Last Updated: February 18, 2026
When you use or interact with a website, mobile app or other digital service (each a "Digital Service") operated or owned by Dealer Auction, LLC ("DealerAuction"), we and third parties may obtain certain information about you. In this Highlights section, we provide an overview of our privacy practices related to the Digital Services. Please review our full Privacy Notice below for a detailed explanation of our practices.
Read more in section B. What Information We Obtain.
Read more in section C. How We Use the Information We Obtain.
Read more in section D. How We Provide Information to Others.
Read more in section E. Your Privacy Rights, Including Marketing and Targeted Ads Opt-Outs.
If you have questions about our Privacy Notice or about the privacy rights described in section E. Your Privacy Rights, Including Marketing and Targeted Ads Opt-Outs, please contact us at support@dealerauction.com.
Last Updated: February 16, 2026
A. Introduction
B. What Information We Obtain
C. How We Use Information We Obtain
D. How We Provide Information to Others
E. Your Privacy Rights, Including Marketing and Targeted Ads Opt-Outs
F. How We Protect Your Information
G. Non-U.S. Visitors
H. Children's Privacy Rights
I. Links to Third-Party Websites, Mobile Apps or Other Services
J. Careers/Job Opportunities
K. Dispute Resolution/Terms of Use
L. Changes to This Privacy Notice
M. Contact Us
N. Notice at Collection/Additional Information for California Residents
O. European and Canadian Markets
This Privacy Notice (the "Privacy Notice") applies to the website, mobile application or other digital service (each a "Digital Service") linking to this Privacy Notice and owned or operated by DealerAuction LLC ("we", "us", "our" or "DealerAuction"). This Privacy Notice describes the privacy practices of DealerAuction only and does not cover the practices of other users with whom you may engage through the Digital Services or other companies, including those that may advertise or sponsor content, products or services on the Digital Services.
When you use a Digital Service, we may obtain various types of information related to you and your use of the Digital Service. This may include information that directly identifies you such as your name, address, or contact information (this type of information may be called "personal information," "personal data," or "personally identifiable information"). Certain pieces of information we obtain (for example, account login, payment card information, race or ethnicity) may be considered "sensitive" under privacy laws. The information we obtain generally consists of information (1) you give us about yourself, (2) you give us about others, (3) automatically collected about your interactions with the Digital Services and our content or ads on third-party websites, apps or other media, and (4) we get from other sources.
We may ask you to provide information about yourself when you use the Digital Services. For example, to subscribe to one of our newsletters, you will need to give us an email address. You may not be able to use certain features if you choose not to submit the requested information.
The information you give us may include details such as:
You may give us information about other people, such as the name and email of a friend or contact with whom you want to share our content. Do not give us information about others unless you are authorized or have their consent to do so. We will use their information for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice.
The Digital Services automatically log certain information about visits to the Digital Services, such as the number and frequency of visitors, technical information about browsers and devices used to access the Digital Services, and information about crashes or other technical issues. We and our service providers may collect data from your browser or device for analytics and measurement purposes. In addition, depending on your jurisdiction, we and third parties may automatically collect certain information through automated means about your activities over time across the Digital Services as well as across third-party sites, apps or other media. The tools that collect this information vary depending on the Digital Services and include technologies such as cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, pixels, and software development kits ("SDKs"). These technologies may be included in our web pages, mobile apps, emails, and other digital content. The tools may assign or collect unique cookie IDs or other identifiers associated with your browser or device. The tools may collect information while you are using our Digital Services or while they are running in the background of your device.
The information automatically collected may include:
Cookies and similar technologies on the Digital Services may be served directly by DealerAuction (referred to as "first-party cookies") or by others such as data analytics companies (referred to as "third-party cookies"). Cookies and similar technologies are browser- and device-specific and may endure for different periods of time. Some are deleted automatically once you close your browser or exit the Digital Service. These are sometimes referred to as "session cookies." Other cookies are "persistent cookies," meaning that they remain on your device after your browser is closed.
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept certain cookies and similar technologies. However, if you choose to refuse or remove cookies and similar technologies, this could affect the availability of and functionality of the Digital Services, as applicable.
We receive information about you from other sources and it may be combined with other information about you. For example, we may obtain data from:
If you make a transaction using a Digital Service, we use your payment card information (e.g., your card number and expiration date) for limited purposes such as to process your transaction (including recurring payments, if applicable), to provide you with the requested products or services and for the purposes described under the section "To protect our rights or the rights of others" below.
Please note that if you successfully win a bid or complete a transaction with another user or third party that may be integrated with the Digital Services, we will provide the other user or third party, as appropriate, with your personal information to facilitate the transaction you requested (including, your name and contact information). Other users (including sellers) and third parties are independent from us and are responsible for the handling and use of your personal information, including personal information that we may provide to them. Sellers and third parties are responsible for compliance with applicable laws, including privacy laws, and rights that you may have with respect to your personal information that such users, sellers and third parties maintain. You should direct any questions or concerns with respect to your information directly to such users, sellers and third parties.
With respect to information other than your payment card information, we use that information:
We may provide the information we obtain to:
If you transact with another user or third party in connection with an auction or other feature made available on or in connection with the Digital Service (such as commenting), we provide your personal information to the seller, other user(s) or third party to facilitate the transaction you requested. If there are subsequent issues with the transaction such as a dispute, we may also provide your information to help resolve the issue.
We work closely with affiliates and subsidiaries within the Hearst family of companies to whom we provide your information as necessary or appropriate.
In connection with the operation and provision of the Digital Services, we engage various vendors and affiliates to provide services or handle transactions on our behalf, such as payment card processing, email distribution, list processing, postal mailing, cloud computing, analytics, digital content performance measurement, ad serving and managing sweepstakes, contests, promotions or events. These service providers use the information we provide to them as necessary or appropriate for the performance of their services.
Depending on your jurisdiction, we may provide your information to advertisers, advertising agencies, ad networks, ad exchanges, marketing businesses, technology vendors and other entities that create, deliver and assess advertising or marketing campaigns, including targeted ads.
We and third parties seek to measure the performance of content across the internet, including on the Digital Services. We may include third-party measurement software in the Digital Services to enable market research or to measure digital and video content consumption.
If you interact with social media widgets, share content using social media share buttons, or access features of the Digital Services that contain content or features provided by Social Media Platforms, the relevant Social Media Platforms may collect information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the Social Media Platforms that you engage with as we are not responsible for their privacy practices.
We may provide your information to business partners including, without limitation, joint marketing partners and content sponsors, for various purposes. For example, we may partner with a third party to offer products on a co-branded, co-sponsored or cross-promotional basis that involves providing your information to others. We may provide your contact information and/or email to business partners for their own advertising, marketing, or commercial purposes, with your consent where required by law. These initiatives may be offered on the Digital Services or on other media.
We may provide your information as we believe is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce, or defend our legal rights, the privacy or safety of our employees, users of the Digital Services or other individuals and entities, or to comply with or enforce applicable industry standards, law or regulatory requirements, including tax reporting, or legal process, including responding to court orders, warrants, subpoenas and other requests from public and government authorities.
We reserve the right to transfer any of the information we have about you to proceed with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a sale or transfer of all or a portion of our business or assets to a third party, such as in the event of a merger, acquisition or other disposition, or in connection with a bankruptcy reorganization, dissolution, or liquidation.
In addition, we may provide your information to others with your consent or at your request.
Residents of states with applicable privacy laws are afforded certain rights with respect to their personal information. Depending on where you live, and subject to certain exceptions, you may be entitled to the rights described below. Please note that if you submit a request to exercise any of the below rights (a "Privacy Rights Request"), we may request additional information to enable us to process your request. We will use the information you provide to make Privacy Rights Requests to verify your identity, locate your personal information that we may hold about you, and to fulfill your request. When you submit a Privacy Rights Request, you will be required to verify access to the email address you submitted, and you will receive an email with a verification link to complete your email verification process. You are required to verify your email for us to proceed with your Privacy Rights Request. If you do not see the verification in your email inbox, please check your spam or junk folder. If you have any questions regarding your privacy rights, please contact us at support@dealerauction.com.
Right to Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Advertising: We may provide your personal information to third parties for "targeted advertising" purposes or in ways that constitute "sales" under applicable laws. You may request that we not "sell" or provide your data to others for "targeted advertising" purposes on a go-forward basis. To do so, please complete the form available on our website or click on the "Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads)" link in the footer of the website.
Right to Limit Processing of Sensitive Personal Information: Certain pieces of personal information that we have about you may be considered "sensitive" under applicable laws, such as debit or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, or account username and password. We limit the use of this information to what is reasonably necessary to provide the Digital Services to you and for purposes permitted by applicable law.
You may designate an authorized agent to make a request in relation to the privacy rights listed above. In the request, you or your authorized agent must provide us with sufficient information for us to verify both the identity of your agent and that your agent has been authorized to act on your behalf.
Certain U.S. state privacy laws afford eligible residents the right to appeal a denial of a Privacy Rights Request in whole or in part. For additional information regarding how to submit a Privacy Rights Request appeal, please email support@dealerauction.com.
Depending on your jurisdiction, some of the ads you see on the Digital Services are targeted ads. The technologies used to deliver ads on websites and mobile apps differ. Please also remember that opt-outs are browser and device-specific.
1. Disabling Cookies. Most browsers accept cookies by default. You may be able to change the settings to have your browser refuse certain cookies or notify you before accepting cookies. If you choose to disable the use of cookies in your web browser, some features of the Digital Services may become difficult to use or unavailable.
2. Opt-out Cookies. You can follow the instructions provided by the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA") at https://youradchoices.com/control and/or the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") at https://optout.networkadvertising.org to place an opt-out cookie on your browser.
3. Analytics Provider Opt-Out. To disable analytics cookies, you can use the browser opt-out cookies controls discussed above or use individual opt-out mechanisms, such as Google Analytics Opt-Out.
DealerAuction does not currently take steps to respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals as no uniform standard to respond to such signals has been developed at this time. We do, however, respond to the Global Privacy Control ("GPC") to the extent required by applicable law, and allow eligible individuals to convey opt-out preferences when we detect the signal.
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we make reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
We operate the Digital Services from the United States. Any information we obtain about you in connection with your use of the Digital Services may be processed and stored in the United States or other countries by us and our service providers.
The Digital Services are not intended for use by children, especially those under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18.
The Digital Services may contain links to websites, mobile apps or other services operated by companies not affiliated with DealerAuction. In addition, the Digital Services may be made available to you through third-party platforms (such as app stores or Social Media Platforms) or other channels. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any non-DealerAuction operated websites, mobile apps or other services and channels, and we encourage you to review the privacy policies or notices published by relevant third parties.
This Privacy Notice does not apply to web pages hosting our careers or job opportunities. Any information obtained through such pages is governed by the privacy notice published thereon.
Any dispute concerning the Digital Services (including our use of your personal information) will be resolved per the dispute resolution provision in the Terms of Use which govern your use of the Digital Services. Please take a few minutes to read the Terms of Use before using the Digital Services.
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes in our privacy practices or applicable laws. In accordance with applicable law, we may make such changes without prior notice. We will publish the updated version on the relevant Digital Services and indicate at the top of the Privacy Notice when it was most recently updated. Your use of the Digital Services will be governed by the then-current version of the Privacy Notice.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or Privacy Rights Requests, please contact us by email at support@dealerauction.com. Please note that we do not accept Privacy Rights Requests through that mailbox and we ask you to submit your Privacy Rights Requests using the methods listed in Section E, or, for California residents, using the methods listed in Section N.
Under California law, specific additional disclosures are required and California residents have additional rights regarding their personal information. If you are a California resident, please review this section to learn more.
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 ("CCPA"), requires specific disclosures for each category of personal information that we collect and may provide to others. Some of the ways in which we provide personal information to others may constitute "selling" or "sharing" for targeted advertising. For details on categories of personal information we collect, the sources, business purposes, and categories of third parties we share with, please refer to Sections B, C and D of this Privacy Notice.
For each category of personal information, we will retain your personal information for as long as needed or permitted, depending on the purpose for obtaining that data and consistent with applicable laws. We will keep your personal information for as long as we have a relationship with you. Once our relationship with you has come to an end, we will retain your personal information for a period of time that enables us to:
Residents of California may have the following rights:
1. Right to know and access your personal information. Under CCPA, you have the right to know the categories of personal information (including sensitive personal information) that we collect and the categories of sources from which we got the information; the business or commercial purposes for which we collect and provide personal information to others; the categories of third parties and other entities to whom we provide personal information; and access the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you. To do so, please complete the form available on our website and include your name, email address and California postal address, or click on the "Your Privacy Choices (Opt-Out of Sale/Targeted Ads)" link in the footer of the website.
2. Right to deletion. In some circumstances, you may ask us to delete your personal information. These exceptions may include pending payments, active bids, or other incomplete transactions connected to your account. To do so, please complete the form available on our website and include your name, email address and California postal address.
3. Right to Correct Your Personal Information. You may request that we modify or update your personal information if it is inaccurate. To request that we modify or update your personal information, please log on to your DealerAuction account and select "Edit My Account Info."
4. Right to Opt Out. The CCPA provides California residents with the right to limit or opt out of the use of your personal information for certain purposes. Please remember that cookie-level opt-outs are browser and device-specific. You may "sell" or "share" opt-out requests by completing the form available on our website, including your name, email address and California postal address, or by clicking the "Your Privacy Choices (Opt-Out of Sale/Targeted Ads)" link in the footer of the website.
5. Right to be free from discrimination. You may exercise any of the above rights without fear of being discriminated against.
For any of the CCPA rights, you may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. In the request, you or your authorized agent must provide information sufficient for us to verify the identity of your agent and that your agent has been properly authorized to act on your behalf.
We do not knowingly collect or provide the personal information of minors under the age of 18 to others, without affirmative authorization.
You may also have the right to request a list of third parties to which certain personal information obtained through a Digital Service was disclosed to others by DealerAuction during the preceding year for those third parties' direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and want such a list, please contact us at Office of General Counsel, Attn: Privacy, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019. For such request, you must put the statement "Your California Privacy Rights/Shine the Light" in the body of your request, as well as your name, street address, city, state, and zip code.
Please note that our website is not intended for use by consumers in Europe or the UK. In order to address our legal obligations in Europe (including the UK), DealerAuction provides the following additional information for Europe-based visitors to DealerAuction's U.S. Digital Services.
If you use or interact with a DealerAuction U.S. Digital Service, then the data controller will be DealerAuction. The contact details for this entity are provided in the "Contact Us" section above.
We process personal information for different purposes on the following legal bases:
In certain circumstances, you have a right to access or object to the use of personal information held about you (including in relation to direct marketing). You can also ask us to rectify, update, erase, restrict or to share your information in a usable format with another company. Such requests are subject to applicable law. If you have any questions regarding your privacy rights, please contact us at support@dealerauction.com.
Information collected through the Digital Services will be processed in and subject to the laws of the United States, which may not provide the same level of protection for your personal information as your home country. If we transfer personal data from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland we put in place safeguards, including European Commission-approved standard contractual clauses.
Our Privacy Officer can be contacted at support@dealerauction.com. We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution in the event you have a complaint or concern about privacy. If you believe that we have not been able to assist with your complaint or concern, you have the right to make a complaint to a data protection authority.
Please note that our website is not intended for use by consumers in Canada, including without limitation the province of Quebec. In Canada, Dealer Auction LLC is responsible for your personal information. If you have any questions or complaints regarding this Privacy Notice or our privacy practices, please contact our Privacy Officer at support@dealerauction.com.
Subject to limited exceptions under applicable law, you have the right to access, update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody or control. You also have the right to withdraw your consent to our collection, use and disclosure of personal information, subject to legal and contractual restrictions. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us at support@dealerauction.com.
We and our service providers (including affiliates and subsidiaries) may access, store and otherwise process personal information outside of Canada, including in the United States and other foreign jurisdictions. For information about our practices with respect to the use of service providers outside of Canada, please contact our Privacy Officer at support@dealerauction.com.