This Privacy policy describes the terms of commitment of the site www.globalfreightindex.com to your privacy. Acceptance of the terms of this privacy policy is a per-requisite to visit this website. If you visit this site, it means you have accepted the terms of this Privacy policy.
Information We Collect
Business: We collect information that relate to your business. This includes, but is not limited to, your contact details, company profile information, social media profile information, daily freight quotes, company news and events, company logo, and business inquiries. All such data is collected when you voluntarily submit your information to this site for your registration and subsequent use of our site or as a result of signing up for some newsletter, sending us a an email, feedback or filling some customer survey on our site.
Payment: This includes any information relating to any payment made or attempted to be made to our company via credit card, cheque or bank transfer to use our services by using direct payment methods or third party payment methods. This includes, but is not limited to, name, address, email address, phone number, credit card number, CVV number, bank details, cheque number etc.
Statistical: This includes visitor’s IP Address, browser software, operating system, and pages viewed, geological locations, and login details etc.
Use and Share of Information We Collect
Business: Since we are in the business of collecting and publishing business information to maximize the reach of the businesses registered with us, it is safe to assume that all “Business Information” will be publicly available on the site and therefore can be accessed by any Internet User. All Business information that you disclose to our site automatically becomes accessible to the public information. So you are requested to take care in disclosing any information that are copyrighted or covered under any confidentiality agreement. We reserve the right to publish the data in any format that we feel is necessary which includes, but is not limited to, any of our sites, print media, CDs, DVDs and any media known or not known today. This information may also be shared with authorized agents who sell our services or provide support to our customers and with verification agencies for the purpose of third party verification of the Business Information.
Payment: These details are never disclosed to anybody other than if required by law. With specific regards to credit card information while make payments online, all such data is directly submitted to our payment gateways services provider’s websites and no data is stored with us.
Statistical: We collect and aggregate statistical information to improve our services better, manage and diagnose our problems. We use third party software and services to collect and manage the statistical information like Google Analytic, click-tracking software, log analysis, online chats etc. so this data will be available to them as well. Sharing of Statistical Information with any other parties is on aggregate basis without any personal information
Disclosure of Information
We reserve the right to disclose the “Information Collected” if required by law or if we feel not revealing such information would be detrimental to our interest or the interests of our users.
Unsubscribe and Data Removal
If you would like to unsubscribe from any of the GFI website services and features as described in this Privacy Policy, please send an e-mail to [email protected] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE/REMOVE My Company in the subject line or else by using the online form here.
Correction of Information
Where necessary, you may correct or update any company information that you have provided to us/listed by following the instructions at the company listing page or you can contact us and we are happy to assist you.
- After a successful login to GFI you can remove,edit or update the information of your company that you have posted on GFI by following respective links provided.
- You can also deactivate / terminate your account by clicking here.
- If you terminate your account, we may continue to show some of your content in anonymity form.
- We may also keep personal information in our active systems for a period of 5 years (or longer if required by law) in order to ensure our ability to satisfy the authorized uses under this Privacy Policy. For example, we may use retained data to prevent, investigate, or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the Site or to comply with legal obligations.
- Please also note that information may exist in backup storage even after it has been removed from our active databases.
- If you are terminating a business account, the personal information associated with your account will be removed according to the terms of this Policy. However your business listing will remain visible, including consumer reviews about your business.
If you are not satisfied with above information you may please contact us for further assistance.
Third Party Websites & Hyperlinks
Our website ( www.globalfreightindex.com ) may provide hyperlinks, which takes you to content, products and/or services offered by third parties, like websites of our member companies, etc. You are assumed to read such sites’ privacy policies, terms of use and/or terms and conditions before using such sites. Our site has no control over such third party’s web sites and we are not responsible or liable to anyone for such web sites, or their content, products or services.
Cookies
We use cookies to identify you on our website. Most login based sites use cookies and this is quite normal.
Changes to Privacy Policy
In addition this Privacy Policy may be changed or updated by GFI from time to time without any prior notice to you. Changed Policy will become valid upon being posted on GFI. Your continuous use of our service signifies your acceptance of the changed Policies. And this Privacy Policy updated on 12/07/2107