Trucking Machinery Privacy Policy
Introduction
You should always know what data we collect from you and how we use it, and that you should have meaningful control over both. You are empowered to make the best decisions about the information that you share with us. That is the purpose of this Privacy Policy. Please read this policy in full.
Trucking Machinery is a website where truckers and heavy machinery enthusiasts come to one place to find what they need without the need to print classified ads. This is a website to buy and sell various types of trucks and heavy equipment without having to waste time searching through unrelated items.
– You may choose to share information with us, including your email address, phone number or mailing address. You do this by registering with the site and completing an online interest form so we may connect you with a seller or owner.
– After you have been connected with a seller or owner regarding your interest, any subsequent personal information or additional information you share directly with a seller or owner via any method is not covered by this privacy policy.
– As a seller or owner advertising on our marketplace or listing inventory for sale or for rent, you are a third-party business customer of Trucking Machinery. Your use and participation in our marketplace will be governed by your contract with Trucking Machinery as well as by other separate terms, conditions, and agreements as posted at the bottom of each marketplace page. As a business customer, you will provide Trucking Machinery with detailed information on your business and your inventory. You will also designate employees as a key contact (and provide their detailed information as a registered user) for your Trucking Machinery relationship. All information you provide to Trucking Machinery should be tied to your business or dealership.
– If you buy an ad on our marketplace to sell or rent a vehicle or equipment, or if you reserve a rental through our marketplace, you do so at your own discretion. Trucking Machinery is not responsible for any part during or after the transaction, or from fraud.
– Additional personal information may include payment data such as credit card information. As disclosed in more detail below, we use third party processing to manage and protect this sensitive personal information. We may obtain, store, or tie this additional personal data to your Trucking Machinery account temporarily for billing processing or marketplace activity. This information does not get shared in detail with the sellers or owners.
– Trucking Machinery is a subsidiary of AdrianQ, LLC. We may share your information from our marketplace with the marketplaces or affinity sites or other direct or indirect subsidiaries of our parent.
– If you have any questions about this policy, how we collect or process your personal data, or anything else related to our privacy practices, please Contact Us.
This policy applies to information we collect from or about you through our marketplaces and in email between you and a marketplace. Additionally, we may retain records of our communications through other media (such as phone and mail) based on questions or inquiries you provide.
Information You Share With Us
We require certain information to provide our services to you, whether you are a buyer, seller, owner or renter. For example, you must have an account with us in order to list a vehicle for sale. When you choose to share the information below with us, we collect and use this information to operate our marketplaces and to connect you with buyers, sellers, owners or renters.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.
Guest Searching to Basic Request and Account Information: You do not have to create an account to use some of our marketplace features, such as searching for vehicles or equipment, looking at seller or owner inventory, or checking out prices of vehicles listed for sale. If you choose to receive our newsletters, create an account on our marketplaces, participate in sweepstakes/giveaways or engage in other marketplace activities, you must provide us with some personal data so we can enroll you in those services or set up your account. Each contact form, interest form, account set up, or reservation request identifies the required personal data fields to be completed prior to submitting it to us. Additional fields may be shown, but are not required, to complete your submission.
When you register for a newsletter, enter a sweepstakes, or set up an account, we may ask for your email address and/or your first and last name. If you ask to be connected to a seller or owner, we ask you to provide, in addition to the above, additional contact information such as your phone number and physical address.
Public Information – Customer Reviews: Some of our marketplaces include the ability for buyers to provide reviews or comments on sellers of vehicles or equipment. Your comments and reviews are posted publicly on our marketplace. Prior to posting your review or comments, we will assess your posting to ensure it meets our content standards and is not inappropriate, offensive, or discriminatory.
If you would like to have your posted customer review removed from a marketplace, please send us a request through our Contact Us page. Please provide sufficient information to help us to identify the Customer Review that you wish to have removed. We may contact you if we require additional evidence to verify that you are the author of the review. Please note, even if we delete your Customer Review from the marketplace, copies of your review may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or saved by other users.
Social Media Accounts: You may choose to follow Trucking Machinery or our marketplaces via provided links to Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, or Instagram. We will have visibility into the connection information you share via these social media platforms. You may also choose to use your Facebook, Apple or Google accounts to sign in and create a Trucking Machinery user account. These social or sign in connections with our marketplaces may automatically provide us with access to certain personal data they have stored about you (such as content you have viewed or enjoyed, information about the advertisements you have been shown or clicked on, etc.) You can determine the personal data that we can access through the privacy settings available through your account with these companies.
Payment Information: Trucking Machinery does not process payments for any parties on our marketplace. When you are ready to pay for a listing to sell a vehicle, to reserve a rental, or other payment transactions allowed via our marketplace, your payment will be completed by a third party payment processing company. This third party will accept and store your payment information, process your payment transaction, and provide confirmation that your payment has completed successfully.
Other Data You May Share With Our Company: In addition to your interaction with our marketplaces, you may share information about yourself and your interests through:
How You Control Information You Provide to Us:
As noted above, you control how and what you share with our marketplace. Below are actions you can take:
Additional Information We Receive About You
We receive certain information when you use our services or other marketplaces or mobile applications that include our content, and from third parties including advertisers. We use such data, described in detail below, to operate our marketplace.
Location Information: We require information about current location, which we get from signals such as your IP address or device settings, to determine content and services available to you through our marketplace. We use an outside vendor company to resolve your IP address during a browsing session to a location. We do not retain your IP address as part of your activity or account.
Links: In order to operate our marketplace, we keep track of how you interact with links across our services. If you click on an external link or ad on our marketplace, that advertiser or website operator might figure out that you came from our site, along with other information associated with the ad you clicked, such as characteristics of the audience it was intended to reach. They may also collect other personal data from you, such as cookie identifiers or your IP address.
Additionally, our marketplaces may contain links to other websites not affiliated with Trucking Machinery, including websites of our vehicle dealers, equipment manufacturers, third party vendors, and service providers. We are not responsible for their privacy practices or the content of their websites. By including links to other websites and services, we neither endorse such websites nor guarantee that the information they contain is accurate. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy policies of every linked website as the privacy policies of each may differ from ours. This Privacy Policy applies solely to Trucking Machinery and its marketplace.
Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technology: A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your computer or mobile device. Similar to many websites, we use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data, store and read data files on your computer, and to operate our marketplaces. This is typically done to maintain your preferences or to improve speed and performance by storing certain files locally. However, these technologies can also store a unique identifier for your computer, which can be used to track behavior.
Cookies are not required for many parts of our marketplace, such as searching. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, many browsers’ settings can be set to decline cookies or alert you when a website is attempting to place a cookie on your computer. However, some of our services may not function properly if you disable cookies. When your browser or device allow it, we use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our marketplace, to monitor aggregate usage patterns, and to personalize and otherwise operate our services such as by providing account security and personalizing the content we show you, including ads. We do not support the Do Not Track browser option.
Log Data: We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our marketplace, which we refer to as “Log Data”. For example, when you visit our marketplace, sign into your account, or interact with our email or contact forms, we may receive information about you. This Log Data includes information about your computer and Internet connection, as well as details of your visit to our marketplace. Specifically, this includes traffic data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you accessed and used – some data may only be used during your active session (and then forgotten) while other data may persist, such as your preferences or remembering you when you return. We may include IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location (based on IP address), device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, and cookie information.
We use Log Data to operate our services and ensure their secure, reliable, and robust performance. For example, we use Log Data to protect the security of accounts and to determine what content is popular on our marketplace. We also use this data to improve the content we show you, including ads. We use the information you provide to us and data we receive, including Log Data and data from third parties, to make inferences like what topics you may be interested in, which helps us better design our services for you and personalize the content we show you, including ads.
Advertisers and Other Ad Vendors: Advertising revenue allows us to support and improve our marketplace. We use the information we collect as described in this Privacy Policy to help make our advertising more relevant to you. Our advertisers, ad vendors and affiliates share information with us such as browser cookie IDs, mobile device IDs, hashed email addresses, demographic or interest data, and content viewed or actions taken on a website or app. Some of our advertisers and ad vendors also enable us to collect similar information directly from their website or app by integrating our advertising technology. Trucking Machinery adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising (also referred to as interest-based advertising) and respects the DAA’s consumer choice tool for you to opt out of interest-based advertising.
Other Third Parties and Affiliates: We may receive information about you from third parties who are not our advertisers or ad vendors, such as vendors and service providers who help us evaluate the safety and quality of content on our platform or our corporate affiliates.
Personalizing Across Your Devices: When you log into our marketplaces on a browser or other device, we will associate that browser or device with your account for purposes such as authentication, security, and personalization. We may also associate the activity you did on one and share it with the other. We do this to operate and personalize our marketplace and make it more relevant to you.
How We Use, Share, or Disclose Information
The nature of our marketplace requires that we share your personal information directly with the seller or owner you have identified in your interest/contact form to make these connections. You play a large part in what personal data we share and with whom we share it. However, in limited circumstances we may also disclose your personal data for additional purposes. We make such disclosures either (a) at your direction, (b) subject to your right to opt-out, (c) as necessary to operate our services, or (d) as required by law.
Sharing Your Control: We share or disclose your personal data with your consent or at your direction to connect you with the designated seller or owner that has the vehicle or equipment you are interested in.
Subject to your settings, we also provide certain third parties with personal data to help us offer or operate our services. For example, we share with advertisers the identifiers of devices that saw their ads, to enable them to measure the effectiveness of our advertising business. You may opt out of sharing your personal data in this way by sending us a request in our Contact Us page.
Service Providers: We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us in the United States. For example, we use third party services such as Google Analytics to help operate our marketplace, such as hosting our content, creating rental reservations, and to help us understand the use of our services. We may share your personal data with such service providers subject to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. We also share data with service providers only on the condition that the third parties use your private personal data only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions. Third parties are prohibited from further sharing or selling any of the personal data we provide to them.
While we do not accept and process your payments, we facilitate the connection to our third party payment processing providers to accept your payment data, store that data as needed, process your payment transaction, and manage any post-transaction activities. The provider may send us information that the charge failed or was otherwise fraudulent, or that there is a dispute on a charge made on our behalf. We may share additional data with the provider to investigate and resolve activities resulting from the payment process.
Law, Harm, and the Public Interest: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, this Privacy Policy or controls we may otherwise offer to you, we may preserve, use, or disclose your personal data if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to:
However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your personal data.
Affiliates and Change of Ownership: In the event we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your personal data may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal data as transferred to the new entity. We may also disclose personal data about you to our corporate affiliate(s) in order to help operate our services and our affiliates’ services, including the delivery of ads.
Non-Personal Information: We collect, share and/or disclose non-personal data, such as anonymized or “de-identified” information and aggregated information about our customers and marketplace users such as the total number of times people engaged our marketplaces this month, the states those visits came from, or information related to advertising clicks or other metrics. This information does not identify any individual, without exception. All such non-personally identifiable information collected by us through our marketplace, and all aggregated/compilations of non-personally identifiable information that we create, are the exclusive property of Trucking Machinery. We may use any such non-personally identifiable or aggregated information for any purpose, including monitoring user traffic patterns, analyzing and quantifying user preferences, improving the design and content of our Services, and enabling us to personalize your user experienced, and we may share it with customers, advertisers, service providers, and other third parties.
Other Uses: Trucking Machinery also uses information collected about you, as well as non-personal data, to provide and improve our services and products, including to:
Storage of Information and Data: Trucking Machinery is located in the United States, and all information that we receive or collect is stored in the United States and governed by U.S. law.
Managing Your Personal Information With Us
You control the personal data you share with us and that we forward onto the respective seller or owner. You may use a contact form to have us connect you with a specific seller who has the vehicle or equipment you are looking for. While it is more likely you will communicate directly with the seller or owner, you can ask us to provide access to or to correct the data you have provided.
If you have created a Trucking Machinery account, you can update the account information or delete your account. Where applicable, we also provide you tools to restrict or withdraw consent for contacting you or the use of data you have provided to us. We make the data you shared available in our marketplace portable and provide easy ways for you to contact us.
Accessing or Rectifying Your Personal Data:
If you have created an account on Trucking Machinery marketplace, we provide you with tools and account settings to access, correct, delete, or modify the personal data you provided to us and associated with your account.
Deletion: We keep Log Data for a maximum of 18 months. When deactivated, your Trucking Machinery account will no longer be viewable on our marketplace.
Object, Restrict, or Withdraw Consent: When you are logged into your Trucking Machinery account, you can manage your settings and other account features here at any time.
Additional Information or Assistance: Thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please let us know in the Contact Us form.
Children and Our Services
Our marketplace assume all users expressing interest in purchasing or renting vehicles or machinery from our sellers and owners are of majority age, can sign a contract, have a payment form issued in their name, and have a valid driver’s license. Our services are not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you are under the age of 18. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal data in your country of residence.
Residents of the State of California
If you are a resident of the State of California, you may have additional privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act.
Residents of the European Union
If you are a resident of the EU and have accessed our marketplace from inside the United States, you may search our marketplaces, create an account (tied to a non-European Union identity), or make connections with sellers and renters on our marketplace. However, your transaction to create an interaction may be denied or blocked if you provide personal information that identifies you as a resident of the European Union.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our processing of your personal data. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is significant, we will notify you via an email to the email address associated with your account. By continuing to access or use our marketplace after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
Effective February 3, 2021
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Trucking Machinery Terms of Use
All content, information and opinions (collectively, all content) presented on Trucking Machinery Website (TruckingMachinery.com) does not guarantee the reliability, completeness, accuracy, timeliness of the material presented on this website. The content is published “as is,” and does not represent the official views and opinions of Trucking Machinery or any company. Any reliance upon the content presented on this website shall be at User’s own risk.
Any member who demonstrates unprofessional behavior, such as posting profane or harassing language or unprofessional conduct by telephone, will have their accounts immediately terminated without refund.
Trucking Machinery does not review the substance of the content posted by users on this site and is therefore not responsible for any of such content. We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.