Privacy Policy
COMMERCE LOGISTICS PRIVACY PRINCIPLES
At Commerce Logistics, we understand you may not want everyone in the world
to have the information you share with Commerce Logistics; that is why we give
you control of your information. Our default privacy settings limit the
information displayed in your profile to your networks and other reasonable
community limitations that we tell you about.
You should have control over your personal information.
You choose what information you put in your profile, including contact and
personal information, pictures, interests and groups you join. And you control
the users with whom you share that information through the privacy settings on
your profile page.
COMMERCE LOGISTICS’ PRIVACY POLICY
Commerce Logistics’ Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we
collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make
informed decisions when using Commerce Logistics, located at
www.commercelogistics.com and its directly associated domains (collectively,
"Commerce Logistics" or "Website")
By using or accessing Commerce Logistics, you are accepting the practices
described in this Privacy Policy.
Commerce Logistics is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an
independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build user’s trust and
confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices.
This privacy statement covers the site www.commercelogistics.com and its
directly associated domains. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its
commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices
and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have questions regarding this statement, please visit our privacy help
page. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has
not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe Watchdog at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php
TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
EU SAFE HARBOR PARTICIPATION
We participate in the EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework as set forth by the
United States Department of Commerce. As part of our participation in the safe
harbor, we have agreed to TRUSTe dispute resolution for disputes relating to our
compliance with the Safe Harbor Privacy Framework. If you have any complaints
regarding our compliance with the Safe Harbor you should visit our Help Center.
If contacting us does not resolve your complaint, you may raise your complaint
with TRUSTe at
http://www.truste.org/users/users_watchdog_intro.html
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit Commerce Logistics you provide us with two types of information:
personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us
and Web Site use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.
When you register with Commerce Logistics, you provide us with certain personal
information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your
address, your gender, schools attended and any other personal or preference
information that you provide to us.
When you enter Commerce Logistics, we collect your browser type and IP address.
This information is gathered for all Commerce Logistics visitors. In addition,
we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a
piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user.
We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies
terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent
cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for
you to login when you come back to Commerce Logistics. You can remove or block
this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this
convenience feature.
When you use Commerce Logistics, you may set up your personal profile, form
relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up
events, add applications, and transmit information through various channels. We
collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer
personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you
can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list.
When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version
for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that
information.
You post User Content (as defined in the Commerce Logistics Terms of Use) on the
Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit
access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or
impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may
choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not
guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by
unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy
settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and
acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable
in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User
Content.
Any improper collection or misuse of information provided with Commerce
Logistics is a violation of the Commerce Logistics Terms of Service and should
be reported through the Help Center.
If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we
will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your
friend’s email address. We will send your friend an email or instant message in
your name inviting him or her to visit the site, and may send up to two
reminders to them. Commerce Logistics stores this information to send
invitations and reminders, to register a friend connection if your invitation is
accepted, to allow you to see invitations you have sent, and to track the
success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us through the Help
Center to request that we remove this information from our database.
Commerce Logistics may also collect information about you from other sources,
such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the
Commerce Logistics service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo
tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more
personalized experience.
By using Commerce Logistics, you are consenting to have your personal data
transferred to and processed in the United States.
CHILDREN UNDER AGE 13
Commerce Logistics does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information
from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If
you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for Commerce Logistics or
send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address,
telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal
information to or with Commerce Logistics. In the event that we learn that we
have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without
verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as
possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a
child under 13, please contact us through the form on our privacy help page.
CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 13 AND 18
We recommend that minors 13 years of age or older ask their parents for
permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the
Internet.
USE OF INFORMATION OBTAINED BY COMMERCE LOGISTICS
When you register with Commerce Logistics, you create your own profile and
privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and
photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy
settings to enable you to connect with people with Commerce Logistics. We may
occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding
new services offered by Commerce Logistics that we think you may find valuable.
Profile information is used by Commerce Logistics primarily to be presented back
to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others
permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where
your privacy settings permit it (e.g., posting to your wall), other Commerce
Logistics users may be able to supplement your profile.
Profile information you submit to Commerce Logistics will be available to users
of Commerce Logistics who belong to at least one of the networks you allow to
access the information through your privacy settings (e.g., school, geography,
friends of friends). Your name, network names, and profile picture thumbnail
will be available in search results across the Commerce Logistics network and
those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search
engines. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send a friend
request.
People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access your
profile information unless they have a relationship to you (friend, friend of
friend, member of your networks, etc.) that allows such access based on your
privacy settings.
Commerce Logistics may send you service-related announcements from time to time
through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends
you a new message or poke, or someone posts on your wall, you may receive an
email alerting you to that fact.
Generally, you may opt out of such emails from the Notifications page, though
Commerce Logistics reserves the right to send you notices about your account
even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.
Commerce Logistics may use information in your profile without identifying you
as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating
how many people in a network like a band or movie and personalizing
advertisements and promotions so that we can provide you Commerce Logistics. We
believe this benefits you. You can know more about the world around you and,
where there are advertisements, they’re more likely to be interesting to you.
For example, if you put a favorite movie in your profile, we might serve you an
advertisement highlighting a screening of a similar one in your town. But we
don’t tell the movie company who you are.
We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including
but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant
messaging services, Commerce Logistics Platform developers and other users of
Commerce Logistics, to supplement your profile. Where such information is used,
we generally allow you to specify in your privacy settings that you do not want
this to be done or to take other actions that limit the connection of this
information to your profile (e.g., removing photo tag links).
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES
Commerce Logistics is about sharing information with others — friends and people
in your networks — while providing you with privacy settings that restrict other
users from accessing your information. We allow you to choose the information
you provide to friends and networks through Commerce Logistics. Our network
architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about
who has access to your information. We do not provide contact information to
third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with
third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1)
reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted
by you. For example:
- Your News Feed and Wall may aggregate the information you provide and
make it available to your friends and network members according to your
privacy settings. You may set your preferences for your News Feed and Wall
on your Privacy Settings page. - Unlike most sites on the Web, Commerce Logistics limits access to site
information by third party search engine "crawlers" (e.g. Google, Yahoo,
MSN, Ask). Commerce Logistics takes action to block access by these engines
to personal information beyond your name, profile picture, and limited
aggregated data about your profile (e.g. number of wall postings). - We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the
services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our
business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers,
to send out email updates about Commerce Logistics, to remove repetitive
information from our user lists, to process payments for products or
services, to offer an online job application process, or to provide search
results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these
offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to
your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with
these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing
of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and
technical protections limiting the use of that information to the Commerce
Logistics-specified purposes. - If you, your friends, or members of your network use any third-party
applications developed using the Commerce Logistics Platform ("Platform
Applications"), those Platform Applications may access and share certain
information about you with others in accordance with your privacy settings.
You may opt-out of any sharing of certain or all information through
Platform Applications on the Privacy Settings page. In addition, third party
developers who have created and operate Platform Applications ("Platform
Developers"), may also have access to your personal information (excluding
your contact information) if you permit Platform Applications to access your
data. Before allowing any Platform Developer to make any Platform
Application available to you, Commerce Logistics requires the Platform
Developer to enter into an agreement which, among other things, requires
them to respect your privacy settings and strictly limits their collection,
use, and storage of your information. However, while we have undertaken
contractual and technical steps to restrict possible misuse of such
information by such Platform Developers, we of course cannot and do not
guarantee that all Platform Developers will abide by such agreements. Please
note that Commerce Logistics does not screen or approve Platform Developers
and cannot control how such Platform Developers use any personal information
that they may obtain in connection with Platform Applications. In addition,
Platform Developers may require you to sign up to their own terms of
service, privacy policies or other policies, which may give them additional
rights or impose additional obligations on you, so please make sure to
review these terms and policies carefully before using any Platform
Application. You can report any suspected misuse of information through the
Commerce Logistics Platform and we will investigate any such claim and take
appropriate action against the Platform Developer up to and including
terminating their participation in the Commerce Logistics Platform and/or
other formal legal action. - We occasionally provide demonstration accounts that allow non-users a
glimpse into the Commerce Logistics world. Such accounts have only limited
capabilities (e.g., messaging is disabled) and passwords are changed
regularly to limit possible misuse. - We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful
requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with
applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith
belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants
meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or
other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to
protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal
activity perpetrated through the Commerce Logistics service or using the
Commerce Logistics name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may
include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or
government agencies. - We let you choose to share information with marketers or electronic
commerce providers through on-site offers. - We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies
with Commerce Logistics. You can tell when another company is involved in
any store or service provided with Commerce Logistics, and we may share
customer information with that company in connection with your use of that
store or service. - Like many other websites that interact with third party sites, we may
receive some information even if you are logged out from Commerce Logistics,
or that pertains to non-Commerce Logistics users, from those sites in
conjunction with the technical operation of the system. In cases where
Commerce Logistics receives information on users that are not logged in, or
on non-Commerce Logistics users, we do not attempt to associate it with
individual Commerce Logistics accounts and will discard it. - If the ownership of all or substantially all of the Commerce Logistics
business, or individual business units owned by Commerce Logistics, Inc.,
were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so
the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information,
your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any
pre-existing Privacy Policy.
When you use Commerce Logistics, certain information you post or share with
third parties (e.g., a friend or someone in your network), such as personal
information, comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other
information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy
settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk.
Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or
when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other
items , this information may become publicly available.
LINKS
Commerce Logistics may contain links to other websites. We are of course not
responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users
to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and
every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy
Policy applies solely to information collected by Commerce Logistics.
THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING
Advertisements that appear with Commerce Logistics are sometimes delivered (or
"served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically
receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may
also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as
JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1×1 gifs") to measure the
effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this
allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send
you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to
personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about
where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and
determine which advertisements are clicked. Commerce Logistics does not have
access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party
advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information
stored with Commerce Logistics unless you choose to share it with them.
This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Commerce Logistics and does not
cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its
advertisers.
CHANGING OR REMOVING INFORMATION
Access and control over most personal information with Commerce Logistics is
readily available through the profile editing tools. Commerce Logistics users
may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging
into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who
wish to deactivate their Commerce Logistics account may do so on the My Account
page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period
of time but will not be generally available to members of Commerce Logistics.
Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share
information with other individuals with Commerce Logistics, however, (e.g.,
sending a personal message to another Commerce Logistics user) you generally
cannot remove such communications.
SECURITY
Commerce Logistics takes appropriate precautions to protect our users’
information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a
firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number or
your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology
(SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer).
Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications,
we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant
messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of Commerce
Logistics Web Site, please contact us through the Help Center.
TERMS OF USE, NOTICES AND REVISIONS
Your use of Commerce Logistics, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to
this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute
resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of
law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at
any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately,
and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this
site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this
page the policy’s new effective date. If we make material changes to this
policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page.
We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you
understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current
privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your
account.