How we handle your data
Moving a consignment across a border means handing details about it to carriers, customs and overseas agents. This policy sets out exactly what we collect, who it has to reach, how long we keep it and what you can ask us to do with it.
- Applies to
- arshipper.com
- Sections
- 12
- Data sold
- None
- Last updated
- 1 September 2026
In short
Scope of this policy
What it covers, and what it does not
This policy explains how ArShipper Ltd handles personal data. It covers this website, our mobile app, and the shipment records we create when you book with us by phone or at an office.
ArShipper Ltd is the controller of that data. Where we act as your customs agent we also process data on your instruction, and in that role we file only what you have declared to us.
It does not cover a supplier's website, a carrier's tracking page, or any other site you reach from a link on ours. Those services publish their own policies and you should read them there.
What we collect
And at which point we ask for it
We ask for information at the point it is needed, and we tell you why at that point. In total we hold:
- Account details — Your name, mobile number, email address, password and — for business accounts — company name, trade licence and TIN or BIN.
- Shipment details — Pickup and delivery addresses, consignee names and contact numbers, cargo descriptions, weights, dimensions, declared values and photographs of the goods.
- Trade documents — Commercial invoices, packing lists, HS codes, LC and permit references, and the clearance paperwork a consignment requires.
- Payment records — Invoices, receipts, wallet transactions and the reference a payment provider returns to us. Card numbers are entered on the payment gateway, never on our site, and we never receive or store them.
- Images you upload — A profile picture, if you choose to add one, and any photograph you attach to a booking or a claim. A profile picture is optional and the account works without it.
- Technical data — IP address, browser and device type, operating system, timestamps and the pages visited — the standard log every web server keeps.
- Communications — Messages you send us by email, WhatsApp, the contact form or the chat widget, and our replies to them.
Why we hold it
Each purpose, and nothing beyond it
Everything we hold is used for one of these purposes:
- Book, move, clear and deliver your consignments, and let you track them
- File the declarations customs and regulatory authorities require for your cargo
- Issue invoices and receipts, take payment, and operate your wallet balance
- Tell you what is happening to a shipment — collection, departure, arrival, clearance, delivery
- Answer your questions and handle claims, refunds and disputes
- Keep the accounting, tax and customs records the law requires us to keep
- Detect and prevent fraud, misdeclaration and misuse of an account
- Understand which parts of the site are used, so we can fix what does not work
Our lawful basis
Contract, legal duty, consent
Each purpose above rests on one of the following:
- Performing our contract — Most of it. We cannot move a consignment without the addresses, the cargo description and a way to reach the consignee.
- Complying with a legal obligation — Customs declarations, tax records and anything a regulator or a court lawfully requires of us.
- Our legitimate interests — Securing our systems, preventing fraud, recovering unpaid charges and improving the service — weighed each time against your privacy.
- Your consent — Optional things only, such as a profile picture or marketing messages. You can withdraw consent at any time without affecting your shipments.
Sending data across borders
Unavoidable in international freight
International freight moves data across borders by its nature. Shipping to or from another country means the consignee's details reach the carrier, the agent and the customs authority in that country, and a declaration made there is governed by that country's law.
Our technology providers may also store data on servers outside Bangladesh. Where they do, they are bound by contract to protect it and to process it only on our instructions.
How long we keep it
And why customs records outlive a shipment
We keep data for as long as the purpose it was collected for requires, and no longer:
- Account data
- For as long as your account is open, and then removed when you ask us to delete it.
- Shipment records
- Kept while a consignment is in transit, and for the period afterwards that a claim or a dispute may still arise.
- Customs and trade documents
- Retained for the period Bangladeshi customs and tax law requires, which outlasts both the shipment and the account.
- Invoices and payment records
- Kept for the statutory accounting and tax retention period.
- Server logs
- Kept for a short operational period and then rotated out.
- Deleted accounts
- Personal data is removed on deletion, except records we are legally required to keep — those are retained and not used for anything else.
How it is protected
And what we never store
- Traffic to this site and our apps is encrypted in transit with HTTPS
- Accounts are protected by Firebase Authentication, and passwords are stored only as salted hashes we cannot read
- Access to shipment and customer records is limited to the staff whose work requires it
- Card and mobile-wallet credentials are entered on the payment provider's own page — they never reach our servers, and we cannot see them
- We keep an audit trail of changes to bookings, invoices and account status
What we never hold
Full card numbers, CVV codes and mobile-wallet PINs. Those are handled entirely by the payment provider on its own page. Nobody at ArShipper can see them, and no one from ArShipper will ever ask you for them.
Your rights over your data
Access, correction, erasure, objection
These rights are available to every user of this site, wherever you are. If you are in the EU or UK they are your GDPR rights; if you are in California they include your CCPA rights, including the right to know what is collected and the right to tell us not to sell it — which we do not do in any case.
- Access — Ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Correction — Have anything inaccurate corrected, and anything incomplete completed.
- Erasure — Ask us to delete your account and personal data, subject to records we are legally required to retain.
- Restriction — Ask us to pause processing while an accuracy or objection question is resolved.
- Objection — Object to processing we carry out under legitimate interests.
- Portability — Receive the data you gave us in a machine-readable form, or have it sent to another provider.
- Withdrawing consent — Withdraw consent for anything you consented to, at any time.
- Complaint — Complain to us first — and to your data protection authority if our answer does not satisfy you.
Children
Not a service for under-18s
ArShipper is a commercial freight service for adults and businesses. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18.
If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact us and we will remove it from our records.
Changes and how to reach us
Contacting the people who hold it
We update this policy when what we do with data changes. The date at the top of this page is the date of the current version, and material changes will be notified in the app or by email.
Questions, requests and complaints about data go to info@arshipper.com or to our office at Suite#F2, (2nd Floor), Trapical Razia Shopping Complex, 26/1 Chamelibagh, Shantinagar, Dhaka 1217.
Last updated — 1 September 2026
Questions about your data?
We are happy to show you what we hold — or to erase it, if that is what you would rather.

