Privacy Notice of Somers Isles Shipping Ltd.
Effective Date: 1 January 2025
Privacy Notice
Somers Isles Shipping Ltd. uses information about you that can identify you, and we are committed to using your personal information in a lawful and fair manner, and in compliance with the Bermuda’s Personal Information Protection Act 2016 (“PIPA”). This Privacy Notice is designed to comply with our privacy notice requirements pursuant to PIPA.
What personal information we collect from you
We collect, use, and disclose personal information and sensitive personal information (as defined in PIPA) about you only for the purposes for which it was collected. We do not sell your personal information or use it for marketing purposes.
Depending on your products, services you use, and your interactions with us, the information we need may include:
contact information such as your name, mailing address, email, phone number
demographic information such as your age, gender, date of birth, employment details, marital status, beneficiary information, nationality as well as details related to your beneficiaries or dependents
identifiers such bank account number and government issued IDs
information about your interactions with us such as your survey responses, complaints
How to contact us about our handling of personal information
For any inquiries or concerns regarding our handling and use of your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer.
Privacy Officer: Tjerk Neijmeijer
Company Address: 27 Woodlands Road, Hamilton HM09, Bermuda
Email: privacy@sisl.bm
1. The purposes for which personal information is or might be used
Your personal information may be used by us for the following purposes:
providing you with our products or services and related correspondence
processing payments or refunds
coordinating the provision of our products or services with our suppliers or service providers
as may be required for any legal or regulatory purposes associated with our due diligence Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing, or other “Know Your Customer” requirements or governance practices
as may be required as part of the services we procure for domestic or foreign data processing, to outsource our information technology infrastructure, or wherever the use of your personal information is required for the purpose of performing such third-party services for the benefit of our company
for undertaking data analytics, statistical analysis or related customer relationship assessment and evaluation
2. The identity and types of individuals or organizations to whom personal information might be disclosed
Somers Isles Shipping Ltd. will, or may, disclose your personal information to the following individuals and organizations:
Bermuda Customs (HMC)
United States Customs and Border Patrol (USCBP)
SISL’s agent in the USA, North Florida Shipping Inc.
SISL’s agent in Bermuda, Meyer Shipping
SISL’s managing agent, Container Ship Management Ltd.
The types of individuals or organizations that we may provide your personal information are as follows:
governments, regulatory authorities,
service providers
agents
IT/data processing cloud service providers
3. Means we use to allow you to control our use of your personal information in accordance with PIPA
To obtain access to, or make a request for a correction to, your personal information, please submit a written request to the Privacy Officer, which must include sufficient information to enable us, with reasonable effort, to identify the personal information that is relevant to your request. Your request must also include all necessary contact information for us to respond to your request.
You will be contacted by one of our privacy administrators promptly to confirm our receipt of your request, and we will respond to you in no more than two business days after we have received your request.
Somers Isles Shipping Ltd. reserves the right to update this privacy notice at any time and as may be prudent or necessary to reflect changes in our privacy practices or legal requirements.
Please note the following information associated with any request we receive from you:
We require your accurate and complete name, contact information
We will confirm our receipt of your enquiry or instructions within 48 hours after we have received same
We will take a reasonable amount of time to process your enquiry or instructions and initially respond to your request, but usually no more than 45 days (depending upon the nature and complexity of your request)
The Company reserves all its rights and protections afforded to it under PIPA.