This privacy policy is effective as of January 1, 2021. Please note that this privacy policy will be updated to reflect any important changes in the way we handle your personal data or any changes in applicable laws.
This privacy policy describes how Coast Ventures LLC DBA BoatValue.com and its affiliates (“Coast Ventures LLC” or “we” or “our” or “us”) collect, use, and share information about you as well as your rights and choices about such collection, use and sharing. This privacy policy applies to your use of any of our websites, apps, or other services that reference this privacy policy or that are otherwise described in this privacy policy as a Coast Ventures LLC offering or method of information collection (collectively, the “Service”), including the offline collection of information. This privacy policy applies unless you are in a country where we maintain a country privacy policy listed to the right under “Country Policies”. For visitors from the countries and regions listed under the “Supplements” heading, this privacy policy and the applicable supplement will apply. If you do not agree and consent to this privacy policy, discontinue use of the Service.
While this privacy policy is intended to describe the broadest range of our personal information processing activities globally, those processing activities may be more limited in some jurisdictions based on the restrictions of their laws. For example, the laws of a country may limit the types of personal information we can collect or the way we process that personal information. In those instances, we adjust our internal policies and/or practices to reflect the requirements of local law.
If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please contact us as set forth in the “Contact Us” section.
This privacy policy covers the following:
How do we collect information?
What types of information do we collect?
Information we collect automatically
Information we collect on behalf of our clients
How do we use your information?
How do we share information?
Tracking technologies
Your choices
How to opt-out
How is information protected?
International transfers
Special note about children
Changes to this privacy policy
Contact us
How do we collect information?
The following are examples of the ways we collect information about you:
Through your survey responses in connection with market research conducted by Coast Ventures LLC or commissioned by one of our enterprise customers.
Through your use of our websites, including boatvalue.com and boatvaluator.com.
Through phone calls, emails, and/or other forms of communication with you.
From other sources including affiliates with your consent or where we act as their service provider, clients who ask us to process personal information on their behalf, service providers acting on our behalf, and social media platforms where you choose to interact with us or through tools provided by these platforms, automobile dealers with whom we have contractual relationships with, data brokers from which we purchase demographic, location and other data to supplement the data we collect, partners with which we offer co-branded services, sell or distribute our products, or engage in joint marketing activities, and demographic or aggregate information from publicly-available sources such as open government databases or other data in the public domain.
What types of information do we collect?
The information we collect sometimes includes information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you. The categories of information we collect about you, and have collected about you in the last 12 months, including the following:
Identity information, including your first name and last name.
Demographic information, including date of birth, gender, country, and other demographics.
Contact information, including your address, email address, and phone number.
Credentials and Authentication Information, including your username, password, password hints, and other information for authentication and account access.
Payment Data, including payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument.
Vehicle transaction information, including your vehicle identification number, make and model of vehicle purchased or leased, and details of the purchase transaction, including lease and finance information collected as part of our PIN operations.
Profile Data, including interests, favorites, and other profile data.
Content that you create, load, or share on the Service, such as survey responses, recordings, photos, videos, and product reviews.
Job Applicant Data is necessary to consider you for a job opening if you submit an application to us, including your employment history, resume, transcript, writing samples, and references.
You may choose to voluntarily submit other information to us through the Service that we do not request, and, in such instances, you are solely responsible for such information.
Information we collect automatically
In addition, we automatically collect information when you use the Service. The categories of information we automatically collect, and have collected in the last 12 months, include the following:
Service Use Data. We collect data about how you use the Service and interact with us, such as the features you use, the pages you visit, the e-mails, content, and ads you view, the products you purchase and consider, the time of day you browse, your referring and exiting pages, and other similar information.
Device Connectivity and Configuration Data. We collect data about the type of device or browser you use, your device’s operating software, your device’s regional and language settings, your IP address, MAC address, device advertising ID (e.g., IDFA or AAID), other device identifiers, device carrier, time zone, network status, browser identifier, location, internet service provider, operating system and other information that alone or in combination may be used to uniquely identify your device or computer.
Location Data. We collect data about your device’s location, which can be precise (e.g., latitude/longitude data) or imprecise (e.g., a location derived from an IP address or data that indicates a city or postal code level).
Information we collect on behalf of our clients
For certain Services, we collect and process information about individuals (including through Tracking Technologies, defined below) at our clients’ direction (“Client Data”). Client Data has historically included identity data, demographic information, contact information, content, service use data, device connectivity and configuration data, and location data, among other information. To the extent we combine Client Data with information we have collected about you through the Service, we will treat the combined information in accordance with the practices described in this privacy policy, plus any additional restrictions imposed by our clients or other partners or vendors with whom we may be working with when processing such information. We are not responsible for how our clients treat the information we collect on their behalf, and we recommend you review their own privacy policies.