Privacy Notice

Overview

We at United Parcel Service (collectively, "UPS"), respect your concerns about privacy.

This Privacy Notice describes the types of personal information we collect, how we may use the information and with whom we may share it. The notice also describes the measures we take to safeguard personal information. In addition, we tell you how you can ask us to (i) access or change the personal information we maintain about you, (ii) withdraw consent you previously provided to us, (iii) refrain from sending you certain communications, and (iv) answer questions you may have about our privacy practices.

This Privacy Notice is not a contract and does not create any contractual rights or obligations.

This Privacy Notice does not apply to The UPS Store or any other retail location or to any subsidiary or affiliate of United Parcel Service, Inc., that maintains its own privacy notice. This Privacy Notice also does not apply to personal information about employees.

Our privacy practices may vary among the countries or territories in which we operate to reflect local practices and legal requirements, which we may explain through jurisdiction-specific addenda to this Privacy Notice. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the jurisdiction-specific addendum that applies to you and the main body of this Privacy Notice, the terms of such addendum will govern and prevail.

Information We Obtain

We may obtain personal information (such as name, contact details and payment information) in connection with various activities such as (i) use of the UPS websites and applications, (ii) shipping activities, including delivery and pick-up of shipments, (iii) requests to track shipments or answer questions, (iv) events in which we participate, (v) promotions and other offers, and (vi) calls placed or web-based chats with customer service and accounting centers which may be recorded.

The types of personal information we may obtain include:

How We Use The Information We Obtain

We may use the information we obtain to:

In addition, we use information collected online through cookies, web beacons and other automated means for purposes such as (i) customizing our users' visits to our websites and apps, (ii) delivering content (including advertising) tailored to our users' interests and the manner in which our users browse our websites and apps, (iii) improving website functionality and user experience, (iv) debugging, identifying, and repairing errors that impair the intended functionality of our websites, (v) providing customer service and support, and (vi) managing our business. We may supplement data we collect through automated means with information about your location (such as your postcode) to provide you with content that may be of interest to you. We also use this information to help diagnose technical and service problems, administer our websites and apps, identify users of our websites and apps, and gather demographic information about our users. We use clickstream data to determine usage patterns and how we may tailor our websites and apps to better meet the needs of our users. Our websites and apps are not designed to respond to "do not track" requests from browsers.

Interest-Based Advertising

On our websites and apps, we may collect information about your online activities for use in providing you with advertising about products and services tailored to your individual interests. This section of our Privacy Notice provides details and explains how to exercise your choices.

You may see certain ads on other websites because we participate in advertising networks. Ad networks allow us to target our messaging to users through demographic, interest-based and contextual means. These networks track your online activities over time by collecting information through automated means, including through the use of cookies, web server logs and web beacons. The networks use this information to show you advertisements that may be tailored to your individual interests. The information our ad networks may collect includes information about your visits to websites that participate in the relevant advertising networks, such as the pages or advertisements you view and the actions you take on the websites. This data collection takes place both on our websites and on third-party websites that participate in the ad networks. This process also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. To learn how to opt out of this ad network interest-based advertising, select here.

Information We Share

We do not sell or otherwise share personal information about you, except as described in this Privacy Notice. To perform our pick-up and delivery services, we share shipping information with third parties such as shippers, consignees, third party payers and recipients. We also share personal information with third parties who need it to perform services on our behalf based on our instructions, including third-party software providers that support our web-based chats. These third parties are not authorized by us to use or disclose the information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements.

We also may share the personal information we obtain with our affiliates, franchisees, resellers and joint marketing partners. These entities, which collectively are referred to here as the "UPS Business Partners", may use the information for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice. We may share physical location data with our UPS Business Partners and other third parties to, for example, enhance location-based services and develop accurate and up-to-date maps. In addition, except as described below, unless you object, we may share other personal information with third parties who are not UPS Business Partners for those parties' own purposes, such as to offer products or services that may interest you.

Information collected through third-party apps, tools, widgets and plug-ins (such as information obtained through third-party login services or relating to your use of a Facebook "Like" button) is collected directly by the providers of these features. This information is subject to the privacy policies of the providers of the features, and UPS is not responsible for those providers' information practices.
Many of our customers outsource all or a part of their supply chains to us. Through our forwarding and logistics business units, we manage these supply chains, focusing on supply chain optimization, freight forwarding and international trade and brokerage services for our customers worldwide (including a broad range of transportation solutions such as air, ocean and ground freight). We also provide information technology systems and distribution facilities adapted to the unique supply chains of specific industries such as health care, technology and consumer/retail businesses. In the course of providing forwarding and logistics services, we may obtain, use and disclose personal information about our customers' customers. In these circumstances, we process the information based on the agreement with our customer.

We also may disclose information about you (i) if we are required to do so by law, regulation or legal process (such as a court order or subpoena), (ii) in response to requests by government agencies, such as law enforcement authorities, or (iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity. We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a reorganization, dissolution or liquidation).

Access, Deletion, Correction, and Other Individual Rights

Subject to requirements and limitations of applicable law, (i) you may obtain a copy of certain personal information we maintain about you or update or correct inaccuracies in that information through your ups.com account on UPS.com, (ii) you may request that we delete personal information that we have collected about you, or (iii) you may have the right to obtain access to personal information we maintain about you by contacting us as indicated in the "How To Contact Us" section of this Privacy Notice. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity and/or may ask you to provide other details before granting you access to the information. In addition, if you believe that personal information we maintain about you is inaccurate, subject to requirements and limitations of applicable law, you may have the right to request that we correct or amend the information by contacting us as indicated below. You may have certain other privacy-related rights as described in jurisdiction-specific addenda to this Privacy Notice.

Data Transfers

We may transfer the personal information we collect about you to countries other than the country in which the information originally was collected. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information.

When we transfer your personal information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Notice and in accordance with applicable law. We use contractual protections for the transfer of personal information among various jurisdictions (including, for example, the European Commission's standard contractual clauses). We have also established a UPS group-wide Privacy Code (Binding Corporate Rules) for Customers to protect the transfers of personal data of our customers, suppliers, and business partners outside the European Economic Area as required under applicable data protection laws.

Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly collect personal information through our websites or apps from persons under the age of 13. If you believe anyone under age 13 has provided personal information to us, please contact us as indicated in the "How to Contact Us" section of this Privacy Notice and we will work to delete it.

How We Protect Personal Information

We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. Although we take steps to limit access to our facilities and vehicles to authorized individuals, information that is located on the outside of a package or letter may be visible to others.

Data Retention

Your personal information will not be stored for longer than necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or as required under applicable retention policies and/or in accordance with applicable law. Our retention policies reflect local statute of limitation periods and national statutory obligations of UPS.

Updates To Our Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our personal information practices. We will post a prominent notice on our websites to notify you of any significant changes to our Privacy Notice and indicate at the top of the notice when it was most recently updated.

How To Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Addendum, please contact us by email using the UPS Privacy Webform.

You also may write to us at:

UPS Corporate Headquarters
Attention: Global Privacy Manager
55 Glenlake Parkway, NE
Atlanta, GA 30328
United States

Your Options

We offer you certain choices about how we communicate with you and what information we collect from you. You may choose not to receive marketing email communications from us by clicking on the unsubscribe link in our marketing emails, selecting the Email Unsubscribe link below, adjusting your email preferences in your ups.com profile, or contacting us as specified in the "How To Contact Us" section above. You also may ask us not to send you other marketing communications by contacting us as specified in the "How To Contact Us" section above, and we will honor your request. Consistent with the choices available in the "Information We Share" section, you may withdraw your consent or object to certain information sharing by selecting the Email Unsubscribe link below or by contacting us as indicated above. In addition, subject to requirements and limitations of applicable law, you may object at any time on legitimate grounds and free of charge to the processing of your personal information, and we will apply your preferences going forward.

Email Unsubscribe

To learn more about how to opt out of ad network interest-based advertising, please visit the opt-out page at:

View the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising

To opt-out of the collection of personal information by our social media, advertising, and analytics partners, you may visit: Cookie Policy.

UPS: Privacy Notice – Vietnam Addendum

If you are a resident or citizen of Vietnam, the following additional provisions apply to our processing of your personal data. In this context, the provisions of this Vietnam Addendum prevail over conflicting provisions in the Privacy Notice.

Relevant Data Controller

The relevant data controllers for your personal data are:

Data Retention

We may need to retain your data for as long as it is needed for the purposes to which you have consented, for the provision of services, and/or in accordance with applicable law.

Processing of Sensitive Personal Data

We process your sensitive personal data as such term is defined by applicable law, which may include but is not limited to the payment information and financial information.

Processing Your Personal Data Without Your Consent

We may still process your personal data without your consent in the following circumstances:

Your Personal Data Rights

In addition to your rights set out in ‘Your Options’ section and ‘Access and Correction’ section above and as otherwise provided by applicable law, you may have the following rights which you can exercise by contacting us using the contact details provided in ‘How to Contact Us’ section above:

We note that certain technical measures will require reasonable time to implement your requests and you agree to grant such reasonable time for us to implement.

Undesirable Consequences and Damage That May Occur

We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful or unauthorised destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. UPS cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal data, however. All data protection measures are subject to the likelihood of human and machine errors, malicious manipulation, omissions, delays, and losses, including, but not limited to, inadvertent loss of data or damage to media that may result in loss or damage to you and/or your property, and/or detrimental effects on you for reliance on maliciously manipulated data.

Deletion and Destruction of Personal Data

Your personal data may not be deleted as per your request in certain circumstances, such as where deletion is prohibited by law or where continued processing is required or permitted by law, such as in emergencies.

We will permanently delete your personal data once we accomplish the processing purposes for which your consent was obtained, or the retention of data is no longer necessary for our business operations or other circumstances as required by law.