Discount Shipping Storage and Logistics Network
PRIVACY POLICY
Updated: October 14, 2008
What
this Privacy Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy
covers DSSLN's treatment of personally identifiable information that DSSLN
collects when you are on the DSSLN�
Website, and when you use the DSSLN Services.� This policy also covers DSSLN's treatment of
any personally identifiable information that DSSLN 's business partners share
with DSSLN.
This Privacy Policy
applies to the services offered by DSSLN, including any DSSLN branded URL (the
"DSSLN Website"), DSSLN
embedded audio and video players and other applications offered by DSSLN in
connection with the DSSLN Website (collectively, the "DSSLN Services").
This policy does not
apply to confidential or proprietary information which is covered separately
under DSSLN�s Confidential Information Protection Policy .
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that DSSLN
does not own or control or to people that DSSLN does not employ or manage,
including without limitation, any DSSLN affiliates or business partners.
Information Collection and Use
It is possible to use the Logistics
and Supply chain search engine and watch and listen to most of the videos and
music on the DSSLN Website without having a DSSLN account ("DSSLN Account" or "DSSLN Membership").
Certain of the DSSLN Services activities,
like uploading content, posting comments, flagging content, using DSSLN
Management Applications or watching or listening to restricted content requires
a DSSLN Account.�
DSSLN collects personally
identifiable information when you register for a DSSLN Account, when you use certain
DSSLN products or services, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. �DSSLN may also receive personally identifiable
information from DSSLN's business partners.
Once
you register with DSSLN and sign in to the DSSLN Services, you are not
anonymous to us. �When you register with DSSLN,
we ask for your name, email address, birth date, gender, postal code,
occupation, industry, and personal interests (the "Registration Information"). �All other information you provide upon
registration or otherwise post on the DSSLN Website is done so voluntarily.
Any personally identifiable
information, or video or audio content that you voluntarily disclose online (on
discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your profile pages, etc.)
may become publicly available and may be collected and used by others.
DSSLN may collect personally identifiable information from you should you
choose to participate in activities such as sweepstakes, contests and surveys,
because you want us to furnish you with products, services, newsletters, or
information, or in connection with content or suggestions you submit to DSSLN
for review
DSSLN
automatically receives and records non-personally identifiable information on the
DSSLN server logs from your browser including your IP address, DSSLN cookie
information and the page you requested. (User IP addresses are recorded for
security and monitoring purposes.)
DSSLN Members may also choose to provide or store non-personally identifiable information and related data in
their profiles, including but not limited to company service offerings, date of
birth, videos and/or pictures, audio recordings, private messages, bulletins or
personal statements (collectively �Profile
Information�).� The Profile
Information in your profile is provided at your sole discretion.� Please be aware that your Profile
Information, as well as any information posted to any public forum, can be
accessed by the public.� Profile
Information located on private profiles can be accessed by DSSLN at all times
and, in limited cases, by certain third parties authorized by DSSLN for
purposes of ensuring compliance with DSSLN's Terms of Use Agreement.
DSSLN determines the purposes of collection, use and disclosure of
the Registration Information you provide and, as such, is considered the data
controller of this information.� Because
the Member, not DSSLN, determines the purposes for which Profile Information is
collected, used and disclosed, DSSLN is not the data controller of Profile
Information that Members provide on their profile.�
DSSLN
uses information for the following general purposes:
o
to
customize the advertising and content you see on DSSLN pages and otherwise
provide you with personalized services,
o
to
fulfill your requests for certain products and services,
o
to
protect you and/or DSSLN from error, fraud and unauthorized access and use,
o
to improve
DSSLN's services,
o
to allow you to have the ability to identify and familiarize yourself with
other DSSLN Members and partners,
o
to conduct research, and
o
to
contact you about specials and new products or for service announcements or
administrative messages relating to DSSLN.
Information
Sharing and Disclosure by DSSLN
DSSLN
will not sell, trade, rent or otherwise disclose to third parties any personally
identifiable information derived from the registration or use of an DSSLN
product or service.�
DSSLN
will not share personally identifiable information about you to other companies
or people except when:
o
we
have your consent to share this information;
o
we
need to share your information to provide the product or service you have
requested;
o
we
need to share the information with companies who work on behalf of DSSLN to
provide a product or service to you.� (Please
know that whenever we share your personally identifiable information with DSSLN's
trusted business partners, they work under confidentiality agreements. �Unless we tell you differently, these
companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information
we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.);
o
we
reasonably believe it is necessary to share personally identifiable
information:
�
to
investigate, prevent or take action regarding potentially illegal activity
or activity that threatens the network or otherwise violates DSSLN's Terms
of Use Agreement or other customer
agreement,
�
to
investigate, prevent or take action regarding situations involving potential
threats to the physical safety of any person, or
�
for
risk management purposes;
o
we are
required to disclose personally identifiable information by reasons of a court
order, subpoena, search warrant, or other legal process or in the case of
imminent physical harm to the customer or others, or
o
to
establish or exercise DSSLN's legal rights or defend against legal claims;
o
we
transfer information about you if DSSLN is acquired by or merged with another
company. (In this event, DSSLN will notify you before information about you is
transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.); or
o
when
you register for an DSSLN Account, as your registration information and other
data may be transmitted to the other countries for processing and storage by DSSLN
and its affiliates and may be subject to the legal jurisdiction of these
countries.
To
enrich the community experience, DSSLN displays certain Member Profile
information, including Company contact information, pictures etc.
If DSSLN includes your name
and/or any other personally identifiable information in a directory or webpage
that DSSLN creates from information we receive as an on-line service provider, DSSLN
will provide you the opportunity to have your information excluded from that
directory.� Business directories that DSSLN
creates may, however, contain information obtained from other sources.
DSSLN may enable Members to voluntarily publicly display some
Registration Information as an element of their Profile Information if
they choose to do so via a profile setting under �Edit Profile.�� To locate other DSSLN Members you may already
know in the physical world, DSSLN allows Users to search for Members using publicly
displayed Registration Information (i.e., full name or email
address).�
DSSLN allows Users to browse for publicly available Profile
Information (e.g. schools and/or companies where Users may have attended or
worked) in order to help connect with Members.�
Search engines may also index the portion of a Member�s profile
(including the Profile Information it contains) that is publicly displayed.
Cookies,
Web Beacons and other Usage Data
When you access the Internet, the
computers that host web sites you visit (�web servers�) automatically receive
some anonymous information. This �usage data� may include a record of which
pages a web browser has visited. �The DSSLN
Website servers receive usage data when customers visit www.dssln.info and other DSSLN
websites, and when DSSLN Users visit other sites as well.� DSSLN and its advertisers may use various
kinds of software devices to collect information about Internet use.�
DSSLN may use cookies and similar tools to customize the content
and advertising you receive based on the Profile Information you have
provided.� Profile Information you
provide in structured profile fields or questions (multiple choice questions
like �Marital Status�) (�Structured Profile Information�), information you add
to open-ended profile fields and questions (essay questions like �About Me� and
�Interests�) (�Non-Structured Profile Information�) and other non-personally
identifiable information and related data about you may also be used to
customize the online ads you encounter to those we believe are aligned with
your interests. The information used for this feature does not provide your personally
identifiable information or identify you as an individual to third parties, but
will involve the processing of certain related data such as IP addresses.
Small files called �cookies� may be attached to your Web
browser and your computer. �
o
DSSLN will not use information
about your activities on the Internet together with any information that
identifies you without your consent.
o
DSSLN uses cookies to identify
your browser and save information such as passwords so that the DSSLN Website can
recognize you.
o
DSSLN
uses cookies to store preference and to record session information, which
allows to us to do such things as customize advertising and content based on
browser types and profile information.
o
DSSLN also uses cookies to determine whether you have installed
the enabling software needed to access certain material on the DSSLN Website.
o
We do
not link the information stored in DSSLN's cookies to any personally
identifiable information you submit while on the DSSLN Website.
o
You
may be able to configure your browser to accept or block all or some cookies,
or notify you when a cookie is set.� Each
browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to
learn how to change your cookie preferences.�
Note though , disabling cookies may mean that we won't be
able provide certain products or services, which may be of use to you.
In addition, DSSLN and its advertisers
may use small bits of code called �one-pixel gifs,� or �clear gifs� embedded in
some web pages, to make cookies more effective.
o
A pixel tag is a tiny image inserted in a webpage and used to
record the number and types of views for that page.� DSSLN may allow third party pixel tags to be
present on the DSSLN Website for the purposes of advertising, providing
services or data and statistics collection.
o
DSSLN will not associate the
information these software devices collect with your name or e-mail address.
Advertising
presented on the DSSLN Website may by delivered by DSSLN or one of DSSLN's
advertising partners.�
o
�To provide customized advertising for products
and services they believe may be of most interest to you, other companies
presenting advertisements may set and access their own cookies on your
computer. �
o
The advertising companies may
also receive some anonymous information about advertisement viewing by Internet
users on DSSLN web pages and other Internet sites. �This
information may be associated with a customer�s web browser, but cannot be
associated with a name or e-mail address without the customer�s permission.
(This means that advertising companies may know where your computer goes on the
Internet, but they don�t know who you are unless you tell them.)
o
DSSLN does not supply customer
identifiable information to advertising companies or to individual advertisers
or other third parties and advertisers
do not have access to DSSLN's cookies.
o
If you go to another web site,
including an advertiser�s web site (for example by clicking on an
advertisement), or request information or enter a contest, be aware that you
may be authorizing another company, including an advertising company, to use
information you supply. �An Advertiser's use of cookies is subject to its
own privacy policies, not this one. �
DSSLN also
uses "web beacons" to
access DSSLN's cookies inside and outside the DSSLN Website and in connection with
DSSLN products and services.
Links
& Third Party Applications
DSSLN
may provide, and the DSSLN Website may contain links to other websites.� Although we strive to only link to websites
that share DSSLN's high standards and respect for privacy, we are not
responsible for the content or practices employed by other sites.
Third party applications (such as widgets) created by third party
developers may also be available on the DSSLN Website.� Third party applications are small bits of
software, often with interactivity, that can be installed into Members�
profiles or shared with other Users.� DSSLN
does not control third party developers and cannot dictate their actions.� When a you engage with a third party
application, you are interacting with the third party developer, not with DSSLN.� DSSLN encourages you to not provide
personally identifiable information to the third party unless you know the
third party with whom you are interacting.�
When you leave the DSSLN Website via a
link, access a third party application (such as widgets) or click on an
advertisement, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third
party or advertiser site to determine, among other things, how they will handle
any personally identifiable information they collect from you.
Editing
and Deleting Registration/Account Information and Preferences
You
have the right to access, verify and update your DSSLN Registration
Information, Profile Information and Preferences at any time,
including whether you want DSSLN to contact you about specials and new
products.
o
You
may modify or remove any of your personally identifiable information (exclusive
of your User Name) at any time by logging into your DSSLN Account and accessing
features such as "Edit Profile".
o
If you
no longer wish to receive updates or notifications from DSSLN or one or more of
DSSLN's advertising partners, simply uncheck the appropriate boxes under the "Send
me DSSLN updates and information"� heading
in your Email Notification Settings.
�
Upon such choice, DSSLN (a) will
not contact you directly with marketing messages about DSSLN and its products
and services, and (b) will not use personally identifiable information obtained
from your registration for or use of the DSSLN Website or any of the DSSLN Services
to contact you with marketing messages about any DSSLN products or services. �
�
If you wish to receive updates or notifications but want to
limit how such messages are delivered to you, you may
choose limit receipt of such messages to e-mail, regular mail and/or telephone.
DSSLN honours requests from Members
to review all personally identifiable information maintained in reasonably
retrievable form, including but not limited to such information as your name,
address, e-mail address, telephone number and/or billing information, and will
correct any such information which may be inaccurate. �Members may also verify that appropriate
corrections have been made.
You may request deletion of your entire DSSLN Account
at any time, for any reason, by following the
instructions on the Member's Account Settings page (You will be asked to
verify your password and confirm your choice to
terminate you Account). �
Note: Not
allowing us to use certain information may mean we won't be able to provide certain
products or services which may be of use to you.
Confidentiality
and Security
We
have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personally
identifiable information and we use commercially reasonable measures to safeguard personally
identifiable information and credit card information in DSSLN's possession
against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification.�
In addition, DSSLN uses reasonable methods to make sure that
personally identifiable information is accurate, up-to-date and appropriately
complete.
In
order to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information
under DSSLN's control, DSSLN's database resides behind firewalls.
We
limit access to personally identifiable information about you to employees who,
as part of their job, we believe need to come into contact with that
information to provide products or services to you.
We
have taken preventative measures to restrict access to sensitive data and to
detect and prohibit certain connections and operations by unauthorized Users.
While DSSLN's
measures exceed industry standards, no claim is made as to the impenetrability
of the system under unusual circumstances or its resilience to future
attacks.�
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In the
event that you believe that your personal safety is at risk or if you believe
that you may be the victim of identity theft or other illegal conduct, please
contact the appropriate federal, provincial or local law enforcement agencies
directly.
Changes
to this Privacy Policy
DSSLN will keep this Privacy
Policy current and as such may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time.
DSSLN will inform you of any
changes we make by sending a
notice to the primary email address specified in your DSSLN Account and/or by
posting a prominent announcement on DSSLN's Home Page.
Questions
or Suggestions
If you
have questions, concerns or suggestions about DSSLN, the DSSLN Website or any DSSLN
products or services, please feel free to contact us.
If you
have questions, concerns or suggestions about the DSSLN Privacy Policy or its
implementation, please contact DSSLN's privacy officer through the contact
us link at the bottom of the DSSLN home page.
DSSLN recognizes that children,
including young teens, may not be able to make informed choices about personally
identifiable information requested on-line.
DSSLN and the DSSLN Website does
not target children or teenagers (younger than eighteen years of age) for
collection of information on-line. DSSLN does not solicit or collect personally
identifiable information targeted at children and/or teenagers under eighteen
and does not allow anyone else to do so, on any DSSLN Website web pages. �
Any content on DSSLN web pages
designed for children will not knowingly promote or link to any third party web
site that collects personally identifiable information unless that web site
publishes a privacy policy that is easily accessible.
In addition, on product or
service related DSSLN web pages, DSSLN will encourage children and teenager
under eighteen to seek the guidance and consent of their parents before
providing any information about themselves or their households to anyone on the
Internet.
