THE FUTURE OF LOGISTICS COMMUNITY PRIVACY POLICY
At Maru/Blue (part of Harris Research and Analytics), LLC and AMAZON SERVICES EUROPE SARL (“MARU,” “AMAZON,” “us” or "we"), respecting privacy is an important part of our commitment to clients, community participants, and the general public. This privacy policy, (the “Policy”) describes our practices specific to the collection and use of your personal information when you participate in The Future of Logistics Community located at buildinglogisticsfuture.com, (collectively known as the “Site”). This Policy is intended to be read in conjunction with Amazon’s Privacy Policy, which outlines additional details about our data collection and processing practices.
AMAZON owns The Future of Logistics Community (‘Community’) and is operated with third party support from MARU. When you provide any information to the Community, you are submitting this data directly to us.
DATA COLLECTION & USE
Our Community is focused on providing you with the opportunity to voice your opinions on a variety of topics and issues related to logistics. Your opinion is important to us and is the primary focus of the data we collect. In order to facilitate your membership and ensure that we are including you in relevant studies, we create a profile of you. To do this, we collect personal information from you such as your name, email address, and other employment information. On occasion, we may automatically add information from your survey responses to your profile. All information is viewable by us and may be shared with third parties as outlined below.
When filling out surveys, sharing in interviews, or participating in focus groups, we ask that you do not provide personal information unless it is explicitly requested. For example, do not provide sensitive information like your employer name in a field that is requesting information about your supply chain process. When submitting information about others, we require that you obtain their consent before providing their information to us.
Any time you participate as a respondent in one of our surveys, interviews, or focus groups, you can be assured that your individual responses will be kept confidential and will only be shared as outlined in this Policy. You are free to choose whether or not to participate in a survey, interview, or focus group, free to choose not to answer any specific questions, and free to discontinue participation at any time.
SHARING OF INFORMATION / THIRD PARTIES
Generally, we do not provide personal information to third parties. From time to time however, we may share your personal information with others including AMAZON and other third parties under the following circumstances:
- The third party provides a service to us, such as a hosting provider, and is contractually bound to protect the confidentiality of your personal information;
- To administer points, sweepstakes/contests, and other promotions;
- You have consented to participate directly in a study conducted by or on behalf of AMAZON;
- You post the information while participating in an open discussion forum; or
- When we believe it necessary to comply with the law, to protect the rights or safety of our website, other users, or third parties.
We will never use your personal information for reasons that we have not disclosed to you, including selling it to marketers or advertisers for their own purposes.
We reserve the right to use and share all non-personal information with others without limitation. For more information see Amazon’s Consumer Survey Service Policy.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SITE
In order to participate in our Community, you must opt-in to receive emails from us. The first email you receive from us will be sent to confirm your subscription and verify that the email address you have provided is valid. Subsequent emails will be sent to invite you to participate in research studies, to respond to your inquiries and support requests, to send you newsletters and other informative content, and to administer sweepstakes.
COOKIES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES
When you visit the Site, participate in a research study, access the member portal, or interact with a study invite email, we use certain technologies to retain your preferences and provide other Site functionality. These technologies include cookies, web beacons, and digital fingerprints. To learn more about these technologies and your options, please visit Amazon’s Privacy Policy.
OPTING-OUT
At any time, you may choose to opt-out of our Community by clicking the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails, by using the Unsubscribe option in the Profile area of the member portal, or by contacting us directly via the contact information listed above. Please note that when you unsubscribe, we will not only cease sending you emails, we will also deactivate your membership. Any information you have submitted to us, including survey invites and personal information will continue to be retained in accordance with our data retention practices outlined below. Any sweepstakes eligibility you have accumulated will be immediately forfeited and cannot be reclaimed even if you sign up again at a later date.
Opting-out of our Community does not unsubscribe you from other Communities you have chosen to join. You may terminate your participation in the Community at any time by sending an email with the subject line "remove me" to support@buildingfuturelogistics.com.
Certain communications are transactional in nature and do not provide you the ability to opt-out. For more information, please visit Amazon’s Privacy Policy.
DATA RETENTION
We will retain your personal information and research study responses for as long as it remains necessary or relevant for the purposes we have identified or as permitted/required by law. For example, we may need to retain the personal information of an unsubscribed member for the purposes of maintaining the integrity of the study, or to honor that member’s opt-out preference (by retaining the email address). If you would like to explicitly request the removal of your personal information, please contact us. Non-personal information is not subject to any retention limitations and may be retained indefinitely.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We encourage you to periodically review this Policy to stay informed of how we manage your personal information. If any changes are made to this Policy, we will revise the "Last Updated" date that is indicated on the Policy.
Last Updated: June 25, 2024
COMMUNITY BUILDING THE FUTURE OF LOGISTICS - ONGOING SWEEPSTAKES RULES AND REGULATIONS
Last Updated: June 25, 2024
HOW TO ENTER THE FUTURE OF LOGISTICS COMMUNITY SWEEPSTAKES
1. SWEEPSTAKES PERIOD: This Sweepstakes starts on July 15, 2024 and closes on July 14, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Time (the “Sweepstakes Period”). The Sweepstakes is sponsored by The Future of Logistics Community (the “Sponsor”) and will be administered by MARU/BLUE (part of Harris Research and Analytics), LLC (“Administrator”).
2. ELIGIBILITY: This Sweepstakes is open to all registered members of The Future of Logistics Community (“Entrants”). All Entrants must be individuals legally residing in the United States of America and who are eighteen (18) years of age or older or must be individuals legally residing in the United Kingdom and who are the age of majority in their State of residence at the time of entry into the Sweepstakes. The Administrator reserves the right to require proof of age and jurisdiction of residence prior to awarding any prize. Employees, agents, and representatives of the Sponsor or Administrator (and their subsidiaries or affiliates and each of their respective advertising and promotion agencies) are not eligible to win, nor are the parents, siblings, and children of any such employee, agent, or representative or any person with whom such employee, agent, or representative is domiciled.
3. PRIZES: There are a total of 120 Prizes to be given away during the Sweepstakes Period, consisting of the following: for each month of the Sweepstakes Period five prizes of $100 will be awarded in the form of Amazon.com eGiftcards for members residing in the US and five prizes of 100£ in the form of Amazon.com eGiftcards for members residing in the UK. The total value of prizes awarded each month is $500 and 500£ and there are five draws. The Prizes will be drawn within fifteen (15) business days of the end of each calendar month during the Sweepstakes Period (each, a “Draw Date”). All Prizes are to be denominated in US dollars for members residing in the US or British Pounds for members residing in the UK.
4. HOW TO PARTICIPATE: All Entrants may enter the Sweepstakes by following the link in the invitation to participating in research studies on The Future of Logistics Community research website, or by accessing The Future of Logistics Community survey website directly at buidlinglogisticsfuture.com. Entrants will receive one (1) entry into a monthly prize draw for every participating survey completed or surveys for which the Entrant was disqualified (i.e. attempted to complete a survey but could not due to failure to meet a criteria of the survey, but for clarity will not receive entries if the Entrant decides or is otherwise unable to complete a survey other than for disqualification) during a calendar month. The Sweepstakes is offered electronically via the Internet. Each member can only win once in a 12-month period.
5. PRIZE DRAWS: Prize draws will be held in either Vancouver, British Columbia or Toronto, Ontario, within approximately fifteen (15) business days of the end of each calendar month during the Sweepstakes Period. Winners will be determined by random drawing from all eligible entries received during the applicable calendar month. The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. The odds of an entry winning any Prize will be the same, whether the entry was automatically generated or by alternate means of entry.
6. PRIZE AWARDING: Prizes will be awarded only on verification by Administrator that all Sweepstakes requirements have been met by the winners. Each Prize must be accepted as awarded and no substitution, transfer, conversion, or assignment of Prizes will be allowed, unless at the discretion of the Sponsor which may substitute a Prize of comparable or greater value. No correspondence will be entered into except with selected Entrants at the email address registered to The Future of Logistics Community or on the mail-in entries.
The Administrator will notify each winner by email within fifteen (15) business days of the relevant Draw Date. Winners will have three (3) business days from notification to accept the Prize by email and will be instructed whom to contact at that time. The Administrator is not responsible for and shall not be liable for late, lost, misdirected, or unsuccessful efforts to notify the winner. If a selected Entrant cannot be contacted or fails to respond within the allotted time the Administrator reserves the right to void that entry and select another eligible Entrant for that Prize (and in the event that the subsequent selected Entrant cannot be contacted or fails to respond, a further Entrant will be selected, until a winner is determined, provided further that in the event that a winner is not determined after attempts have been made to contact three Entrants, the Administrator may elect not to conduct any further redraws and not award such Prize).
In order to be declared an official winner, the selected Entrants may be required to complete, and return to the Administrator a web-based Winner Notification Survey within three (3) days of receipt. If a selected Entrant(s) fails to complete and return the web-based Winner Notification Survey to the Administrator within three (3) business days, the Administrator reserves the right to void that entry and select another eligible Entrant for that Prize. By completing, and returning the web-based Winner Notification Survey, the Entrant: (i) confirms compliance with these Sweepstakes Rules and Regulations; (ii) consents to MARU providing the Entrant’s name, email address, and state details to MARU’s third party prize fulfillment provider (“Prize Provider”) for Prize Provider to contact the Entrant to fulfill the Prize; (iii) releases and forever discharges MARU, its affiliates, and subsidiaries and its advertising and promotional agencies and partners; (iv) releases and forever discharges the Sponsor and the Administrator, their affiliates and subsidiaries and their advertising and promotional agencies from all claims, demands, damages, actions and causes of action arising or to arise by reason of the acceptance or use of the Prize; and (iv) gives permission to the Sponsor, at its option, to publish or otherwise use the Entrant’s name and comments, without compensation, in any publicity carried out by the Sponsor.
7. SWEEPSTAKES GENERAL RULES: By entering the Sweepstakes, Entrants agree to abide by these Sweepstakes Rules and Regulations and the decisions of the Administrator, which are final.
8. WINNERS LIST: To obtain a copy of a winner list or a copy of the Sweepstakes Rules and Regulations, send your request to: support@buildingfuturelogistics.com. Requests must be received no later than a month after the Draw Date and must enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope.
9. DISQUALIFICATION: The Administrator is not responsible for lost, interrupted, or unavailable network server or other connections, miscommunications, failed telephone, or computer or telephone transmissions or technical failure, jumbled, scrambled, or misdirected transmissions, or other error of any kind whether human, mechanical, or electronic. Persons found tampering with or abusing any aspect of this Sweepstakes or the operation of The Future of Logistics Community website or any other Administrator hosted website, as determined by the Administrator, in its sole discretion, will be disqualified. If disqualified for any of the above abuses, the Administrator reserves the right to terminate the Entrant’s eligibility to participate. In the event any portion of this Sweepstakes is compromised by virus, bugs, non-authorized human intervention, or other causes beyond the control of the Administrator, which in the sole opinion of the Administrator, corrupts or impairs the administration, security, fairness, or proper entry into the sweepstakes, the Administrator reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend or terminate the Sweepstakes and to award Prize(s) to individual(s) selected at random from the pool of Entrants received up to the point of termination. In no event will more Prizes be awarded than those listed in the Sweepstakes Rules and Regulations.
10. TAX INFORMATION: Liability for any applicable taxes imposed by any government/tax authority, if any, on any Prize won is the sole responsibility of the winner of such Prize.
11. DISPUTES: Entrants acknowledge and agree that any disputes arising out of the Sweepstakes or these Rules and Regulations will be governed by the laws of the State of Washington and the jurisdiction of the Washington courts in the City of Seattle.
13. PRIZE DISCLAIMER: The Administrator shall not be responsible or liable to Entrants for any losses, damages or costs incurred as a result of Entrants entering the Sweepstakes or use of a Prize won in connection with this Sweepstakes. By participating in the Sweepstakes, each Entrant agrees to release and hold harmless the Sponsor and the Administrator (and the employees, officers, directors, shareholders, agents, representatives of both parties, their parent company(ies), affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion, and fulfillment agencies), from any and all losses, damages, rights, claims and actions of any kind in connection with the Sweepstakes or resulting from acceptance, possession, or use of any prize, including without limitation, personal injury, death, and property damage, and claims based on publicity rights, defamation, or invasion of privacy.
14. DATA PROTECTION NOTICE: Entrants personal information is protected by the Sponsor’s Web Privacy Code, viewable online at Amazon’s Privacy Policy. The Sweepstakes is subject to the provisions of the provincial Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, entrants acknowledge that Prizes may be fulfilled by third parties and consent to the disclosure of personal information to such third parties for the limited purpose of fulfilling Prizes.
15. APPLICABLE LAWS: This Sweepstakes is subject to the laws of the State of Washington for members residing in the US. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. This sweepstakes is governed and construed under the laws of the United Kingdom applicable therein excluding any body of law governing conflicts of law for members residing in the UK.