Privacy Policy

U.S. DOT Program, dba of NEXT99 LLC and our affiliates (including any joint ventures controlled by U.S. DOT Program) (“U.S. DOT Program,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) provides Department of Transportation (“DOT”) compliance services and background checking services for employers in the transportation industry and other companies (“Customers”) and other related products and services, including online portals that allow prospective and/or current employees, independent contractors, temporary workers/employees, and/or other individuals for legally permissible employment-related purposes (collectively and each, a “Candidate”) to apply for open positions with our Customers (the “Platforms”). We also maintain websites that allow visitors to learn and communicate with us about our products and services (the “Sites”). Collectively, we refer to our Sites, Platforms, and other websites, platforms, portals, and APIs that allow Customers to access our products and services as the “Services.“

This Privacy Policy describes the personal information that we collect from Customers, Candidates, and visitors via the Sites and in connection with the Services, how we use and share that information, the choices you have, and how you can contact us if you have questions or concerns.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that we provide to our Customers for employment screening purposes (“Consumer Reporting Information”). Consumer Reporting Information is governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act and other related statutes, and is outside the scope of this Privacy Policy.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All other categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

We collect the following categories of information.

Information you give us:

Information we obtain from other sources: We may maintain pages on social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. When you visit or interact with our pages on those platforms, you or the platforms may provide us with information through the platform.

Automatic data collection. We and our service providers may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with our Sites, such as:

We may collect this information using cookies and other similar technologies. Cookies are text files that websites store on a visitor‘s device or in the browser for the purpose of helping you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, enabling functionality, and helping us understand user activity and patterns. For more information on how you can control cookies, please see the ‘Your Choices’ section below.

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

To provide the Sites and our Services. This includes:

Research, development, benchmarking, and improving our Sites and Services. We may use personal information for research and development purposes, including to analyze and improve the Site and our Services, identify trends, and operate and expand our business activities. For example, we may use employment and background information to study trends in employment and applications, such as understanding how long drivers stay in a given position, or to enhance the reports we provide to Customers. We may also create aggregated, anonymized, or other de-identified statistics, which we may use for lawful business purposes, including for analytics, forecasting, and strategic planning.

Marketing and advertising, including for:

For compliance and protection, including to enforce any applicable terms and conditions, comply with legal obligations, defend against legal claims or disputes, protect the security and integrity of our Services, and identify and investigate fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.

We may share personal information with:

Customers. We share personal information from Candidates with Customers when they apply for a position with a Customer. We may also share aggregated benchmarking statistics with Customers about drivers in the industry, such as the average number of years that drivers stay in the same position.

Service providers. We share personal information with companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate our Services or our business (such as hosting and server co-location services, communications and content delivery networks (CDNs), data and cyber security services, billing and payment processing services, fraud detection, investigation and prevention services, web and mobile analytics, email and communication distribution and monitoring services, session or activity recording services, call recording, analytics and transcription services, event production and hosting services, remote access services, performance measurement, data optimization and marketing services, support and customer relation management systems, and third-party customer support providers).

Advertising and channel partners. We may share personal information with third party advertising companies (including for the interest-based advertising purposes described above), lead generation partners, and channel partners, resellers, and distributors that allow us to explore and pursue growth opportunities. We do not share employment and background information from Candidates for these purposes.

Professional advisors. We share personal information with professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

Authorities and others. We may share personal information with law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate.

Business transferees. We may share personal information with acquirers and other relevant participants in business transactions (or negotiations for such transactions) involving a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests in, Foley or our affiliates (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

Our Sites manage and participate in various social channels and communities on other platforms. Any information you submit on these forums, blogs and communities – including profile information associated with the user profile you use to post the information – may be read, collected, and used by others who access those websites. Due to the nature of such public forums, your posts and certain profile information may remain visible to all even after you terminate your user profile.

Unsubscribe from direct marketing communications. You may opt out of marketing-related communications by following the opt out or unsubscribe instructions contained in the marketing communication we send you.

Privacy choices. If you reside in California, you may have the following rights:

Limitations. These rights do not apply to Consumer Reporting Information and information that we cannot reasonably associate with you, such as anonymized analytics information about use of our Sites. In addition, your choices may be limited under applicable laws, such as where fulfilling your request would impair the rights of others, our ability to provide a service you have requested, or our ability to comply with our legal obligations and enforce our legal rights.

Opt-out of interest-based advertising. You may limit online tracking by:

Advertising industry opt out tools. You can also use these opt out options to limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by participating companies:

Note that because these opt out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use.

Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to help us better understand how people engage with our Sites by collecting information and creating reports about how users use our Services. For more information on Google Analytics, click here. For more information about Google’s privacy practices, click here. You can opt out of Google Analytics by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to "Do Not Track" or similar signals. To find out more about "Do Not Track," please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

We employ a number of technical, organizational and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, no security measures are failsafe and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

We may retain your personal data for as long as it is reasonably needed in order to maintain and expand our relationship and provide you with our Sites and Services; in order to comply with our legal and contractual obligations; or to protect ourselves from any potential disputes (including as required by laws applicable to log-keeping, records and bookkeeping, and in order to have proof and evidence concerning our relationship, should any legal issues arise following your discontinuance of use), all in accordance with our data retention policy. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of such data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of such data, the purposes for which we process it, and the applicable legal requirements.

Our Sites are not intended for use by children. If we learn that we have collected personal information through our Sites from a child under 13 without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will delete it.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on our Services. We may also provide notification of changes in another way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you, such as via e-mail (if you have an account where we have your contact information) or another manner through our Services.

You can reach us by email at support@usdotprogram.com or at call us @ 239-887-2469