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Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY: Effective 01/02/2023
Approved Holdings, Inc. and its successors, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and related companies or other companies under a common control that we may have now or in the future operate (hereinafter referred to as either “Approved Freight Forwarders”, “Approved Forwarders”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respect your concerns about privacy and personal data protection and value our relationship with you, and as such takes the private nature of your personal information very seriously.. This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) sets forth a description of practices related to personal data privacy and security of Approved Forwarders for information collected via the Approved Forwarders Website.
As used in this Privacy Policy, the term “Website” includes all websites and all devices or applications that collect personal information from you that we may have now or in the future operate that link to this Privacy Policy, web pages within each such website, device or application, any equivalent, mirror, replacement, substitute, or backup website, device, or application and web pages that are associated with each such website, device, or application. This Privacy Policy applies to this Website and all related products and services we offer on this Website and to personal information you may provide to us, or that we may collect on this Website. In this Privacy Policy, the words “you” and “your” refer to you, the user of this Website, as the party agreeing to this Privacy Policy.
In addition to this Privacy Policy, we have established Terms of Use that set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of this Website. A copy of the Terms of Use can be found at https://www.approvedforwarders.com/terms/. This Privacy Policy describes:
- How and why we collect your personal information
- How your personal information is used and protected
- When and with whom we share your personal information; and
- The choices you can make about how we collect, use, and share your personal information.
As further described herein, your personal information may be collected, processed and stored by Approved Forwarders or its service providers in the United States and other countries where such servers reside. You hereby agree with and consent to the transfer of your personal information to the United States and other countries where we and our service providers operate. Regardless of where we transfer your information, we still protect your personal information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.
YOUR CONSENT
By affirmatively accepting this Privacy Policy, or otherwise using this Website or providing personal information to us, you hereby consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in our current Privacy Policy as posted here, or as may otherwise be described at the time of collection. If you do not agree with any term in this Privacy Policy, please do not use this Website or provide personal information to us.
You may have a legal right to withdraw your consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information. To request to withdraw your consent, please contact us as set forth below. Note that if you withdraw your consent to certain uses of your personal information, we may no longer be able to provide certain of our products or services, including certain portions of this Website.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect personal information about you to deliver the products and services you request and to provide a customized user experience. You do not need to provide any personal information to visit public sections of this Website. There are times, however, that you may choose to give us personal information. For example, certain portions of this Website are available only to registered users.
We collect personal information from you directly in a variety of ways when you use this Website. Some examples are when you:
- Request a quote
- Complete a Customer Survey
- Request to join our email list
- Request customer service or contact us.
In order to request a quote, you must provide certain registration information, which may include your first and last name, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, and other details about your move request.
We may also collect personal information from you in other circumstances, both online and offline, such as when you open or respond to our e-mails, visit any page online that displays our ads or content, enter for giveaways, contests, and sweepstakes (which may be done in conjunction with Website registration), call us for customer support, or if you participate in promotions or special programs. We may also collect personal information in other circumstances with your consent, or where permitted or required by law.
We may combine the personal information you submit directly through this Website with other personal information we have collected from you, whether on- or offline. We may also combine it with information we receive about you from other sources, such as other companies and publicly available information sources.
OTHER INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT ONLINE INCLUDING USING COOKIES OR OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
When you access this Website, we may automatically gather information that your browser sends whenever you visit any website, such as your IP address, time and date of visit, browser type, referring/exit pages, internet service provider (ISP), and operating system, and our analytics platform may capture additional information about your use of this Website. We use this informa