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Policy overview
Introduction and Scope
Miami Containers LLC respects your privacy and is committed to handling
personal information responsibly. This Privacy Policy applies to information
collected through our website, online store, contact and quotation forms,
email communications, telephone conversations, invoices, purchases,
deliveries, customer-service interactions, and other business activities.
This Policy applies to visitors, prospective customers, customers, business
representatives, vendors, contractors, and other individuals who interact
with Miami Containers LLC. It does not govern the independent privacy
practices of websites, applications, payment processors, transportation
providers, or other third parties that we do not control.
Please read this Policy carefully.
By using our website or providing personal information to us, you
acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Where
applicable law requires consent, we will request it separately.
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Business identity
Who We Are
Miami Containers LLC is a Florida Limited Liability Company that supplies
new, used, refrigerated, specialty, and modified shipping containers for
residential, commercial, construction, agricultural, industrial, logistics,
storage, and custom-conversion applications.
Legal Name
Miami Containers LLC
Governing Agency
Florida Department of State
Document Number
L13000036546
FEI / EIN
46-2268273
Date Filed
March 11, 2013
Status
Active
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Information categories
Personal Information We Collect
The information we collect depends on how you interact with us. We may
collect the following categories of personal information:
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Identity Information
Your name, company name, job title, account name, customer number,
signature, and other information used to identify you or your business.
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Contact Information
Email address, telephone number, billing address, delivery address,
ZIP code, and other contact details you provide.
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Order and Quote Information
Container size, type, condition, quantity, intended use, modifications,
preferred delivery date, site requirements, and quotation history.
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Delivery and Site Information
Delivery address, site photographs, access measurements, road
conditions, ground conditions, gate information, obstacles,
placement instructions, and unloading requirements.
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Transaction Information
Products purchased, invoice information, payment status, transaction
references, refunds, taxes, delivery fees, and purchase history.
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Payment Information
Payment-related information necessary to process or verify a
transaction. Full payment-card information is generally handled
directly by the applicable payment processor rather than stored by us.
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Communications
Emails, enquiry forms, support messages, call notes, complaints,
reviews, feedback, and other communications exchanged with us.
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Account Information
Login credentials, saved addresses, account preferences, order
history, and related information when customer accounts are available.
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Device and Technical Data
IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, cookie
identifiers, approximate location, language, and website activity.
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Marketing Preferences
Subscription status, communication preferences, consent records,
campaign engagement, and requests to unsubscribe.
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Fraud and Security Information
Information used to detect suspicious transactions, prevent fraud,
secure our website, enforce our policies, and protect customers.
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Information You Choose to Provide
Any additional information included in a message, uploaded file,
photograph, review, testimonial, survey, or customer-service request.
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Collection sources
How We Collect Information
We may collect personal information from the following sources:
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Directly from you when you complete a form, request
a quote, create an account, place an order, send an email, call us,
submit a review, or otherwise communicate with us.
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Automatically through our website using cookies,
log files, analytics technologies, pixels, local storage, and similar
technologies.
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From service providers such as payment processors,
delivery providers, hosting companies, analytics services, email
platforms, fraud-prevention providers, and customer-support tools.
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From business partners and public sources where
permitted by law, including business directories, public records,
referrals, and publicly available company information.
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Business purposes
How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information to:
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Respond to enquiries and prepare shipping-container quotations.
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Confirm product availability, condition, dimensions, and pricing.
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Process purchases, invoices, payments, taxes, refunds, and records.
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Coordinate transportation, delivery, unloading, and site placement.
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Provide customer service and resolve complaints or disputes.
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Operate, maintain, personalize, and improve our website.
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Maintain customer accounts and communicate order updates.
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Detect fraud, misuse, security incidents, and prohibited activity.
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Protect our customers, employees, business, website, and legal rights.
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Comply with accounting, tax, regulatory, and legal obligations.
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Send service messages, transaction notices, and policy updates.
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Send promotional communications where permitted by law and according
to your communication preferences.
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Measure advertising and website performance.
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Conduct internal reporting, analysis, and business planning.
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Legal purposes
Legal Grounds and Business Justifications
Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, we process personal
information because:
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Processing is necessary to respond to your request or perform a
contract with you.
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Processing is necessary for our legitimate operational, commercial,
administrative, security, or customer-service interests.
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Processing is necessary to comply with legal, regulatory, tax,
accounting, court, or law-enforcement obligations.
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You have provided consent where consent is required.
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Processing is necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
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Third-party disclosures
How We Disclose Personal Information
We may disclose personal information to the following categories of
recipients when reasonably necessary:
Payment Providers
Banks, payment gateways, payment-card processors, financing providers,
and fraud-prevention services involved in a transaction.
Delivery and Logistics Providers
Trucking companies, freight brokers, depots, crane operators,
delivery contractors, and related transportation providers.
Technology Providers
Website hosts, cloud providers, email services, form providers,
analytics platforms, security services, and technical-support vendors.
Professional Advisers
Accountants, attorneys, insurers, consultants, auditors, tax
advisers, and other professional service providers.
Marketing and Analytics Providers
Advertising, analytics, campaign-management, customer-relationship,
and communication providers, subject to applicable law and settings.
Government and Legal Recipients
Courts, regulators, law-enforcement agencies, tax authorities,
government bodies, and other recipients where legally required.
Business Transaction Participants
Potential buyers, investors, lenders, successors, or advisers involved
in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, or asset transfer.
Other Parties You Authorize
Any person or organization you instruct or authorize us to contact
or provide information to.
Sale of personal information
Miami Containers LLC does not sell personal information for monetary
payment. Certain advertising or analytics activities may be treated as
a “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted-advertising disclosure under some state
privacy laws. Where applicable, eligible individuals may exercise the
choices described in the Privacy Rights section below.
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Website technology
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, log
files, and similar technologies. These technologies may collect device
and usage information and may help us:
Essential Cookies
Support core website functions, security, shopping-cart operation,
checkout, form submissions, and account authentication.
Preference Cookies
Remember settings such as language, location, login preferences,
and other choices.
Analytics Cookies
Help us understand website traffic, visitor activity, page
performance, and technical issues.
Advertising Cookies
May help deliver, personalize, measure, or limit advertising and
understand campaign effectiveness.
You may control cookies through the cookie-consent tool displayed on our
website, where available, and through your browser settings. Blocking
certain cookies may affect website functionality.
Your browser or device may offer a Global Privacy Control or similar
preference signal. Where legally required and technically detectable,
we will process supported signals as requests to opt out of applicable
sale, sharing, or targeted-advertising activity.
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Payment processing
Payments and Financial Information
Payments may be processed by independent banks, payment processors, or
payment gateways. Those providers may collect payment-card numbers,
bank-account information, billing details, authentication data, and
transaction information according to their own privacy policies and terms.
Miami Containers LLC generally receives payment confirmation, transaction
references, billing details, payment status, and limited account information
necessary to complete and document the transaction. We recommend reviewing
the privacy policy of the payment provider used for your transaction.
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Promotional communications
Email and Marketing Communications
We may send promotional emails, product information, availability updates,
offers, and related communications where permitted by law. Marketing
messages may include an unsubscribe mechanism or instructions for changing
your communication preferences.
You may opt out of promotional emails at any time by using the unsubscribe
link in the message or contacting
sales@miami-containers.com
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We may continue sending non-promotional messages relating to orders,
quotations, deliveries, account security, legal notices, and customer
service.
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Storage periods
How Long We Retain Information
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for
the purpose for which it was collected and to satisfy operational,
contractual, tax, accounting, fraud-prevention, warranty, dispute,
insurance, and legal obligations.
Enquiries and Quotes
Retained as reasonably necessary to respond, follow up, maintain
pricing records, and manage prospective customer relationships.
Orders and Invoices
Retained for transaction, delivery, warranty, accounting, tax,
fraud-prevention, and legal-record purposes.
Customer Communications
Retained as reasonably necessary to provide support, document
decisions, resolve disputes, and protect legal rights.
Marketing Records
Retained until you unsubscribe, withdraw applicable consent, or
the information is no longer needed for lawful marketing purposes.
Website and Security Records
Retained according to operational, analytics, fraud-detection,
cybersecurity, and service-provider retention settings.
Legal Holds
Information may be retained longer when required for litigation,
an investigation, a regulatory request, or another legal obligation.
When information is no longer reasonably required, we may delete,
anonymize, aggregate, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable law.
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Protective measures
Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards
designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access,
acquisition, loss, alteration, misuse, disclosure, or destruction.
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Access controls and password-protected systems
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Secure website and encrypted transmission technologies where appropriate
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Limited access to personal information based on business need
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Security monitoring, backups, and fraud-prevention measures
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Reasonable vendor-selection and service-provider controls
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Procedures for responding to suspected security incidents
No storage system, website, email transmission, or internet connection
can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You are responsible for
protecting your account credentials and notifying us if you suspect
unauthorized activity.
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Security incidents
Data-Breach Response
If we discover a security incident involving personal information, we
will investigate the incident and take reasonable steps to contain,
remediate, and document it.
Where notification is required, we will provide notice to affected
individuals, regulators, law-enforcement authorities, or other parties
in accordance with applicable law, including applicable Florida
data-security and breach-notification requirements.
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Consumer choices
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your state of residence, the nature of our relationship,
the information involved, and whether the applicable law covers our
business, you may have rights such as:
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Access
Request confirmation of whether we process your personal information
and access certain information we maintain about you.
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Correction
Request correction of inaccurate personal information, subject to
applicable exceptions.
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Deletion
Request deletion of certain personal information, subject to legal,
transactional, security, and record-retention exceptions.
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Portability
Request a copy of certain personal information in a portable format,
where required by applicable law.
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Opt Out
Opt out of certain sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or qualifying
profiling where those rights apply.
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Withdraw Consent
Withdraw consent for future processing when we rely on consent,
without affecting processing already completed.
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Marketing Choices
Unsubscribe from promotional emails and adjust cookie preferences
through available tools.
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Appeal
Appeal a decision regarding a privacy request where applicable
state law provides an appeal right.
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Non-Discrimination
Exercise an applicable privacy right without unlawful discrimination
or retaliation.
Submitting a Privacy Request
To submit a privacy request, email
sales@miami-containers.com
with the subject line Privacy Request. Include your name,
contact information, state of residence, relationship with Miami Containers
LLC, and the specific right you wish to exercise.
We may request information reasonably necessary to verify your identity
and protect against fraudulent requests. Authorized agents may submit
requests where permitted by law, but we may require evidence of authorization
and direct identity verification from the consumer.
We will respond within the timeframe required by applicable law. We may
deny or limit a request where an exception applies and will provide an
explanation when legally required.
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State-specific disclosures
Florida and Other State Privacy Laws
Miami Containers LLC is based in Florida and handles personal information
in accordance with applicable Florida and United States law. Florida law
includes requirements concerning reasonable protection of certain personal
information and notification following qualifying security breaches.
Certain comprehensive state privacy statutes apply only when a business
meets specified thresholds or conducts covered processing activities.
Where such a law applies to Miami Containers LLC and to your information,
we will honor the rights and obligations required by that law.
Residents of states with additional privacy rights may contact us using
the procedure in Section 14. Nothing in this Policy limits rights that
cannot lawfully be waived.
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Younger users
Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are intended for adults and business customers.
We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under
13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact
us so that we can review and address the matter.
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External services
Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may link to websites, maps, social networks, payment services,
financing providers, delivery services, or other third-party platforms.
Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies.
Miami Containers LLC is not responsible for the privacy, security,
availability, accuracy, or content of third-party services. Review the
applicable third party’s privacy policy before providing information.
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Cross-border processing
International Data Processing
Some service providers may process or store information in the United
States or other countries. Privacy and data-protection laws in those
locations may differ from the laws where you reside.
Where applicable law requires safeguards for an international transfer,
we will take reasonable steps to use appropriate contractual,
organizational, or other legally recognized protections.
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Policy revisions
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our website,
services, technology, vendors, legal requirements, or business practices.
The revised version will be posted on this page with a new effective or
“Last Updated” date.
Material changes may also be communicated through the website, by email,
or through another appropriate method where required by law.
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Applicable rules
Governing Law
This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the State of Florida and
applicable United States federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law
principles.
Nothing in this section limits any mandatory privacy or consumer right
granted by the law of another jurisdiction where that law validly applies
and cannot be contractually waived.
Privacy Questions and Requests
Contact Miami Containers LLC
Contact us with questions about this Privacy Policy, a privacy request,
the personal information we maintain, or our privacy and security practices.
Last Updated: July 14, 2026