Please read this Notice carefully to understand how we treat your personal information.
Última actualización: 21 de agosto de 2026
La protección de su información personal es de suma importancia para United Rentals, Inc. (junto con sus empresas afiliadas, “United Rentals”, “nosotros”, “nos” o “nuestro”). This Privacy Notice explains what information we collect, and how we use the information we collect, from or about you on our websites (located at our primary website, http://www.unitedrentals.com, and including, but not limited to, https://www.unitedrentals.com/en-gb, https://www.unitedrentals.com/de-de, https://www.unitedrentals.com/fr-fr, https://www.unitedrentals.com/nl-nl, https://info.unitedrentals.com/, http://royalwolf.com.au, and http://royalwolf.co.nz, as well as any websites for companies we acquire in the future (collectively, the “Websites”)), via our mobile applications, devices, through communications with us, or from other sources.
Please read this Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Websites or services. By accessing or using the Websites, or otherwise providing us with your personal information, you acknowledge that you have read and understood, and agree to, this Privacy Notice. This Notice may change from time to time (see Updates to Our Privacy Notice below). Your continued use of the Websites or our services after we make changes to the Notice is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Notice periodically for updates.
This Privacy Notice applies to United Rentals’ global operations, with Addenda below that cover specific jurisdictions in which United Rentals operates.
The Addenda below explain our privacy practices for certain countries or territories which may vary to reflect local legal requirements.
1. INFORMACIÓN QUE RECOPILAMOS
Recopilamos la siguiente información personal, y es posible que hayamos recopilado dicha información en los últimos 12 meses:
- Identifiers, which include your name, postal address, email address, unique personal identifiers, online identifiers, IP address, account name, driver’s license number*, social security number*, passport number*, vehicle identification number and other similar identifiers. We collect these identifiers in order to provide you with our products and services. We may also collect your driver’s license* in connection with the use of certain products and, if you are a customer renting vehicles, rental pick-up date and time, drop-off date and time, total rental duration, rental vehicle odometer readings and your rental vehicle driver assignments. In addition, we obtain identifiers such as user name or ID*, passwords* and similar credentials when you create an account with us to access our services or when you communicate with us via social media, as well as your IP address and unique device identifiers when you visit our Websites or use our mobile apps.
- las siguientes categorías de información personal descritas en la sección 1798.80(e) del Código Civil de California: (1) los Identificadores enumerados con anterioridad; (2) firma, (3) número de teléfono; (4) información de pago* (que puede incluir número de cuenta bancaria o número de tarjeta de crédito o débito); (5) número de póliza de seguro de automóvil; (6) información obtenida en relación con un cheque de crédito (si corresponde en relación con los servicios obtenidos de nosotros), que incluye información financiera y educación, empleo y antecedentes laborales;
- Biometric data*, including a scan of your facial geometry based on photos you provide to United Rentals’ vendor(s), as applicable (in the United States and Canada only);
- información comercial, incluidos los registros de los productos y los servicios obtenidos de United Rentals e información sobre sus preferencias de compra;
- Internet or other electronic network activity information, including browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with our Websites, mobile apps and advertisements.
- datos de geolocalización*, en forma de ubicación de nuestros equipos de alquiler y dispositivos. This includes the geolocation of the rental equipment and devices during your use of them, and/or other telematics data as applicable. We may also collect the approximate location of your device from your IP address. Further, we may collect precise geolocation data from your browser and/or application programming interface (API) when using our apps, with your permission.
- Audio information from calls made to our customer service centers or local stores, which may be recorded, video information in the form of vehicle dashboard cameras, if applicable, and electronic information in the form of Internet or other electronic network activity information as described above.
- información profesional o relacionada con el empleo, en forma de información de contacto comercial y, tal como se indicó con anterioridad, en relación con las verificaciones de crédito realizadas en relación con determinados servicios;
- Inferences drawn from (a) the information we collect when you visit our Websites or use our mobile apps when you use our products or services, including our training academy, (b) information we collect, including through third-party suppliers, regarding content and other data posted on the Internet (such as public locations on the Internet) and (c) information about consumer preferences and behavior that we collect on our Websites and mobile apps or purchase from third parties in order to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, predispositions, behavior and attitudes.
- información que brinde en respuesta a encuestas;
- información que brinde cuando envía reseñas o comentarios relacionados con nuestros productos o servicios.
Certain information above, including the information marked with an asterisk (*), is considered “sensitive information” under the California Consumer Privacy Act and other applicable privacy laws.
Unless otherwise stated, we intend to retain the above information only for as long as reasonably necessary to complete the purpose(s) for which the personal information was collected. We may retain certain information for a longer period in order to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and for other legitimate and lawful business purposes, such as fraud detection and prevention and enhancing safety and security across our services.
2. CÓMO RECOPILAMOS INFORMACIÓN
We collect personal information that you provide to us, including information you submit to us when you use the Websites or our mobile apps, rent equipment, or purchase or use other services from us. As you navigate through and interact with the Websites or use mobile apps, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, online activities and browsing actions and patterns (as described below). We may collect this information directly or through third parties, including operating systems and platforms, social networks, data analytics providers or advertising networks, and our business partners. If you share someone else’s information with us, you confirm they have authorized you to share their information and have been informed of their rights under this Notice.
3. AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES AND LINKED WEBSITES
As you navigate through and interact with our Websites or our mobile applications, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Websites or mobile applications, including location, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, device make/model, operating system, and browser type.
- The technologies we use for automatic data collection on the Websites or our mobile applications include cookies and web beacons.
- A "cookie" is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your system. We use different kinds of cookies on the Websites.
- A “web beacon” is a small electronic file (e.g., clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) with a unique identifier that is used to understand browsing activity.
We use data collected through these technologies, which we may supplement with other information such as location, to enable, optimize and analyze the operation of our Websites and to deliver a better and more personalized service. By clicking “Accept Cookies” and continuing to use this website, you consent to the placement of these technologies on your device and to this data processing.
Please see the Privacy Preference Center link for detailed information about the cookies we use on the Websites. For more information about these technologies and how to manage your privacy and security settings or opt out, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below, or visit our Privacy Preference Center.
Third-party cookies. Some content or applications on the Websites, including advertisements, are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, social media networks and application providers. These third parties may use cookies, alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies, to collect information about you when you use the Websites. La información que recopilan puede asociarse con su información personal o pueden recopilar información, incluida la información personal, acerca de sus actividades en línea a través del tiempo y en diferentes sitios web y otros servicios en línea. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content. We also share information collected by these technologies with third party social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that they have collected about you, for advertising or other purposes. We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies. Para obtener más información sobre estas tecnologías, debe comunicarse directamente con el proveedor responsable o visitar sus páginas de políticas de confidencialidad. For information about how to manage and/or opt out of your targeted advertising preferences, please see How to Exercise Your Privacy Rights or Contact Us for details on how to contact our Privacy Officer, or visit our Privacy Preference Center.
Linked Websites. The Websites may include links to other websites or content that belong to third parties. We are not responsible for personal information that you voluntarily disclose to such third parties, and we are not responsible for third party websites, content, or services. Debe revisar las políticas de confidencialidad asociadas con dichos terceros.
4. CÓMO UTILIZAMOS LA INFORMACIÓN
Podemos utilizar la información personal que recopilamos para lo siguiente:
- Provide you with the Websites as well as with information, products or services that you request from us.
- completar transacciones, incluso el alquiler o la compra de productos y servicios;
- prestar servicios al cliente y servicios de cuenta, tales como avisos sobre productos y servicios o su cuenta/suscripción, incluidos los avisos de vencimiento y renovación;
- Engage external fleet management services.
- cumplir con las leyes aplicables, cooperar con las investigaciones de las agencias policiales o ejercer nuestros derechos legales, incluido el cumplimiento y la ejecución de nuestras obligaciones y derechos contractuales, como la facturación y el cobro;
- evaluar y mejorar nuestros productos y servicios o desarrollar productos o servicios nuevos;
- adaptar nuestro marketing y publicidad a usted; However, we will not share your mobile number with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.
- también podemos utilizar su información personal para contactarle acerca de nuestros bienes y servicios, y los de terceros, que pudieran ser de su interés. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please contact our Privacy Officer (see How to Exercise Your Privacy Rights or Contact Us below for details on how to contact our Privacy Officer).
6. OPCIONES SOBRE CÓMO UTILIZAMOS Y DIVULGAMOS SU INFORMACIÓN
Nos esforzamos por ofrecerle opciones relacionadas con la información personal que usted nos brinda. Hemos creado mecanismos para ofrecerle el siguiente control sobre su información:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Websites may then be inaccessible or not function properly. You can learn more about cookies and how to manage them at http://www.allaboutcookies.org. For more information about these technologies and how to manage your privacy and security settings or opt out, see Automatic Data Collection Technologies and Linked Websites above, and/or visit our Privacy Preference Center.
- Promotional Offers from United Rentals. If you do not wish to have your personal information used by United Rentals to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by contacting our Privacy Officer (see How to Exercise Your Privacy Rights or Contact Us below for details on how to contact our Privacy Officer). Si le hemos enviado un correo electrónico promocional, puede enviarnos un correo electrónico de respuesta pidiendo que se le excluya de futuras distribuciones de correo electrónico. If you opt out from receiving promotional e-mails, we may still need to send you communications about product purchases, warranty registration, product service experience or other matters or transactions.
- Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we directly or indirectly collect or that you provide to us to deliver our advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can:
- Turn off targeting cookies (to do so, please visit cookie settings via the Privacy Preference Center);
- Opt out of email marketing by visiting Promotional Email Settings (https://www.unitedrentals.com/user/manage-promotional-email-settings); and/or
- contact our Privacy Officer (see How to Exercise Your Privacy Rights or Contact Us below for details on how to contact our Privacy Officer
7. CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 14
The content of the Websites is not targeted to, or intended for, children under 14 years of age. United Rentals does not market products or services to this age group and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 14. If you are under 14, do not use or provide any information on the Site or on or through any of its features or register on the Site, make any purchases or rentals through the Site or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 14 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 14, please contact our Privacy Officer (see Contact Us below for details on how to contact our Privacy Officer).
8. SUS DERECHOS DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD
You may make a request to review any personal information about you that we have collected, used, or disclosed, and information about those uses and disclosures, and we will provide you with any such personal information to the extent required by applicable laws.
You may also challenge the accuracy or completeness of your personal information in our records. If you demonstrate that your personal information in our records is inaccurate or incomplete, we will amend or delete your personal information as required by applicable laws.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights.
The exact scope of your privacy rights may vary by jurisdiction. You may also have other privacy rights, depending on the jurisdiction in which you reside. Please review the Addenda below which explain specific privacy rights that exist in certain countries or territories.
To exercise any of your privacy rights, please follow the instructions (How to Exercise Your Privacy Rights), below. Cumpliremos con su solicitud en la medida en que lo exija la ley aplicable y haremos un esfuerzo de buena fe para cumplir con su solicitud en todos los demás casos.
If you disagree with our response to your request, you may appeal the request by submitting supporting documentation to our Privacy Officer at [email protected]. You may also submit a complaint to the competent supervisory authority in the jurisdiction in which you live if you have any concerns about our processing of your personal data or if we deny your appeal to review a prior decision about your privacy rights.
With respect to certain deletion requests, we may not be able to delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. No podemos dar cabida a una solicitud de cambio de información si creemos que el cambio violaría cualquier ley o requisito legal o haría que la información sea incorrecta.
If you have a UnitedRentals.com account, you can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page and updating your information. Please note that this will not update your customer account with us; this will only update your Website account. If you would like to update your customer account with us, please follow the instructions (How to Exercise Your Privacy Rights), below.
Additionally, residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia may have the right (now or in the future) to:
(a) receive, at or before the time of collection, notice of our privacy practices;
(b) know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell;
(c) request that we delete your personal information;
(d) access and obtain a copy of your personal information that we collect;
(e) request correction of inaccurate personal information, taking into account the information’s nature and processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah);
(f) opt out of the sale of your personal information;
(g) opt out of targeted advertising (excluding Iowa); or
(h) either limit (opt out of) or require consent to the use and disclosure of certain sensitive information, as applicable.
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Nevada residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to [email protected].
9. CÓMO EJERCER ESTOS DERECHOS
Puede solicitar ejercer los derechos anteriores de la siguiente manera:
- Envíenos un correo electrónico a [correo electrónico protegido]
- Llame al 203.618.7342
- Escríbanos a Privacy Officer, General Counsel’s Office, United Rentals, Inc, 100 First Stamford Place – Suite 700 Stamford, CT 06902
Tenga en cuenta que podemos tomar medidas para verificar su identidad antes de concederle acceso a la información o actuar sobre su solicitud para ejercer sus derechos, según lo requieran o permitan las leyes. Podemos limitar nuestra respuesta a su ejercicio de los derechos anteriores según lo permitiesen las leyes.
Puede designar a un agente autorizado para ejercer los derechos anteriores en su nombre. Un agente puede ser un individuo o una entidad comercial registrada ante el Secretario de estado. Para designar a un agente autorizado, debe otorgar al agente autorización por escrito para presentar la solicitud. Es posible que aún le solicitemos que verifique su identidad directamente (sujeto a ciertas excepciones). Podemos rechazar una solicitud si el agente no proporciona una prueba adecuada de su autorización.
10. VENTAS DE INFORMACIÓN PERSONAL
When we share information for purposes of targeted advertising or advertising networks, such sharing may be considered a “sale” of information under some U.S. state laws. You may request to opt out of such sharing of information (see How to Exercise Your Privacy Rights above).
11. DO NOT TRACK/GLOBAL PRIVACY CONTROL
We comply with the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, which means if you enable the GPC setting in your browser, we will interpret that as a request to not sell or share your personal information with third parties.
12. SEGURIDAD DE LA INFORMACIÓN
Hemos implementado medidas diseñadas para proteger su información. Por ejemplo, exigimos que nuestros operadores de procesamiento de pagos cumplan con los Estándares de Seguridad de Datos para la Industria de Tarjeta de Pago. Además, exigimos que cualquier tercero que procese su información en nuestro nombre cumpla con un conjunto integral de requisitos de seguridad. Para obtener más información sobre estos requisitos, visite https://www.unitedrentals.com/legal/msa-data-processing-terms. Sin embargo, no podemos garantizar que su información personal nunca se divulgará de una manera contraria a la Política de confidencialidad, por ejemplo, como resultado de actos no autorizados por parte de terceros que violen la ley aplicable o las políticas web relevantes.
Es posible que deba registrarse en una cuenta para usar la totalidad o parte de nuestros servicios. Cuando lo haga, se le pedirá que seleccione una contraseña para ayudar a proteger su información. Estas contraseñas nos ayudan a verificar su identidad antes de otorgar acceso o hacer correcciones a cualquier parte de su información personal. Nunca debe divulgar su contraseña a nadie y no debe usar la misma contraseña para otros sitios web. Nunca le pediremos su contraseña en una llamada telefónica o correo electrónico no solicitados. Usted es responsable de mantener la confidencialidad de sus contraseñas y la información de su cuenta.
13. UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE
We may make changes to this Notice from time to time. When we make material changes to this Notice, we will post a link to the revised Notice on the homepage of our Websites, and if you have registered for any of products or services or have an account with us, we may also inform you though a communications channel that you have provided. The date the Notice was last revised is identified at the top of the page. Any changes to this Notice will become effective upon posting of the revised Notice on the Websites.
14. CONTÁCTENOS
Si tiene preguntas o comentarios acerca de la presente Política de confidencialidad y de nuestras prácticas de confidencialidad, contáctenos de la manera siguiente:
- Envíenos un correo electrónico a [correo electrónico protegido]
- Llame al 203.618.7342
- Escríbanos a Privacy Officer, General Counsel’s Office, United Rentals, Inc, 100 First Stamford Place – Suite 700 Stamford, CT 06902
Asegúrese de incluir su nombre completo, dirección, número de teléfono y dirección de correo electrónico para que podamos enviarle una respuesta.
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA AND UNITED KINGDOM ADDENDUM
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”), the following additional provisions apply to how we treat your personal information. The provisions of this EEA and UK Addendum prevail over conflicting provisions in the Privacy Notice.
1. How We Use Your Personal Information
Utilizamos las siguientes bases legales para el procesamiento de su información personal:
- Compliance with a legal obligation such as to determine the legal requirement(s) for processing of your Personal Data (based on your location), to respond to your requests related to your data subject rights, to comply with our legal obligations (e.g. tax and accounting obligations), to inform you about any changes to this Privacy Notice, when applicable.
- cumplimiento de un contrato o para tomar medidas para celebrar un contrato con usted;
- Our legitimate business interests such as fraud prevention, or improvement of our products and services.
- Your consent, in certain instances, and where we make clear that we are asking for your consent for a specific processing purpose.
2. Conservación de datos
Your personal information will not be stored for longer than necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or as required by our legal and regulatory obligations. Nuestras políticas de conservación reflejan las leyes locales aplicables de plazos de limitación y los requisitos legales.
3. Transferencias internacionales
We may transfer your personal information to countries that have not been found by the European Commission or the UK government to provide adequate protection. Where such transfers occur, we take measures to ensure personal information is adequately protected from the risks of transfer, such as through the use of EU standard contractual agreements (the standard contractual clauses annexed to the European Commission’s Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021 currently found at https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractual-clauses-scc_en) or the equivalent UK provisions, as applicable.
4. Do we engage in profiling activities?
If you provide your consent, we may use tracking mechanisms to track your Personal Data for profiling purposes. This allows us to serve relevant content to you and adjust our Services and ads to your interests. You have the right to object to this type of processing. You can also go to your cookie settings to review and amend your privacy choices related to this type of processing at any time.
5. Derechos sobre su información personal
In connection with your personal information you have the following rights:
- pedirnos que confirmemos si estamos procesando su información personal;
- recibir información sobre cómo se procesan sus datos;
- obtener una copia de su información personal;
- solicitar que actualicemos o corrijamos su información personal;
- solicitar que borremos información personal en determinadas circunstancias.
Revocación del consentimiento: cuando el procesamiento de su información personal se basa en su consentimiento, puede revocar este consentimiento en cualquier momento; la revocación del consentimiento no afectará la legalidad del procesamiento basado en el consentimiento antes de su revocación.
Derecho de oposición y restricción: You may object on grounds relating to your particular situation to our processing of your personal information based on our legitimate business interest, including profiling, and to us sending you marketing communications. You may also request that we place restrictions on our processing of your personal data while we are processing your request or challenge pertaining to the accuracy of your personal information or the lawfulness of the processing of your personal information, or if you need the personal information for litigation purposes.
Portabilidad de los datos: puede solicitar que le brindemos a usted, o a un tercero que designe, cierta información personal en un formato legible por máquina de uso común. Sin embargo, tenga en cuenta que los derechos de portabilidad de los datos se aplican solo a la información personal que hayamos obtenido directamente de usted y solo cuando nuestro procesamiento se base en el consentimiento o el cumplimiento de un contrato.
We will respond to your request regarding your personal information without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request. That period may be extended by two further months, where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of requests.
Puede ejercer estos derechos sin costo alguno. However, we may charge a reasonable fee or refuse to act on a request if it is manifestly unfounded or excessive, such as because it is repetitive. En algunas situaciones, podemos negarnos a actuar o imponer limitaciones a sus derechos, según lo permitan las leyes. If you wish to exercise any of these rights or have any complaints, please contact our Privacy Officer (see Contact Us above for details on contacting our Privacy Officer).
If you believe we have not complied with our obligations under applicable data protection laws and regulations, you can lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority, for example the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens in the Netherlands, or the Information Commissioner’s Office “ICO” in the United Kingdom.
6. Do we collect Personal Information from Children?
The Services are not targeted towards, nor intended for use by anyone under the age of 14. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a user under 14 years of age, we will delete that data as quickly as possible. If you believe that a user might be under the age of 14, please contact us at [email protected].
7. Cookies
A "cookie" is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your system. There are similar techniques as cookies such as web beacons, small graphic files (pixels) and an additional HTML5 (local) storage in your browser. We use different kinds of cookies on the Websites.
For detailed information about the cookies we use on the Websites, please see our Cookie Notice which is located here (https://www.unitedrentals.com/en-gb).
8. Data Controller
In the European Union and the United Kingdom, the following United Rentals entities are the data controllers which process your personal information:
- United Rentals, Inc.
- United Rentals (North America), Inc.
- United Rentals GmbH
- United Rentals B.V.
- United Rentals SAS
- United Rentals UK Limited
- United Rentals of Canada, Inc.
- United Rentals International BV
- United Rentals Belgium BV
- EQIN B.V. (Netherlands)
- EQIN Industrial B.V. (Netherlands)
- EQIN N.V. (Belgium)
- Indu-Tools Group B.V. (Netherlands)
- Indu-Tools B.V. (Netherlands)
- Indu-Tools N.V. (Belgium)
- Interlas Welding Solutions B.V.
9. Data Protection Officer in the EEA and UK
We have appointed the DPO Centre as our Data Protection Officer. If you have any questions about your data, this Privacy Notice or if you would like to exercise your rights under it you can contact [email protected]. In addition you can contact the DPO Centre at [email protected]. You should explain that you are contacting the DPO Centre in connection with your privacy rights, your relationship with United Rentals and the reason for your inquiry.
Información corporativa
100 First Stamford Place
Ste 700
Stamford, CT 06902
United States203.622.3131
CANADIAN ADDENDUM
If you are a resident of Canada, the following additional provisions apply to how we treat your personal information. The provisions of this Canadian Addendum prevail over conflicting provisions in the Privacy Notice.
Your Consent
We collect, use and disclose your personal information with your consent or as permitted or required by law. How we obtain your consent, including whether it is express or implied, will depend on the circumstances and the sensitivity of the personal information in question. Generally, we will seek your consent at the time we collect your personal information, either orally, electronically, or in writing.
If you wish to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information, please contact us. We will accommodate your request to withdraw consent, subject to legal or contractual restrictions. Withdrawal of your consent may mean that we will no longer be able to provide you with our products or services.
International Transfer and Storage of Personal Information
We may transfer your personal information outside of the jurisdiction in which you are located (including outside of Canada) to fulfil the purpose for which we collected it, including for processing and storage by our service providers. While your personal information is outside of Canada, it is subject to the laws of the country in which it is located, which may have different privacy laws than Canada. Those laws may require disclosure of your personal information to authorities in that country. For more information about our policies and practices regarding personal information that is processed outside of Canada, please contact us.
AUSTRALIAN ADDENDUM
AUSTRALIAN ADDENDUM
If you are located in Australia, the following additional provisions apply to how we treat your personal information. The provisions of this Australian Addendum prevail over conflicting provisions in the Privacy Notice.
1. Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Notice, ‘personal information’ shall have the meaning given to that term in the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act).
2. Compliance with law
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Privacy Notice, United Rentals will comply with all applicable Australian law, including the Privacy Act and the Spam Act 2003 (Cth), with respect to all personal information collected about individuals in Australia.
3. Collection of sensitive information
We do not generally require you to disclose any sensitive information (e.g. details of race, religious belief, sexual orientation or membership of a trade union) to us. If you do provide us with sensitive information for any reason, you consent to us collecting that information and using and disclosing that information for the purpose for which you disclosed it to us and as permitted by the Privacy Act and other relevant laws.
4. International transfers
We may disclose your personal information to countries located outside of Australia.
5. Requests for access and correction
You may seek access to or correction of personal information which we hold about you by contacting us as described in section 14 of this Privacy Notice.
We will provide access to, and correct any inaccuracies in, your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act, subject to any exemptions which may apply.
6. Questions or comments
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about our collection, use or disclosure of personal information, or if you believe that we have not complied with this Privacy Notice (including this Australian Addendum) or the Privacy Act, please contact us in accordance with section 14 of this Privacy Notice (Contact Us).
We will take any privacy complaint seriously. Any complaint will be assessed with the aim of resolving any issue in a timely and efficient manner. We request that you cooperate with us during this process and provide us with any relevant information that we may need.
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of our assessment of your complaint, you may wish to contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
