This Privacy Policy explains how LANDFALLFREIGHT LLC ("Landfall Freight", "we", "us") handles personal information when you use landfallfreight.com and our package forwarding services. We are the controller of the personal information described here.
We collect only what we need to receive, store and ship your parcels, and we do not sell your personal information.
1. Information we collect
- Account information: your email address, and the sign-in codes we send to it.
- Profile and addresses: name, phone number, company (optional), country, delivery addresses, tax ID (optional — some countries require it for customs), language preference and how you heard about us.
- Parcel information: domestic tracking numbers, courier, store or platform, item descriptions, quantities and declared values, order screenshots you upload, photos we take of your parcels and packed shipments, weights and sizes.
- Shipment information: recipient details, customs declarations, chosen route, value-added services and international tracking numbers.
- Payment information: invoice amounts, payment status, transaction references and processing fees. Card and other payment details are entered on our payment provider's page — we never see or store your full card number.
- Communications: messages you send us by email or WhatsApp, and our notes about your requests.
- Technical information: IP address, browser type and the pages you request, used for security, rate limiting and troubleshooting; and the marketing source of your visit (for example a link from a social media post).
2. How we use your information
- to create and secure your account and sign you in (performance of our contract with you);
- to receive, match, photograph, store, pack and ship your parcels, prepare customs declarations and handle claims (performance of contract);
- to send invoices, process payments and keep accounting and tax records (contract and legal obligation);
- to answer your questions and send service messages such as storage and payment reminders (contract and legitimate interests);
- to prevent fraud, abuse and prohibited shipments, and to keep our systems secure (legitimate interests and legal obligation);
- to understand which channels bring us new customers, in aggregate (legitimate interests).
We do not use your information for automated decisions that have legal effects on you, and we do not send marketing emails. The only emails our system sends are sign-in codes; other notices appear in your dashboard or are sent by us personally.
4. International transfers
Because we forward parcels from China to other countries, your information is processed in several countries, including the United States (where we and our main service providers are based), China (where our warehouse handles your parcels) and the countries your shipments pass through. Where data protection law requires it — for example for information from the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom — we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the standard contractual clauses offered by our service providers, or on the transfer being necessary to perform our contract with you.
5. How long we keep it
- Sign-in codes expire after 10 minutes. Sign-in sessions end when you log out or after a period of inactivity.
- Temporary marketing-source records for visitors from the EEA and the UK are deleted after 2 hours, or earlier when you sign up.
- Account and profile information is kept while your account is active and deleted or anonymized after you ask us to close it, except as described below.
- Order, invoice and payment records are kept for as long as tax and accounting laws require, generally up to 7 years.
- Photos of parcels and packed shipments are kept for 1 year after the shipment is sent, or after the parcel is returned or disposed of, and then deleted.
- Information needed for an open claim or dispute is kept until it is resolved.
7. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
- access the personal information we hold about you and receive a copy;
- correct it — you can update most of your profile and addresses yourself in your dashboard;
- ask us to delete it, subject to the records we must keep by law;
- object to or restrict certain processing, and receive your information in a portable format;
- lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority (for example in the EU or the UK).
To make a request, email info@landfallfreight.com from the email address on your account. We will respond within 30 days. Residents of California and other US states have the same rights described here, and we will not treat you differently for exercising them.
8. Security
We use encrypted connections (HTTPS), password-free one-time-code sign-in, rate limiting, and private storage for parcel photos that can only be viewed by you and by our staff after signing in. Access to the admin system is limited to authorized staff. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we work to protect your information and will notify you and the authorities of a data breach where the law requires.
9. Children
Our services are only for people aged 18 or over. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has given us personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.
10. EU and UK residents
To exercise your rights under the GDPR or the UK GDPR, please contact info@landfallfreight.com.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page shows the latest version. If we make a significant change, we will show a notice on our website or in your dashboard. This policy is available in English and Chinese; if the two versions differ, the English version prevails.
12. Contact us
LANDFALLFREIGHT LLC Operating address: Building 38, Dongbu Xiandaicheng, Sanhe Subdistrict, Huiyang District, Huizhou, Guangdong, China Phone / WeChat: +86 180 7334 3166 Email: info@landfallfreight.com