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Information We Collect

Public Forums

Our Use of Your Information

Supplementation Information

Our Disclosure of Your Information

Correcting/Updating Information

Your Use of Other Users’ Information

Choice/Opt-Out

Security

Contacting the Web Site

1. Information We Collect
Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and safe environment to conduct your business operations in. The information collected allows e-thinktank.com to validate and ensure that all members of the community have provided accurate and up-to-date information. 

In order to utilize our services, you will need to register using our online registration form, where you will be required to provide us with your contact information and other personal information. The information collected will be used for contact purposes and to validate the accuracy of the information provided.

For a more detailed list of information we collect from or about your organization, please see the Appendix.

2.Our Use of Your Information
We use the contact information, unique identifiers, and financial information we gather from you to assist us in the approval process. During the approval process the information is used to verify the accuracy and validity of the provided information.

Once approved into the system, the provided information, in part, will be accessible by business partners/associates that may need to contact or verify the provided information. For a detailed description of what is accessible by other business partners/associates who are qualified to use the system, refer to the Appendix.

3.Our Disclosure of Your Information
As a general proposition, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. The following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed.  For a more detailed list of ways we disclose information about you, please see the Appendix.

Legal Requests.  E-thinktank.com cooperates with law enforcement inquires and other third parties to enforce laws, intellectual property and other rights.  Therefore, local, state, federal and international law enforcement can request and may receive your personally identifiable information.

E-thinktank.com Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures. We will share much of our data, including personally identifiable information about you, with our subsidiaries and Joint Ventures that are committed to serving your business-to-business trading needs.  To the extent that these entities are getting access to your information, they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they obtain from their other users.  We usually require our subsidiaries and joint ventures to follow privacy practices equal to or above the privacy practices of the e-thinktank.com web sites.

4.Your Use of Others Information
In order to facilitate interaction among all e-thinktank.com members, our service allows you to access other users’ contact information.  By entering into our system, you agree that, with respect to other’s personally identifiable information that you obtain through the e-thinktank.com sites, e-thinktank.com hereby grants you a license to use this information solely for e-thinktank.com-related communications, services, and member interaction.

5.Security
E-thinktank.com has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information that is under our control. These security measures include firewall protection of database(s), password protection for all data access, and data encryption of private data on the database(s). However, “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet.

6.Public Forums
E-thinktank.com’s sites may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users in the future.  Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information in such areas.

7.Supplementation Information
E-thinktank.com sites supplement the information that you supply with information that is received from third parties.

8.Correcting/Updating Information
E-thinktank.com sites provide users with the following options for changing and/or modifying information previously provided.

1.You can visit the home page of this site, BestCarriers.com, BestShippers.com, BestTransports.com, or BestDrivers.com, login to the site using your user id and password and change your user profile.
2.You can call the following telephone number: (614) 416-9988.

9.Choice/Opt-Out
E-thinktank.com sites allow users the following options for removing their information from our database(s), thus allowing the user(s) to be taken off of all future communication lists and/or to no longer receive our service.

1.You can visit the home page of this site, BestCarriers.com, BestShippers.com, BestTransports.com, or BestDrivers.com, login to the site using your user id and password and change your user profile.
2. You can call the following telephone number: (614) 416-9988.
 

10.Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealing with these web sites, please contact:

By mail at:
Attn:  Privacy Policy
950 Taylor Station Road
Gahanna, OH  43230
By Phone:
614.416.9988
By E-Mail:
privacypolicy@e-thinktank.com

 

World Registered User e-thinktank.com Contact (Personal) Information: Full Name X X *** Company/Division Name X X *** Primary Business X X * Internet Address X X *** A/C Payable Contact X X *** Documents needed for Payment X X E-Mail Address X X Corporate Mailing Address X X Phone Number X X * Fax Number X X * Title X X *** Shipping Hours X X *** Receiving Hours X X *** Scale X X *** Brokers/Forwarders X X Hazardous Material Contact Information: * Hazardous Material Carrier Number X X * Full Contact Name X X * Phone Number X X * Fax Number X X * Cell Phone Number X X * Pager Phone Number X X * E-Mail Address X X *** Hazardous material spill; chemical cleanup contact Name X X *** Hazardous material spill; chemical cleanup contact Phone Number X X Corporate Financial Information : *** Accounts Payable Contact X X *** Accounts Payable Title X X *** Accounts Payable Phone Number X X *** Accounts Payable Fax Number X X *** Accounts Payable E-Mail X X *** Freight Payment Agency (Yes or No) X X *** Freight Payment Name X X *** Freight Payment Address X X *** Documents Required (yes or no) X X * Federal Tax ID # X X * SCAC code X X Dun & Bradstreet # X X * Operation Ratio (current) X X * Member of MFNB (for Carrier) X X * Corporation (yes or no) X X * Partnership (yes or no) X X * SIC Code # X X ** Exporter Tax ID # X X ** Importer Tax IC # X X * Primary Bank Name X X * Primary Bank Contact X X * Primary Bank Phone Number X X * Primary Bank Address X X Insurance and Safety: X X * Insurance Name X X * Insurance Primary Contact/Agent X X * Insurance Phone Number X X * Insurance Address X X * Insurance E-Mail X X * Cargo Insurance Amount X X * Cargo Insurance Name X X * Cargo Insurance Contact/Agent X X * Cargo Insurance Phone Number X X * Cargo Insurance Address X X * Liability Insurance Amount X X * Liability Insurance Name X X * Liability Insurance Primary Contact/Agent X X * Liability Insurance Phone X X * Liability Insurance Address X X * Excess Liability Insurance Amount X X * Excess Liability Insurance Name X X * Excess Liability Insurance Primary Contact/Agent X X * Excess Liability Insurance Phone X X * Excess Liability Insurance Address X X Driver Profile: X X * Company Ddrivers (yes or no) X X * Independent Drivers (yes or no) X X * Can Drivers unload (yes or no) X X * Do drivers have access to pallets (yes or no) X X * Communications X X * Safety Rating X X * Team Drivers (yes or no) X X Equipment Type : * Number of Trailers X X * Type(s) of Trailers X X * Type of Tires X X * Average age of trucks X X * Average age of trailer X X * Maximum Load Capacity X X Lanes: * Lane X X * Origin X X * Destination X X Authority & Ports: ** Contact Authority X X ** MC # X X ** Contact for Copy X X ** Common Authority X X ** Canadian Authority X X ** Mexican Authority X X ** Type of Ports X X *Optional Information **If Applicable ***Optional If Applicable