Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 1, 2026
Last Updated: February 15, 2026

1. Introduction & Controller Information

Scoutmediastsh Performance Media Ltd ("Scoutmediastsh", "we", "us", or "our"), registered at Kurfürstendamm 194, 10707 Berlin, Germany (Company No. HRB 248910 B), respects the privacy of our visitors and users. This Privacy Policy sets out how we collect, store, process, and protect your personal data when you access scoutmediastsh.com, engage with our vehicle valuation indexes, or request pre-purchase vehicle inspections.

For any queries regarding this policy, our designated Data Protection Officer (DPO) can be contacted at [email protected] or via postal mail at our Berlin headquarters.

2. Categories of Data We Collect

Depending on your interactions with our performance marketplace, we collect the following categories of data:

• Identity & Contact Information: Full name, telephone number, email address, and country of residence provided when submitting concierge inquiries or booking physical vehicle telemetry evaluations.
• Vehicle Telemetry & Preference Data: Specific vehicle models searched, price filter configurations (€50K, €75K, €100K, €150K), estimated annual mileage inputs, and currency preferences.
• Technical & Connection Logs: IP address (anonymized in compliance with EU regulations), browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, and HTTP referrer headers.
• Analytical Cookies: Aggregated, non-personally identifiable telemetry regarding page dwell times, button click patterns, and feature utilization.

3. Legal Basis for Processing Under GDPR (Article 6)

We process personal data strictly under lawful bases specified by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679:

• Performance of a Contract (Art. 6(1)(b)): When you engage our concierge team to schedule vehicle inspections, arrange export paperwork, or coordinate dealer consultations.
• Legitimate Interests (Art. 6(1)(f)): Maintaining server network security, detecting malicious scraping of our market pricing databases, and enhancing user interface responsiveness.
• Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)): For non-essential analytics and targeted telemetry updates, which you may grant or revoke via our Cookie Settings banner at any time.

4. Third-Party Data Processors & Transfers

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to external advertisers. We only transfer data to trusted sub-processors under strict Data Processing Agreements (DPAs):

• Cloud Hosting Infrastructure: AWS Europe (Frankfurt region) complying with ISO/IEC 27001 data safety standards.
• Email Dispatch Systems: Encrypted European mail gateways for inquiry response transmission.
• Anonymized Telemetry Analytics: Privacy-focused analytics providers maintaining zero-cookie or fully hashed IP compliance.

5. Data Retention Schedules

Inquiry and pre-purchase inspection records are retained for twenty-four (24) months to facilitate ongoing market appraisal records and transaction auditing, after which they are systematically purged from our operational database. Technical server logs are rotated and deleted every 90 days.

6. Your Rights Under European and International Privacy Laws

Under GDPR and applicable international frameworks, you possess the right to:

• Request access to all personal data held concerning your identity (Article 15).
• Request rectification of inaccurate vehicle or contact data (Article 16).
• Request immediate erasure ("Right to be Forgotten") of your records (Article 17).
• Object to processing on legitimate interest grounds (Article 21).
• Request data portability in a machine-readable JSON format (Article 20).

To exercise any of these statutory rights, please submit a verified request to [email protected]. We resolve all verified requests within thirty (30) calendar days free of charge.