Global Salvage Buyer (referred to as “MSB”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) serves as the data controller and is accountable for the personal data collected and utilized in accordance with this policy. We operate under the jurisdiction of the United States of America.

• Disclosure to Third Parties: Global Salvage Buyer may share your Personal Data with external third parties to provide requested services. This involves entering into a contract with vendors that specifies the purpose and confidentiality requirements of processing your Personal Data.
• Recent Disclosures: In the last twelve months, Global Salvage Buyer disclosed various categories of Personal Data for business purposes to specific third parties, as outlined below:
  • Identity Data
    • Shared with: Regulatory Compliance Service Providers, Vehicle Subhaulers, Marketing Service Providers, Data Analytics Service Providers, Identification Verification Service Providers, Customer Relationship Management Service Providers, Vendor Management Service Providers.
    • Purpose: To comply with regulatory obligations, perform vehicle pickups, provide marketing information, analyze service performance, verify individual identities during vehicle collections, and manage customer/vendor relationships.
  • Professional and Employment Related Data
    • Shared with: Regulatory Compliance Service Providers, Background Verification Service Providers, Benefits Administration Services.
    • Purpose: To comply with regulatory obligations, conduct background checks during recruitment, and administer employee benefits.
  • Contact Data
    • Shared with: Communications Service Providers, Marketing Service Providers, Vehicle Subhaulers, Customer Relationship Management Service Providers, Regulatory Compliance Service Providers, Vendor Management Service Providers.
    • Purpose: To facilitate communication, provide marketing information, perform vehicle pickups, manage customer/vendor relationships, and comply with regulatory obligations.
  • Financial Data
    • Shared with: Financial Service Providers.
    • Purpose: To facilitate payments for transactions.
  • Technical Data
    • Shared with: Information Technology Service Providers, Data Analytics Service Providers.
    • Purpose: To operate and protect website/electronic services, and analyze service performance.
  • Marketing Data
    • Shared with: Marketing Service Providers, Social Media Websites.
    • Purpose: To provide marketing information and share content via social media.
  • Vehicle Data
    • Shared with: Regulatory Compliance Service Providers.
    • Purpose: To comply with regulatory obligations.
  • Usage Data
    • Shared with: Data Analytics Service Providers.
    • Purpose: To analyze website and service performance.
  • Sensory Data
    • Shared with: Telephony and Communications Service Providers, Video Surveillance Service Providers.
    • Purpose: For quality assurance of customer interactions and to secure physical facilities.
  • Geolocation Data
    • Shared with: Information Technology Service Providers.
    • Purpose: To secure and optimize website/electronic services and analyze performance.
  • Biometric Data
    • Shared with: Information Technology Service Providers.
    • Purpose: To secure Global Salvage Buyer’s information and technology systems.
  • Transaction Data
    • Shared with: Data Analytics Service Providers.
    • Purpose: To analyze transaction trends and performance.
• Other Circumstances of Disclosure: Global Salvage Buyer may also disclose your Personal Data during business sales, to enforce terms of service, ensure safety and security, protect rights and property, or comply with legal processes such as warrants, orders, or subpoenas.

Use of Data for Marketing: Depending on your location and, if applicable, your affirmative consent, Global Salvage Buyer may use your identity, contact, technical, usage, and transaction data to determine which products, services, or offers you might be interested in. This process helps identify promotions that are most likely to be relevant to you.

Withdrawing Consent for Promotional Marketing

Preference Center: Depending on your location, Global Salvage Buyer has established a preference center that allows certain members to opt-out of direct marketing.

Opt-Out Options: Members can also withdraw from promotional marketing by sending a request to privacy@globalsalvagebuyer.com. Additionally, all recipients of marketing and promotional communications can opt-out of future messages by clicking the "remove me" link included at the bottom of all marketing communications.

For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), some recipients of your Personal Data are located outside of your country or have offices in countries where data protection laws may provide a different level of protection than the laws in your country. When transferring Personal Data to such recipients, Global Salvage Buyer provides appropriate safeguards.

The transmission of Personal Data between and among certain members of the Global Salvage Buyer is based on our worldwide data protection principles contained in our Intra-Group Processing Agreement. This agreement incorporates both controller-to-controller and controller-to-processor model clauses prescribed by the European Union. Through our Intra-Group Processing Agreement, Global Salvage Buyer undertakes to protect your Personal Data and to comply with applicable data protection obligations.

As a data subject under the GDPR, a California consumer under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), or a data subject under the Nevada Privacy Law, you have specific rights regarding the Personal Data that Global Salvage Buyer collects about you, subject to any restrictions under national law.

Description of Your Rights:

• Access / to Know:
  • You can request Global Salvage Buyer to disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information it has collected about you, including sources, purposes for processing, and third-party sharing details.
• Rectification:
  • You have the right to have inaccurate personal data corrected or rectified.
• Deletion/Erasure:
  • You can request the deletion of your personal information that Global Salvage Buyer has collected.
• Restrict Processing:
  • Under certain conditions, you can request that processing of your personal data be restricted while accuracy is verified, if data retention is needed for legal claims, or if processing is objected to on grounds of legitimate interests.
• Data Portability:
  • You may receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller, under certain circumstances.
• Object to Processing:
  • You can object to processing based on legitimate interests unless Global Salvage Buyer demonstrates overriding legitimate grounds for processing.
• Object to Automated Decision-Making:
  • You have the right not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, that have legal effects on you. Global Salvage Buyer does not use automated decision-making for processing your Personal Data.
• Withdraw Consent:
  • You may withdraw consent at any time, though this will not affect the lawfulness of processing prior to the withdrawal. Withdrawal may affect the availability of certain products or services.

Exercising Your Rights:

• Process to Exercise Rights:
  • You can generally exercise your rights at no charge. If requests are unfounded or excessive, particularly if repetitive, a fee may be charged or the request may be refused, as allowed by applicable law.
• Contact for Rights Exercise:
  • To exercise GDPR rights, send a verifiable consumer request to privacy@globalsalvagebuyer.com.
• Complaints:
  • You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. However, Global Salvage Buyer encourages you to contact them first with any concerns.

When you use our services, except as specifically outlined in this Privacy Policy regarding the opt-in consent we obtain from certain website visitors based on their location, Global Salvage Buyer and selected third parties utilize cookies and similar technologies. These tools are designed to enhance your user experience, making it better, faster, and safer, and to deliver personalized advertising. Cookies are small text files created automatically by your browser and stored on your device when you use our services.

Functions of Our Cookies and Similar Technologies:

• Necessity: Some cookies are essential for the operation of our services.
• Optimization: They assist in technically optimizing our services by monitoring load times and errors.
• User Experience: They contribute to enhancing your overall user experience.
• Personalized Advertising: They enable the delivery of more relevant advertisements to you.

Third-Party Cookies:

• Advertising Options: Third-party advertising and marketing companies we partner with may allow you to opt out from using information about your visits and usage for targeted advertising. To learn more about interest-based advertising and opting out, you can visit the websites of the Digital Advertising Alliance, the Network Advertising Initiative, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe.

Online Tracking:

• Do Not Track (DNT): DNT is a privacy setting available in some web browsers that allows users to opt out of tracking by websites and online services. Generally, Global Salvage Buyer does not recognize DNT requests. However, based on your location, we may ask you to provide explicit consent for non-essential cookies, including those used for tracking and marketing analytics.

Global Salvage Buyer implements and maintains reasonable security measures to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized use, access, alteration, or disclosure. However, please be aware that information transmitted electronically may not be secure. We advise against using unsecured channels to send sensitive or confidential information to us. Despite our efforts, no security system is completely impervitable.

Data Retention:

• Purpose of Retention: We retain your Personal Data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
• Determining Retention Period: To decide the appropriate retention period for Personal Data, we consider the volume, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process your Personal Data and whether those purposes can be achieved through other means, along with applicable legal requirements.

This website may contain links to third-party websites, plugins, and applications. When you click on these links or enable these connections, it might allow third parties to collect or share data about you. Global Salvage Buyer does not control these third-party websites and is not responsible for their privacy policies. We recommend that you read the privacy policy of each website you visit after leaving our site.

When it is legally required or necessary under the terms of a contract with you, and you do not provide the requested Personal Data, Global Salvage Buyer may be unable to fulfill the contract we are trying to or have entered into with you. For instance, if you fail to provide necessary Personal Data, we might not be able to deliver the services you have requested. In such instances, we may need to cancel a contract you have with us. If this occurs, we will inform you accordingly.

Global Salvage Buyer will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights related to your Personal Data. Unless allowed by applicable law, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services.
• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
• Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

However, we may offer certain financial incentives that are permitted by applicable law, which could result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any legally permitted financial incentive we provide will be directly related to the value of your personal information and will include written terms that clearly describe the program's material aspects. Participation in any financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may withdraw at any time.

Global Salvage Buyer will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which it was originally collected, unless we reasonably determine that it needs to be used for another reason that is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to understand how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us by emailing privacy@globalsalvagebuyer.com.

If there is a need to use your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and explain the legal basis that allows us to do so.

Please be aware that we may process your Personal Data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the rules mentioned above, where this is required or permitted by law.