PRIVACY NOTICE: PURPOSE

We know that your privacy is important to you, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the Salvagebid, Inc. (“Salvagebid”) Privacy Policy to understand how we manage issues related to privacy. We suggest printing a copy of the Privacy Policy and maintain a copy for your records.

Sharing personal information is always voluntary, however without certain information we may be unable to provide you with our Services. If you provide your personal information to us, we will consider that your consent to use such information. If you do not want to be bound by this Privacy Policy, or otherwise object to anything in this Privacy Policy, do not use Salvagebid’s services. By using our services, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is part of the Salvagebid Terms of Use. Any terms not specifically defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Terms of Use. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Salvagebid” means and includes Salvagebid, Inc. and its affiliates, related entities, subsidiaries, investors, owners, members, shareholders, officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, and assigns.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY NOTICE AND YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES

If our Privacy Policy changes, we will post the changes to our site with the date of revision. Your continued use of our site will constitute your agreement with our revised Privacy Policy. Please note that our Privacy Policy is incorporated into our site’s Terms of Use.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

If you wish to update your information or you do not want to be contacted via email, direct mail, messaging, and or via telephone, please contact our Customer Service team. We still may need to communicate with you to facilitate a purchase, but other communications will be limited.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

We may collect the following types of information about you:

Personal information, including name, username, password, entity name, salutation, address, email address, messaging address, date of birth, drivers license information, telephone number, and copy, and other information provided.
Payment information, including bank account, payment processing information, payment system details.
Historical information, including details about past purchases, past visits to our site, and other previous interactions with our site and services.
Technical information, including your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform; log files; beacons; bugs; tags; pixels; scripts; and other technology on our websites and or the devices you use to access our websites.
Provided information, including any information you have given to us related to your preferences regarding marketing, advertising, and other communications from us or third parties.
Data from third parties, including information received from technology tracking systems such as links, imbedded code, bugs, beacons, and the like, from sites which are not owned or controlled by us, or via links or ads on our site not owned or controlled by us.
Our site is not intended for children. We do not knowingly collect personal information about children under the age of 13. The child’s parent or guardian should contact us if we have inadvertently collected information about their child.

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

We may collect this information about you when:

You utilize our site.
You register as a member of our site.
You make a purchase from us.
You save your information in our system.
You inquire about any of our services.
You participate in any geolocation services we offer.
You provide information to us.
You request that information is sent to you.
You enter a competition, promotion, or survey.
You give us some feedback.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

To register you as a new customer.
To comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
To promote our services to you or other members of the public.
To perform services provided by our company or other parties related to our services.
To provide to third parties, based on your consent.
To deliver interesting and relevant content to you.
To third parties who provide services to us, such communications providers, advertising services, and payment processing systems.
To send you surveys or information about our services.
To learn about your preferences.
To manage our relationship with you.
To process, track, and fulfil your order and contact you about your order or potential orders.
To respond to your inquiries.
To make suggestions and recommendations to you based on our interaction.
To help us improve our services and site.
To help administer our business and protect the security and integrity of the site and the services we offer.

HOW WE MAY SHARE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may share your information in the following ways:

With our affiliated brands.
With your permission.
With people and entities to better enable us to provide you with the services, including the purchase and shipping of vehicles.
With governmental authorities as necessary for the transfer of ownership and or ownership records, the shipment of purchases, or as otherwise required by governmental authorities.
With our service providers.
With those necessary or beneficial in the event of an entity merger, acquisition, disposition, or a related transaction.
With those who have properly subpoenaed the information.
With those necessary or beneficial to establish and or protect our rights or the rights of a third party related to us, or to defend against claims.
With law enforcement, for compliance, or as necessary or beneficial to the functioning of our services and site.
With others if we believe that doing so is required or is in our best interest to protect its rights or the rights of others affiliated with or related to us.

COOKIES, PIXELS, AND OTHER TRACKING TECHOLOGIES

Our site use “cookies” which are small data files stored on your computer or mobile device, and other types of log files, when you visit a site. The cookie itself does not contain personal information, but it will enable us to relate your use of our websites to personal information that you have specifically, voluntarily, and knowingly provided to us. A cookie can only contain is information that you supply yourself. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read other cookie files created by other websites. We use cookies to track your traffic patterns (as described above). We use these types of technology to provide information about visitors to our site. We may use this information to analyze trends, to administer our sites, to track users’ movements around our sites and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We also use encrypted cookies to authenticate your identify on each page after you log on to our websites.

We may also employ a software technology called clear gifs, that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier on web pages. We may also use clear gifs in our emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients.

We may use third party marketing provides and systems to publish ads on our websites. When you view or click on an ad, a cookie will be set to help better provide advertisements that may be of interest to you on our websites and other websites.

Our third-party partners may employ clear gifs (a.k.a. web beacons/web bugs), images, tags, and scripts that help them better manage content on our websites. We tie the information gathered by these third-party partners to your personal information.

The tracking technologies utilized by third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy. We do not have access to or control over these third-party cookies.

Some browsers all you to refuse all or some browser cookies or tracking technologies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies or other tracking technologies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly and we may not be able to provide you our services.

SOCIAL MEDIA CONNECTIONS OR OTHER OPEN ID PROVIDERS

You can register and log in to our websites using third-party sign-in services. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us to pre-populate our registration forms. Services like these may give you the option to post information about your activities on our websites to your profile page to share with others within your network.

SOCIAL MEDIA WIDGETS

Our websites may include social media features and other widgets. These features may collect your personal information including without limitation your IP address and which page(s) you are visiting on the websites and may set a cookie to enable the feature(s) to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third-party or hosted directly on the websites. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it and not by this Privacy Policy.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS AND ADS

Our sites may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you.

We may also use third parties to place our internet ads. The providers may collect anonymous information about your visits to our site and your interactions with our services. These providers may also use information about your visits to this and other sites to target advertisements for merchandise and services. This anonymous information is collected with tracking technologies and is industry standard and used by most major websites.

We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our websites, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

DATA STORAGE AND RETENTION

We will retain your information as long as it is necessary and relevant to provide you with our services and in compliance with our data retention policies. Additionally, we will retain personal information from closed or cancelled member accounts to comply with legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes and claims, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, assist with any investigation, and enforce this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use and take any other actions permitted by law.

CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY

We use various technologies and processes to protect your information. Information such as your credit or debit card account number is transmitted through a secure server using Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) encryption. The personal information you provide will be stored securely on servers utilized by us. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If we learn of a security systems breach, we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. By using our services or otherwise providing personal information to us, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of our services. We may post a notice on the website if a security breach occurs. We may also send an email to you at the email address you have provided in these circumstances. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.

COMMUNICATIONS

If you no longer wish to receive communications from us, you may opt-out by following the instructions included in each communication or you may contact our Customer Service team. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to our services, including without limitation notifications, service announcements, and administrative messages. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature.

ERASURE OF DATA

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You can request erasure of your personal data, provided there is not a necessary reason for us to continue to retain it. We may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal or service fulfilment reasons, which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request, or there may be a delay in doing so.

If you wish to request erasure of some or all of your data, please contact info@salvagebid.com. You will not have to pay a fee to request reassure of some or all of your data. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

WHAT WE MAY NEED FROM YOU

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right request erasure of some or all your data. This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.