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TruckTrax is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and providing a safe
online experience for all our users. This Privacy Policy applies to information
collected online through TruckTrax's Web site, which includes all of the TruckTrax.biz
Guide-Sites and governs online data collection and usage by TruckTrax. Please read
the complete TruckTrax Online Privacy Policy below and contact us if you have any
questions. What We Do with Collected Information, Use of Cookies, Use of Web Beacons,
Controlling Your Personal Information, Security of Your Personal Information, Children's
Privacy, Changes in Corporate Structure, Visitors Outside the United States, Changes
to Our Privacy Policy, Contact Information
COLLECTION AND TRACKING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
So that we can provide you with the most efficient and enhanced service, we request
information about you. We collect personally identifiable information such as names,
email addresses and demographic information such as age, gender and zip code. We
also may collect your IP address, browser type, domain name, access times and referring
Web site address. This information is collected both during registration on a site
or in response to specific requests, for example when signing up for a newsletter,
entering a sweepstakes or contest or answering a survey. Information collected at
one TruckTrax Web site will be available within the TruckTrax family of Web sites.
Sometimes we will give you the opportunity to opt in to offers from third parties
not affiliated with TruckTrax. If you decide to accept these offers, we will provide,
with your consent, your information to the third party. However, you should note
that this Privacy Policy does not apply to information users consent to give to
third parties not affiliated with TruckTrax. Any information users give to another
party is governed by the rules of that party's privacy policy, which may differ
from this Privacy Policy. TruckTrax is not responsible for information given to
other parties. Please review their privacy policies prior to providing any information
to third parties.
WHAT WE DO WITH COLLECTED INFORMATION
We use personal information so that we may display custom, personalized content
to our visitors and send newsletters, emails, features, promotional material, surveys
and other updates to our users. A user may, at any time, opt out of receiving such
information. We also use collected information to evaluate and administer our service,
respond to any problems that may arise and to gauge user trends to determine what
part of our services are most popular with users. We may extend offers to users
on behalf of our partners about a particular product or service that may be of interest
to you, but we will never give out your name or personal information at any time
without your permission. As result, although TruckTrax may receive a fee from our
partners for this service, TruckTrax sends all the offers so that your personal
information is never shared with any outside third party. We may, at times, produce
reports for advertisers containing aggregate information about our users such as
demographic, age and online usage information. This allows us to work more closely
with advertisers to provide content and offers that are most relevant to our users.
We will never include any personal information of our users in these reports. We
allow users of our Web site to send articles or links by email to other parties
who may be interested in them. We do not retain any email addresses (unless you
are a member who already has voluntarily provided your email address) of either
the sender or recipient of such articles or links after they are sent. We reserve
the right to use or disclose any information without notice or consent as needed
to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request; to conduct investigations of consumer
complaints or possible breaches of law; to protect the integrity of our site and
our property; to protect the safety of our visitors or others; to fulfill your requests;
or to cooperate in any legal investigation. You should be aware that if you voluntarily
disclose information online (whether through TruckTrax's services or any other service
available online), personal or otherwise, that information can be collected and
used by others. For example, if you use chat, forums, bulletin boards, your e-mail
or if you post personal information online, you may receive unsolicited messages
from others. TruckTrax has no control over this use of your personal information.
USE OF COOKIES
Your browser offers so-called "cookies" which, if you allow their use, store small
amounts of data on your computer when you visit a Web site. Cookies do not contain
any personally identifiable information about you and therefore cannot be used to
identify you personally. Cookies simply assist us in tracking which of our features
you like best. Cookies also enable us to customize our content according to your
preferences. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your
browser and our Web sites are viewable even if you disable the cookie function on
your browser. However, if you disable cookies, some advanced and customized features
of our site, as well as other Web sites, will not be available to you. We may also
place a cookie on your browser so that this and other Web Sites owned by TruckTrax
will recognize you as a unique, anonymous user. This will enable us to make sure
that you do not see the same ad over and over, to sequence ads in a series, and
to measure more accurately the number of unique visitors across the network of TruckTrax
Web sites.
USE OF WEB BEACONS
Some of our Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons, which
are also called single-pixel gifs. These images allow us to count users who have
visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. We also may include Web
beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to count how many
messages have been opened and acted upon. Web beacons are not used to access your
personally identifiable information but they are a technique we use to compile aggregated
statistics about our Web site usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information
including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, originating IP address,
and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. Some of our Web pages
may also contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising partners to help us
determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
A user may, at any time, change, correct, modify or delete any personal information
they may have provided to TruckTrax by visiting the Member Center located on the
TruckTrax homepage. Users can also unsubscribe from any newsletters or opt out of
various promotional emailings at any time by visiting the Newsletters section in
the Member Center or clicking on "unsubscribe" links in each of our newsletters
or emails.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
TruckTrax employees are made aware of its privacy practices through periodic communications
and training. We limit access to private and confidential data only to those employees
with a specific need to retrieve this information and we store data on multiple
service systems, in controlled, secure environments. To maintain our level of security,
we conduct both internal reviews and external audits of our security measures and
procedures on a regular basis.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Some portions of the TruckTrax Web site may be used by children under the age of
13. TruckTrax is strongly committed to protecting the safety and privacy of children
who visit our Web site. TruckTrax has a system in place to effectively screen its
users to ensure compliance with this Privacy Policy and the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying regulations establish
United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet.
Our site and services may collect information about children under 13, including
e-mail forum participation and chat rooms. Use of such activities requires initial
registration by the participant. Children under 13 who wish to register are asked
to have a parent or legal guardian do so for them. The parent must provide a credit
card number for verification that he/she is an adult. Upon verification, the parent
can choose in which activities he or she would like the child to participate. Parents
can change the selected activities at any time. Only after verifying age in accordance
with Federal standards, do we collect and maintain the name, date of birth and email
address of children who register. With proper proof of identification (including
name and credit card verification), parents can review their child's personal information,
ask to have it deleted and refuse to allow any further collection or use of their
child's information. We use cookies to check the age of registered users who enter
chat rooms. We do not knowingly permit users under 13 into chat rooms unless their
parents have consented to their participation. TruckTrax.biz includes many topical
areas that all users may access. When a parent provides verifiable consent to allow
his or her child to use chat and forums and to receive newsletters or other materials
where a child may provide personally identifiable information, the child will also
have access to those relevant services throughout the TruckTrax site, including
areas that may not be directed toward children. In particular, if you allow your
child to participate in chat or forums, your child will have access to all chat
and forum areas on TruckTrax.biz. Many chat areas are not monitored and private
chat is permitted. Chat areas may contain information or language unsuitable for
young children and visitors of all ages may participate. If you authorize your child
to participate in these features, we encourage you to monitor their use closely.
We also allow guests to participate in chat and forum areas at TruckTrax.biz but
use techniques to prevent unregistered children under 13 from participating in areas
unsuitable for them. Parents can change these options at any time. Except as authorized
under COPPA, TruckTrax.biz will NOT: collect online contact information from a user
under 13 without prior verifiable parental consent, which includes an opportunity
for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity.
When we do not obtain prior verifiable parental consent, online contact information
will be used only to directly respond to the child's request and will not be used
to contact the child for other purposes. collect personally identifiable offline
contact information from users under 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.
distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information collected from
children known to be under 13. give the ability to children to participate in forums
or chat rooms without prior verifiable parental consent. entice a child under 13
by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information
than is needed to participate in such activity. We will also place prominent notice
wherever personally identifiable information is collected requesting the child to
ask a parent for permission to proceed. If you have any questions regarding the
privacy and safety of children on our site, please either email or call us.
CHANGES IN CORPORATE STRUCTURE
In developing our business, we might sell certain assets or the company, or parts
of it, may be sold, merged or otherwise transferred. In such transactions, user
information, whether personally identifiable or otherwise, may be one of the transferred
assets.
VISITORS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
Our Web site and the servers that make this site available worldwide are located
in the United States. All matters relating to these sites are governed by the laws
of the State of Kentucky in the United States. Any information you provide will
be transferred to the United States. By visiting our sites and submitting information,
you authorize this transfer.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as necessary to maintain the highest
protection for our users and to comply with a changing environment. We recommend
that you check the policy when you visit our site to be sure you are aware of and
understand our current policy. If we make material changes to this policy or in
how we will use or collect your personally identifiable information, we will prominently
post such changes prior to implementing the change. We will not make changes in
how we handle previously collected personal information that have retroactive effect
unless legally required to do so.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please
contact us by mail at:
TruckTrax
16449 St John Road
Cecilia, KY 47274
Updated August 2006
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