Privacy Policy

Here at Internation Freight Association, we take our responsibility to protect your personal data very seriously and adhere strictly to all data protection rules and regulations. We only record personal data on our website to the extent that it is absolutely necessary from a technical perspective. Under no circumstances do we ever sell that data or make it available to third parties.
The following information gives you some insights into how we protect your data and what kind of data we do record and for what purposes.

Data traffic to our site
Internation Freight Association records and automatically stores information that your browser sends to us in our server log files. This includes:
– Your browser type and version
– Your operating system
– Referrer URL (site you last visited)
– Host name of the computer accessing our site (IP address)
– Time stamp of the server query. Internation Freight Association cannot assign this data to a specific individual. This data is not merged with data from other sources. We delete it once we have evaluated it statistically.

Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.
Further information can be found under http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/tos.html (Google Analytics Terms of Service & Privacy). Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).

Personal data
This refers to data of a personal or specific nature that identifies an individual or group of individuals. This could include information such as your correct name, address, phone number and email address.

All personal data entered on our website is provided on a voluntary basis. Internation Freight Association only stores, processes or transmits this data to the extent necessary to process your order or bill. It is not otherwise transmitted or made available to third parties.

Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are created by a website during your visit. They store information that could be useful for further navigation on the website. This will keep your information up to date when you switch to another site, and your use of the site can be analyzed.
If you use our website, you agree to the use and storage of cookies on your device. You can also view our website without cookies.
We recommend that you leave cookies on, otherwise you might miss a lot of information. Most browsers accept cookies automatically.

Manage cookies
You have the option of controlling the acceptance of cookies yourself and possibly prevent them by configuring your browser.
Please note that changes to the settings only affect the respective browser. If you use different browsers or change the terminal, the settings must be made again. In addition, you can delete cookies from your storage medium at any time. For information about the cookie settings, their changes and the deletion of cookies, please refer to the help function of your web browser.

Below are links to the settings of the most common browsers:

Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=de
Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Linux/9.00/de/cookies.html

The following are the most common types of cookies for your understanding:

first Session cookies
While you are active on a website, a session cookie is temporarily stored in the memory of your computer in which a session ID is stored, eg to store a session cookie. For example, to avoid having to log in each time you switch pages. Session cookies are deleted at logoff or lose their validity as soon as their session expires automatically.

second Persistent or protocol cookies
A persistent or history cookie stores a file on your computer for the period of time that it expects. These cookies remind you of your information and settings the next time you visit. This leads to a faster and more convenient access because you For example, you do not have to change your language setting for our portal again. Upon expiration of the expiration date, the cookie will be automatically deleted when you visit the website that created it.

3rd Third-party cookies
Third-party cookies are provided by other providers than the operator of the website. For example, they can be used to collect information for advertising, custom content, and web statistics.

Cookies on www.ifa-online.com

Description Name Storage Duration
Google Analytics __utma 2 years
Google Analytics __utmt 10 minutes
Google Analytics __utmb 30 minutes (update)
Google Analytics __utmc Until the end of the browser session
Google Analytics __utmv 2 years (update)
Google Analytics __utmz 6 months (update)

For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please visit https : //developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

Right of disclosure
You have the right at any time to request information on the source, recipient, nature and purpose of all data relating to your person that has been stored. The Data Protection Officer at Internation Freight Association can provide you with this information at any time:

E-Mail: ifaheadoffice@iinet.net.au