Effective Date: April 21, 2022
Big Truck Guide (BTG) appreciates your interest in our website and products. BTG is sensitive to issues of privacy on the internet and will handle your information with the greatest of care. Specifically, private information about your company and person that is provided by you will not be sold, traded or otherwise disclosed to any other 3rd parties without your explicit consent. However, BTG reserves the right to sell anonymized information about truck sizes that you provide to 3rd parties. This would include truck axle spacings, other truck dimensions and characteristics and the state or province of your registration. One possible way that this information could be sold is that a population of BTG trucks could be sold or provided to researchers conducting research on truck sizes. You can request to opt out of this and you truck information will not be provided to other parties. BTG may provide advertisers with anonymous information about your location, and behavior on BTG, but this will not include your name, email, phone number, company name, or zip code.
When using, contacting, or registering with this Site, you agree that you have affirmatively opted to receive information from Big Truck Guide. If you don’t agree with this handling of your information, leave the Site immediately.
Log Files
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We may collect device-specific information (such as your hardware model, operating system version, and unique device identifiers. Big Truck Guide may associate your device identifiers, email address, or phone number with your Big Truck Guide Account.
We use this information to analyze trends, to administer the Site, and to track how visitors interact with the Site.
Cookies
Like many companies, Big Truck Guide may use “cookie” technology on our site. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. Big Truck Guide may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our Site. A session cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browsers help file.
Merger, Acquisition, Sale or Forced Sale
If Big Truck Guide is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, including a forced sale of assets, we will, to the extent permitted by law, maintain the confidentiality of any personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
How We Protect Your Personal Information
As a provider of online services, Big Truck Guide is committed to providing many layers of security to preserve the confidentiality of your information. Big Truck Guide safeguards the security of the data you send us with physical, electronic, administrative and managerial procedures. No transmission of data over the internet or other public network can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. We make reasonable efforts to secure your personal information once we receive it, but we cannot guarantee the security of information you send to us.
BTG uses SSL encryption to ensure that the private data that you send to us is secure. Your account information, including names, emails and addresses are kept on A2 Hosting servers in Michigan, United States, and information that is backed-up off-line is kept in secure locations in locked offices. Credit Card information is handled by Paypal and Stripe and is not handled by BTG.
Steps we have taken to safeguard your online account and data:
- Strong encryption
This means that all data sent or received is scrambled while travelling between our systems and your computer, making your information very secure. - Secure sign on
When you sign on to our Site, you are required to provide a username and password. - Your information
Your online account information incorporates detailed information about use, including the last time it was used.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletters and promotional communications from Big Truck Guide, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
The Effective Date of this Privacy Policy is set above. Due to the constantly changing nature of our business, we reserve the right to change, update or modify this policy at any time at our sole discretion, and will post any new privacy policy here. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting. Use of information that we gather will be subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time it was obtained. You are responsible for checking our Site frequently to keep apprised of recent changes. By accessing our Site or using our web applications after the Effective Date, you are deemed to have consented to our then-current privacy policy and will be bound by its terms.
Contact Us
We welcome your questions and comments about this privacy policy. Please send a message from the contact page for further information.