SMS Transportation Services

Privacy Policy

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This provides notice of the privacy practices and policies of SMS Transportation Services. These protections have been adopted to ensure that the information that we obtain and maintain for our clients and customers is protected.  This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this web site and how that information is used, and the about the choices you can make about that information.

We reserve the right to change the terms of this notice and to adopt any new provisions regarding the protected information that we maintain.   If we revise this notice, we will post the revisions on this page.  By accessing or using the SMS Transportation Services website, you hereby agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect About You

Like most websites, we use cookies and web beacons to enhance your experience, gather general visitor information, and track visits to our website. Please refer to the ‘do we use cookies?’ section below for information about cookies and how we use them.

We ask questions on our site that are geared to help us match our clients with the very best products and services we offer. We will ask for your name, e-mail address, mailing address, and phone number. For inquiry purposes, we may ask information about your company and current employees.

What do we use your information for?

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request.  

From time to time, we may contact you with information we believe might be of interest to you, based on the information you submitted via our website.

We may also use your information to improve our website and enhance your personal experience with our website.

We may also use your information to address any rider complaints, address driver or passenger behavior and to comply with legal obligations.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

We may share your Information with any of our parent companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control with us.

As we develop our businesses, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, sale of assets, dissolution, or similar event, some or all of the Information may be part of the transferred assets.

We may also release your information to comply with (a) legal process, such as a subpoena or discovery request in civil litigation; (b) government audits; or (c) requests by child protective services agencies and other governmental authorities in the context of an investigation. In these situations, the personal information disclosed generally has been limited to identifiers, such as the rider’s name, contact information, and pick-up address.

The Security of Your Information

SMS Transportation Services strives to protect the personal information you provide via our website. To accomplish this, we use commercially known security measures such as encryption, password protection and firewalls.  We also have internal restrictions on who may access data collected on our site.

Please understand, however, the Internet is never 100% secure and that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to and from us over the Internet.

Further, we do not guarantee or warrant that any part of our Sites, including files available for download, are free of viruses or other harmful code. It is your responsibility to take appropriate precautions, such as the use of anti-virus software, to protect your computer hardware and software while using the Internet.

Please also note that regular Internet e-mail is not secure. To protect your privacy, you should not use e-mail to communicate information that you want to remain confidential. For your extra protection, we suggest using an alternative method of secure transmission such as telephone, fax, or regular mail.

Do we use cookies?

We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

External Links

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Visitors from outside the U.S.

If you are visiting this site from outside the US then you agree that you will be connected through servers located in the U.S, and any personal information provided to us by you will be maintained in web servers and/or internal systems located within the U.S.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Consumers have the right to submit a verifiable request to know what categories and specific personal information, and source of said information, that SMS Transportation Services has collected about them, and the purpose the information was shared or disclosed to any third parties.

California Consumers have the right to request your personal data be deleted by or opt out of sharing your personal data by:

California Consumers will not experience any discriminatory treatment whatsoever by SMS Transportation Services for exercising their privacy rights under the CCPA.

The site does not collect personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services. We do not currently respond to web browser “do not track” (“DNT”) signals or other mechanisms that indicate your preference for not having information collected over time and across different web sites following your visit to one of our sites. DNT is a preference you can set in your browser’s settings to let the websites you visit, including the site, know that you do not want the sites collecting your personal information. If we do so in the future, we will describe how we do so in this Privacy Policy. You can also visit https://allaboutdnt.com/ to learn more.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via the methods below.

LEGAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

General Disclaimer

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. SMS Transportation Services makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.  In no event shall SMS Transportation Services and its related, affiliated and subsidiary companies be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use of the information herein.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. If you require advice in relation to any legal, financial or medical matter you should consult an appropriate professional.  It is your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness and usefulness of any opinions, advice, services, or other information provided. herein.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, SMS Transportation Services does not warrant that this website will be constantly available or available at all.

Copyright Notices

Unless otherwise noted, the graphic images, buttons, layout, and text contained in this website are the exclusive property SMS Transportation Services and its related, affiliated and subsidiary companies, and may not be copied or distributed, in whole or in part, without the express written consent of SMS Transportation Services. Permission is granted to print copies of this document, and to display and use this document with a computer solely for personal or internal use.