Privacy policy
Scope
This Privacy Policy applies to all U.S. operations of the UniGroup family of companies, which include, but
are not limited to, UniGroup, Inc., Mayflower Transit, LLC, United Van Lines, LLC, United Mayflower
Container Services, LLC, UniGroup Worldwide, Inc., Allegiant Move Management, LLC, Global Specialty
Logistics, LLC, and Trans Advantage, Inc. (collectively, the "UniGroup Companies," "we" or "us").
Information Covered
This policy applies to all non-public, personal information that may be used to identify you, as our
customer or potential customer or your family member ("Personal Information"), that is obtained by us
in connection with providing a product or service to you as part of our U.S. operations. With regard to
our international operations, your Personal Information may be handled differently in order to comply
with local privacy laws.
Collection of Personal Information
We rely on many sources of information to understand and meet our customers' and potential
customers' needs and to fulfill our business objectives, including Personal Information that may be
collected by the UniGroup Companies or our agents, dealers, van operators or other representatives or
third-party companies authorized to act on our behalf ("Representatives"). These sources may include:
- Information you provide to us or to our Representatives in person or on the telephone;
- Information provided when you visit our Web sites or communicate with us by email;
- Information that you may supply to us in written or electronic surveys;
- Information about your past transactions with any of the UniGroup companies;
- Information from consumer reporting agencies; or
- Information from anyone that you have authorized to provide such information to us.
This information may include your name, street and email address, phone number, and may also include
financial information, such as credit card or other bank account data. In the case of moving and storage
services, this information may also include your origin address and destination address, details about
the nature of the goods being shipped, and the names and contact information for other persons
involved in the shipment or authorized to provide direction on your behalf.
We do not knowingly collect Personal Information on our Web sites directly from children and will
destroy such information if we become aware that a child has disclosed such information to us without
proper parental consent.
What We Do With Your Personal Information
- Provide Services. We may use the Personal Information that you provide in order to respond to
a request for an estimate; furnish a product or service to you; respond to your email or other
inquiry; to help improve our services; or to send to you updates or notices about our products
and services that we think may be of interest to you. In order to provide you with the full range
of services you request from us, it may be necessary for us to share Personal Information among
the UniGroup Companies or with our Representatives, or other companies that we have
engaged to provide services on our behalf. It is important to note that we do not share Personal
Information with other companies solely for the purpose of marketing their products or services
to you, unless you specifically consent in advance.
- Conduct Surveys. From time to time, we may use survey forms to better understand our
customers' needs, to evaluate our services, and to create products and services that respond to
their interests. Customers may opt out of participating in these surveys. The UniGroup
Companies will not disclose survey response information outside of the UniGroup Companies
without specific consent, other than to our survey vendor(s) who assist us in collecting and
analyzing such information or to our Representatives or other authorized service providers,
solely for the purpose of improving our products and services.
- Comply With Legal Processes. There are situations where we may disclose to third parties the
Personal Information we collect as permitted or required by law. This may include disclosure to
government entities, courts or other entities, such as in response to subpoenas or other legal or
regulatory processes, or to protect against fraud.
- Other Business Interests. We may also combine your Personal Information with other
consumers' Personal Information or other publicly available information to help us satisfy our
legitimate business interests, such as performing trend analysis or market studies; identify
consumer preferences or interests; set prices; perform billing functions; establish credit; or
comply with government regulations. We may also share anonymized data, such as statistical or
demographic information in aggregate form, with third parties for research or marketing
purposes. However, this anonymized data will not contain your individually identifiable
Personal Information.
- Credit Reporting Agencies. We may report information about your account(s) to credit bureaus
and/or consumer reporting agencies. Late payments, missed payments, or other defaults on
your account(s) may be reflected in your credit report and/or consumer report.
How We Protect Your Personal Information
We use reasonable measures to safeguard the security and integrity of your Personal Information
through procedures and technology designed for that purpose. For example:
- We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your
Personal Information.
- We regularly assess security standards and procedures to protect against unauthorized access to Personal Information.
- All employees and Representatives of the UniGroup Companies are required to abide by our privacy policies.
- We maintain Personal Information only as long as needed for legitimate business purposes, or as required by contractual or legal requirements.
- We dispose of Personal Information in accordance with our Records Retention Policy.
- We limit access to Personal Information about you to those employees and representatives who need to know that information to provide our products and services to you.
You should always safeguard your own Personal Information by protecting any passwords or other
identifying information used to access your account with UniGroup and by safely disposing of any
records or reports that are no longer needed.
Other Terms and Conditions
In addition, you should also check your contract with us, which may contain distinct terms and
conditions, limitations of liability and/or disclaimers of warranty applicable generally to the products or
services provided by the UniGroup Companies. Although we make reasonable efforts to limit access to
our facilities and vehicles to authorized representatives, we are not responsible for maintaining the
confidentiality of information that is printed and placed in plain view on a shipping carton.
Cookies and Internet-Related Information
A cookie is a small text file that a Web site can send to a user's browser for storage on the hard drive.
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies but users may be able to change the setting to refuse
cookies, or be alerted when cookies are being sent. Please check the "Help" menu on your Internet browser
for more information, or check with your browser provider.
Each computer that connects to the Internet is assigned a unique number (IP address) for identification
purposes. The Web servers for unigroupinc.com, unitedvanlines.com, mayflower.com, unitedmayflower.com,
transadvantage.com and unigroupworldwide.com use an extended log file format which captures the date and
time of visit; referring address (location from which a visitor comes to our site); type of Internet browser;
and visitor's IP address. This log file does not capture a visitor's email address.
Cookies may be used by the UniGroup Companies to (i) allow us to personalize information for certain
segments of our customer base, (ii) allow us to associate individual customers with their information
profiles, (iii) keep track of and administer user status, preferences, business information and other
information provided by a user, (iv) for security purposes, (v) to understand visitor usage of the
UniGroup Companies' Web sites on an anonymous basis, and (vi) to evaluate the effectiveness of certain
of our advertising efforts.
Other Internet sites you visit hosted by third-party businesses, including those linked to the UniGroup
Companies' websites, may have their own privacy policies or no policy at all. Other websites may use
Personal Information differently than we do, and the UniGroup Companies are not responsible or liable
for the independent privacy policies of those third-party sites. The inclusion of any link does not
necessarily imply that the UniGroup Companies endorse the third party company, its Internet site, or
any products or services that it may promote or sell.
When you leave one of our sites to visit one of those sites, the information transferred to the third party
may include the referring address, which discloses the fact that you came from our website. This practice
allows the third party to monitor its own Internet traffic.
Access, Questions and Concerns
UniGroup will provide you with a reasonable opportunity to access your Personal Information that we
have collected, correct it if it is inaccurate, or delete it as appropriate. Any such requests must be
reasonable in number and scope. UniGroup reserves the right to deny access to information where the
burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to the individual's privacy
or where the rights of other individuals may be violated. If you wish to make a request to access your
Personal Information, or have any questions or concerns about our policies or practices, please contact
UniGroup at integritymatters@unigroupinc.com or 800-637-2154.
Updates
This Privacy Policy was last updated as of January 28, 2011. Your continued use of this site signifies
your assent to this Privacy Policy. The UniGroup Companies reserve the right to change this Privacy
Policy at any time by posting the revised policy on our Web sites.
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