Privacy Policy
Privacy Statement
Marine Salvage Co. respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your Personal Data, which is any information that can be used to identify or potentially identify a particular person.
The scope of this Privacy Policy relates to any Personal Data that Marine Salvage Co. processes under applicable data privacy laws. This Privacy Policy applies to your use of this website and all Marine Salvage Co. services, regardless of how you access or use the services, including access via mobile devices and applications. Unless otherwise specified, this policy applies to the operations of Marine Salvage Co. relating to vehicles that are physically located within the United States.
This version was last updated in February 2024. We may update this notice from time to time, and if we do so, we will upload a new version to our website.
Important Information
This website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children. When you register with Marine Salvage Co. as a member, you acknowledge that you are of legal age to make bids on vehicles and further agree to our terms and conditions.
It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing Personal Data about you. This privacy policy supplements other notices and is not intended to override them.
Data Controller
Marine Salvage Co. (referred to as “MSC”, “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.
Sharing Personal Data
- Disclosure to Third Parties: Marine Salvage Co. 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, Marine Salvage Co. 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 Marine Salvage Co.’s information and technology systems.
- Transaction Data
- Shared with: Data Analytics Service Providers.
- Purpose: To analyze transaction trends and performance.
- Other Circumstances of Disclosure: Marine Salvage Co. 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.
Promotional Marketing
Use of Data for Marketing: Depending on your location and, if applicable, your affirmative consent, Marine Salvage Co. 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, Marine Salvage Co. 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@marinesalvageco.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.
International Transfers
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, Marine Salvage Co. provides appropriate safeguards.
The transmission of Personal Data between and among certain members of the Marine Salvage Co. 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, Marine Salvage Co. undertakes to protect your Personal Data and to comply with applicable data protection obligations.
Your Rights and Choices
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 Marine Salvage Co. collects about you, subject to any restrictions under national law. Description of Your Rights:
- Access / to Know:
- You can request Marine Salvage Co. 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 Marine Salvage Co. 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 Marine Salvage Co. 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. Marine Salvage Co. 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:
- Complaints:
- You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. However, Marine Salvage Co. encourages you to contact them first with any concerns.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
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, Marine Salvage Co. 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 optingPrivacy Policy
