Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to SKS Management (“We”, “Our”, “Us”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and share the personal information that we gather on our websites at www.sksmgmt.com, www.safkeep.com, www.buystoragefinds.com and www.somastorage.com and other micro-sites maintained by our affiliates (the “Sites”). By continuing to use our Sites, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Please click the following links to learn more about our Privacy Policy:

1. Privacy Policy Updates
2. Information Collection
3. Information Use
4. Children's Privacy
5. Cookies
6. Third Party Analytics Tools
7. Third Party Advertising Tools
8. Usage Information
9. Aggregate Information
10. Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information
11. Links to Third Party Sites
12. Security
13. Privacy Notice for California Residents
14. Notice to Users Located Outside of the United States
15. Contact Us

1. Privacy Policy Updates 

We may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If so, we will post our updated Privacy Policy on the Sites along with a change notice on the Sites. We may also send registered users of our services a notice that this Privacy Policy has been changed. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Your continued use of these Sites and/or services and/or your continued provision of personally identifiable information to us after the posting of such notice will be subject to the terms of the then-current Privacy Policy. 

2. Information Collection 

In certain sections of these Sites, we may require you to submit your personally identifiable information to us, and we may invite you to submit questions, comments and request information. In addition to any personal information that you may voluntarily provide, these Sites collect information using cookies and other third-party tools. Please refer to the sections below on “Cookies” and “Third Party Analytics Tools” and “Third Party Advertising Tools” for more information about the information these tools collect and use.

Due to the nature of some of our services, you may provide us with personally identifiable information that you voluntarily transmit with your communication to us. 

The categories of information include:

• Contact information, such as name, address, zip code or location, email, telephone number and date of birth.
• Online identifiers, such as IP address, cookies, username, and password, driver’s license number.
• Professional, employment, or education information, such as copies of your resume or CV and any other information required to verify your qualifications, for recruitment purposes.
• Social media information, such as social media handles, content and other data shared with us through third-party features that you use on our Sites and other service (such as apps, tools, payment services, widgets and plug-ins offered by social media services like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube) or posted on social media pages (such as our social media page or other pages accessible to us).
• Financial and commercial information, such as credit card information, for paid online accounts, your storage unit number and transaction histories for your storage units.

3. Information Use

We use your personal information as follows:

• To provide you with the services on our platform, which involves self-storage and buying and selling customers’ goods.
• To share with third-party marketing partners to provide tailored advertising on our Sites and other websites that you may visit
• To market our products and/or services to you
• To analyze usage on our Sites and improve the services offered
• For market research, project planning, troubleshooting problems
• To provide you with employment opportunities
• For detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity 

4. Children's Privacy 

We recognize the privacy interests of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's online activities and interests. Neither the Sites nor our services are intended for children under the age of 16. We do not target our services or these Sites to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information.

5. Cookies

We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file.

On the Sites, we use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate the Sites by remembering your locale preferences and to improve and track the overall experience on our Sites. For the Sites, we set a persistent cookie to authenticate your login and authorization to use the services. Persistent cookies enable us to track, store and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on the Sites. If you reject cookies, you may still use the Sites, but your ability to use some areas of the Sites may be limited.

6. Third Party Analytics Tools 

Beyond the personally identifiable information you voluntarily provide to us directly, we utilize analytics tools including third party technologies, such as Google Analytics, to collect information utilizing cookies. Certain types of information, including geolocation, device type, onsite website usage and behavior, demographic data, and purchase history, is collected and aggregated across the users of our Sites for our analysis and advertising efforts.

7. Third Party Advertising Tools 

We use Google Analytics and Google Ads and similar types of technologies to display relevant advertisements to users who have previously visited the Sites. Referred to as remarketing or retargeting, we may utilize previous session information to serve display advertisements to you on the Sites and based on such session information Google may set a cookie and serve ads to you on third party websites on the Google Display Network. Third party vendors such as Google may display our ads on websites across the Internet. Aggregated user data may be utilized to create remarketing/retargeting “lists,” or groups of users with similar onsite behaviors or demographics. We also use Google tools to display advertisements to users based on their inferred interests and demographics. 

Users may learn more about Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google Privacy and Terms page at http://www.google.com/policies/. You may opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics by i) Turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser ii) Downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add on available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/ iii) Opting out of user interest and demographic categories in the Settings for Google Ads feature to manage or opt out of Google interest based ads at: or iv) Managing cookies used for online advertising across multiple companies at the US-based Network Advertising Initiative at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. 

AddThis Plugin Tools. We also use AddThis social plugin tools to allow visitors to share pages of our websites to their social media and record analytic data to deliver targeted advertising. Please refer to AllThis’s Privacy Policy for more information. To learn more about how to opt out of third-party, interest-based advertising enabled by Oracle Data Cloud, including AddThis, visit Oracle’s Opt-Out of Targeted Advertising. Please note that electing to opt-out will not stop advertising from appearing in your browser or applications and may make the ads you see less relevant to your interests.

Please see our cookie policy for more information.

8. Usage Information

We automatically collect information about your interactions with the Sites, including information about the device you use to interact with and/or access the Sites, such as: IP address, access dates and times, information about your approximate location (as determined through your IP address), hardware and software information, mobile, computer or hardware device information (e.g., operating system version, Hardware model, IMEI number and other unique device identifiers, MAC address, and device settings), device event information, and crash data. This information allows us to understand how you’ve used the Sites (which may include administrative and support communications with us or whether you have clicked on links to External Web Sites), and other actions you have taken in connection with your use of the Sites. We automatically collect log data when you access and use the Sites, even if you have not created an account or logged in. 

9. Aggregate Information

We may collect and track the total number of visitors to the Sites, the number of visitors to each page of the Sites, External Web Sites (defined below) linked to and other aggregated data collected through our services and we may analyze this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information. We may use such information for purposes such as analyzing trends, administering the Sites, and to understand how users interact with the Sites. 

10. Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information

We may provide your personally identifiable information and the data generated by cookies and third party analytics tools and the aggregate information to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing our services to you. For example, we engage with G5 Search Marketing, Inc. to assist us in creating and hosting these Sites and SMD Servers to process online payments. 

We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or to assist in any investigation, to protect our or our users' rights or to enforce our terms of use. We will not sell your personally identifiable information to any company or organization except we may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other corporate reorganization in which we participate or to a purchaser of all or substantially all of our assets to which these Sites relate. 

11. Links to Third Party Sites 

The Sites may provide links to other Web sites or resources over which we do not have control ("External Web Sites"). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by us of those External Web Sites. You acknowledge that we are providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that we are not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites. Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked to External Web Sites.

12. Security 

We may employ industry standard procedural and technological measures that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. We may use, without limitation, firewalls, password protection, secure socket layer, and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information. 

Privacy Notice for California Residents

This section supplements the information provided in the Privacy Policy above and applies only to visitors and users who are residents of the state of California.

If you have questions or concerns about any of the information provided in this Privacy Notice for California Residents, please contact us using the information provided in the “Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy below.

Personal Information We Collect

For purposes of this section “personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. Personal information does not include: 

• information that is lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records;
• de-identified or aggregated information; and
• information excluded from the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) such as health or medical information covered under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and financial information covered under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) or Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (“GLBA”).

In the last twelve (12) months, we have collected the categories of personal information described in the table below. 

The table below describes the sources for each category of personal information we collect, the business and/or commercial purposes for which we use each category of personal information, and the third parties with whom we share each category of personal information we collect. 

Your Rights

• If you are a California consumer, you have the following rights:
• The right to know what personal information is being collected about you.
• The right to know whether your personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom.
• The right to say no to the sale of personal information.
• The right to access your personal information.
• The right, in certain circumstances, to delete the information you have provided to us. 
• The right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights.

Request for Information and Deletion. California consumers have the right to request, up to twice in a 12-month period, that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consumer the information listed below for the preceding 12 months. We have the right to request verification of your identity for all requests for information. 

1. The categories of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
2. The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
3. The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
4. The categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information.
5. The categories of personal information that the business sold about the consumer and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to whom the personal information was sold.
6. The categories of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer for a business purpose.
7. The specific pieces of personal information it has collected about that consumer.

 

To make such a request, please call us at the following toll-free number (888) 281-7749 or visit this webpage.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information. California consumers have the right to opt out of the sale of the consumer’s personal information. To make such a request, please call us at the following toll-free number (888) 281-7749, contact us at privacy@sksmgmt.com or visit this webpage.

Third Party Marketing. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us using the contact details provided in the “Contact Information” section below.

14. Notice to Users Located Outside of the United States

These Sites and the services on these Sites are targeted for users in the United States of America only. Any information you enter on these Sites may be transferred outside of your home country to the United States of America, which may not offer an equivalent level of protection to that required of your home country’s data protection laws. 

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email at privacy@sksmgmt.com, by phone at (888) 281-7749, or visit this webpage.

1939 Harrison Street, Suite 410
Oakland, CA 94612