1. Protection of Customer Information
2. Links to Other Sites
3. Security and Integrity of Information
4. The U-Freight Web Site at www.ufreight.com
5. Assent
6. Contacting U-Freight
1. Protection of Customer Information:
We understand the importance of privacy to our customers and visitors to our Web site. For many years, our policy has been to treat what we learn about our customers as confidential. For example, we will not give or sell confidential or personal information about our customer to any third party not affiliated with their transaction, except as required by law or as necessary to provide U-FREIGHT services to the customer.
We use information about our customers and their shipping activity to provide or enhance the services we make available to our customers, such as, we may need to report shipment information to transportation safety, customs, and other regulatory agencies.
We may also contract with vendors to assist us in processing that information. These vendors are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are restricted from using the information for any purpose other than helping to provide U-FREIGHT services to our customers.
Some of the information collected by U-FREIGHT is personal data or data which relates to an identifiable person. Examples of personal data are names, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers. We never sell information to third parties that could be used to specifically identify an individual customer or group of customers. Finally, we do provide personal data to government agencies as required by law or regulation.
In addition to the uses of the information described in the paragraphs above, we collect e-mail addresses in the event that we have to provide shipment status information.
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2. Links to Other Sites:
U-FREIGHT provides links to external sites as a convenience to the user. The inclusion of any link does not imply U-FREIGHT endorsements of the external site company, its web site, or the products and services it promotes and sells. U-FREIGHT is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
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3. Security and Integrity of Information:
We treat our data as assets that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ information security techniques to appropriately protect confidential information from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. Access to customer information is limited to those employees who have a legitimate business need for that information.
U-FREIGHT Internet sites are currently located in the United States. U-FREIGHT Internet sites, and their supporting systems, employ generally accepted information security techniques such as firewalls, access control procedures and cryptography to appropriately protect confidential information from unauthorized access.
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4. The U-Freight Web Site at www.ufreight.com:
The following paragraphs describe our commitment to the protection of personal information as it applies to the U-FREIGHT Web site at www.ufreight.com.
What Information We Collect And How We Will Use It
Users can visit most areas of the U-FREIGHT Web site without revealing who they are or providing any information about themselves. However, some of our interactive services require that users identify themselves in order to enable the interactive function. We may ask users to provide some personal information in these situations.
IP Addresses
The U-FREIGHT Web site collects IP addresses for system administration, security, and statistical analysis purposes. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to a computer whenever it is connected to the Internet. We log these addresses and analyze them to understand where requests originate so that we can provide the most efficient service, enhance security, ensure appropriate usage and produce traffic volume statistics.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a Web site can send to a user's browser for storage on the hard drive. Cookies can make use of the Web easier by saving status and preferences about a web site. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies but users can change the setting to refuse cookies or to be alerted when cookies are being sent.
We use cookies to keep track of customer status as a logged-on user of U-Freight's web site. Although acceptance of cookies will not interfere with the ability to interact with most of our web site, users will need to accept cookies in order to log-in to access information that needs authentication, for example, to do printing of air waybill or bill of lading.
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5. Assent:
Users can visit most areas of the U-FREIGHT Web site without revealing who they are or providing any information about themselves. However, some of our interactive services require that users identify themselves in order to enable the interactive function. We may ask users to provide some personal information in these situations.
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6. Contacting U-Freight:
If you have questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your experience on any of our U-FREIGHT Web sites, you can contact comment@ufreight.com. Comments, suggestions or materials sent or transmitted to U-FREIGHT shall be deemed to be non-confidential. U-FREIGHT shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such comments, suggestions or materials and shall be free to use and distribute them to others without limitation, including, but not limited to developing and marketing products incorporating them.
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Revised Aug. 12 2003
