ChatPurolator Website Privacy Notice
Last Updated: September 2021
PI values your trust and is committed to the responsible management, use and protection of your Personal Information. To this end, PI complies with applicable laws, rules, regulations, and principles regarding the collection, use, and retention of Personal Information.
For the purposes of this Privacy Notice (“Notice”),
“Customer” refers to anyone who uses Purolator’s products and services, whether as the shipper, receiver, arranger of the shipment or otherwise, anyone who uses Purolator’s websites, and anyone who has opted to receive e-mail communications about Purolator’s products and services, special offers, promotions and service tips.
“Personal information” means information about an identifiable individual, which includes information that can be used on its own, or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a person.
Consent
By accessing our website or otherwise contacting us, you are indicating your agreement to this Notice. Please review this Notice carefully.
By agreeing to this Notice, you agree to the transfer of Personal Information about you to countries outside your home country, including countries where data protection laws may differ from those of your home country. PI maintains safeguards designed to protect your Personal Information.
You may withdraw your consent to Purolator’s further use, retention or disclosure of your Personal Information at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions, record retention requirements and reasonable notice. Where your Personal Information is necessary to provide you with a service, we will inform you of the consequences of your choice to withdraw consent.
Consent may be withdrawn by contacting privacy@purolator.com.
Information You Provide
Through our website and services, we may collect certain Personal Information including:
- Contact Information
- Proof of Identity
- Financial and Billing information
- Account Information
- User preferences related to communication, or other commercial activities, including shopping preferences, history, and complaints
- Technical information such as IP address, device or user ID, access time stamps, system and browser type, referring website address, content accessed, click-stream information and device location.
We generally do not request sensitive personal information. In rare circumstances where we request such information, such as to support internal policies relating to diversity and anti-discrimination in hiring, this information is voluntary.
Use of Personal Information
The information that we collect may be accessed, collected, used, shared, transferred, stored, and disclosed by employees, consultants and/or service providers of PI in the U.S., Canada, or around the world to:
- provide products and services, including the pick-up and delivery of shipments, the performance of logistics services, the arrangement of customs brokerage services, and communication with customers about the status of their shipments (including through our online shipment tracking application, by telephone or by e-mail)
- track a shipment, verify the completion of a delivery and the placement of a shipment at a receiver’s location
- bill for products and services, including the verification of credit, identity authentication, invoice production and delivery, and collection of payments
- establish, maintain and develop relationships with customers, including the management of their accounts with Purolator
- develop, promote and manage our products and services, including the completion of market studies and the communication of new products and services, special offers, promotions, and service tips
- assist law enforcement agencies, collect debts owed to Purolator, notify credit agencies of delinquent accounts, protect Purolator’s business interests as well as customer and employee safety (including enforcing Purolator’s Terms and Conditions of Service), and generally meet requirements imposed by law.
Accuracy of Information
Personal Information collected must be as accurate, complete, and as up-to-date as possible in order to properly satisfy the purposes for which it is to be used. We rely on our customers, employees and other third parties to update and correct Personal Information where it is inaccurate or outdated.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Your Personal Information may be accessed by PI employees or agents who have a business need to access such Personal Information. PI may transfer or disclose Personal Information to third parties to:
- provide products and services to our customers
- administer our distribution lists
- protect the legal rights, privacy, safety or property of PI or its employees, agents, contractors, customers or the public
- protect the safety and security of visitors to our websites or other properties
- protect against fraud or other illegal activity or for risk management purposes
- respond to inquiries or requests from public or legal authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements
- permit PI to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain
- enforce our website and customer Terms of Service
- respond to an emergency
- comply with the law or legal process
- effect a license, sale or transfer of all or a portion of the business or assets (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings)
- manage or arrange for acquisitions, mergers and re-organizations.
When transferring Personal Information to third parties, we rely on applicable privacy laws and use contractual or other means to ensure such parties adopt appropriate safeguards to protect your information. In addition, we may share Personal Information with Purolator’s affiliates for the purpose of facilitating one or more of the purposes described above.
Except as stated above, we will not, without our customers’ consent, sell, share, transfer, license, trade or rent Personal Information received from them to others.
Data Retention
We retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected and to comply with applicable laws.
Website Cookies
A cookie is a small file containing information that is saved to your computer by websites you visit. Cookies are commonly used to improve website performance and efficiency, and can track how and when a user visits a website and/or other websites. There are two common types of cookies: “session cookies” and “persistent cookies.” Session cookies store information only for the length of time that the user is connected to a website- – they are not written onto the user’s hard drive. Session cookies are automatically deleted after the user leaves the website, at which point the originator of the cookie no longer has access to the information that was contained on that temporary cookie file.
We use session cookies as an additional security feature to ensure proper user authentication. When our customers log on to our websites and are authenticated through their User ID and password, a cookie will store the identification number of their browser. Throughout their session, the session cookie acts as a type of digital signature to identify our customer’s current session to the web server. The web server will monitor our customer’s browser number to help verify that, at all times during the session, we are dealing with our customer.
We also use session cookies to track our customers’ visits. We use that information to determine the type of information that our customers are looking for on our website and to improve our website. If applicable, we use information about the website our customers visited immediately prior to our website to assess the viability of links to our website that we have created on third party websites. The information stored in “persistent cookies” is written onto our customer’s device and remains there until the expiry date of the cookie. From time to time, we use persistent cookies to store non-sensitive Personal Information. Currently, most browsers do not distinguish between session cookies and persistent cookies.
Many features of our websites require cookies to function properly. However, you may review your cookies settings on your browser to enable alerts or to reject some cookies.
Our websites do not currently respond to Do Not Track signals from browsers.
Security and Data Integrity
We take all commercially reasonable precautions to safeguard the Personal Information collected and to protect it against loss and unauthorized access.
Access to our customers’ Personal Information is restricted to selected Purolator employees and contractors. In addition, we employ generally accepted information security techniques, such as firewalls, access control procedures and cryptography, to protect Personal Information against loss and unauthorized access. While we use commercially reasonable efforts to limit access to our vehicles and premises to authorized personnel, we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of information that is displayed on any shipment package or shipment label.
Unfortunately, no method of accessing, using, transmitting or storing data can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. It is your sole responsibility to use the appropriate level of care whenever communicating with us. For example, when you create a website portal account, you are responsible for keeping your login name and password confidential. Do not send us personal information through email or other unsecured electronic channels and do not send us sensitive information unless requested.
If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), you must immediately notify us using the contact information listed below.
Links to other websites
Our websites may contain links to other websites. The operators of those other websites may collect information about you, through cookies or other technologies, pursuant to their own policies. We are not responsible for how such third parties collect, use or disclose Personal Information.
About Children
PI does not intentionally collect information about children. Children under 13 may not visit this site or communicate with us. Children under 18 must have their legal guardians’ consent before contacting us.
Changes to the policy and Notification
PI reserves the right to amend this Notice at any time without notice. The current version is the Privacy Notice posted on our Sites.
You can determine when the Notice was revised by referring to the “Last Updated” legend on the top of this Notice. Any changes will become effective upon the posting of the revised Notice on the website. By continuing to use the website following such changes, you will be deemed to have agreed to such changes. If you do not agree with the terms of this Notice, in whole or part, you can choose to not continue to use the website.
Enforcement and Dispute Resolution
PI commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your Personal Information. PI is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). If you have concerns or complaints about the use of your Personal Information please feel free to contact us at the address listed below. In certain circumstances, you may have the right to invoke binding arbitration to resolve complaints not resolved by other means.
Access and Correction
You may access, review, correct, amend, change, and/or delete some of the Personal Information collected about you by logging into your online account and choosing to update your information. Upon your request, we will deactivate or remove your Personal Information from our active databases, although some information may be retained as permitted or required by law. Please use the contact information listed below for your requests.
Transparency is important to privacy governance. Please contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or the use of your Personal Information.
PI hereby disclaims, as far as permitted by law, any liability for itself and its affiliated companies and contractors for any loss, misuse, or unauthorized disclosure of Personal Information.
If you are a California resident, please read the following:
California residents may have additional rights with regard to how we use your information.
Consistent with the “Information you provide” section above, PI collects information about individuals that is considered “Personal Information” in California. To the extent required or permitted by law, we may retain some of your Personal Information.
We may collect and disclose this Personal Information from you and other third parties for the stated business or commercial purposes described in the “Use of Personal Information” and “Disclosure of Personal Information” sections above.
PI does not sell Personal Information. We may disclose all of the categories of Personal Information described above to service providers for business purposes.
Subject to certain exceptions, as a California consumer, you have the right to: (i) access your Personal Information and (ii) obtain deletion of your Personal Information, as described in the “Access and Deletion” section above, PI will not discriminate against you for choosing to exercise your rights, nor will the level or quality of service you receive be impacted.
California consumers may exercise their rights as outlined herein, or you may designate an authorized agent to exercise your rights on your behalf.
For further information about your rights, or to exercise such rights, please contact your account representative.
Contact Us
If you have questions or requests, please feel free to contact us by mail at the following address:
Legal Department
Purolator International, Inc.
2 Jericho Plaza, Suite 204
Jericho, NY 11753
You may also contact your account representative or send an e-mail to privacy@purolator.com .