*Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to all of us at Livestock Transport. We have established this privacy policy to explain to you how your personal information is protected, collected and used. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, address, phone number, and email address that is not otherwise publicly available.
Overview
The privacy practices of this statement apply to our services available under the domain and subdomains of www.Livestock-Transport.com (the “Site”). By visiting this website, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use or access our site.
By accepting the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement in registration, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the Livestock Transport User Agreement.
Information Collection & Use
In order to use this Site, you must first complete the registration form and
create a user name and password. During the registration process, you are required
to give contact information such as name, address, phone number and email address.
This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your
needs, and to customize our service to make your experience safer and easier.
We only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for
achieving this purpose.
In general, you can browse the Site without providing us with any of personal
information about yourself. Once you agree to provide us with personal information,
you are no longer anonymous to us. If you choose to use our services, we may
require you to provide contact and identity information, billing information
and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout the Site.
Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which are optional.
You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to use
a particular service or feature.
Under some circumstances we may require some additional financial information.
We use your financial information, including credit card information, to verify
the accuracy of your name, address and other information, as well as to bill
you for your use of our services.
We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on the
Site. We use this information to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interest, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just came from, which URL you go to next, your computer browser information, and your IP address.
If you choose to list, bid or match on the Site, we collect information about
your activity and behavior. We also collect other users’ comments about you in our feedback area.
Additionally, as part of the registration process, Livestock Transport allows
members registering as a service provider the option to submit certain commercial
information such as a commercial service provider’s license number, DOT number, Motor Carrier (MC) number, and/or any other authority a service provider chooses to include. It is up to each member individually to provide this information and Livestock Transport does not verify its validity. This information can be viewed by other members on the member’s profile page under the About Me section.
If you choose to post messages on our Community Discussion Forums, we will collect that information you provide to us. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law. See “Community Discussion Forums” section below.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other
users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings
on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests
or surveys on the Site. If you choose to participate, we will request certain
personally identifiable information, including your email address, from you.
Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you
therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested
information typically includes contact information and demographic information.
We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through
a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice
and choice.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about the Site,
we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Site. Livestock Transport stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. We don’t
store anything on a referral send. We only store their email address if they
sign up.
Uses of Your Information
We use your personal information, including your email address, to
facilitate the services you request. We use your personal information in the
file we maintain
about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past
activities on the Site to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote
safe matching;
collect fees owed; measure consumer interest in our products and services;
inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates;
customize
your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other
criminal activity; enforce our User Agreement; and as otherwise described to
you at the
time of collection. At times, we may look across multiple users to identify
problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your personal
information
to identify users using multiple User IDs or aliases. We may compare
and review your personal information for errors, omissions and for accuracy.
You agree that we may use personal information, including your email
address,
about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze
site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize the Site`s
content,
layout, and services. These uses improve the Site and better tailor it
to meet your needs, so as to provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and
customized
experience while using the Site. Communications from the Site.
We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special
deals and promotions, as well as a newsletter. You are signed up for these
emails at
registration and you may unsubscribe at any time by going to your account
tab and opting out of the emails, or by following the directions to unsubscribe
in
the email.
Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe
from each of these communications when we ask for it. If you no longer wish
to receive
our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving
them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication
or
by emailing us at privacy@Livestock-Transport.com.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any
third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed
choice
as to whether or not to share your information with that party. Currently
it is not our policy to make this information available to any third parties.
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions
when
it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily
suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not
opt-out of
these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do
not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we
will send you a welcoming email to verify your email address, username and
password. We
will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide
the services you request, and to manage your account. Email is the primary
means
of communication between members doing transactions on the site and you
must be able to receive this information to use Livestock Transport properly.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
As a matter of policy, we do not sell, rent or share any of your personal
information,
including your email address, to third parties for their marketing purposes
without your explicit consent. However, the following describes some of the
ways that
your personal information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business
to provide our services.
Livestock Transport Community: Your Livestock Transport userID is displayed
throughout the Site and is therefore available to the public. All of your activities
on
the Site will be identifiable to your userID. Other people can see your
bids, shipments you have listed, your feedback rating and associated comments,
your
postings on the Site, and so on. Therefore, if you associate your name
with your userID, the people you have revealed your name to will be able
to personally identify your Livestock Transport activities. If you are
involved in a transaction, we have features that allow parties to the
transaction to view your email address and obtain your contact information
to help complete the transaction. Further, we may send out notices to
you or other community members regarding suspicious activity or policy
violations on the Site.
External Service Providers: There may be separate services offered by third
parties that we refer to as external service providers that may be complementary
to your use of the Site. If you choose to use these separate services,
disclose information to the external service providers, and/or grant
them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your
information is governed by their privacy policy. We do not disclose your
personal information, including your email address, to external service
providers unless you provide your explicit consent. With your consent
we may provide some of your personal information to the external service
provider offering such services, for your convenience. To prevent our
disclosure of your personal information to an external service provider,
you can decline such consent or simply not use their services. Because
we do not control the privacy practices of these third parties, you should
evaluate their practices before deciding to use their services. Examples
of external service providers include CaféPress (http://www.amazon.com)
which operates the Livestock Transport merchandise store.
Internal Service Providers for Our Operations: We may use third parties that
we refer to as internal service providers to facilitate or outsource
one or more aspects of the business, product and service operations that
we provide to you and therefore we may provide some of your personal
information, including your email address, directly to these internal
service providers. These internal service providers` are subject to confidentiality
agreements with us and other legal restrictions that prohibit their use
of the information we provide them for any other purpose except to facilitate
the specific outsourced Livestock Transport related operation, unless
you have explicitly agreed or given your prior permission to them for
additional uses. If you provide additional information to an internal
service provider directly, then their use of your personal information
is governed by their applicable privacy policy. Examples of internal
service providers include Paypal(http://www.paypal.com) which is
involved in the credit card processing function.
Legal Requests: Livestock Transport cooperates with law enforcement inquiries,
as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual
property rights, fraud and other rights, to help protect you and the
Livestock Transport community from bad actors. Therefore, in response
to a verified request by law enforcement or other government officials
relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity, we
can (and you authorize us to) disclose your name, city, state, telephone
number, email address, UserID history, fraud complaints, and bidding
and listing history without a subpoena. Without limiting the above, in
an effort to respect your privacy and our ability to keep the community
free from bad actors, we will not otherwise disclose your personal information
to law enforcement or other government officials without a subpoena,
court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when we
believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary
to: prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss; or report suspected
illegal activity.
Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your
private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed
in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example
(without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose personal
information, including your email address, to the government or third
parties under certain circumstances, third parties may unlawfully intercept
or access transmissions or private communications, or users may abuse
or misuse your personal information that they collect from the Site.
Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your
privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal
information or private communications will always remain private. See “Security
Section” below.
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically
and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol
(IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit
pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use
this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze
trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the
site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable
information.
Log files are used on the website, and in any link to the website
from an email.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for
record-keeping purposes. We use both session ID cookies and persistent
cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate
our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser.
A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period
of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions
provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.
We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter
it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track referrals
and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability
to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will
be limited. USERS
CANNOT
LOG IN OR REGISTER WITHOUT COOKIES.
When Livestock Transport sets a cookie, it is not tied to your personally
identifiable information directly, rather, it is tied to your Livestock Transport
username
which is tied to your personally identifiable information.
Cookies are only used on the website, not in email.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned
or controlled by Livestock Transport. Please be aware that we are
not
responsible for
the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when
you leave our
site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site
that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy
statement applies
only to information
collected by this Web site.
Community Discussion Forums
If you use a bulletin board on the Site, you should be aware that
any personally identifiable information, including your email address,
you submit
there can
be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could
be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the
personally identifiable
information you choose to submit in these forums. All other information
pertaining to the collection and use of information can be found in the Discussion
Forum
rules.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information, including your email
address, changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may
correct, update,
delete or deactivate it by making the change on our member Account page or
by emailing
our Customer Support at service@Livestock-Transport.com.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When
you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our registration
or order
forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology
(SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the
personal information, including your email address, submitted to
us, both during transmission
and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method
of electronic
storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use
commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information,
we cannot guarantee
its absolute security.
Business Transitions
In the event Livestock Transport goes through a business transition,
such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion
of its
assets, your personally identifiable information, including your
email address, will likely be among the assets transferred. You will
be notified
via email of
any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes
to this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate so that you
are aware
of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances,
if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time,
so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to
this policy and/or
to our
email practices, we will notify you here, by email.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy
policy and email practices, please contact us at: service@Livestock-Transport.com.
Livestock Transport,LLC
P.O. Box 39
Manalapan, NJ 07726
