PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy explains how Veridian Freight LLC (“Veridian Freight,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses, maintains, and shares information when you visit veridianfreighttx.com, submit a website form, request a freight quote, provide carrier information, or otherwise communicate with us.

By using this website or providing information through it, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including:

• Name
• Company name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Shipper, carrier, or business contact information
• Pickup and delivery locations
• Commodity, packaging, weight, dimensions, equipment, and timing information
• Carrier authority, insurance, equipment, service-area, dispatch, accounting, tax, payment, and factoring information
• Messages, instructions, documents, and other information submitted through website forms, email, or telephone communications

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through the website unless it is specifically requested for a legitimate business purpose.

2. INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY

When you access the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website platform and service providers. This information may include:

• Internet Protocol address
• Browser and device information
• Operating system
• Pages viewed
• Date and time of access
• Referring website or source
• General location information derived from an IP address
• Website interactions, performance, and session information
• Cookie and similar-technology information

This information may be used to operate, secure, maintain, and improve the website and to understand how visitors use it.

3. HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

We may collect information when you:

• Submit a freight-quote request
• Complete the Contact form
• Provide carrier-onboarding or qualification information
• Send an email
• Call or otherwise communicate with Veridian Freight
• Enter into or discuss a potential business relationship
• Browse or interact with the website

Information may also be received from service providers, public business records, regulatory databases, carriers, shippers, customers, and other parties involved in evaluating or arranging transportation services.

4. HOW WE USE INFORMATION

We may use information to:

• Respond to inquiries and messages
• Evaluate and prepare freight quotes
• Communicate about shipment requirements and availability
• Coordinate freight-brokerage services
• Review and qualify motor carriers
• Verify authority, insurance, safety, equipment, and company information
• Maintain shipper, carrier, and business records
• Process documents, invoices, payments, and accounting information
• Provide shipment updates and operational support
• Prevent fraud, misuse, unauthorized access, and security incidents
• Maintain and improve the website
• Comply with legal, regulatory, insurance, contractual, and recordkeeping obligations
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

We will use personal information only for legitimate business purposes or as otherwise permitted or required by law.

5. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

We may share information when reasonably necessary with:

• Motor carriers
• Shippers, customers, consignees, and facilities
• Insurance companies and agents
• Factoring companies and payment providers
• Carrier-verification, compliance, safety, and fraud-prevention providers
• Website hosting, form-processing, email, communications, analytics, accounting, and information-technology providers
• Attorneys, accountants, consultants, and other professional advisers
• Government agencies, regulators, law-enforcement authorities, courts, or other parties when required or permitted by law
• Parties involved in a business transfer, merger, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets

Service providers may process information only as necessary to provide services to Veridian Freight and subject to their own contractual and legal obligations.

Veridian Freight does not sell personal information for monetary compensation.

6. WEBSITE PLATFORM AND THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

This website is hosted using Wix and may rely on Wix and other third-party services for website hosting, form processing, communications, security, analytics, and related functionality.

Those providers may collect or process information according to their own privacy policies and terms. Veridian Freight does not control every third-party provider’s independent data practices.

Links to third-party websites are provided for convenience. This Privacy Policy does not govern information collected directly by third-party websites or services.

7. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

The website may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Enable essential website functions
• Maintain security
• Remember visitor settings
• Measure website performance
• Understand website traffic and interactions
• Improve functionality and visitor experience

Some cookies are necessary for the website to operate. Other cookies may be used for analytics or optional functionality.

Visitors may be able to manage non-essential cookies through the website’s cookie-consent banner or through their browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect certain website functions.

8. DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

• Respond to inquiries
• Evaluate or provide requested services
• Maintain business and shipment records
• Complete carrier qualification and payment processes
• Comply with legal, regulatory, tax, insurance, contractual, and recordkeeping requirements
• Resolve disputes and protect legal rights
• Prevent fraud and maintain security

Retention periods may vary based on the type of information, the purpose for which it was collected, and applicable obligations. Information that is no longer reasonably required may be deleted, anonymized, or securely disposed of.

9. DATA SECURITY

Veridian Freight uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, email system, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Information submitted electronically is provided at the sender’s own risk.

10. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES AND RIGHTS

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to request that Veridian Freight:

• Confirm whether we process your personal information
• Provide access to certain personal information
• Correct inaccurate information
• Delete certain information
• Provide a portable copy of certain information
• Restrict or object to certain processing
• Honor applicable opt-out rights

To submit a privacy request, email brian@veridianfreighttx.com with the subject line “Privacy Request.”

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Certain information may be retained or excluded from a request where permitted by law, including information required for legal, regulatory, contractual, security, fraud-prevention, or recordkeeping purposes.

Veridian Freight will not unlawfully discriminate against an individual for exercising an applicable privacy right.

11. EMAIL AND BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS

When you provide contact information, Veridian Freight may use it to respond to your inquiry, discuss freight services, provide operational information, request documents, follow up regarding a potential business relationship, or send other relevant business communications.

You may request that non-essential promotional communications stop by replying to the communication or contacting us. Operational, transactional, legal, and relationship-related messages may still be sent when appropriate.

12. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

This website is intended for business users and is not directed to children under 13.

Veridian Freight does not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13. If we learn that such information has been submitted, we will take reasonable steps to delete it, subject to applicable legal obligations.

13. DO NOT TRACK AND GLOBAL PRIVACY SIGNALS

Some browsers and devices offer Do Not Track or other privacy-preference signals. Because standards for these signals continue to develop, the website may not respond to every signal in the same manner.

Where required by applicable law and supported by our website technology, we will make reasonable efforts to honor legally recognized privacy-preference signals.

14. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Veridian Freight may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in its website, business practices, service providers, or legal obligations.

The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Continued use of the website after an update constitutes acknowledgment of the revised policy.

15. CONTACT INFORMATION

Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy may be directed to:

Veridian Freight LLC
Email: brian@veridianfreighttx.com
Website: veridianfreighttx.com