CarrierRates.com has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website. This notice covers the following topics:

¤ Collection of Personal Information
¤ Use of Personal Information
¤ Security of Information
¤ Use of Cookies
¤ Links to External Sites
¤ Contacting CarrierRates.com

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to amend this privacy policy at any time with or without notice. Please check this page periodically for changes.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION    
Users can visit some areas of our site without revealing who they are or providing any information about themselves.  If you do nothing but browse our site we automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:

• The Internet Protocol Address and domain name used but not the email address. The Internet Protocol address is a numerical identifier assigned either to your Internet service provider or directly to your computer. We use the Internet Protocol Address to direct Internet traffic to you;
• The type of browser and operating system you used;
• The date and time you visited this site;
• The web pages or services you accessed at this site; and
• The web site you visited prior to coming to this web site.

The information we automatically collect or store is used to improve the content of our web services and to help us understand how people are using our services.  We analyze our web site logs to continually improve the value of the materials available on our site. Online visitors are not personally identifiable; we make no attempt to link information collected from online visitors with any individual’s personal information. However, some of our interactive functions require site registration.  The forms require users to give us contact information (like their name, email address, phone and/or fax numbers).  The user's contact information is used to contact the user when necessary in order to provide that user with the service information that carrierrates.com provides.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION    

Our site uses forms for customers to request bids from carriers, to place bookings for the services we offer, for carriers to reply to customers request, allows shipper and carrier to send confirmations, and receive information about our services.  We collect customers and carriers contact information, and when needed financial information (such as their account or credit card numbers) in order to provide those services.  The customer and carrier information, including their personal information, is used to get in touch with the customer when necessary, generate freight charges, and establish pickup and delivery information.  We make reasonable efforts to limit access to such information, as described in the Security and Protection of Information section below.  However we are not responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of information that is printed and placed in plain view on shipping documents.  Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for services ordered.  We never sell information to third parties that could be used to specifically identify an individual customer or group of customers.  We do provide personal data to government agencies as required by law or regulation.

SECURITY OF INFORMATION    

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.  We employ information security techniques to protect confidential information from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company.  Access to customer information is limited to those employees who have a legitimate business need for that information. However, due to the used of the Internet there is no guarantee that your information is 100 percent secure.

USE OF COOKIES    

To better serve our users we use "cookies" to customize your browsing experience with CarrierRates.com. Cookies are simple text files stored on your computer by your web browser. They provide a method of distinguishing among visitors to CarrierRates.com.

Cookies created on your computer by using this web site do not contain personally identifying information and do not compromise your privacy or security. Utilizing standard internet technology, we use the cookie feature only to store a randomly generated identifying tag on your computer. You can refuse the cookie or delete the cookie file from your computer by using any of the widely available methods.

LINKS TO EXTERNAL SITES    

CarrierRates.com may provide hyper-links to external web sites as a convenience to our users.  The inclusion of any hyper-link does not imply CarrierRates.com endorsement of the external web site, the company that owns it, or the products and services it promotes and sells.  When you follow a hyper-link to another internet web site, you are no longer on CarrierRates.com and this Privacy Policy will not apply. CarrierRates.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

CONTACTING CarrierRates.com    

If you have any comments, questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, we can be contacted via email at office@carrierrates.com or by writing:

CarrierRates.com
2348 41st Ave E
Seattle, WA 98112-2732