MBN Transportation and Logistics

Privacy Policy

privacy policy

Who we are and the Purpose of this Privacy Policy

“We” are MBN Transportation and Logistics LLC. (dba mbntranslogistics.com) and at MBN Trans and Logistics we value and respect your privacy and are committed to ensuring that the information you provide us will be protected and safeguarded. We thank you for visiting our web site and for entrusting us with your valued information. The purpose of this policy is to describe the transparency around how we collect and use information about you. Your privacy is importance to us and thus we will never distribute your data to other companies or organizations that you have not authorized to act on your behalf. We will always consult with you first and ask for  permission to send you information that we think is of value to you and collect only what is necessary to serve you today and in the future. It is not our practice to share your information with any third party organization. ONLY in those instances where we have obtained written authorization from you will we then release information to an agent acting on your behalf. Nonetheless, you should review the terms of this policy and make sur you are aware of how MBN Transportation and Logistics collects and uses personal information.     Our website address is: https://mbntranslogistics.com.

What personal data we collect and why do we collect it? Please note that you can visit our web site without providing any personal information. However, in an effort to partner with you, there are instances where we will ask for personal information.  ‘Personal information” is defined as any identifiable information relative to the person that is the subject of the information. MBN Transportation and Logistics only collects information from users, site visitors, employees, potential employees, carriers, and shippers/clients that is necessary to provide information. This may include personal data, such as name, email address, personal account preferences; transactional data, such as purchase information; and technical data, such as information about cookies. You should also note any collection and retention of sensitive personal data, such as data concerning health.

Use of Information Collected 

MBN Transportation and Logistics may use the information in several different ways: (1) to provide you with freight solutions with your success in mind (i.e., responding to your inquiries whether it is a rate quote or contacting you regarding becoming a carrier or agent); (2) to improve our website or the customer experience to shippers, carriers, applicants and other vendors and site visitors; (3) to provide transportation/freight information to our clients and carriers; (4) to provide legal and administrative notices; (4) compliance with applicable laws and regulations; (5) collect payment or to provide payment for MBN Trans and Logistics services (note: this may include obtaining as required or by law obtain government-issued identification information). During the vetting process of our carriers, we may need to verify the identity of persons with whom MBN Transportation and Logistics communicates or does business with. For future or potential employees, this may include collecting the necessary information to facilitate and satisfy the recruitment process need to determine qualifications and suitability with MBN Transportation and Logistics to ensure we are making good hiring decisions. We may also use the collected information for marketing purposes to communicate with you concerning any promotions, events, contests, surveys, webinars, chats, blogs, requests for similar transactions. We may also use the collected information to improve our services so we can become better trusted advisors and partners: troubleshoot functionality, usability, efficiency, mobile app use; compliance with applicable industry standards and. Please note that personal data is not just created by a user’s interactions with our site. Personal data is also generated from technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party embeds.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Contact forms

When using the contact form note what personal data is captured when you submit a contact form.

Cookies

MBN Transportation and Logistics uses “cookies”.  A cookie is a small data file that a web site can transfer to a visitor’s hard drive to keep records of the visits to such site. They are used to keep track of and store information so the user does not have to supply the information multiple times. A cookie contains information such as your username and password that helps us recognize the pages you have visited and improve future visits, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is the information that you provide yourself. A cookie cannot read data off of your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites. Information stored in cookies may be encrypted, however, we do not store your credit card number in cookies. The information that is collected through cookies at this site is handled in the same manner as other information collected here. You can configure your web browser to refuse cookies or to notify you when a web site attempts to send you a cookie.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our contact us or our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. You can also check your hard drive for cookie files and delete them from your computer.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

External Links to Other Sites

MBN Transportation and Logistics web site provides links to other third-party web sites. Nonetheless, MBN Transportation and Logistics is not responsible for the content, practices or privacy practices of these sites. These external links are provided as learning tools and convenience purposes only and suggests you review their privacy statements and note you access the sites at your own risk.

Disclosure of User Information: Who do we share your data with?

MBN Transportation and Logistics does not sell, trade or transfer User Information to third parties except as permitted by law, described in this Privacy and Cookies Policy, or otherwise disclosed to you. However, we may share User Information with our business partners for marketing, advertising or service offering purposes. We also disclose User Information if: we have your consent; we need to share information in order to provide you with the services and solutions you requested. We may also if MBN Transportation and Logistics must respond to a court order or if you violated our Terms of Use/Service and MBN Transportation and Logistics must defend ourselves against legal claims. We may also need to share user information third parties who assists MBN Transportation and Logistics in fraud prevention and investigation matters.

How long we retain your data?

MBN Transportation and Logistics retains information collected in accordance with our standard data retention policies, which are based on legal and regulatory requirements as well as common best business practices adhered to in the United States of America. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

We also retain the personal information associated with the employment, recruitment and hiring practices, collection of payment and maintenance of communication with clients, companies, carriers, and individuals who have keenly expressed an interest in MBN Transportation and Logistics.

What rights you have over your data?

You may choose to disable the collection of information through cookies and other web protections. If you leave comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. PLEASE NOTE:MBN TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS reserves the right to keep information and content in our backup or archived files consistent with our record retention policies and as required by law.

Where your data is sent?

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Additional information: Text and SMS Messaging

In today’s technological world, note that MBN Transportation and Logistics does partner with third-party service providers and communicate with shippers and carriers via mobile messaging capability. This Privacy and Cookies Policy applies you agree to receive mobile messages from MBN Transportation and Logistics including, without limitation, messages via text/SMS and/or autodialed or prerecorded marketing mobile messages, at the phone number you have provided or at the phone number that someone might have provided to us on your behalf after determining your potential interest in partnering with MBN Transportation and Logistics.

YOU AGREE THAT YOU SHALL INDEMNIFY, DEFEND, AND HOLD MBN TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS, OUR AGENTS, AND ANY THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDER WE USE TO SEND TEXT MESSAGES HARMLESS FROM ANY CLAIM OR LIABILITY RESULTING FROM YOUR FAILURE TO NOTIFY US OF A CHANGE IN THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE PROVIDED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY CLAIM OR LIABILITY UNDER THE TELEPHONE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT, 47 U.S.C. § 227, et seq., OR SIMILAR STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS, AND ANY REGULATIONS PROMULGATED THEREUNDER RESULTING FROM US ATTEMPTING TO CONTACT YOU AT THE MOBILE TELEPHONE NUMBER YOU PROVIDED. 

Message and data rates may apply. If you have any questions about your text plan or data plan, it is best to contact your wireless provider. Wireless carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered mobile messages.

RESPONDING TO OR READING A TEXT/SMS MESSAGE WHILE DRIVING A MOTOR VEHICLE CAN CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY, DEATH, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE TO YOU OR OTHERS. DO NOT READ OR REPLY TO A MESSAGE FROM US WHILE DRIVING OR OTHERWISE OPERATING A VEHICLE. YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ABIDING BY THE FOREGOING AND AGREE THAT YOU WILL AT ALL TIMES COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LAWS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: RECEIVING, READING AND/OR SENDING TEXT/SMS MESSAGES, PHONE CALLS, AND/OR ANY OTHER COMMUNICATIONS WITH US. YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD US HARMLESS TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS OF ANY NATURE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO ANY VIOLATIONS OF THIS PARAGRAPH.

How do we protect your data?

MBN Transportation and Logistics have taken extreme measures to protect your users’ data. This includes technical measures such as encryption; security measures such as two factor authentication; and measures such as staff training in data protection. We have put in place the appropriate preventive and detective internal controls, physical, electronic and managerial policies and procedures to secure your personal User Information. We also continue to implement procedures to maintain accurate, complete and current User Information.

What data breach procedures do we have in place?

MBN Transportation and Logistics have put in place the necessary preventive and detective technological security internal control measures and procedures to avert and/or deal with data breaches, either potential or real, such as internal reporting systems, contact mechanisms, or bug bounties.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Since MBN Transportation and Logistics LLC is a member of a regulated industry, if at any point we are subject to additional privacy laws, you will disclose that information here in future policy updates.

Website Security

We are MBN Transportation and Logistics are committed to the security of the information that is either available from or collected by our website. We have taken multiple extreme measure safeguard the integrity of our communications and technological computing infrastructure, including but not limited to, two-way authentication factoring, monitoring, auditing, and encryption.

Terms of Use.

Please reference our Terms of Use that describes the restrictions, disclaimers, indemnification and limitation of liability governing the use of the entire MBN Transportation and Logistics LLC’s  web site.

Contact Information

Over the course of MBN Transportation and Logistics business we will be required to have a Data Protection Officer and the CISO at which time we will list their name and full contact details here as well. In the meantime, when contacting us, please be sure to provide us with your exact e-mail address, name, postal address, and/or telephone number(s) in order to be sure we handle your request correctly.

You may also reach us by phone by calling 804-219-6061. You can contact us via email at: info@mbntranslogistics.com or write us at:

MBN Transportation and Logistics

10221 Krause Road, #502

Chesterfield, VA 23831