Privacy Policy for Effy's Shipping Services

At Effy's Shipping Services, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Effy's Shipping Services and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Effy's Shipping Services. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website
1Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
2SMS Consent
SMS CONSENT IS NOT TO BE SHARED, SOLD, OR DISCLOSED WITH ANY THIRD PARTY OR INDIVIDUALS.
3Information we collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information. If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide. When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number
4How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
-Provide, operate, and maintain our website
-Improve, personalize, and expand our website
-Understand and analyze how you use our website
-Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
-Send you emails
-Find and prevent fraud
-Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners,including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other informationrelating to the webste, and for marketing and promotional purposes
5Log Files
Effy's Shipping Services follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
6Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Effy's Shipping Services.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Effy's Shipping Services, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that Effy's Shipping Services has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
7Third Party Privacy Policies
Effy's Shipping Services' Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.
8Compliant Privacy Policy
Our privacy policy is designed to meet regulatory standards and protect your personal data. We prioritize transparency and integrity in handling your information. You can trust that your data is managed professionally and securely. Contact us for further information or clarification.
9Children's Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity. Effy's Shipping Services does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
10Marketing and Promotions
LBC from time to time will send you information on its new products and services that may interest you. If you no longer wish to receive these marketing updates, please notify us by:
-Text OPT OUT to 2105694060
-Customers can also send an OPT OUT request in writing to:
Effy's Shipping Services
5434 Glen Ridge Suite A, San Antonio Tx 78229
Effy's Shipping Services will process OPT Out request within 10 business days requests are received.
11Request for Deletion
Customers have the right to request to delete their personal information. All requests must be in writing, identity must be verified using a government issued ID and approved by LBC Compliance.
However, the following exceptions apply:
• Comply with legal obligations. If personal information collected from a consumer is needed to comply with a legal obligation (e.g., a statute that requires that the business maintain documentation relating to the consumer), the business is not required to delete the information.
• Complete a transaction. If personal information is collected because it is necessary for a business to complete a transaction with the consumer, or provide a product or services to the consumer, or is part of the business’s ongoing relationship with the consumer
• Detect wrongdoing. If personal information is collected from a consumer because it is needed to detect security incidents, or protect the business against illegal actions (e.g., fraud, deception, etc.).
• Repair errors - if personal information is necessary to “debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality”.
• Free speech. If personal information collected from a consumer relates to the free speech of the business, or the free speech of another Californian.
• Exercise legal rights. If personal information collected from a consumer is needed for the business to “exercise another right provided for by law”.
• CalECPA Compliance. If personal information collected from a consumer is needed for the business to comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
• If personal information collected from a consumer is needed to engage in research – whether that research is public, peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical. However, in order to qualify for this exception, the deletion of the information may need to impair the integrity of the research.
• Internal uses aligned with consumer expectations. If personal information collected from a consumer will have “solely internal uses” for the business, and if those uses are “reasonably aligned with the expectations of the consumer based on the consumer's relationship with the business.
• Internal uses aligned with the context of collection. If personal information collected from a consumer will be used “internally” and in a manner that is “compatible” with the “context in which the consumer provided the information,”.
12LBC Privacy Policy
LBC is committed to protecting the privacy of its customers. We will not sell or share non-public personal information to non-affiliates or third parties who may want to offer their own products or services.
We collect and use customer information to verify identification as required by law, process transactions, and provide better services. Keeping our customer information secure is one of our most important responsibilities. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to ensure that private information is always protected.
Our employees and agents are authorized to access customer information only when they need it to provide our customers with products and services. Employees and Agents are bound by a code of ethics that requires confidential treatment of customer information and are subject to disciplinary action if they fail to follow this code.
We share information about our customers to complete their transactions and provide them with personalized products and services with carefully selected companies that perform services on our behalf. We work with these companies for specific business purposes and maintain strict confidentiality agreements. We also share information if required or permitted by applicable law or regulation, including laws and regulations of the United States and other countries, or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with a legal obligation or in response to a request from law enforcement or other public authorities wherever the LBC may do business; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of any LBC entity; (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Individuals, Customers, and contractors/employees of any LBC entity or others; or (d) protect against any legal liability. In addition, the LBC may share your Personal Data with U.S. regulators and with other self-regulatory bodies to which we are subject, wherever the LBC Group may do business.
13What the Law Requires
We are required by law to have in place policies regarding the collection and disclosure of information considered to be "nonpublic personal information." To comply, we must:
 Designate a Privacy Officer to oversee its Privacy Program
 Implement policies and procedures to protect customer personal information.
 Update policies and procedures as deemed necessary.
 Respond to customer inquiries and requests for information.
 Analyze all personal information handling practices, including ongoing activities and new initiatives.
To underscore our commitment to the goals and objectives outlined herein, the Board of Directors on behalf of the Company will reaffirm its commitment to the principles embodied on this document by voting to adopt this and /or any other written manifestation of this Privacy Program.
14Types of Personal Information That We Collect
Information shall be collected by fair and lawful means. We may collect the following information, which may include non-public personal information such as but not limited to:  Customer/Sender Information – Customer name, physical address, date of birth, e-mail address, telephone number, as well as sensitive information such ID, SSN information, credit card and/or bank account number, source of funds, purpose of transactions, and relationship to recipients  Receiver/Consignee Information – Receiver name, physical address, email address, and phone number  Transaction Information - Type of Service/Product, Mode of Delivery, Payment mode – cash, check (Bank Information), debit and/or credit card (Debit Card or Credit Card Number), Remittance Amount in Dollars and Pesos and Exchange rate, Packing List information for Cargo products, transaction history and usage  Customer Service Information includes customer/shipper or receiver/consignee requests to facilitate claims, refunds, and other customer service requests  Information that sender provides when registering for promotional programs  Information about sender’s transaction history and patterns, including your transmittal frequency, services used and their recipients  Information that we obtain to verify sender’s identity from third party identity verification services, electronic database services, and credit reporting agencies  Professional or employment-related information in the form of business contact information such as name, company name, physical address and email address and telephone or fax number
 Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, our advertisements that we display on our websites or on third party sites and apps
 Geolocation data
 Audio information from calls placed with customer service and accounting centers which may be recorded, and electronic information in the form of Internet or other electronic network activity information as described above .
15Access of Non-Public Personal Information
We do not sell or rent the information we collect to third parties for their promotional purposes.
Customer information is restricted to employees, independent contractors, or service providers.
We share information about our customers:
 To third party service providers in order to verify our customer’s identity, detect and prevent fraud, comply with existing laws and regulations and to process and facilitate customer transactions.
 To law enforcement, government officials or other third parties to respond to a formal request, subpoena, court order, or similar legal procedure, or in circumstances when we believe that disclosure is necessary to comply with the law and audit requirements, prevent physical harm or financial loss, report suspected illegal activity, or to investigate violations of our User Agreement.
 If personal information might be a part of the transferred assets in the event of the sale, acquisition or merger of some or all our assets.
Our agreements with service providers contain confidentiality provisions and restrictions on how information can be used.
We reserve the right to retain the information we collect for as long as necessary to comply with the law.
16Accuracy of Information Collected
We strive to keep our customer’s information accurate, complete and up to date as is necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used.
It is the responsibility of the customer or sender to provide accurate and complete information each time they use our services.
It is the responsibility of LBC’s employees and our agents to collect and document the information provided by our customer.
17How We Protect Our Customer Information
Keeping our customer or sender’s information secure is one of our most important responsibilities.
It is our policy to adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of their personal information, and transaction information.
No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Thus, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. However, we strive to protect our customer information by employing the following methods of protection:
 Physical measures include video surveillance cameras, alarm systems, secure locked filing cabinets and a shredder to dispose confidential information.
 Technological measures include branch associates or agents can only access customer file(s) through our system.
 Organizational security measures include security clearances, limiting access to a ‘need’ to know’ basis, staff training, and a signed confidentiality agreement.
 Investigative measures are in place should we have reasonable grounds to believe that personal information is being inappropriately collected, used or disclosed.
 Employees, agents, independent contractors, and service providers are required to keep personal information in strict confidence and in a manner consistent with the policies of the company. Failure to comply will be considered a breach of employment or contract and upon review could result in employment or contract termination.
18Data Retention
We keep information for the purpose it was collected or for longer retention period as required or permitted by law. Once information is no longer needed for its initial purpose, it is deleted or disposed of in accordance with our policies and procedures.
19Disposal and Destruction of Information
It is our policy to prevent unauthorized parties from gaining access to the information when disposing of or destroying personal information. We use shredders and/or third-party shredding companies. Third party shredder companies must shred documents on site.
20Third Party Sites
Our website may contain links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party web sites. It is always important to review the privacy practices of these third-party web sites prior to submitting your personal information to them.
21Customer Requests
A customer may request to review, correct or update personal information. All requests must be in writing, identity must be verified using a government issued ID and approved by LBC Compliance.
Only LBC Compliance can release the customer’s personal information.
There are no charges associated with providing the customer with a copy of their personal information held by the company.
Information requested shall be provided within 45 days after receipt of a verifiable request, unless we notify you that we require additional time to respond, in which case we will respond within such additional period required by law.
However, we may not be able to provide access to certain records requested if it’s forbidden by law.
22Correcting Personal Information on File
We must amend the information on file if a customer can successfully demonstrate the inaccuracy or incompleteness of his/her information.
23Customer Complaints and Inquiries
All customer concerns or complaints relating to privacy issues must be in writing and addressed to our Compliance Department: Mail: 5434 Glen Ridge Drive, Suite A, San Antonio, Texas 78229
Email: effyshipping@gmail.com
Phone: +1(210)569-4060