1. Introduction
Welcome to SZ CarField (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We operate the website https://szcarfield.com (the “Site”), a business-to-business (B2B) platform dedicated to the wholesale and trade of used vehicles between businesses.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you, as a representative of a business entity (“Business User”), visit our Site or use our services (the “Services”).
By accessing or using our Site and Services, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.
2. Information We Collect
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, or could be linked to a particular business or individual (“Personal Information”). In a B2B context, this often includes the personal information of employees, agents, or representatives of our business customers.
A. Information You Provide to Us Directly:
- Business Account Information: Name, business email address, business phone number, job title, company name, company address, and tax identification number.
- Vehicle Listings: Information about vehicles you list for sale, including VIN, make, model, year, mileage, condition reports, repair history, and photographs.
- Financial and Transactional Information: Bank account details, payment information (processed by a secure third-party payment processor), and details of vehicles purchased or sold through the platform.
- Communications: Records of correspondence when you contact us via email, phone, or the Site’s contact forms.
B. Information Collected Automatically:
- Usage Data: We automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Site (“Usage Data”). This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, pages you viewed, time spent on pages, referring website addresses, and other diagnostic data.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Site and hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
C. Information From Third Parties:
We may receive information about you and your business from:
- Business Partners: Such as vehicle history report providers (e.g., Carfax, AutoCheck) to validate listings.
- Credit and Compliance Agencies: To verify the business creditworthiness of potential commercial partners, where permitted by law.
- Publicly Available Sources: Business information from public registries or professional networking sites like LinkedIn.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following business purposes:
- To Provide and Maintain Our Services: Creating and managing your business account, facilitating transactions, processing payments, and displaying vehicle listings.
- To Communicate: Sending you service-related emails (e.g., account verification, transaction confirmations, important security alerts), responding to your inquiries, and sending you information about features on our Site.
- For Marketing and Advertising (B2B): With your consent where required by law, we may use your business contact information to send you marketing communications about our services, new features, industry news, and promotional offers that we believe are relevant to your business. You can opt-out of these communications at any time.
- To Improve Our Site and Services: Analyzing Usage Data to understand how Business Users interact with our Site, which helps us develop new products and features and improve user experience.
- For Security and Fraud Prevention: To monitor and prevent fraudulent transactions, protect against malicious activity, and ensure the security of our platform and all users.
4. Legal Basis for Processing (For EEA/UK Users)
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK, we process your Personal Information based on the following legal grounds:
- Performance of a Contract: Processing necessary to fulfill our Terms of Service with you.
- Legitimate Interests: Processing for our legitimate business interests (e.g., marketing, improving services, fraud prevention), which do not override your fundamental rights.
- Consent: Where we have obtained your clear consent for specific processing activities (e.g., certain marketing communications). You may withdraw consent at any time.
- Legal Obligation: Processing necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
5. How We Share Your Information
We may share your Personal Information in the following situations:
- With Other Business Users: Your company name, contact details (of listed representatives), and vehicle listings are visible to other registered Business Users to facilitate trade.
- With Service Providers: We share data with trusted third-party vendors who perform services for us (e.g., payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting, customer service, vehicle history reports). These providers are contractually obligated to use your information only for the services we request.
- For Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- To Comply with Laws: If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
- To Protect Rights: To investigate potential violations of our Terms of Service, detect and prevent fraud, or protect the safety, rights, and property of SZ CarField, our users, or the public.
6. International Data Transfers
Your information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, including implementing appropriate safeguards like Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers outside the EEA/UK.
7. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your Personal Information:
- Access: The right to request copies of your Personal Information.
- Rectification: The right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): The right to request that we erase your Personal Information, under certain conditions.
- Restrict Processing: The right to request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Information, under certain conditions.
- Data Portability: The right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- Object to Processing: The right to object to our processing of your Personal Information, particularly for direct marketing purposes.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in the “Contact Us” section below.
8. Data Retention
We will retain your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, including to fulfill legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes.
9. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures designed to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
10. Cookies
We use both session and persistent cookies on our Site. You can control cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling cookies may limit your ability to use some features of our Services.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
