ABOUT MTR WESTERN
MTR Western is a "doing business as" trade name shared by Meridian Transportation Resources, LLC (a Washington limited liability company with its principal office in Seattle, WA), Meridian Transportation Resources (California), LLC (a California limited liability company with its principal office in San Francisco, CA) and Meridian Transportation Resources (Canada), LTD (a British Columbia Corporation with its principal office in Vancouver, BC).  In each and every case, one of these three independent legal entities (each sharing the same trade name for its respective geographic region and all collectively referred to herein as "MTR Western") is the owner of the various registered trademarks, trade names, service marks, designs and logos used in connection with the operation of MTR Western's business.  The information we collect from people who visit mtrwestern.com helps us personalize and continually improve the user's experience with our web presence.  That said, the remainder of this document describes our information and handling practices in detail and further articulates our privacy policy as it relates to the public's use of our web site.  By visiting mtrwestern.com, you consent to and accept the practices described in this privacy notice.

USING MTRWESTERN.COM AS AN UNREGISTERED VISITOR
Unless you elect to register yourself, your use of mtrwestern.com will always be as an unregistered visitor. Unregistered visitors do not reveal who they are and do not provide personal information about themselves. Although we do collect usage information (session data) from unregistered visitors, it is always anonymous and does not link to you as an individual. We use session data to better understand things like how our site is being navigated, how many visitors arrive at specific pages, the length and frequency of stays at our site, the types of browsers and computer operating systems used by our visitors and the Internet Protocol addresses from which our visitors connect to our site. We use this information to improve our site content and make it easier to use.

COOKIES
We may place a "cookie" on your personal computer. A cookie is a small computer file that our computer sends to your computer and that your computer sends back to us each time you make a request from our site. Cookies help us recognize you when you visit our site again. We use cookies on our site to collect session data for several purposes to personalize and improve your individual viewing experiences on our site. For example, we use cookies to keep track of your use of our site, gather data to improve the content of our site, provide information that may be of interest to you and improve the security of your experience with us. Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies. If you decide not to accept our cookies, you will still be able to access those parts of our site that are available to the general public, but you will not be able to use certain features designed to enhance your experience of our site or access certain services offered by our site.

USING MTRWESTERN.COM AS A REGISTERED VISITOR
If you decide to register with MTR Western, we will collect personal information about you that you voluntarily share with us. This personal information includes things like your name, e-mail, mailing address and telephone number. You may be required to provide identifier information and select a password that will be required to gain access to portions of our site.

WHO WILL MY INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH, IF ANYONE?
Speaking generally, MTR Western never shares user information with outside third parties. That said, MTR Western may disclose user information in special cases where MTR Western has a good faith reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or initiate legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with MTR Western's operations, rights or property. MTR Western may also disclose user information when required to do so by law or when it believes, in good faith, that the law so requires.

AFFILLIATED BUSINESSES
As mentioned in the opening paragraph, MTR Western is a collection of companies working in concert with each other. Accordingly, mtrwestern.com user information is equally available to each of these companies. Beyond this exception, however, MTR Western does not maintain marketing or products and services relationships with third party businesses and does not share user information with outside third parties.

DO NOT E-MAIL LIST
At any time, you may unsubscribe to mtrwestern.com and stop receiving advertisements, updates and promotions. You may do so by sending an email with the phrase "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line to info@mtrwestern.com.

ONLINE SURVEYS AND FORMS
We value your comments and opinions. From time-to-time, we may invite you, as a registered user of our site, to participate in online surveys, but the choice will be yours.

CONDITIONS OF USE AND NOTICES
If you choose to visit mtrwestern.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this notice. In the event a privacy dispute arises, by using this site in the United States, you agree to binding arbitration before the American Arbitration Association in Seattle, King County, Washington. If you are using this site outside of the United States, mtrwestern.com agrees to comply with the European Union Date Protection Directive and will submit any dispute to binding arbitration for the American Arbitration Association and/or International Chamber of Commerce in the country where the dispute arose.

It is our sincere hope that you will avail yourselves of the opportunities presented through mtrwestern.com. We will use our best efforts to direct you to a MTR Western independent Licensee anywhere in the world you desire to go. If you do have any questions of the MTR Western Corporation or this privacy policy, please direct your questions to info@mtrwestern.com.