH or other payment information;

(v) government-issued identified numbers, such as a national identification number (e.g., Social Security Number, tax identification number), state or local identification number (e.g., driver’s license of state ID number), and an image of the relevant identification card; 

(vi) precise geolocation information, such as when you authorize our mobile application to access your location; 

(vii) transaction information such as information about payments to and from you and other details of the Services you have purchased from us; 

(viii) usage information, such as information about how you use the Services and interact with us, including information associated with any content you submit to us, and information you provide when you use any interactive features of the Services;

(x) marketing information, such as information such your preferences for receiving communications about our activities, events, and publications, and details about how you engage with our communications;

(xi) information provided by job applicants, such as professional credentials and skills, educational and work history, and other information of the type that may be included on a resume or curriculum vitae; and

(xii) other information that we may collect which is not specifically listed here, but which we will use in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection. 

Information we obtain from social media platforms. We may maintain pages for Atlas Marine on social media platforms, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and other third party platforms. When you visit or interact with our pages on those platforms, the platform provider’s privacy policy will apply to your interactions and their collection, use and processing of your personal information. You or the platforms may provide us with information through the platform, and we will treat such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information we obtain from other third parties.  We may receive personal information about you from third-party sources. For example, a business partner may share your contact information with us if you have expressed interest in learning specifically about our products or services, or the types of products or services we offer. We may obtain your personal information from other third parties, such as marketing partners, publicly-available sources and data providers.

Usage Information, IP Address and other information. Atlas Marine, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and activity occurring on or through the Services, using various technologies. The information that may be collected automatically includes your computer or mobile device operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model, device identifier (such as the Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for Advertising), browser type, screen resolution, the website you visited before browsing to our website, general location information such as city, state or geographic area; and information about your use of and actions on the Services, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, length of access, and Internet Protocol Address (“IP address”).  The IP Address is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider. This number is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever you visit the Site, along with the time of your visit(s) and the pages you visited. We, our service providers and/or our business partners may use IP Addresses to monitor locations from which Users navigate the Site and for fraud prevention. Our service providers and business partners also may collect this type of information over time and across third-party websites and mobile applications. 

We, our service providers, and our business partners may collect and store certain data about the use of the Services on an aggregate and/or anonymous basis. This information may be non-identifying or may be associated with you. Whenever we associate usage information with your personal information, we will treat it as personal information.

In addition to collecting general location information, tracking information, such as geographic areas, is collected as you navigate through our Services and/or use the mobile application. We collect this information for various purposes, including to provide you with support, to notify carriers as soon as shipments are available nearby, to keep shippers or consignees informed of arrival times, to help dispatchers or shippers know where drivers are headed, to enhance our Services, and for our internal business purposes.

Cookies and Other Technologies.  Like many websites, we may use “cookies” to collect information. A cookie is a data file placed on a device when it is used to access the Services. A Flash cookie is a data file placed on a device via the Adobe Flash plug-in that may be built-in to or downloaded by you to your Device. Cookies and Flash Cookies may be used for many purposes, including, but not limited to, remembering you and your preferences and tracking your visits to our web pages. 

Cookies work by assigning a number to the user that has no meaning outside of the assigning web site. We may also use Flash Cookies on our website to collect and store information about your use of our website. Unlike cookies, Flash Cookies cannot be removed or rejected via your browser settings. If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer or mobile device, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash Cookies by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions. Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with our website.

We may utilize persistent cookies that only Atlas Marine can read and use to save your login information in the event we require users to register to access or use certain portions of the Site or to use other Services in the future, to hold session information, and to track user preferences. We may utilize session ID cookies to enable certain features of the Service, to better understand how you interact with the Site and to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on the Services. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you log off from the Site and Services and then close your browser, while persistent cookies remain. If you do not want information to be collected through the use of cookies, your browser allows you to deny or accept the use of cookies. Cookies can be disabled by setting a preference within your web browser or on your device. If you disable cookies or Flash cookies on your device, you will not be able to use all portions or all functionalities of the Services.

We and our service providers may also use “pixel tags,” “web beacons,” “clear GIFs,” or similar means in connection with the Services and HTML-formatted email. Web beacons or similar technologies help us better manage content on our Services by informing us what content is effective, count users of the Services, monitor how users navigate the Services, or count how many e-mails were actually opened. 

How We Use Your Information

Our primary goal in collecting information is to provide you with an enhanced experience when using the Services.

Atlas Marine uses personal information for the following general purposes:

• to provide, operate, maintain, and enhance our products and the Service;
• to provide you with information, administrative notices and communications relevant to your use our products and services;
• to process your registration with the Services, including verifying your information is active and valid;
• for purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy;
• to contact you for administrative purposes such as customer service, to address intellectual property infringement, defamation issues or privacy violations related to user content, or to send communications, updates, and promotions related to products and services;
• in the case of cookies and automatically-collected information, to personalize or customize our Services (for example, with auto-population of sign-in fields), provide customized content and information, track your participation in any activities on the Service, and in the case of carriers and shippers, to track the location of shipments transported through the Service;
• for billing, identification and authentication, and fraud prevention;
• for internal business purposes;
• to analyze Site usage, improve our products and the Service, and develop new products, services, features and functionality;
• for troubleshooting problems, market research, and detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity;
• to conduct market research about the Service, and/or usage or Users of the service, including in order to market the Service;
• to send you marketing and promotional communications (as permitted by law), however you may have an opportunity to opt out (as described in the Opt Out section); 
• to help diagnose problems with our computer server and to administer our web site(s);
• to enforce our Terms of Use; and
• as otherwise set forth in the Policy.

When We Disclose Your Information

We will not disclose your information to third parties without your consent, except as disclosed in this policy. We may disclose information to third parties in the following circumstances:

• Any information you include in a publicly-accessible area of the Service, such as a public profile page, will be available to anyone who has access to that content, including other users.
• We may provide our customers with access to user information, including personal information, only as necessary to carry out or receive the services being provided. These parties are bound by privacy restrictions at least as restrictive as those set forth in this policy.
• Third party service providers work on web site or application development, hosting, maintenance, and other services for us. These third parties may have access to and/or process your information, including personal information, in connection with providing these services. Such third party providers agree to maintain the confidentiality of such information.
• We may share non-personally identifiable information, such as aggregated user statistics and log data, with third parties for business purposes.
• We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. Thus, we may access, use, preserve, transfer and disclose your information (including personal information) if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable laws in response to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena or warrant, or to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental agencies, or to protect the safety, rights and property of Atlas Marine, our Services or any third party. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.
• User information, including personal information, may be disclosed and/or transferred to an acquirer, or successor or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.
• We also may disclose your information as may be described to you at the time the information is collected, or in any other manner to which you consent.
• We may share your personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes described above.  

We do not sell, share, rent or trade the information we have collected about you, including personal information. We may share your personal information with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

Although we ensure that our third party agents receiving your information are bound by privacy restrictions at least as restrictive as those set forth in this policy, Atlas Marine is not responsible for any issues that may arise regarding the privacy policies of any such third parties. By using this Site, you do hereby agree to Atlas Marine harmless from any claims and/or damages that may arise from the actions of any third parties.

Atlas Marine reserves the right to disclose personal information from both private and public areas of this website at our discretion, if required by law, in order to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process or if we are given reason to believe, in our sole discretion, that someone is causing injury to or interference with the rights of Users, the general public, or Atlas Marine.

Atlas Marine reserves the right to transfer, sell and/or distribute all information collected through the Services to an affiliate, subsidiary, or third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or part of our business, assets or stock. We will use our best efforts to ensure that the new entity follows a substantially similar privacy policy with respect to your personal information, as and to the extent required by applicable law.

Do Not Track

Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit.  We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals.  To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Children

The Services are not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from, anyone under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.  We encourage parents with concerns to contact us. 

Opt-Out

You may decline to share certain personal information with us, in which case we may not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality of the Services.

You may opt-out of receiving email campaigns from us by unsubscribing from such emails. You may also remove your information from our database by contacting us at legal@atlasmarinetransportation.com. If you receive unsolicited email from an Atlas Marine domain, please contact us at unsubscribe at the bottom of the email, or ask to unsubscribe by emailing support@atlasmarinetransportation.com

If you wish to update or delete any personal information we have, you may contact us at support@atlasmarinetransportation.com.

Note that while changes you make will be updated in user databases within a reasonable period of time, to preserve the integrity of our databases, we may retain information submitted by users for an indefinite length of time. If required by law, we will delete personal information by erasing it from our database.

Other sites, mobile applications and services

The Services may contain links to other websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties.  These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party.  In addition, our content may be included on web pages or in mobile applications or online services that are not associated with us. We do not control third party websites, mobile applications or online services, and we are not responsible for their actions.  Other websites and services follow different rules regarding the collection, use and sharing of your personal information.  We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites and mobile applications and online services you use.

Atlas Marine’s Security of Collected Information

We utilize many physical and technical safeguards to create and improve the integrity and security of your personally identifiable information. Further, only certain authorized Atlas Marine staff can access personal information, and then only if it is relevant to their job duties. Atlas Marine also has staff dedicated to ensuring the security of its platform. However, unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As such, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

While Atlas Marine will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of all credit card and all other personal information, we expressly disclaim any liability for any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal and/or financial information stored therein, and you agree to hold Atlas Marine harmless for any damages that may result therefrom. Atlas Marine expressly disclaims any liability that may arise should any other individuals obtain the information you submit to this website.

International Use

The Services are hosted in the United States and is intended for visitors located in the U.S. If you use the Services from other regions of the world with different governing laws, please note that you are transferring your personal information from those regions to the U.S. for storage and processing. By providing any information, including personal information, on or to the Service, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing.

Notification of Changes to this Policy

Atlas Marine’s security and privacy policy are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. Please revisit this page periodically to stay aware of any changes. If we modify the Policy, we will make it available through the Services. Atlas Marine will endeavor to notify you of these changes by email, but will not be liable for any failure to do so. Atlas Marine also encourages you to review this privacy policy periodically. If you do not understand any of the terms or conditions of any of Atlas Marine’s policies, or if you have any technical problems, questions or other issues related to your use of Cargomatic, you may inquire regarding the same via email at legal@atlasmarinetransportation.com.

Atlas Marine, LLC

1550 Cota Avenue

Long Beach, California  90813