This Privacy Policy (“policy”) discloses the privacy practices for LoadWatcher.com’s website and mobile applications. This policy applies to any users of the LoadWatcher.com website, mobile application and/or Services, including freight shippers, carriers and commercial drivers (collectively “Users”, or individually “you”) for the information collected by LoadWatcher.com’s website and mobile applications. This includes collection at the time you download a LoadWatcher.com mobile application, use the LoadWatcher.com website, create or register your LoadWatcher.com account(s), and when you otherwise use the LoadWatcher.com Services. This policy will notify you of the following:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website and mobile applications, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
- What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
- The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Children under the Age of 18
Our website and mobile applications (jointly “Website”) are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of the Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us via telephone at +310-310-2291+310-310-2291 or via email at [email protected].
Information Collection
We collect information you provide directly to us, such as when you create, modify, or log in to your account, request support form or otherwise communicate with us, and if you interact with the Services as a commercial driver, shipper or carrier. This information may include first and last name, profile picture, home address, business address, email address, telephone number, mobile device telephone number, company EIN, insurance certificates, driver name and license information, truck identification (including license and registration), freight and shipping information (including freight search, freight bidding, shipping charges, and payment information) through freight bidding, shipping documents upload, and invoicing on shipments facilitated through LoadWatcher.com Services.
Use of the LoadWatcher.com Services requires collection of commercial drivers’ precise location data through the mobile application. Whenever you use the mobile application, LoadWatcher.com will collect detailed location and route information, for example in the form of GPS signals and other information sent by the mobile device to which the application is installed and activated. As a commercial driver, if you grant the LoadWatcher.com mobile application permission to access your mobile operating system, we will collect the precise location of your device. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address or phone number, and we may receive information about your location from third parties.
LoadWatcher.com also collects information about the use of the website and LoadWatcher.com services (“meta-data”). Meta-data collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies. The meta-data collected may include the frequency and scope of you use of the website, mobile application and LoadWatcher.com Services, the duration of each trip, information about the mobile device on which you have installed and activated the application, and/or the geographic location of the computer system that you are using to log-in.
LoadWatcher.com uses this location and route information to create a location history of your movement while using the application. LoadWatcher.com will link all of your location and route information to your account and that information will be visible to LoadWatcher.com and its authorized users. We may also send such information to its authorized users via automatic emails to facilitate LoadWatcher.com’s shipment tracking services.
Most mobile platforms (IOS, Android, etc.) have defined certain types of device data that applications cannot access without your consent. These platforms have different permission systems for obtaining your consent. The permissions requested by LoadWatcher.com include permission to collect your location data for the purposes of facilitating the LoadWatcher.com Services. You first use of the mobile application constitutes your consent. This permission will enable LoadWatcher.com to collect your location data, even when the application is not running in the foreground or background of your device. You will not be able to use the LoadWatcher.com mobile application if you do not permit location data collection.
If you are a commercial driver, we may receive information about you from other authorized users, such as carriers or shippers, or from third parties. This includes information about your location, or driver rating or similar ratings of the services that you provide for such authorized users through the LoadWatcher.com website and/or mobile application. If you are a commercial driver or carrier, we might receive information about you from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, or other regulatory bodies involved in the regulation of carriers.
Additionally, in order to use LoadWatcher.com’s website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give certain personal and/or company information. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our website and mobile application, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our website or mobile application. We may keep records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us, and your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes. We will maintain details of transactions you carry out through our website and mobile application of the fulfillment of your shipments using LoadWatcher.com Services, including freight search, bidding, tracking, document upload and invoicing. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our website, such as credit card and/or bank account information.
Use of Information and Sharing Information
LoadWatcher.com is the sole owner of the information collected on LoadWatcher.com’s website and mobile applications and when you interact with the Services.
LoadWatcher.com uses location and route information to create a location history of your movement while using the mobile application to track the status and location of shipments transported through the Services. LoadWatcher.com will link all of your location and route information to your account and that information will be visible to LoadWatcher.com and authorized users associated with the shipment(s). Through our Services, we may share your information with other authorized users at their request, including shippers and carriers, or third parties at the request of shippers or carriers. For instance we may share your name, personal photo, vehicle photo and other information, location and providing estimated pick-up and delivery times.
We will also collect and maintain a record of the shipping documents, including delivery confirmations, bill of lading, invoices, etc. for each shipment conducted through the use of LoadWatcher.com Services.
We also use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal and company information:
- To present our website and mobile application, and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, including, but not limited to, facilitating the shipments in which you participate.
- To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to our website, mobile applications, or any products or services we offer or provide though them.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on our website.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us.
We may also disclose your personal and company information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our terms of use https://www.loadwatcher.com/privacy-policy/ and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of LoadWatcher.com, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
Sharing Information Use for Analytics
We may share your information, with LoadWatcher.com affiliates, vendors, consultants, marketing partners, and other service providers that provide services or conduct data processing on our behalf, or for data centralization and/or logistics purposes, or who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf.
We may compile, analyze and/or summarize information associated with the use of the Services, including location, delivery, and/or pricing information, without identifying specific users or transactions for analytical purposes. LoadWatcher.com is the sole owner of such compilations, analytics, and summarizations, and may share such information for commercial purposes.
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to [email protected].
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future data collection from us at any time by temporarily disabling the location services on your mobile device, or permanently removing the application, or otherwise terminating the Service, pursuant to the Terms of Use. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
We request permission for our mobile application’s collection of precise location from your device (whether you own the device or otherwise) per the permission system used by your mobile operating system. If you initially permit the collection of this information, you can later disable it by changing the location settings on your mobile device. However, you will not be able to use the LoadWatcher.com Services if you disable our collection of precise location data. Additionally, disabling our collection of precise location from your device will not limit our ability to derive approximate location from your IP address.
You may request us to delete your account and personal information pursuant to the Terms of Use. LoadWatcher.com will hold information associated with your account for such limited period of time as is necessary for LoadWatcher.com to be able to use the information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, and the Terms of Use. At the end of this period of time LoadWatcher.com will de-link the affected location and route information from your account, and/or delete that information.
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website or application, by email, or otherwise, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your personal information online and offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are maintained by third party vendor(s) in a secure cloud based environment.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our website or mobile application, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
While LoadWatcher.com takes great efforts to protect your personal information, LoadWatcher.com cannot guarantee and you cannot reasonable expect our databases will be immune from any wrongdoings, malfunctions, unlawful interceptions or access or other kinds of abuse and misuse.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Updates
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account[ and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at +310-310-2291+310-310-2291 or via email at [email protected].