SafeRent Privacy Policy
Effective: 2/3/2023
In this Website Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”), SafeRent Solutions, LLC and our affiliates (collectively, “SafeRent” or “we”), have created this privacy policy in order to describe how we collect, use, maintain, share, and protect your personal information when you use our website, www.saferentsolutions.com. This privacy policy applies to information collected when you visit our website. It does not apply to information collected in any other way, including information collected offline. This privacy policy is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations.
If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please discontinue your access or use of our website immediately. THROUGH YOUR USE OF WEBSITE, YOU CONSENT TO THE PRACTICES DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting the updated terms on this website. You are responsible for periodically reading this Privacy Policy. If you use this website after we have updated this Privacy Policy, you acknowledge that you have read the updated terms and consent to our privacy practices.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting any personal or business information that you share with us, directly or indirectly, in connection with using the website.
- Scope
This Privacy Policy covers only data collected through the Website and not any other data collection or processing, including, without limitation, data collection practices of other websites to which we link or data that we or our subsidiaries or affiliates collect offline or through websites, products, or services that do not display a direct link to this Privacy Policy.
Children Under the Age of 13: This website is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from, anyone under 13 years of age. Children under 13 are expressly prohibited from submitting any personal information to us, and if we discover that we have inadvertently gathered any such information from a child under 13, we will take appropriate steps to delete it.
- Collection, Use, and Sharing of Data
2.1 Browser and device information
SafeRent collects information from visitors of the Website, including the domain names, IP and MAC addresses, browser types, and unique device identifiers of such visitors. This information includes the number of visits, average time spent on the Website, pages viewed and similar information. This information may also include usage information about the page-by-page paths you take as you browse through the Website. SafeRent uses this information for a number of purposes, such as investigating security incidents, running analytics to understand usage, and for compliance with security standards. For more information regarding SafeRent’s use of this information, please see the sections on “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” and “Analytics” below. We may combine such information with information provided by you.
2.2 Personal information provided by you
We define “personal information” as information that is unique to you and may include your name, email address, physical address, and phone number. We do not collect any such personal information about you through this website unless you choose to provide it to us voluntarily. If you do provide us with personal information, we will only use it for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or as described where the information is collected. If you encounter a screen or page that requests information that you do not want to share with us, do not enter the information and do not proceed with that screen or page.
The information we collect is typically used by us to enhance your experience on our website. For more information please see section 2.3.
2.3 Cookies and Other Automated Means of Collecting Information
The Website uses “cookie” technology to measure Website activity and to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Website, pages visited and other information about your visit to the Website. Cookies are also used to prefill information previously entered into forms and to customize information to your personal tastes. A cookie is an element of data that an Internet site can send to your browser. Cookies are stored on your computer. We may share information about you that we collect through a cookie with third-parties who help us analyze Website data, in accordance with the law. SafeRent is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, and we encourage all consumers to visit their respective privacy policies.
2.4 Protecting y our Personal Information
We restrict access to personal information collected about you through our website to our employees, our affiliates’ employees, our authorized vendors or others who need to know this information to provide services to you or in the course of administering and conducting our business. We use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain appropriate physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect personal information. We use commercially reasonable efforts to protect our database with various physical, technical and procedural measures and we restrict access to your information by unauthorized persons.
While we maintain security measures in place in order to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your personal information under our control, the Internet and other various networking communication media are not entirely secure, and your information may therefore be subject to interception or loss which is beyond our control. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any of your personal information you transmit to us. Any transmission is done at your own risk. Accordingly, we assume no responsibility or liability for disclosure of your personal information due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third-party access or other causes beyond our reasonable control.
You can also help us protect your personal information by: (1) using only secure web browsers; (2) employing common anti-virus and anti-malware tools on your system to keep it safe; (3) carefully logging out after using our website; (4) using strong passwords with a combination of letters and numbers; (5) changing your passwords often and (6) notifying us by email at the email address below if you feel your personal information has been compromised through our website.
2.5 Information from third parties
We may receive information about you from third-parties such as social networks (subject to the user’s privacy settings and the privacy policy of the social network), service providers which allow us to verify, enhance or supplement your information, and business partners to whom we are offering a service. We are not responsible for third-party use of information.
2.6 How do we use your information?
If you choose to share any personal information with us, we will use it in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law. We may use your personal information to: improve the Website or SafeRent products and services; customize your experience with the Website, or to serve you specific content that is relevant to you; contact you regarding your use of the Website and, in our discretion, changes to our policies; provide you with Website-related notices in accordance with the law; to notify you about changes to our Websites and services; send you service notices; comply with any legal or regulatory requirements and otherwise to respond to any relevant regulator or competent authority as required by law; understand user trends and patterns; for business administration; and for purposes disclosed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, at the time you provide your personal information, or with your consent. We may also use information for any internal purpose, such as quality control efforts or customer analysis.
2.7 Retention and Disposal
We may store your information for as long as it is required for our business purposes or applicable law, including the period after which any customer relationship has ceased. At the end of its retention lifecycle, personal information is destroyed or otherwise rendered inaccessible. SafeRent Solutions takes reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of consumer information in connection with its disposal of personal information.
2.8 Sharing of information
We will only share your information with third parties in accordance with applicable law.
We may share your personal information with non-affiliated third-parties as necessary for us to provide the product or service you or your lender/service provider have requested of us, as permitted by law, with third party service providers so that they may perform certain services for us, or as otherwise specified herein. Such disclosures may include situations in which we are required to respond to subpoenas or other legal process, or are responding to the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation.
We may also provide all of the types of non-public personal information listed above to one or more of our affiliated companies in connection with our services and other business purposes. We provide information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and other businesses or persons for the purposes of processing such information on our behalf, some or all of which may store your information on secure servers located outside of the United States. We require that all of our third party providers maintain appropriate physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that are at least as secure as our Privacy Policy.
It is possible that SafeRent, its subsidiaries, affiliates, joint venture companies, or any combination of them, could merge with or be acquired by another legal entity. In such event, or in the event of any other proposed or actual purchase, sale (including a liquidation, realization, foreclosure or repossession), lease, merger, amalgamation or any other type of acquisition, disposal, transfer, conveyance or financing of all or any portion of SafeRent or of any of the business or assets or shares of SafeRent or a subsidiary or division thereof, SafeRent may share your information with its affiliates or third-parties.
2.9 State Specific Rights
The law in some states may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of personal information. To learn more about any additional rights that may be applicable to you as a resident of one of these states, please see the privacy addendum for your state that is attached to this Privacy Policy.
- Cookies and Other Automated Means of Collecting Information
The Website uses “cookie” technology to measure Website activity and to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Website, pages visited and other information about your visit to the Website. Cookies are also used to prefill information previously entered into forms and to customize information to your personal tastes. A cookie is an element of data that an Internet site can send to your browser. Cookies are stored on your computer. We may share information about you that we collect through a cookie with third-parties who help us analyze Website data, in accordance with the law. SafeRent is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, and we encourage all consumers to visit their respective privacy policies.
On our Website we use the following types of cookies:
(a) Strictly necessary cookies – These cookies are essential to enable the user to navigate around the Website securely and to provide the user with services they have specifically requested.
(b) Functionality cookies – These cookies enhance the functionality of the Website by storing user preferences. For instance, they can remember your name and location, if you provide this information and the types of content for which you are interested.
(c) Performance cookies – These cookies improve the performance of the Website. For instance, they help pages load quicker.
(d) Analytics cookies – We may use third party analytics services such as Google Analytics and others. Your IP address and other information will be collected by automated means to report on your use of the services. For more information about how Google Analytics uses your information please click here.
If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular site. If, however, you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Website.
We may also include small graphic images called web beacons, also known as “Internet tags” or “clear gifs,” in our web pages and email messages. We may use web beacons or similar technologies for a number of purposes, including, without limitation, to count the number of visitors to the Website, to monitor how users navigate the Website, and to count how many emails that we sent were actually opened or how many particular articles or links were actually viewed.
We may also use embedded scripts on the Website. An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Website. It is temporarily downloaded onto your computer from our web server or a third party with whom we work, is active only while you are connected to the Website, and is deleted or deactivated thereafter.
Do Not Track Signals: We also may use automated data collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online services indicating a preference that they “do not track” your online activities. At this time, we do not honor such signals and we do not modify what information we collect or how we use that information based on whether such a signal is broadcast or received by us.
- Analytics
We may use third party analytics service providers, including but not limited to Google Analytics, to evaluate and provide us with information about the use of the Website. These third-parties use cookies, web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts and other, similar technologies to automatically collect information about your Website use, report Website trends, and help us compile Website metrics. You can learn about Google’s specific practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
We use Google Analytics Advertising Features with Google Signals, which includes Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interests Reporting to advertise online. Google Signals provides insight into cross-device user journeys and allows us to remarket to signed-in Google users across devices. Websites and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on someone’s past visits to a website.
- Opt-out
If you would like us to stop sending you communications you may email SafeRent at the address below.
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If you, or another user of your device, wish to withdraw your cookies consent at any time, you have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser setting. You may also go to www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu if you are in Europe, or to www.aboutads.info/choices if you are anywhere else for instructions on how to disable cookies. You may opt-out from Google Analytics here or by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. In some instances, when you opt-out, a new cookie (Opt-Out-Cookie) is placed in your web browser. This tells the third party provider to cease data collection from your browser and prevents advertisements from being delivered to you.
- Website Security
We maintain appropriate physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect against unauthorized access to our proprietary business information and your personal information through our website.
- Third Party Websites
There may be hyperlinks on the Website to other websites or locations that are operated and controlled by third parties (“Third Party Websites“). These Third-Party Websites may solicit personal information from you. We make no representations regarding the policies or business practices of such Third Party Websites and encourage you to familiarize yourself with their privacy policies before providing them with your personal information.
- Changes to this Statement
SafeRent may from time to time and without prior notice revise this Privacy Policy. Any changes will be effective immediately when the revised Policy is posted on the Website, unless stated otherwise. We will not, however, use your personal information in a manner materially different than what was stated in the Privacy Policy posted on the Website at the time your personal information was collected unless we receive your consent.
- Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our practices, or your dealings with the Website, you can contact us by email or you can write to:
SafeRent Solutions, LLC
Attn: Legal Department
4600 Regent Blvd, Suite 150
Irving, TX 75063
Email: [email protected]
This Privacy Notice was last updated on February 3rd, 2023