EUROPEAN PRIVACY RIGHTS

 

Best Yacht Auctions LLC (BYA) has adopted this section to comply with the European Union’s (EU’s) General Data Protection Regulations. This section applies solely to residents of the EU. BYA provides the Services to individuals located in the EU with access to the internet. If an EU resident interacts with BYA as a Viewer, Seller, Bidder, Buyer, or Broker, BYA, in the natural course of preparing Vessels for auction, processing credit cards, accepting bids, and collecting Seller Content collects and processes Personal Information as a data controller. If you are an EU resident, you have the following rights in relation to your Personal Information that BYA holds:

EU Residents may exercise these rights over their Personal Information, subject to our receipt of a verifiable Consumer Privacy Request as well as any exceptions and limitations that may apply.

Consumer Privacy Requests

Through the Services, BYA provides methods for you to directly access, edit, delete, or export certain Personal Information that BYA processes in your use of the Services. If you wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy laws beyond these methods, please submit a verifiable Consumer Privacy Request:

BYA may only legally fulfill a Consumer Privacy Request when we have sufficient information to verify that the requester is the person or an authorized representative of the person about whom we have collected Personal Information and to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to the request.

Note that if we process your Personal Information in our capacity as a service provider, we may be required to instruct you to submit your request to the relevant third party.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to a verifiable request unless we have legal grounds to do so, such as requests that are excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

How Does BYA Keep My Personal Information Secure?

Data Security: We implement technical, organizational and physical measures to help protect your information from unauthorized access, processing, or disclosure. We maintain internal policies to govern the collection, processing, access, and handling of data. We use technical safeguards to protect information online and stored on our systems. Please note, however, that no transmission of data over the Internet or mobile platforms is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will not defeat our security measures or use your Personal Information for improper purposes.

Your Account: When you sign up or create an account with us, you will have a login and password. We encourage you to take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone, and computer by, among other things: signing off after using a shared computer; choosing a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess; and keeping your login and password private. If you sign up for receptionist services, we will issue a call forwarding number to you. It is your choice as a Registered User whether to share your call forwarding number with others. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or call forwarding numbers or for any activity on your account via unauthorized activity.

Consent to Transfer Personal Information from Outside the United State: BYA is owned and operated in the United States. If you visit the Site or use our Services from outside of the United States, Personal Information we collect about you will be transferred to our servers in the United States and maintained there indefinitely. This may require the transfer of your Personal Information out of your country of origin with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from or be more restrictive than U.S. law, or may result in governments, courts, law enforcement, or regulatory agencies having access to or obtaining disclosure of your Personal Information pursuant to the laws of the applicable foreign jurisdiction. By allowing us to collect Personal Information about you, you consent to the transfer and processing of your Personal Information as described in this paragraph.

Social Networking: If you access the Site from a social networking website, we may receive Personal Information about you from such social networking website, as governed by the terms of use and privacy policy of that website. We may retain this Personal Information with the information we collect from you by other means. Your use of social networks via a link from our Site is entirely optional and subject to the privacy policy and terms of use of the social networking website you choose to use.

Third Party Websites: This Privacy Notice applies only to information collected by BYA. We may provide links to third-party websites from our Services for the convenience of our visitors and Registered Users, but we have no ability to control, and we are not responsible for, the privacy and data collection, use, and disclosure practices of third-party websites, including Registered User websites. Any access to and use of linked websites is not governed by this Privacy Notice, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those websites. We are not responsible for the information practices of such websites. We encourage you to review and understand the privacy notices of such websites before providing them with any information.

Changes to This Privacy Notice

If we make material changes to how we treat your Personal Information, we will post the revised Privacy Notice on this page. Your continued use of the Services after we make changes is deemed to be your acceptance of those changes. The date that this Privacy Notice was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting this Privacy Notice to check for any changes.