Privacy Policy

Global Ports Holdings is a specialist port consultancy and advisory firm incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. We provide strategic, operational, and investment advisory services to port authorities, investors, and operators worldwide.

For the purposes of applicable data protection legislation, Global Ports Holdings Limited acts as the data controller in respect of personal data collected through this website and in connection with our advisory services.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal data, please contact us at info@globalportsholdings.com.

We may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

Contact and identity information: your name, email address, organisation, and job title, provided when you submit an enquiry through our contact form or correspond with us directly.

Communication data: the content of messages, enquiries, or correspondence you send to us, including the nature of your enquiry.

Technical data: your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, pages visited, and time spent on pages, collected automatically when you visit our website.

We do not collect sensitive personal data (such as health information, financial account details, or government identification numbers) through this website.

We use your personal data only for the purposes for which it was collected or for compatible purposes, including:

Responding to enquiries: to review, process, and respond to messages submitted through our contact form or sent to us by email.

Service delivery: to provide, manage, and improve our consultancy and advisory services where an engagement is established.

Website analytics: to understand how visitors use our website, identify technical issues, and improve the user experience.

Legal compliance: to comply with applicable laws, regulations, and professional obligations, and to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or equivalent legislation applies, we rely on the following legal bases to process your personal data:

Legitimate interests: processing your contact information to respond to your enquiry and to maintain records of our correspondence, where our legitimate business interests are not overridden by your rights.

Contractual necessity: processing data necessary to perform a contract with you or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Legal obligation: processing required to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation to which we are subject.

Consent: where we have obtained your explicit consent to process your data for a specific purpose. You may withdraw consent at any time. We do not send marketing communications unless you have expressly requested to receive them.

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by applicable law.

Enquiry and contact data is generally retained for up to two years from the date of last contact, unless a longer retention period is required for legal or contractual reasons.

Technical and analytics data is typically retained for up to 26 months.

When personal data is no longer required, we securely delete or anonymise it.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third parties. We may share your data in the following limited circumstances:

Service providers: trusted third-party providers who assist us in operating our website and delivering our services (such as hosting, email, and analytics providers), who are contractually bound to process data only on our instructions and in accordance with applicable law.

Professional advisers: lawyers, auditors, and other professional advisers where necessary for the conduct of our business.

Legal requirements: where we are required to disclose data by law, court order, or regulatory authority, or where disclosure is necessary to protect our legal rights or the safety of others.

Global Ports Holdings is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, your personal data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside those regions.

Where such transfers occur, we take appropriate steps to ensure your data is protected to a standard equivalent to that required under applicable data protection law, including through the use of standard contractual clauses or other approved transfer mechanisms.

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

Right of access: to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

Right to rectification: to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.

Right to erasure: to request deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances.

Right to restriction: to request that we restrict processing of your data in certain circumstances.

Right to data portability: to receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format in certain circumstances.

Right to object: to object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@globalportsholdings.com. We will respond within a reasonable period and, where applicable, within the timeframe required by law. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Our website may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to improve functionality and analyse usage. Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website.

We use strictly necessary cookies required for the website to function. We do not use advertising or targeting cookies. If analytics cookies are in use, they collect only aggregated, anonymised data about how visitors interact with our site.

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the website.

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, loss, destruction, or alteration. These measures are reviewed and updated regularly.

While we take reasonable precautions, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your data.

Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements. The date at the top of this page indicates when the policy was last revised.

We encourage you to review this page periodically. Continued use of our website following any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:

Global Ports Holdings Limited, incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.

Email: info@globalportsholdings.com