TransorbExpress Privacy Statement
1. INTRODUCTION
We are pleased that you come to us and are interested in our company, products and services. Your trust
is important to us. We are committed to protecting your privacy and the security of information that can
directly or indirectly be used to identify a natural person (hereinafter “Personal
Data”) during the processing throughout the entire business process. TransorbExpress has
created this Privacy Statement to explain how we collect and use your Personal Data.
Last updated: February 2, 2026
When this Privacy Statement mentions “TransorbExpress”, “we”,
“us”, it is referring to the TransorbExpress company that is decided on the purposes
and
means of the processing of your Personal Data under this Privacy Statement. When you are using our
services in Mainland China, your Personal Data is controlled by TransorbExpress Shipping Company
LLC
Co., Ltd. . When you are using our services in other countries or regions to arrange your
parcels to move from China to other countries or regions worldwide, your Personal Data is controlled by
TransorbExpress Shipping Company LLC.
Contact Information:
TransorbExpress Shipping Company LLC.
Attn: Legal Department
105 Industrial Blvd., Plattsburgh, NY 12901, United States
If you have any questions about our use of your personal data during or after reading this Privacy
Statement, you can of course always contact us through the email of contact@transorbexpress.com.
2. DOES THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT APPLY TO YOU?
This Privacy Statement applies to you if you are a customer of TransorbExpress or if you contact
TransorbExpress,
for instance, by visiting www.transorbexpress.com including any pages and mobile apps (hereafter
“Websites”), or if you receive emails from Global Ship.
Our Websites, products and services are for a general audience and not aimed at children. In principle,
we do not collect Personal Data from children under age 14. If you are under the age of 14 and you want
to use our services, please rely on a parent or guardian to assist you.
If a child under the age of 14 may have disclosed Personal Data to us, the parent or guardian can contact
us and we will remove Personal Data if required.
3. WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT?
In the course of its business activities and providing the services, TransorbExpress will need to process
Personal Data. Without your Personal Data, we will not be able to provide you with the requested
services. As a rule, the Personal Data that you provide directly or indirectly to TransorbExpress when
using
our services and visiting our Websites are:
- Contact Information. This includes your name, address, email address and telephone
number;
- Financial Information. This includes your bank account number, payment status and
invoices;
- Identification Information. This may include your ID number, passport number or
driver's license number, which ensures that we can identify you;
- Account Information. This includes login information, including your user name,
email address, telephone and other information provided through your account;
- Shipper’s Information. This includes shipper’s name, address, email address and
telephone number;
- Recipient’s Information. This includes recipient’s name, address, email address and
telephone number;
- User Data and Preferences. This includes, where applicable, shipment volumes,
complaints, transaction history and related commercial activity, communications, survey information,
and your preferences.
- Automatically generated information. This includes IP address, unique device or
user ID, system and browser type, date and time stamp, referring website address, content and pages
you accessed on our websites or mobile applications, date, time and location actions.
In addition to the above categories of Personal Data, depending on your interaction with TransorbExpress,
we
may collect other types of information which may or may not contain Personal Data. Such information
related to shipments and services may include shipment tracking number, shipment routing information,
location data, status of a shipment, delivery location, packaging type, number of pieces, weight,
prices, picture of the parcel, proof of delivery and customs information.
4. HOW DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA?
TransorbExpress collects Personal Data when it is provided by the shipper or our contractual customer or
by a
visitor to our website. If you are the shipper or our contractual customer, then we receive your
Personal Data directly from you. Examples of situations where TransorbExpress collects Personal Data
directly are:
- The name, address, and phone number of a person tendering the shipment listed as the shipper.
- The name, address, identity information, payment card information, and account number of a person
who opens a TransorbExpress shipping account, namely our contractual customer.
If the shipper or our contractual customer provides Personal Data of others, then we receive that
Personal Data indirectly. Examples of situations where TransorbExpress collects Personal Data indirectly
are:
- The name, address, and phone number of the recipient of the shipment.
- The name, address, phone number, email address, identity information of the shipper or account
holder’s director, employees, workers or representatives.
- The actual shipper’s name and address when the shipper places an order with an online market
platform such as Amazon, eBay, Wish and TransorbExpress delivers the parcel to the address you
provide.
When TransorbExpress receives Personal Data indirectly, we rely on the provider of the Personal Data for
the
accuracy of the information and that the provider has the authority to provide that information to
TransorbExpress.
5. FOR WHICH PURPOSES AND ON WHAT GROUNDS DO WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
Personal Data shall be collected, used, stored or otherwise processed when necessary within the framework
of responsible, efficient and effective business management of TransorbExpress. TransorbExpress
processes
Personal Data based on applicable legal ground. The legal ground is often intrinsically linked to the
business purpose. This means, for example, that the performance of an agreement can be both a legal
ground and a business purpose for TransorbExpress. Therefore, we will first clarify the legal ground on
which TransorbExpress processes your Personal Data and, subsequently, the business purpose that we use
your
Personal Data for:
Legal Grounds
In general, TransorbExpress processes your personal data on one of the following legal grounds:
- The processing is necessary to fulfill an agreement between you and TransorbExpress;
- The processing is necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations;
- The processing is necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another person;
- The processing is necessary for TransorbExpress’s legitimate interests, unless those interests are
overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms; or
- Where appropriate and necessary, we will ask for your consent.
Business Purposes
TransorbExpress collects, uses or processes personal data only where the processing falls within the
scope of
one (or more) of the legitimate business purposes listed below:
- Performing agreements. This includes shipping services, tracking TransorbExpress
services, communication with our contractual customer, shipper and other parties regarding services,
responding to requests for further information, dispute resolution and preparing agreements (e.g.,
link the shipment tracking number to your account to enable you to follow your shipment).
- Product development, research and improvement of TransorbExpress products and/or
services. TransorbExpress processes Personal Data as necessary for the development and
improvement of TransorbExpress products and/or services, research and development (e.g., analyze
information related to the shipment and services to improve our services).
- Relationship management and marketing for commercial activities. In general,
TransorbExpress
processes Personal Data as necessary for the development and improvement of TransorbExpress
products and/or services, account management, customer services and the performance of targeted
marketing activities in order to establish a relationship with a customer and/or maintaining as well
as extending a relationship with a customer or business partner and for performing analyses with
respect to Personal Data for statistical purposes (e.g., send advertising, communications and
content more specific to your interests to you).
- Business process execution, internal management and management reporting. This
includes addressing activities such as managing company assets, conducting internal audits and
investigations, finance and accounting, implementing business controls, provision of central
processing facilities for efficiency purposes, managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and
Processing Personal Data for management reporting and analysis.
- Security and Protection. The processing of data for processes such as those related
to safety, protecting TransorbExpress and its customers, or business partners, and authenticating
the
status and access rights (e.g. providing secure services for online and offline transactions) of
customers or business partners.
- Protecting the vital interests of individuals. This includes processing data when
necessary to protect your vital interests or those of other individuals (e.g., for urgent safety
reasons).
- Compliance with legal obligations. This addresses the processing of Personal Data
as necessary for compliance with laws and regulations to which TransorbExpress is subject (e.g.,
checking the names of customers and business partners against blacklists to avoid conflicts of
interest, compliance with trade regulations, anti-money laundering and anti-corruption regulations
and other policies, procedures and regulations).
6. HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?
TransorbExpress may use cookies and similar technologies on its Websites. Through these cookies,
TransorbExpress
automatically obtains Personal Data as listed above when you visit our Websites. To learn more about the
cookies and similar technologies, please consult our Cookie Notice.
7. HOW DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
TransorbExpress shares your Personal Data with third parties in the following circumstances:
- Share your personal data within TransorbExpress’s affiliates, operating groups, subsidiaries and
divisions if such is necessary for the purposes as listed above.
- Our employees are authorised to access personal data only to the extent necessary to serve the
applicable purpose and to perform their jobs.
- With data processors such as vendors or service providers processing Personal Data on our behalf. In
such cases, these third parties only use your Personal Data for the purposes described above and
only in accordance with our instructions. When these third parties are given access to your personal
data, we will take the required contractual, technical and organizational measures to ensure that
your personal data are only processed to the extent that such processing is secured.
The following third parties have access to your personal data, where relevant, for the provisioning of
their products or services to us:
- Customs agency to perform customs formalities and declaration of your shipment.
- Last-mile delivery service provider to deliver the shipment to the destination you are expecting.
- IT services provider who develops, maintains our Websites and certain software.
- Cloud services provider: We may store data on servers operated by a cloud service provider to us.
Regardless of where you use our online services or provide data to us, the data may be transferred
to and maintained on servers located outside the country in which the data was collected.
- Law enforcement, regulators and other parties for legal reasons: We may also disclose your personal
data to third parties as required by law, or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary
(a) to comply with a subpoena or other legal proceedings, legal actions or government agency
requests; (b) when we believe in good faith that a disclosure is necessary to comply with the law
and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (c) to protect and exercise our legal claims, rights
and property; (d) to protect your rights, property or personal safety or that of others; and (e) to
investigate fraud.
8. HOW ARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA SECURED?
We have taken adequate safeguards to ensure the confidentiality and security of your personal data. We
have implemented appropriate technical, physical and organizational measures to protect personal data
against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, damage, alteration, unauthorised
disclosure or access as well as all other forms of unlawful processing (including, but not limited to,
unnecessary collection) or further processing, including protecting your Personal Data against
unauthorized access, maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your Personal data,
and training personnel on information security requirements.
However, no security measure can guarantee against compromise. You also have an important role in
protecting your Personal Data. You should not share your username and password with anyone, and you
should not re-use passwords across more than one website. If you have a reason to believe that your
Personal Data has been compromised, please contact us.
9. HOW LONG ARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA RETAINED?
Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your
personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, as required to
satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting obligations, or as necessary to resolve disputes. To
determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider applicable legal requirements,
the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized
use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes we process your personal data for, and whether we
can achieve those purposes through other means.
Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with
you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business
purpose without further notice to you or your consent.
10. WHERE DO WE STORE OR TRANSFER YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
Generally, the Personal Data with respect to you legally collected by TransorbExpress within the
territory of
the People's Republic of China will be stored in the territory of the People's Republic of China.
Due to the nature of our business and the services we provide to you, TransorbExpress may need to
transfer
your Personal Data to its affiliates or subsidiaries located outside the People's Republic of China in
order to perform the agreements with you or achieve the purposes provided in this Statement. In any case
where we transfer Personal Data, we shall ensure that such transfers are subject to appropriate
safeguards not lower than the level of protection required by applicable laws in China. Before
cross-border transmission or remote access, we will complete the corresponding procedures in accordance
with the requirements of relevant personal data protection laws and regulations.
11. WHAT RIGHTS CAN YOU EXERCISE IN RELATION TO YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
Based on the law applicable to the use of your Personal Data, you may have rights that you can exercise
in relation to your Personal Data. Note that in some cases we are not required to completely comply with
your request, as such rights may be conditional or because we have to balance your rights against our
rights and obligations to process your Personal Data and to protect the rights and freedoms of others. A
number of the rights you have in relation to your Personal Data, as applicable in the European Economic
Area, the State of California, or other US or international geographic jurisdictions, are explained
below:
- Right of access: You may be entitled to a copy of the Personal Data we hold about
you and to learn details about how we use it. Your Personal Data will usually be provided to you
digitally. We may require you to prove your identity before providing the requested information.
- Right to rectification: We take reasonable steps to ensure that the information we
hold about you is accurate and complete. However, if you believe this is not the case, you may have
the right to request that any incomplete or inaccurate Personal Data that we process about you is
amended.
- Right to erasure: You may have the right to ask us to erase your Personal Data, for
example where the Personal Data we collected is no longer necessary for the original purpose, where
Personal Data has become obsolete or where you withdraw your consent (if we are processing your
Personal Data based on consent). However, this will need to be balanced against other factors. For
example, we may not be able comply with your request due to certain legal or regulatory obligations.
- Right to restriction of processing: You may be entitled to ask us to (temporarily)
stop using your Personal Data, for example where you think that the Personal Data we hold about you
may be inaccurate or where you think that we no longer need to use your Personal Data.
- Right to data portability: You may have the right to ask that we transfer Personal
Data that you have provided to us to a third party of your choice. This right can only be exercised
when you have provided the Personal Data to us, and when we are processing that data by automated
means on the basis of your consent or in order to perform our obligations under a contract with you.
- Right to object: You may have the right to object to processing which is based on
our legitimate interests. In case of the processing of Personal Data for marketing purposes, you
have the right to object at any time. When you ask us to stop using your Personal Data for marketing
purposes, TransorbExpress will immediately cease to use your Personal Data. For other purposes based
on
our legitimate interests, we will no longer process the Personal Data on that basis when you file an
objection based on your grounds relating to your particular situation, unless we have a compelling
legitimate ground for the processing. Note, however, that we may not be able to provide certain
services or benefits if we are unable to process the necessary Personal Data for that purpose.
- Rights relating to automated decision-making: You may have the right not to be
subjected to automated decision-making, including profiling, which produces legal effect for you or
has a similar significant effect. If you believe you have been subject to an automated decision and
do not agree with the outcome, you can contact us using the details below and ask us to review the
decision.
- Right to withdraw consent: We may ask for your consent to process your Personal
Data in specific cases. When we do this, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Global Ship will stop the further processing as soon as possible after the withdrawal of your
consent.