Privacy Policy
1About This Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how LanePilot Technologies, LLC ("LanePilot," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information. LanePilot is a Pennsylvania limited liability company located at 8370 Wattsburg Road, Erie, PA 16509.
This Policy applies to the LanePilotTech.com platform (the "Service"), to visitors to our website, to the business organizations that use the Service and their authorized users, to individuals whose information appears in customer records, and to business prospects we contact.
This Policy is incorporated by reference into our Terms of Service. Our Cookie Policy and AI Terms supplement it and are part of our overall privacy commitments.
The Service is a business-to-business platform. We do not offer a consumer, personal, or household tier.
2Who Is Responsible for What
The organization is our customer. When a business uses LanePilot, that organization is our customer, and its people use the Service on its behalf.
For the operational data an organization puts into the Service (shipments, quotes, invoices, receiving records, inventory, vendor records), the organization decides why and how that data is used and we act on its instructions. In privacy terms, the organization is the controller and LanePilot is the processor.
For a narrower set of purposes, LanePilot decides for itself and is the controller. These are: administering and securing accounts, billing, operating the referral program, preventing fraud and abuse, our own marketing and prospecting, and meeting our own legal obligations.
Creating and publishing aggregated and de-identified statistical indices, reports, and market intelligence, including the Small Shipper Index. To the extent personal information is processed to create those outputs, LanePilot determines the purpose and essential means of that limited processing and acts as an independent controller. The resulting published information is not personal information where it has been aggregated and de-identified so that an individual is not reasonably identifiable.
An organization's own personnel. Where an organization gives its employees access to the Service, including dock workers with restricted dock logins, the organization is responsible for telling its people that it uses LanePilot and what the Service records about their activity. Our Terms require the organization to give any notice the law requires.
An organization's own legal record-keeping duties. Some organizations must keep certain records by law, for example a federal firearms licensee's acquisition and disposition records. That duty belongs to the organization. The Service helps it keep those records, and we hold them for it as described in Sections 12 and 13, but we do not file, deliver, or report them to any government agency on its behalf.
That allocation does not remove anyone's individual rights. Any individual may contact [email protected] directly about their own personal data, and we will handle that request in accordance with applicable law, regardless of what their employer has or has not told them.
3Data We Collect
Account and identity information. Business email address, name, company name, job title, role within the organization, and optional phone number. Provided when an account is created or a user is invited. Used to create and administer the account, authenticate users, and communicate about the Service.
Authentication data. Session tokens and authentication metadata. You sign in with an email address and a password. Your password is stored and managed by Clerk, our identity provider, under its own security controls. LanePilot does not store your password and cannot access it.
Shipment and freight data. Origin and destination, freight class, weight, dimensions, carrier selections, booking details, pickup and tracking status, and rate quotes. Entered by you or imported through integrations you authorize. Used to provide quoting, booking, tracking, audit, and scorecard features.
Uploaded documents. Bills of lading, invoices, carrier contracts, rate confirmations, and similar records. These may contain names, addresses, signatures, and contact details of your personnel or counterparties. Used to provide invoice audit, document parsing, and related features.
Invoice audit and dispute records. Audit findings, identified discrepancies, and the dispute letters and vendor chargeback letters the Service generates for you to send yourself.
Receiving, warehouse, and inventory data. Where an organization uses LanePilot Warehouse, we hold inbound receiving records including overage, shortage and damage findings, the warehouse map and digital bin locations, dock queue and cycle count records, vendor records and vendor contact details, vendor scorecards and chargeback records, inventory levels and movements, packing slips, outbound shipment contents, and product recipes covering assembly and raw-material processing.
Some of this describes what an organization stocks, builds, and ships. For a manufacturer, product recipes can amount to a bill of materials. We treat this as the organization's confidential information, we do not use it for any purpose other than providing the Service to that organization, and it is never included in benchmarking.
Firearms acquisition and disposition records. Where a federal firearms licensee uses the Service to record the firearms it acquires and disposes of under 27 CFR Part 478, we hold those records for it. They contain what the organization records under those rules, such as each firearm's details and serial number, the dates it was received and disposed of, and the person or business it came from or went to. These records are protected against change once written.
Dock worker and personnel activity data. Where an organization gives a worker a login, we record that account's identity (name and email as supplied by the employer) and their activity in the Service, such as check-ins, receiving, picking and packing actions recorded. Used to operate the feature and to give the employer an accurate operational record. LanePilot collects one labor rate at the organization level, as a single average with no individual attached. We do not collect individual wage information.
Carrier account credentials. The login details, keys, or account numbers you connect so the Service can quote, book, and track on your own carrier accounts. Stored encrypted. Used only to act on your instructions with that carrier. Described further under Security below.
Payment information. The last four digits of your card, card brand, billing address, and a tokenized payment-method fingerprint or similar identifier supplied by Stripe. Full card numbers go directly to Stripe and never reach LanePilot's servers. Used for subscription billing, support, referral eligibility, and fraud prevention.
Referral program data. Referral codes, referral-link attribution events, first-use and expiration dates, source or campaign information, the referring and referred Organization identifiers, accepted legal-document versions, qualification and eligibility results, payment status, reward type, value and status, notices sent, cap usage, and fraud-review outcomes. Used to attribute and administer referrals, deliver and account for rewards, apply program limits, prevent abuse, support billing questions, and resolve disputes.
Usage data. Pages visited, features used, query counts, session duration, and interaction events, collected automatically through PostHog. Used to understand and improve the Service.
Technical data. IP address, browser and device type, operating system, and referrer, collected automatically through Cloudflare, Vercel, and our server logs. Used to secure the Service, prevent abuse, and maintain performance.
Error and diagnostic data. Error reports and diagnostic context collected through Sentry when something in the Service fails. Used to detect and fix faults.
Communications. Support requests, feedback, and correspondence with LanePilot. Used to answer questions and improve support.
Documents and contact details sent to us by email. If you email documents to an intake address such as invoices@ or contracts@, we receive those documents and your contact details. Where a business sends us an invoice and quote asking us to audit them, we process those documents to produce the result you asked for, and we retain your business contact details as a lead record. The basis is that you contacted us and supplied the documents for that purpose. You can ask us to remove your details at any time at [email protected].
Where we reply to such a message, the reply is a response to correspondence you began. Any commercial message we send carries our postal address and a working way to opt out, and we honor opt-outs permanently.
Business prospect data. Names, business email addresses, phone numbers, professional profile URLs, job titles, and company information about individuals who are not users, sourced from publicly available business sources rather than from the individual. Those sources include company websites, professional networking pages, public business directories, and business-contact discovery and verification services such as Hunter, which is a source for this category as well as a provider we send it to. We collect and use this information for our legitimate business interest in identifying and contacting businesses that may benefit from LanePilot. We limit it to business-to-business outreach, use professional rather than personal contact details, honor opt-out and deletion requests, and do not use it for any unrelated purpose. If you are a prospect, this is the only category we hold about you, and you may ask us to delete it at any time.
Outreach and communication tracking. Thread identifiers, reply classification labels, reply dates, and re-engagement dates, generated when we send outreach and receive responses. Used to manage outreach and to avoid contacting people who asked not to be contacted.
Feedback and interview data. Notes, transcripts, summaries, and sentiment scores from customer or prospect conversations, recorded with notice to participants as applicable law requires.
4How We Use Data
We use the information above to provide and operate the Service, administer and secure accounts, process billing, operate and measure the referral program, deliver and account for rewards, detect and prevent fraud and abuse, support customers, analyze account activity and product usage to assess account health, identify service issues, and support customer retention, improve the Service, conduct business-to-business marketing and prospecting, and comply with law and respond to legal process.
Aggregated Market Intelligence: To create aggregated and de-identified statistics, indices, reports, and market intelligence about freight, invoice-audit, receiving, warehouse, and operational trends, and to publish those results externally through newsletters, reports, websites, presentations, and similar publications. This may include a recurring Small Shipper Index. We do not publish raw customer records or figures that reasonably identify an organization, individual, shipment, invoice, quote, or an organization's relationship with a carrier or vendor.
We do not use data for purposes incompatible with those without providing notice.
5Artificial Intelligence
LanePilot uses Anthropic's Claude API to read and interpret documents, generate findings and summaries, and support certain product and business functions. This covers content that customers submit, documents that non-customers email to us asking for an audit, and internal business operations such as drafting outreach and analyzing feedback.
LanePilot does not use your content to train or fine-tune any AI model.
Anthropic does not train its models on the inputs or outputs we send through its API. As last verified on August 1, 2026, under Anthropic's then-current terms, API content is retained for up to 30 days and then deleted, except that content flagged for policy enforcement may be retained for up to two years. LanePilot does not have a Zero Data Retention agreement with Anthropic. That retention is governed by Anthropic under its own terms and technical controls. A deletion request you make to us may not result in immediate deletion from those provider-controlled retention systems, although we will take the steps required by applicable law and by our agreement with Anthropic.
AI output is an aid, not professional, legal, or accounting advice. Dollar figures the Service produces derive from documents you supplied and should be reviewed before you send anything to a carrier or vendor. Our AI Terms describe this in full.
6Specific Protections
Data isolation. Each organization's data is logically isolated from other organizations'. We do not share one customer's shipment data, rates, carrier selections, vendor terms, or inventory with another customer.
No sharing with carriers or vendors. We do not share your shipment, invoice, audit, scorecard, vendor, or inventory data with carriers or vendors except the information necessary to complete a booking you direct, and we never send, file, or negotiate a dispute or chargeback on your behalf.
Carriers are your own counterparties. When you connect a carrier, you connect your own account with that carrier, using your own credentials. When you request a rate, book a shipment, or track one, we transmit the shipment details and the contact information that shipment requires to that carrier, at your direction and on your own account with it. In this workflow the carrier receives that data as your transportation counterparty, under your own account and your own agreement with it. We do not appoint the carrier to process that data on our behalf and do not instruct it how to process it, which is why carriers do not appear in the sub-processor list below. The carrier handles that data as an independent controller under its own privacy policy and its own terms, which govern your relationship with it, so refer to your carriers' own privacy policies for how they handle it. We transmit these technical requests solely to perform the quoting, booking, and tracking you initiate. That is different from representing you. Consistent with the point immediately above and with our Terms, we do not submit dispute correspondence, negotiate charges, or advance any claim on your behalf.
Carrier contract and invoice data. Contracts and rate confirmations you upload are used only to power your own audit and comparison features. We do not disclose your negotiated terms to other customers, to carriers, or to third parties, except as required by law or with your written authorization. How long we keep them is explained in Section 12.
7Small Shipper Index and External Market Intelligence
LanePilot may use data generated through use of the Service to create aggregated and de-identified market intelligence, including a recurring Small Shipper Index.
The Index may report industry-level patterns such as quote-to-invoice variance, apparent invoice-discrepancy rates, disputed accessorial trends, reclassification and reweigh frequency, price dispersion, fuel-surcharge differences, invoice-error patterns, and service variability. The particular measures may change as the Index develops.
Before publishing a figure, we apply aggregation, de-identification, suppression, and contribution-concentration controls designed to prevent the figure from reasonably identifying an organization, individual, shipment, invoice, quote, or an organization's relationship with a carrier or vendor. We do not publish raw uploaded documents, raw Customer Data, Carrier Credentials, or customer-specific rates or contract terms.
Where personal information must be processed to create these aggregate figures, LanePilot acts as an independent controller for that limited purpose. Once the resulting information has been sufficiently aggregated and de-identified so that no individual is reasonably identifiable, it is no longer treated as personal information.
The Small Shipper Index is separate from Network Benchmarking. Network Benchmarking is a feature that is on by default and can be switched off at any time, uses only the limited lane-level fields described below, and displays benchmark figures within the Service. The Small Shipper Index may use a broader range of aggregated Service data and may be distributed publicly. Turning Network Benchmarking off does not opt an organization out of the aggregated and de-identified use described in this subsection.
We do not use Customer Data or these aggregate results to train, fine-tune, or develop any artificial-intelligence or machine-learning model.
8Network Benchmarking
Network Benchmarking is being built. We are collecting lane-level data now, from organizations that have not switched it off, in order to build a LanePilot benchmark. The benchmark itself is not yet published. Once we hold enough contributed data to produce figures that meet the conditions below, we will publish them in the Service so participating organizations can compare their own lanes against aggregated figures. Until then the feature collects data and shows no figures.
It is on by default and you can turn it off at any time. Network Benchmarking is enabled for an organization unless it is switched off in account settings, and switching it off stops future contributions immediately. Turning it off does not reverse data already anonymized and aggregated, because that data no longer identifies anyone. Only the lane-level fields listed below are ever contributed, identifiers are removed at the point of contribution rather than at publication, and inventory, product, vendor and receiving data is never contributed.
Contributing and receiving go together. Network Benchmarking exists because participating organizations contribute to it. If your organization turns contribution off, it also stops receiving benchmark figures, because there is no benchmark to show without contributed data. Turning contribution back on restores access. This applies only to Network Benchmarking figures and does not affect any other part of the Service.
Record of your choice. When your organization switches Network Benchmarking off or back on, we keep a small record of that change (which organization, the setting, when, and who made it) so we can show that we honored it. We keep that record for as long as the account exists and for seven years after it closes, and then delete it.
What is contributed. Only lane-level fields: origin ZIP, destination ZIP, freight class, weight, and charge. Company name, account identifiers, contact details, and specific addresses are removed before anything is aggregated. Inventory, product, vendor, and receiving data is never contributed.
How we will operate it. These are the conditions that will govern the benchmark when it launches, and we will not publish a figure that does not meet them. LanePilot will operate the benchmark itself. Contributed data will be at least three months old before inclusion. Any figure we show will rest on data from at least five participating organizations, and no single participant will account for more than approximately twenty-five percent of a figure. Output will be aggregated so that an individual contributor cannot be identified or reconstructed. The removal of identifiers described above happens now, at the point of contribution, not only when a figure is published.
We do not sell, license, or otherwise provide this data to carriers, third-party logistics providers, brokers, or logistics technology companies. Benchmarking exists so our own users can see where they stand.
Network Benchmarking is separate from the Small Shipper Index and other externally published Aggregated Market Intelligence. Its off-switch, limited contributed fields, and in-Service purpose apply only to Network Benchmarking and are not expanded by the separate Index disclosure above.
9Sub-Processors and Service Providers
We use the providers below. The Role column states which of three capacities each provider acts in, because they are not the same and should not be read as one list. The table below is grouped into those three capacities. Most are processors that handle data on our instructions and are contractually restricted from using it for their own purposes. Some also act as independent controllers for their own regulatory purposes, which is noted in their row and is governed by that provider's own terms rather than our instructions. Hunter is a processor, but in a third capacity: it processes only our own business prospecting data and never receives customer data. That is why it appears here, where we disclose our own prospecting, but not in the subprocessor exhibit to our Data Processing Agreement, which covers only providers that process customer data.
This list was last verified on October 26, 2026.
Group 1. Providers that process customer data on LanePilot's instructions.
| Provider | Role | What it handles |
|---|---|---|
| Clerk | Processor. Identity and authentication | Email address, name, session tokens, passwords (stored by Clerk, never by LanePilot) |
| Databricks, Inc. (Neon) | Processor. Application database (Neon Postgres), hosted on Amazon Web Services in the United States (us-east-1) | Account, referral, billing-status, shipment, audit, vendor, receiving, warehouse, inventory, and firearms record data |
| Cloudflare | Processor. Application workers, object storage, key-value storage, database connection pooling (Hyperdrive, query caching off), security and DDoS protection | Data passing between you, the Service and its database; uploaded documents; nightly database backup copies; IP address, traffic metadata, cookie data |
| Vercel | Processor. Website and application hosting | Request data, IP address, technical logs |
| Anthropic, PBC | Processor. AI processing via the Claude API | Document content, query text, and other content submitted for AI processing |
| SendGrid (Twilio) | Processor. Transactional customer email only | Recipient email addresses and the content of account, billing, referral, reward, deletion, and restore emails we send to our own customers. Not used for prospecting or cold outreach. Also receives a deleted user's email address for SendGrid's suppression list |
| Google Workspace | Processor. Email intake, internal business records and operational trackers, and cold-outreach sending | Documents and contact details sent to our intake addresses; customer communications; internal records and operational trackers held in Workspace-hosted Sheets and Drive files, such as lead, prospect, and outreach-tracking records; and business-to-business cold outreach sent from Workspace-hosted mailboxes kept separate from the transactional email SendGrid sends on our behalf |
| Sentry | Processor. Error and performance monitoring | Error reports and diagnostic context, which may include limited technical identifiers |
| PostHog | Processor. Product analytics | Usage events, pseudonymous identifiers, session data |
Group 2. Providers that also act as independent controllers for their own regulatory purposes.
Stripe, Inc. | Processor for payment processing, and independent controller for fraud prevention and anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer compliance | Billing address, tokenized payment-method fingerprint, payment method details, and transaction records
Group 3. Providers that support LanePilot's own business operations rather than customer data.
Hunter | Processor. Business email discovery and verification for our own prospecting | Business prospect contact data only. Does not receive customer data
Vendor-governed retention. Three providers retain data on their own terms, which our deletion process cannot reach and which we disclose rather than obscure:
- Anthropic retains API content for up to 30 days by default, and up to two years for content flagged under its usage policies. It does not train on our content.
- Stripe retains data while providing services and afterwards for legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, and fraud-prevention purposes, generally five or more years from the end of the relationship or the last transaction, including in its capacity as an independent controller.
- Neon keeps its own short-term restore history of our database, so a record we delete can remain in that history for up to 7 days before it expires.
Exited providers. Bubble was our application database until our move to Neon and stopped receiving data on October 22, 2026. We kept a final export of that data in our own encrypted backup storage, outside Bubble and Neon, and it expires on the same 35-day rotation as our other backups. Any copies remaining with Bubble after our account with it ends are governed by Bubble's own terms. CloudConvert was removed from the Service on 2026-07-18 and Apollo was removed on 2026-07-17. None of them receives any data now. We retain the executed data processing agreement for CloudConvert covering the historical period only.
We may also disclose personal information to comply with legal obligations or valid legal process, to protect the rights, property, or safety of LanePilot, our users, or others, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, subject to this Policy continuing to apply.
10Where We Process Data
We process data primarily in the United States, through our hosting providers and the sub-processors listed above.
11Do Not Sell or Share
LanePilot does not sell, rent, or trade personal data to third parties for their own marketing purposes, and does not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
As a transparency measure we offer a Do Not Sell or Share mechanism regardless. Email [email protected] at any time. We offer this voluntarily and do not concede that any particular state privacy statute applies to our operations.
12How Long We Keep Data
We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes in this Policy, or as required by law. The periods below are LanePilot's adopted retention schedule. When a period ends, we delete the record from our active systems, and any backup copy expires on the rotation shown below. If a law requires us to keep a particular record longer than the period shown, we keep it only for as long as that law requires and only for that purpose.
How deletion happens. When a period below ends, our systems delete the record automatically, normally in a nightly cleanup run, and log what was deleted and what was kept and why. A legal hold (Section 14) pauses this.
| Category | Retention period |
|---|---|
| Tax and financial substantiation, customer invoices, bad debt, LanePilot billing records | 7 years |
| Payroll and employment tax records | 6 years |
| Account and identity data, for billing, fraud, and compliance purposes | 4 years after the account closes |
| Sign-up abuse-prevention record | A minimal record of the email domain and a one-way coded (hashed) form of the email address, kept for up to 4 years after the account closes to prevent repeated free-plan or sign-up abuse. The other identifiers in sign-up records are deleted at the end of the 29-day recovery window |
| Freight operational data (quotes, bookings, bills of lading, tracking) and saved shipments | Retained while actively used, and for four years after the later of final shipment disposition and the final invoice, audit, or dispute activity relating to that shipment |
| Invoice and audit data, audit findings, dispute letters, and vendor chargeback letters | Four years after final resolution, or the last material activity involving the applicable audit, dispute, credit, refund, or chargeback |
| Invoices emailed to your intake address and waiting for review | Deleted 60 days after arrival if still waiting while your account is active, and deleted with the account at the end of the 29-day recovery window if your account is deleted. In every case, an invoice still waiting is removed no later than 70 days after it arrives, unless a legal hold applies. Once an invoice is reviewed, it becomes invoice and audit data and follows that row |
| Reports the Service builds from your shipment data, such as KPI reports, and their share links | Deleted when your organization's last remaining shipment record is deleted under the freight operational period above, or four years after the end of the period the report covers, whichever comes first |
| Exports, cached copies, and AI outputs we store, and freight evidence photos | Exports, cached copies and stored AI outputs follow the record they were made from. Freight evidence photos follow Privacy Policy Addendum 2 |
| Customer-uploaded carrier agreements and rate confirmations | Kept for as long as they may still govern a shipment, invoice, audit, or dispute, including after the account is closed. We do not yet delete these automatically, so today we keep them until you remove them or ask us to delete them, subject to Section 14. See "Carrier agreements" below |
| Closing-dates record | Kept for as long as the carrier agreements it relates to are kept. See "Closing-dates record" below |
| Firearms acquisition and disposition records | Kept, including after the account is deleted, until your organization tells us it no longer needs them. See "Firearms records" below |
| Carrier credentials, active secret | Deleted immediately on disconnection. On account closure, destroyed with the rest of the account when the 29-day recovery window ends. When a solo account is archived because its owner joins another organization, deleted at that moment. Never retained beyond that, never placed under legal hold |
| Carrier credential non-secret records (metadata, access and audit logs) | 1 year |
| Prospect and marketing data | 24 months from last activity |
| Feedback and interview data, including notes, transcripts, summaries, and sentiment scores | 24 months after the relevant conversation |
| Opt-out and suppression records | Kept indefinitely, as a minimal record, solely so we do not contact you again. Never used for marketing |
| Network Benchmarking on/off records | For the life of the account plus 7 years, then deleted |
| Erasure records and security incident records | 6 years |
| Consent and acceptance records | 4 years after the relationship ends |
| Referral attribution, eligibility, reward, cap, notice, and fraud-review records | 4 years after the later of the relevant customer relationship ending or final resolution of the reward, payment, chargeback, fraud review, or dispute. Related invoices and account credits remain under the 7-year billing-record rule above |
| Unattributed referral-link events and browser tokens where no Organization account is created | The 30-day attribution period, then deleted or de-identified within 30 additional days unless tied to a specific fraud investigation or legal hold |
| Product activity records (actions taken in the Service, attributed to a user) | User identifiers severed once no longer necessary. Entries retained in identified form only under a specific retention purpose or a legal hold |
| Privacy request records | 24 months |
| Contracts, data processing agreements, and vendor agreements | Term, plus 6 years |
| Support tickets and customer correspondence | 2 years |
| Short-lived technical records (records our system writes so that an action, such as saving a document or recording a quote, completes once and is not repeated by accident) | Deleted automatically no later than 29 days after they are created. Records of this kind that document a charge, a credit, or a billing acknowledgment are billing records and follow the 7-year rule above |
| Backups | Expire on a 35-day rotation |
Receiving, warehouse, vendor, and inventory records are your organization's own operating records. This includes dock scheduling, warehouse layouts and work assignments, orders, purchase orders, counts, stock records, and product records. We keep them while your account is open. When the account is deleted, we erase them at the end of the 29-day recovery window, unless a law requires us to keep a particular record longer, in which case we keep it only for that required period and only for that purpose. They do not follow the four-year freight period. Inbound shipment records created by receiving are shipment records and follow the four-year freight period; the receiving events, line items, purchase orders and counts attached to them are erased at the end of the window. Freight shipment, invoice, audit, dispute, and claim records keep their own periods in the table above, freight evidence photos follow Addendum 2, and firearms acquisition and disposition records follow "Firearms records" below.
Records your business must keep for a regulator. Some businesses must keep certain records for a set time under rules that apply to them, for example medical-device records. That duty belongs to your business. Export those records before you delete your account, because we erase warehouse records at the end of the recovery window. Firearms acquisition and disposition records are handled differently, as described below.
Carrier agreements. A carrier agreement or rate confirmation you upload can govern shipments, invoices, and disputes that close years apart, so we keep it until we can confirm that everything it governs is finally closed, and then for four years. For an agreement with no end date, the end is when you remove it or close your account. We have not yet built the automatic check that confirms everything an agreement governs is closed. Until we do, we do not delete uploaded carrier agreements automatically. We keep them, you can still remove them yourself while your account is open, and after your account is deleted they are kept only in storage, with access limited to authorized legal or compliance staff. We will update this Policy before we start deleting them automatically.
Closing-dates record. Your shipment, invoice, audit, and claim records are deleted on their own schedules above, which can happen before a carrier agreement that covered them can be deleted. So, just before our nightly cleanup deletes one of those records, it saves a few dates in a small separate record: internal identifiers for your organization, for the record being deleted, and for the user account it belonged to; the date of its last activity; the latest date it was recorded as settled and how (paid, dispute resolved, credit or refund, or clean audit); whether a dispute on it was closed; how the record was captured; and when it was saved. It contains no names, addresses, amounts, or documents. Only our deletion process reads it, and we use it for nothing else. We keep it as long as the carrier agreements it relates to are kept, including after your account is deleted, and delete it once they have been deleted.
Firearms records. If your organization holds a federal firearms license and records its firearms acquisitions and dispositions in the Service, federal law generally requires your organization to keep those records until it discontinues its licensed business (27 CFR 478.129). Because deleting them could cause your organization to break that law, we withhold those records from deletion, including when you delete your account, and keep them until your organization tells us it no longer needs them, and then we delete them. While your account is open, your organization can see them and can download each firearm's record history from the Service. After your account is deleted, we keep them only in storage, use them for nothing else, and give access only to authorized legal or compliance staff, to your organization on request, or as the law requires. When your organization discontinues its licensed business, it must deliver its records as 27 CFR 478.127 requires; we do not do that for it.
Backups. Deleting data from our live systems does not immediately remove it from backups. Backup copies expire on the rotation stated above, and our database provider's own restore history expires as described in Section 9.
13Cancellation, Deletion, and the Recovery Window
Canceling a subscription does not start a deletion clock. Your data is retained under the schedule above until you request deletion, or decline the automatic restoration described in our Terms of Service Section 21.2 when a Pause period reaches its twelve-month limit.
The Pause tier preserves your data in read-only form for up to twelve months and does not auto-renew.
The 29-day recovery window. If you request account deletion, or if you cancel instead of accepting the automatic restoration described in our Terms of Service Section 21.2 when a Pause period reaches its twelve-month limit, we begin a 29-day recovery window. We intend to send reminder emails on or about day 7, day 21, and day 28. An organization may restore its account one time. If it requests deletion again after using that one restoration, no further restoration is available and the deletion becomes permanent when the window ends.
What deletion covers. When the window ends we erase the organization's data from our active production systems. That includes account and contact records, receiving, warehouse, inventory and product records, vendor records and vendor contact details, referral records not subject to the retention schedule, carrier credentials, and uploaded documents that are not attached to a record we keep for a scheduled period. Residual copies in encrypted backups are isolated from ordinary use and expire through our ordinary backup rotation, which completes within 35 days.
What we keep after deletion, and why. Some records are kept for a scheduled period after the account is deleted, and a deletion request does not shorten that period: shipment and quote records, invoice and audit records, and dispute and chargeback letters, with the documents attached to them, for four years after their own closing event shown in Section 12; uploaded carrier agreements and rate confirmations, and the closing-dates record, as shown in Section 12; billing and tax records, for 7 years; account and identity data needed for billing, fraud prevention, and compliance, including the minimal sign-up abuse record; firearms acquisition and disposition records; consent, erasure, opt-out, and Network Benchmarking on/off records; freight evidence photos, as stated in Addendum 2; and anything under a legal hold. While we keep them, these records are not used for ordinary operations. They are limited to storage and to authorized legal, billing, or compliance access, and they are deleted when their period ends.
Firearms records are withheld from deletion. If your organization's account holds firearms acquisition and disposition records, deleting the account does not delete them, for the reason given in Section 12. The confirmation you see when you delete your account says so. Before you delete, you can download each firearm's record history from the Service.
Joining another organization from a solo account. If you have your own solo account and accept an invitation to join another organization, your solo account is archived, not deleted. Nothing in it (freight, warehouse, or documents) is deleted, and no deletion clock starts, until you ask [email protected] to delete it; the 29-day recovery window then applies as described above. Archived accounts are not included in any automatic deletion. The one exception is carrier credentials: any carrier account credentials stored in the solo account are deleted when you join, because nobody can use them from an archived account. The screen where you accept the invitation says this.
Removing an individual is different from deleting an organization. Removing a user ends that person's access to the organization. Everything they did stays in the organization's history, which belongs to the organization, but wherever the Service shows that history, including in its exports, the person appears as "Previous teammate" instead of by name. The organization can no longer see their name, business email address, or telephone number through the Service. To keep the history accurate, we keep the internal identifier that links each past action to the account that took it. It is not a name or contact detail, and we do not show it to the organization. If the organization later invites the same person back, their name shows on their past actions again. Names or contact details that someone typed into free-text notes or into shipping paperwork (for example the shipper contact on a bill of lading), or that appear in uploaded documents, are not changed automatically. On request to [email protected], we will remove or sever them where we can do so without destroying the organization's record. Removing a user does not by itself delete that person's own sign-in account. If the organization deletes their account instead, their login stops at once and their past actions also appear as "Previous teammate". When the 29-day recovery window ends, we delete their personal account data, except what the retention schedule above or a legal hold requires us to keep.
Where the organization is a separate legal entity, such as a limited liability company or a corporation, this holds even if the entity has only one user. The entity remains our customer and its records survive the removal of any individual.
Where the customer is not a separate legal entity, for example a sole proprietorship in which the individual and the business are the same, there is no organization left to hold the records once that person is removed. In that case we treat a deletion request from that individual as a deletion of the entire account. We erase the operational records at the end of the recovery window, except for the categories the retention schedule above requires us to keep, and we minimize or anonymize personal identifiers in anything that must remain.
We ask each customer to tell us which of these two it is when the account is created, because the answer changes what a deletion request does. Deleting an entire organization's account is a separate, deliberate action available only to the account owner.
14Legal Hold
Scheduled deletion is suspended where preservation is required for litigation, an investigation, legal process, enforcement of an agreement, or another applicable legal obligation. We may also retain data beyond the periods above where retention is necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, or to comply with a legal obligation. Where a hold applies, the affected records are withheld from deletion and our erasure record notes them as withheld rather than deleted, so our own record of what happened stays accurate. Where a record is kept only to establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim, we keep no more than is necessary for that purpose and restrict it to storage and authorized legal or compliance access rather than ordinary operational use. The short-lived technical records described in Section 12 are not placed under a hold. They expire on their own short schedule because the record they relate to is itself kept, and held where a hold applies.
A legal hold never retains a live carrier credential. Active credentials are deleted in all cases.
15Your Rights and Choices
Depending on your circumstances you may have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you, correction of inaccurate information, deletion of your personal information (subject to the retention obligations and legal holds described above), a copy of your information in a portable form, and to opt out of marketing at any time.
If you are an employee or authorized user of an organization that uses LanePilot, you may exercise these rights directly with us. Where the request concerns your employer's business records rather than your personal information, we will generally remove or sever your personal identifiers and retain the organization's underlying record, and we will tell you that is what we did. Where a law requires the organization to keep a record that names you, such as a firearms disposition record, we may not be able to delete or sever your details from it, and we will tell you so.
If you are a business prospect, you may ask us to delete your data at any time even though you never registered.
To exercise any right, contact [email protected]. We respond within the time applicable law requires and may need to verify your identity first. We keep a record of privacy requests as shown in the retention schedule.
16Security
We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information, including encryption of data in transit and, where applicable, at rest; encryption of stored carrier credentials; access controls limiting internal access to those who need it; authentication managed by Clerk as a third-party identity provider, which stores passwords under its own controls rather than LanePilot storing them; account lockout and abuse-prevention controls; monitoring and logging through Cloudflare; and vendor security review.
One limitation we disclose rather than hide. For a small number of carriers, that carrier's own interface requires credentials to be transmitted as part of the request address, which means they may appear in that carrier's server logs. This is a property of those carriers' systems, and we cannot control what a carrier records in its own systems. We identify the affected carriers at the point where you enter those credentials, so you can decide whether to connect them, and we apply the controls available to us to keep credentials out of the logs and monitoring systems we control. Where a carrier offers a restricted or scoped API credential, we recommend using it, and you may revoke or rotate a credential with the carrier at any time.
No security system is perfect and we cannot guarantee absolute security. If we become aware of a breach of security affecting unencrypted personal information in a manner covered by Pennsylvania's Breach of Personal Information Notification Act, we will notify affected individuals and any required regulators as that statute and other applicable law require. The Terms of Service, Section 20A, sets out the same safeguards and the customer's security responsibilities.
17Children's Privacy
The Service is not directed at and is not intended for anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we learn we have, we will delete it promptly. Contact [email protected] if you believe a child has provided us with personal information. We do not collect biometric information from anyone.
18Changes to This Policy
We may update this Policy to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. If we make material changes we will provide notice through the Service, by email, or by posting an updated effective date, and where the change is material we may require you to accept the updated Policy before continuing to use the Service.
19Contact
- Privacy rights and Do Not Sell or Share requests: [email protected]
- Legal notices: [email protected]
- Account help: [email protected] or the in-app support channel
LanePilot Technologies, LLC
8370 Wattsburg Road
Erie, PA 16509
Past versions (superseded): Carrier Credential Addendum (superseded)