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Hyundai's privacy notice states that you are responsible for ensuring anyone driving your vehicle understands their privacy practices, and failure to delete stored information when selling or transferring the vehicle could expose your data to new users. They explicitly mention collecting vehicle location data for repossession purposes, even if location settings are disabled. Additionally, Hyundai collects extensive vehicle and driving data, and shares this information with authorized dealers for various purposes, including marketing.
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Personal data remains in the vehicle after transfer.
If you sell or transfer your vehicle, it is your responsibility to contact Hyundai to cancel or transfer your Bluelink® subscription and delete all stored information from your vehicle. If this information is not deleted, it may remain in the vehicle and be accessible to future users.
Why it matters: Failure to manually delete your data from the vehicle before selling or transferring it could lead to your personal information, such as contacts and saved locations, being accessed by subsequent owners.
If you sell or otherwise transfer your vehicle, it is your responsibility to: (i) contact us to cancel or transfer your Bluelink® subscription; and (ii) delete all stored information (such as contacts and saved locations) from your vehicle. If you do not delete this information, it may remain in the vehicle and may be accessible to future users of the vehicle. For instructions on how to delete information from your vehicle, please refer to your vehicle owner’s manual.
the Hyundai Motor America Privacy Notice, , paragraph 11 · Citation strength: strong
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Collection of vehicle location data for repossession.
In limited circumstances, Hyundai may collect vehicle location data, regardless of location data settings, to protect Hyundai's rights or property, including repossession in cases of delinquency.
Why it matters: This means that if you fall behind on payments, Hyundai can track your vehicle's location, even if you have tried to disable location services, to potentially repossess it.
In limited circumstances, we may collect vehicle location data, regardless of location data settings, to protect Hyundai’s rights or property (including repossession in cases of delinquency), comply with applicable law, respond to valid legal processes (such as requests from law enforcement or government agencies), or, in exigent circumstances, help prevent loss of life, serious injury, or protect the safety of Hyundai personnel, vehicle users, visitors, or the public.
Use of Covered Information, paragraph 9 · Citation strength: strong
Data Use
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This section outlines how your data is collected, processed, and shared. It focuses on practices that might be overly broad, lack transparency, or could lead to unexpected uses of your information.
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Broad collection of vehicle and driving data.
Hyundai may collect extensive vehicle data, including VIN, performance metrics, diagnostic codes, maintenance history, fuel/battery levels, tire pressure, driving conditions, and feature usage. They may also collect driving data such as speed, acceleration, braking, direction, trip details (e.g., mileage, duration, conditions), ignition and steering events, cruise control, seatbelt status, and incident information.
Why it matters: This broad collection of data means Hyundai has detailed insights into your vehicle's operation and your driving behaviors, which could be used for various purposes beyond direct service provision.
Vehicle Data: We may collect information about your vehicle and its performance, including VIN, performance metrics, diagnostic codes, maintenance history, fuel and battery levels, tire pressure, driving conditions, feature usage, and related date/time stamps.
Covered Information We Collect, paragraph 3 · Citation strength: strong
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Disclosure of data to dealers for marketing and service offers.
Hyundai may disclose Covered Information about you to authorized dealers when you use their Vehicle Technologies and Services. These dealers may contact you directly for vehicle maintenance, repairs, service scheduling, marketing, service offers, and similar purposes.
Why it matters: Your personal and vehicle information can be shared with dealers, who may then contact you directly regarding vehicle services and for marketing purposes.
Dealers: We may disclose Covered Information about you when you use our Vehicle Technologies and Services with our authorized dealers, who may contact you directly for vehicle maintenance, repairs, and service scheduling, marketing, service offers, and similar purposes.
Disclosure of Covered Information, paragraph 5 · Citation strength: strong
Cancellation and Renewal
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Gotchas
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Unexpected or subtle clauses that might limit your rights, impose obligations, or lead to disadvantages under specific conditions.
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Protections
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This section highlights clauses or practices that benefit you as a consumer, including strong privacy commitments, clear data control, or favorable terms.
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Biometric data stored exclusively on your vehicle.
Your facial geometry and fingerprint data are stored exclusively on your vehicle, not sent to Hyundai or any other parties, and remain on the vehicle until you delete them or reset the system.
Why it helps: This means your sensitive biometric data is localized to your vehicle and not transmitted or stored by Hyundai externally, reducing the risk of a centralized data breach.
Your facial geometry and fingerprint data are stored exclusively on your vehicle, are not sent to Hyundai or any other parties, and remain on the vehicle until you delete them or reset the system. You may delete your data at any time. For details on system functionality , please refer to your owner’s manual.
Covered Information We Collect, paragraph 11 · Citation strength: strong
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Right to delete biometric data.
You may delete your facial geometry and fingerprint data at any time.
Why it helps: This gives you direct control over your biometric data stored on the vehicle, allowing you to remove it whenever you choose.
You may delete your data at any time. For details on system functionality , please refer to your owner’s manual.
Covered Information We Collect, paragraph 11 · Citation strength: strong
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