Privacy Policy

At CDL DNA Corporation, (“CDL DNA Corporation,” “us,” “our,” or “we”), we are committed to providing you a great online experience celebrating the commercial truck driver by providing news, information and entertainment, as well as an escape from the everyday grind. We also celebrate and support the commercial truck driving industry by providing an online platform to connect drivers to the employers who need them.

In providing this experience, we recognize that privacy is important – both to you and to us. We have prepared this privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) to inform you of the privacy principles that govern our website, which includes cdldna.com, cdldna.com, and our other affiliated websites (collectively, the “Website”), the CDL DNA Corporation App (the “App”), and the services offered by CDL DNA Corporation to you through our Website and App (collectively, the “Services”). CDL DNA Corporation is committed to providing excellent service to all of our customers and to visitors to our Website and is committed to the security and privacy of your information. This includes a commitment to the fair and transparent processing of our customers’ and Website visitors’ personal information (“Personal Information”).

Our Privacy Policy is designed to advise you about how we collect, use, protect, and disclose the information that we collect and/or receive about you. It also explains your privacy rights, and how you can manage the privacy of your Personal Information. Please note that this Privacy Policy does not govern the practices of third parties, including our partners, third party service providers, and/or advertisers, even when those services are branded as, or provided on behalf of, CDL DNA Corporation. Information collected from you by others, such as third party websites that you access through links on the Website, are governed by those entities’ privacy policies.

• Information We Collect

We may collect certain information from you when you use our Website, App, and other Services. That information includes:

Personal Information: Personal Information, also known as “Personal Data,” is information that can be used to identify, locate or contact you. We collect various types of Personal Information when you interact with our Website or other Services:

• Website/App: We may collect certain Personal Information from you when you visit, use, and interact with our Website or App – for instance, when you choose to contact us, submit an article to CDL DNA Corporation, use or post information or content to the App, or sign up for our electronic newsletter. This may include your name, company name, email address, telephone number, location information (such as your ZIP code or real-time location when using the App), and other information you choose to provide to us. It may also include other information such as your IP address, browsing history, interactions with the Website, preferences, and/or interests.
• Truck Driving Jobs: Certain sections of our Website and App allow you to search for and apply for truck driving jobs with various employers (“Truck Driving Jobs”). In order to apply for Truck Driving Jobs through the Website or App, we will require you to register with us and create a user profile. We will ask you to provide certain information relevant to your job search when you register with us or search and apply for Truck Driving Jobs, including: your name, date of birth, location information (such as your ZIP code), license status, trucking experience, military service history, and other relevant information.

At times, we may require you to provide certain Personal Information when you use certain parts of our App or to fulfill your request with us – for instance, we may require you to provide or use your email address or other contact information when you contact us with a question or comment, so that we can respond to you.

Generic Information: Generic Information is information that does not directly reveal the identity of a customer or a visitor to the Website or the App. CDL DNA Corporation may automatically gather some Generic Information from our customers and Website visitors. This information may include aggregate usage metrics such as total number of Website visitors, pages viewed, and usage patterns within the Website, etc. This may also include information about your device. At times, the combination of various types of data, including Generic Information, may enable you to be identified, and may therefore qualify as Personal Information.

• How We Collect Your Information

CDL DNA Corporation collects and obtains your information in a few ways: there is information that you choose to give to us, information we obtain through your use our Services – including our Website and App – and information we obtain from third parties. Each of these is detailed below:

• Information You Give to Us

We collect certain information that you share with us. As noted above, sometimes this is information that we require in order for you to use our Website, App or certain Services. For instance, when you apply for a job through the Website or App, you will need to provide information relevant to your qualifications and work experience as outlined above. In addition, we collect information that you voluntarily provide through your use of the Website, App or other Services, such as when you post photos, videos, messages, or other content to the App, or contact us via email or direct message with questions, feedback, or comments about our Website, App, or other Services.

• Information We Obtain When You Use Our Services

We also collect certain Personal Information and Generic Information from you through your use of our Services. As noted above, we may collect certain information related to your use of, and access to, our App and other Services.

• Device Information: As noted above, we may collect certain information related to the device that you use to log into, access and use the Website, App or other Services.
• Camera, Photos, and Media Files: As part of your experience, you can upload photos and images from your device to the App. In order to do so, the App may need to access your camera, your photo gallery, or other parts of your device containing media files.
• Location Information: We will ask you to provide your location information when you use our App via your mobile device, to provide certain App features and Services to you. You may choose to turn off your device’s location sharing features to use the App; however, certain functions of the App such as our Maps and trip-planning features will not work properly if you do not share your location.

• Aggregate Information: We may use other aggregate information in relation to how you use our Website, App or Services.

We may also collect information through the use cookies or pixel tags, as described below.

• Browsing

The Website may collect certain information when you browse the Website and request pages from our servers. When you request a page from our Website, our servers log the information provided in the HTTP request header including the IP address, the time of the request, the URL of your request and other information that is provided in the HTTP header. We collect the HTTP request header information in order to make our website function correctly and provide you the functionality that you see on the Website. We also use this and other information to personalize content presented to you on the Website and the App, better understand how visitors use our Website and App and how we can better tune their content and functionality to meet your needs. Although this information may at times include your IP address, this information, by itself, will typically not identify you. However, if you access the Website from a link in an email that we sent you, we may identify you based on the information you previously supplied to us.

• Cookies

We may use “cookies” and other similar technologies to collect information about your activities. This is so that we can customize certain aspects of your specific experience, and improve the overall function and efficiency of our Sites and Services. Cookies are small data text files stored locally on your computer that uniquely identify your browser. We may use cookies – for example, Google Analytics, Google Adsense, Facebook Connect, and others – to perform various tasks such as: monitoring aggregate usage metrics, storing and remembering your login information (if you choose this option), storing your account preferences, and personalizing the Services we make available to you.

Session and First Party Cookies

The types of cookies that we use are referred to as “session” cookies and “first party” cookies. Session cookies are temporary, and are automatically deleted once you close your Internet browser. First Party cookies remain on your computer hard drive until you delete them or until they are otherwise removed upon expiration.

Third Party Cookies

CDL DNA Corporation permits third-party service providers, advertisers and other companies to use cookies or other similar technologies on our Website. These companies may collect your information, track your behavior on our Website, and gather information about your use of our Websites or Services and other online services over time and across different services. Additionally, some companies may use information collected to deliver targeted ads on behalf of us or other companies, including on other websites or online services. We are not responsible for the functioning of cookies and other technologies used and placed by third parties on your device.

We may gather information about you automatically through your use of the Website or App, e.g., your IP address, your current location when you use the App, and how you navigate the Website. We may collect information by automated means, including technologies such as pixel tags, browser analysis tools, server logs and web beacons. We use this information to better understand, customize, and improve user experience with our Website, App, Services and offerings as well as to manage our advertising.

Pixel tags

Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on website pages or in our emails that allow us to determine whether you have performed a specific action. When you access these pages or open or click an email, the pixel tags and web beacons generate a notice of that action. These tools allow us to measure response to our communications and improve our web pages.

Other technologies

We collect many different types of information from other technologies to improve the quality of our Website and the services we provide. For example, we may collect information about the device you use to access our Website or App, your operating system and/or mobile device type, browser type, domain, and other system settings, as well as the language your system uses and the country and time zone where your device is located. We may record the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. An IP address is a unique identifier that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet.

In many cases, the information we collect using cookies and other tools is only used in a non-identifiable way, without any reference to your Personal Information. For example, we use information we collect about all website users to optimize our Website and to understand website traffic patterns. We may aggregate the data about visitors to our Website or App and use it to improve the quality of our Website, App and Services. If we do associate the information we collect using cookies and other technology with your Personal Information, then it will become “Personal Information” and will be protected as described above.

Your Cookie Choices

You may set your browser to block or otherwise control what cookies your browser or mobile device accepts via your browser or mobile device settings. Additionally, you can choose to modify your settings and delete those cookies that are otherwise stored on your device. Please consult the instructions provided by your browser or your mobile device’s manufacturer to determine how you can limit the placement of and/or remove cookies or other technologies. Please note, however, that limiting or disabling the use of cookies and other technologies may impact or adversely affect your ability to perform certain transactions, use certain functionality, and access certain content on our Website or App.

• Information We Obtain from Third Parties

CDL DNA Corporation obtains information about you from third parties including information from third party services accounts you create, and third party providers we use to provide Services to you.

Third party accounts you create

We may allow you to access our Website and our App using accounts you created with third party services, like Facebook (“Third Party Service Accounts”). If you choose to access our Website or App through Third Party Service Accounts, these services may share certain information about you with CDL DNA Corporation. This may include your name, email address, and your Third Party Service Account profile data, among other information. This information is shared with CDL DNA Corporation according to the Third Party Service Account provider’s privacy policies.

• How We Use Your Information

CDL DNA Corporation uses your information to provide you access to, and facilitate your use of our Website, App and other Services. For instance, we will use your information to facilitate your search and application for Truck Driving Jobs with employers made through our Website and App, such as by sending you messages, emails, and text alerts for jobs we believe you may be interested in or qualified for.

We also use the information you provide or information we collect and/or aggregate to understand and analyze the usage trends, interests, and preferences of our users, and to improve the way the Website looks and works. We may also use this information to create helpful new features and functionality.

We may also use your information and “cookies” information to:

(a) personalize our services, such as remembering your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Website;

(b) provide customized third party advertisements, content, information, and email messages;

(c) monitor and analyze the effectiveness of our marketing activities (including related third party marketing activities); and

(d) monitor aggregate usage metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.

We may also process your Personal Information for a specific purpose that we communicate to you. For instance, if you provide your email address to us, we may use your email address or other Personal Information to send you emails related to the Website, App, special offers and promotions, and other content or materials we think you may be interested in. Additionally, if you choose to provide us your phone number when you register with our Website or App in order to apply for Truck Driving Jobs, we may send you text alerts about job opportunities with employers we think are relevant or of interest to you. However, you will have the ability to “opt-out” of receiving such communications from us in the future through links provided in the messages, by sending an email to info@cdldna.com , or by following the prompts on the text alert and requesting to opt-out of receiving further communications.

• How We Disclose or Share Your Information

CDL DNA Corporation may disclose or share your Personal Information in the following ways:

• App Users/Visitors: As noted above, we allow you to share content via our App’s social media functions, and interact with other App users, and will disclose information you provide to us for such purposes. For instance, you can post messages, pictures, video, and other content to the App’s publicly-facing Message Feed. This information may include your name, your profile information, and other information that you choose to include. You may also share your location information with other truckers and App users, as well as other information that you have permitted through your settings. We may also share any additional information you have consented for us to share.
• Third Party Service Providers: CDL DNA Corporation may release or disclose your information to third-party service providers or agents who facilitate the provision of our Services to you. For instance, we may share your information with service providers or contractors who perform functions on our behalf, such as in operating the Website or App, communicating news and delivering promotional and other materials via e-mail, and assisting us with sending communications and performing other marketing and support functions. Also, we may use third-party social media platforms, including third-party social media websites, to communicate with you.
• Truck Driving Jobs: When you apply for Truck Driving Jobs through various sections of the Website or App, such as cdldna.com, we will disclose your related Personal Information to those employers whose listed jobs you choose to apply for.

In some circumstances, CDL DNA Corporation may share your Personal Information related to your employment with multiple third-party companies, such as when you apply for Truck Driving Jobs through jobs.livetrucking.com. When you apply for employment via these services, your Personal Information is not shared with a specific employer for a specific job. Instead, your information is shared with a variety of third party companies, to see if your employment history and qualifications are related to available employment opportunities they may have.

• Other CDL DNA Corporation entities: We may share your information with other CDL DNA Corporation entities. In addition, if we sell all or part of our business or make a sale or transfer of assets or are otherwise involved in a merger or other business transaction, we may transfer or sell your Personal Information to a third party as part of that transaction. If such transaction materially affects the manner in which your Personal Information is processed, we will notify you of such change prior to its implementation. We may share aggregate, or summary, information regarding our customers with partners or other third parties.

• Selling Information: CDL DNA Corporation may also sell, rent, or trade your information – including Personal Information – to various third parties in relation to your search for Truck Driving Jobs, or for our and other entities’ marketing purposes.
• Co-Sponsors & Partners: From time to time, we may partner with other organizations or companies to provide co-sponsored or co-branded promotions, services, or events and may share your Personal Information with our co-sponsor(s) and partners.

• Website/App Development: We may also work with third party service providers to provide website and application development, hosting, and maintenance as well as other services for us. To the extent it is necessary for these service providers to complete their contractual obligations to us, these third parties may access or process your Personal Information.

CDL DNA Corporation may be required to disclose your Personal information in response to a lawful and enforceable request by a law enforcement, judicial, or other public authority, or in connection with a legal obligation. In such instances, we will disclose your Personal Information upon receipt of a court order, subpoena, or other lawful and enforceable process, or where otherwise required by law.

We may also disclose your information when there is a good faith belief that such action is necessary to investigate or protect against harmful activities to CDL DNA Corporation, our visitors, associates, or property (including the Website or App), or to others. We may also share your information with our third party service providers as described in this Privacy Policy but they may use this information only to provide CDL DNA Corporation with a specific service and not for any other purpose.

• International Visitors and Transfers of Your Information

The Website and App are hosted in and intended for visitors located within the United States. While the Website and App are generally available outside the United States, we do not directly market to or provide any other Services to individuals beyond the United States. Laws governing data collection and use in other regions of the world may differ from U.S. law. If you are visiting this Website from a country other than the United States, the various communications you send and receive will necessarily result in the transfer of information across international boundaries to the United States. This includes transmissions containing your Personal Information.

If you are located in the European Union and choose to provide us information about you, you should be aware that information you provide or which is otherwise collected on the Website, App or through any services rendered may be transferred to countries (including the United States) which do not have data protection laws deemed as adequate as those in the European Union.

• How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

We keep your Personal Information to enable your continued use of our Services, for as long as it is required in order to fulfil the relevant purposes described in this Privacy Policy, as may be required by applicable law, as necessary to protect our rights and interests, or as otherwise communicated to you. For example, we may retain your profile and other information to facilitate your application for future Truck Driving Jobs, and to help us respond to your inquiries.

• Your Privacy Rights

CDL DNA Corporation will ensure that you can exercise various rights relating to your Personal Information, including rights as provided by various data protection laws. CDL DNA Corporation therefore informs you that, where applicable under relevant law, you are entitled:

• to have access to your Personal Information upon simple request – that is, you may receive a copy of such data upon request, unless for example, such data is made directly available to you within your personal account;

• to have access upon simple request, and free of charge, the categories and names of addresses of third parties that have received Personal Information for direct marketing purposes;

• to obtain a list of the categories of Personal Information collected about you, sold to third parties, or disclosed to third parties for business purposes, and a list of categories of third parties to whom your personal information was sold to or disclosed to for business purposes;
• to correct your Personal Information if you find it is inaccurate, incomplete or obsolete;
• to obtain the deletion of your Personal Information in the situations set forth by applicable data protection law (the “right to be forgotten”).
• to withdraw your consent to the data processing without affecting the lawfulness of processing, where your Personal Information has been collected and processed on the basis of your consent;
• to object to the processing of your Personal Information under certain circumstances, in which case we may ask you to justify your request by explaining to us your particular situation;
• to request limits to the processing of your data, when allowed by and in circumstances set forth under applicable law;
• to have your Personal Information directly transferred by us to a third-party processor of your choice (where technically feasible and when processing is based on your consent); and

• to non-discrimination, as defined under relevant law, in the Services or quality of Services you receive from us for exercising your rights.

Regarding the collection of Generic Information, as described above, you also have the ability to change your browser and device cookie settings to limit this collection.

• Updating and Correcting Your Information

As we mentioned above, you may access, update, or delete your Personal Information stored by CDL DNA Corporation. To access, update, or delete information related to your applications for Truck Driving Jobs, please login to your account with our Website or App. For all other requests, please contact us at the address below. Note that we may limit certain requests to modify your Personal Information, including requests that impact other users’ privacy, that concern information that CDL DNA Corporation does not possess or control, or requests that are repetitive, unlawful, or that require technical means disproportionate to the request.

• Protecting Your Information

CDL DNA Corporation takes reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect your information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, and destruction. We employ certain physical, managerial, and technical measures designed to improve the integrity and security of the Website and the personal information you transmit to us and that we store on our systems.

While we strive to make your information as secure as possible, no transmission system or data network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. By using or Website, App and Services, you acknowledge that there are data security and privacy limitations inherent to the use of the Internet, and that the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information exchanged between you and CDL DNA Corporation, or between you and other CDL DNA Corporation users and third-party partners, cannot be guaranteed. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or that we store, and you do so at your own risk.

• Children

All of CDL DNA Corporation’s Services, including our Website, are intended for adult audiences. We do not offer or provide products and services for, and none of our products or services are intended for or directed to anyone under 18. If you are under 18, do not attempt to register for or use any of our Services, including our Website, and do not provide us any Personal Information about yourself.

If we learn that any Personal Information of any person under the age of 18 has been collected on the Website, we will take the appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child under the age of 18 has violated the terms of this Privacy Policy by obtaining an account on the Website or otherwise providing us with his or her information, you may alert us at info@cdldna.com so that we may delete that child’s Personal Information and not further use or retain such information except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others, or as otherwise required by law.

• Special Offers and Promotions

As noted above, we may send you emails about offers and special promotions. It is our intention to only send you email communications that will be useful to you and that you want to receive. We may use third party email service providers to send emails.

We provide you the ability to define and modify your mailing preferences at any time, including unsubscribing from all marketing communications. In addition, every time you receive an email, you will be provided the choice to opt-out of future emails by following the instructions provided in the email.

We may also sell, lease, rent, or otherwise provide your email address to advertisers and third party marketers to provide offers and special promotions that we think will be of interest to you.

• Do Not Track

Your browser and other mechanisms may permit you to send do-not-track signals or other similar signals to express your preferences regarding online tracking. However, because there is not yet a defined response to do-not-track requests, our Website does not respond to your browser’s do-not-track request. As noted above, third parties, such as our advertising partners, may collect data that relates to you. We cannot control third parties’ responses to do-not-track signals or other such mechanisms. Third parties’ use of data relating to you and responsiveness to do-not-track signals is governed by their respective privacy policies.

• Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you have the right to request information from us regarding the manner in which we share certain categories of personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, in addition to the rights set forth above. Under California law, you have the right to send us a request at the designated address listed below to receive the following information:

1. the categories of information we disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year;
2. the names and addresses of the third parties that received the information; and
3. if the nature of the third party’s business cannot be determined from their name, examples of the products or services marketed.

To make such a request, please provide sufficient information for us to determine if this applies to you, and attest to the fact that you are a California resident. Please also provide a current California address for our response. You may make this request in writing to us at the below address. Any such request must include “California Privacy Rights Request” in the first line of the description, and include your name, street address, city, state and ZIP code. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each year, and we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than through the address provided for this purpose below.

Note that responsive information may be provided in a standardized format that is not specific to you. The designated email address for these information requests is: info@cdldna.com.

• Changes to Our Privacy Policy

The most current version of our Privacy Policy is accessible on our Website at all times. In the future, we may need or decide to change this Privacy Policy, and we reserve the right to make changes to our Privacy Policy at any time and at our sole discretion. We will post any changes to our Privacy Policy on this page and note the effective date so that you are always aware of what information we collect and how we use it. If we materially change our practices regarding collection or use of your Personal Information, your Personal Information will continue to be governed by the Privacy Policy under which it was collected unless you have been provided notice, and have not objected to, such change.

• How to Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, your Personal Information, or your consent choices, you can contact us at:

CDL DNA Corporation I, 924 Kings Canyon Dr

Streamwood, IL 60107

Or by email at: info@cdldna.com.

CDL DNA Corporation cares deeply about the privacy and security of your Personal Information. If you have questions regarding our compliance with this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the above email address. We will do our best to address your concerns as expeditiously as possible.

Effective: 12/01/2023