ScreenRenters Privacy Policy

Use of the ScrenRenters Sites and Services

This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) is intended to inform of how ScreenRenters, LLC (“ScreenRenters”, “ScreenRenters” or “us”) gathers and uses personal information and data submitted to the ScreenRenters website, through any ScreenRenters services and any related mobile application (collectively and individually, the “Sites and Services”), through the Sites and Services. ScreenRenters takes privacy seriously and will take reasonable steps to protect user privacy consistent with the guidelines set forth in this Privacy Policy and with applicable U.S. laws. In this Privacy Policy, “user” or “you” means any person viewing the Sites and Services or submitting any personal information to ScreenRenters in connection with using the Sites and Services. By using the Sites and Services, you are indicating your consent to this Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY OR CONSENT TO IT TERMS, DO NOT USE THE SITE AND SERVICES. USING THE SITE AND SERVICES MEANS ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS.

The Sites and Services do not knowingly collect personal information from users under the age of 13 nor are these Sites and Services intended to be used by anyone under 13. If you are under the age of 13, you are not permitted to use the Sites and Services or to disclose Personal Information using the Sites and Services. If ScreenRenters learns ScreenRenters has collected or received Personal Information from a child under 13, ScreenRenters will delete that information. If you believe ScreenRenters might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at contact@screenrenters.com.

This Privacy Policy forms part of, and is subject to SCREENRENTERS Terms of Use, which may be viewed from our homepage

Information Collected by ScreenRenters

Personal Information:

Landlords, Sub-Lessors, Managers, Agents and Brokers: When landlords, their representatives, brokers, real estate agents, property managers and sub-lessors list properties for rent on the Sites and Services directly or through a multiple listing service, ScreenRenters collects the name, telephone number and email address of a contact person for such landlord, landlord representative, broker property manager or sub-lessor, as applicable.

Renters:

If you sign up to use services offered through the Sites and Services, ScreenRenters and/or certain third party service providers that ScreenRenters work with to provide services to us (“Vendors”) may collect certain personal information, including ,but not limited to your name, email address, home address, employment information, phone number, educational background, credit score, criminal, residential tenancy and eviction history, financial information and income history (collectively referred to as “Personal Information”). The collection of such Personal Information is consistent with our provision of services to you, including using the information provided by you and other legally permissible sources to facilitate assessment by landlords, their representatives, brokers, real estate agents, property managers and sub-lessors regarding your suitability as a potential tenant or sub-lessor. In addition, if you contact ScreenRenters and disclose additional personal information, ScreenRenters may store that Personal Information.

In addition to other information Personal Information ScreenRenters collects when you register, you may provide to our third-party service providers through certain features of the Sites and Services Personal Information together with your social security number and/or in order to verify your identity. This information is used in order to fulfill your request to provide certain other users of the Sites and Services with your credit report and credit score and/or with the results of background checks in regard to your criminal and/or eviction history.

Tracking Information:

As you navigate the Sites and Services, ScreenRenters and our Vendors may collect information automatically using web tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags and clear GIFs and third party tracking services in order to ensure that the Sites and Services operate efficiently and to collect data related to usage of the Sites and Services. Such collected data (“Tracking Information”) may include the address of the websites you visited before and after you visited the Sites and Services, the type of browser you are using, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, what pages in the Sites and Services you visit and what links you clicked on, and whether you opened email communications ScreenRenters sends to you. In order to collect Tracking Information and to make your use of the Sites and Services more responsive to your needs and more efficient, ScreenRenters may store cookies on your computer. ScreenRenters may also use one or more web tracking technologies that are placed in web pages on the Sites and Services or in email communications to collect information or about actions that users take when they interact with the Sites and Services or such email communications, and our Vendors may also do so. ScreenRenters does not link Tracking Information to individual user Personal Information or include the Personal Information with the Tracking Information that ScreenRenters shares with the web tracking companies that use and process the Tracking Information. Some Tracking Information may include log or other data, such as IP address data, that is unique to you. You may be able to modify your browser settings to alter which web tracking technologies are permitted when you use the Sites and Services, but this may affect the performance of the Sites and Services.


ScreenRenters uses Tracking Information to administer the Sites and Services and to understand how well our Sites and Services are working, to store your user preferences, and to develop statistical information on usage of the Sites and Services. This allows us to determine which features visitors like best (or don’t like), to measure overall effectiveness and to help us improve the Sites and Services, to personalize your user experience.

Aggregate Information:
To the extent permitted by law, ScreenRenters will compile and/or create for analytical purposes statistical, aggregated data relating to our users and the Sites and Services. Aggregated data is derived from Personal Information and Tracking Information but in its aggregated form it is de-identified in a manner so that it cannot be used to identify any individual or individuals. This data is used to understand our customer base, their needs and to develop, improve and market our services.

Rental Listings and Data Connected to Landlords, Their Representatives, Brokers, Agents and Managers:
ScreenRenters will use and store Personal Information for the purpose of delivering the Sites and Services and our services to you, and to analyze and enhance the operation of the Sites and Services. ScreenRenters may also use Personal Information for the internal operational and administrative purposes of the Sites and Services or to connect and share data with third party service providers that you have signed up with, such as a multiple listing services, or other real estate platforms. ScreenRenters may enter Personal Information into our contact management database, and may use such database to send you marketing materials and to contact you regarding your interest in ScreenRenters products and services.

Compelled Disclosures and Other Legal Exceptions:
ScreenRenters shall have the right to use Personal Information to the extent required by law or legal process, such as a valid and enforceable subpoena, or if ScreenRenters, in its reasonable discretion believes use of such Personal Information is necessary to investigate fraud, misuse, violation of our Terms of Use or any threat to the safety of any individual, to protect ScreenRenters legal rights or to protect the rights of third parties.

ScreenRenters Disclosure to Third Parties

Permitted or Required Disclosure:
ScreenRenters reserves the right without limitation to disclose any information ScreenRenters collect in connection with the Sites and Services, without further notice to you to any successor to ScreenRenters business as a result of any merger, acquisition or similar transaction; and to any law enforcement or regulatory authority to the extent required by law or if, in ScreenRenters reasonable discretion, disclosure is necessary to investigate fraud or any threat to the safety of any individual, to protect ScreenRenters legal rights or to protect the rights of third parties.

ScreenRenters Disclosure of Personal Information:
ScreenRenters uses the Personal Information you provide to fulfill the services you request from us. This may include sharing Personal Information with any of our Vendors, with our affiliates (including but not limited to any of our subsidiaries), or with any landlord, landlord representative, broker, property manager or sub-lessor with whom you may wish to apply to lease a property or enter into a rental contract. Except as described in this paragraph, or as described under “Permitted Disclosures” above, and as otherwise authorized by you, ScreenRenters will not disclose or share Personal Information to any third party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, ScreenRenters shall not be liable to you or any other party for any use or misuse of Personal Information by any third party with whom your Personal Information has been shared in accordance with the terms of this paragraph.

Tracking Information:
ScreenRenters may disclose Tracking Information to Vendors in order to analyze the performance of the Sites and Services and the behavior of users, and to operate and improve the Sites and Services. Certain Tracking information, such as the popularity ranking of certain pages of the Sites and Services, may be published on the Sites and Services and so disclosed to all users of the Sites and Services.

Aggregate Information:
ScreenRenters may disclose aggregated data that does not contain Personal Information to any third parties, such as potential customers, business partners, advertisers, and funding sources, in order to describe our business and operations.

Accessing, Updating or Deleting Your Personal Information

You are able to access, review, update, correct and/or delete your Personal Information by using the profile editing tools on the Sites and Services. For your security and other reasons, ScreenRenters reserves the right to verify your identity in order to provide such access.

However, just because you delete your information does not mean that is removed everywhere. Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, some copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere if and to the extent it has been shared with others such as, but not necessarily limited to rental applications. Further, ScreenRenters may retain certain information for records keeping purposes to meet legal requirements or to prevent identity theft and other misconduct even if deletion has been requested. Removed and deleted information may persist in backup copies indefinitely, but will not be available to others.

Third Party Links

The Sites and Services may contain links to other websites and services not provided by ScreenRenters. ScreenRenters cannot be, and is not responsible for the use of data, privacy practices or the content of those websites or services. You should be aware of this when you leave our site and be sure to review the privacy statements of each website they visit that collects information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to personal information collected by ScreenRenters.

Security

ScreenRenters uses commercial efforts to maintain reasonable administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for protection of the security, confidentiality and integrity of your Personal Information, both during transmission and to the extent ScreenRenters stores it, in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law. ScreenRenters encrypts transmissions of Personal Information through the Sites and Services using secure socket layer technology (SSL). However, no method of electronic storage or Internet transmission is completely secure, and ScreenRenters cannot guarantee that security breaches will not occur. Without limitation of the foregoing, ScreenRenters is not responsible for the actions of hackers and other unauthorized third parties that breach our reasonable security procedures or those of Vendors.

Application of Law and the Privacy Policy if You Are Outside of the United States

ScreenRenters, its services and its servers are located within the borders of the United States and are subject to the applicable state and federal laws of the United States. If you choose to use or access the Sites and Services, you consent to the use and disclosure of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and to have such use and disclosure exclusively subject to such laws even if you are the national or citizen of another country.

Amendments

ScreenRenters may amend or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time in its sole discretion. If ScreenRenters makes any material changes to this Privacy Policy, ScreenRenters will make reasonable efforts notify you through the means described in this paragraph. The e-mail specified in your ScreenRenters profile provides us one means of notifying you of such changes, so you must keep the email address your profile up to date. We will notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy through the email address in your ScreenRenters account profile or by means of a notice on the Sites and Services prior to the date making the change or making it effective.

Privacy Policy

Last updated: January 01, 2020

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

ScreenRenters allows You to create an account and log in to use the Service through the following Third-party Social Media Services:

  • Google
  • Facebook

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, ScreenRenters cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

Service Providers have access to Your Personal Data only to perform their tasks on Our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

ScreenRenters may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

ScreenRenters may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.

We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You.

ScreenRenters uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to You after You visited our Service. We and Our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on Your past visits to our Service.

ScreenRenters may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

ScreenRenters will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors STRIPE and AMAZON CHECKOUT whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

Facebook Fan Page

The Company is the Data Controller of Your Personal Data collected while using the Service. As operator of the Facebook Fan Page (https://www.facebook.com/ScreenRenters/), the Company and the operator of the social network Facebook are Joint Controllers.

The Company has entered into agreements with Facebook that define the terms for use of the Facebook Fan Page, among other things. These terms are mostly based on the Facebook Terms of Service: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php

Visit the Facebook Privacy Policy https://www.facebook.com/policy.php for more information about how Facebook manages Personal data or contact Facebook online, or by mail: Facebook, Inc. ATTN, Privacy Operations, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States.

We use the Facebook Insights function in connection with the operation of the Facebook Fan Page and on the basis of the GDPR, in order to obtain anonymized statistical data about Our users.

For this purpose, Facebook places a Cookie on the device of the user visiting Our Facebook Fan Page. Each Cookie contains a unique identifier code and remains active for a period of two years, except when it is deleted before the end of this period.

Facebook receives, records and processes the information stored in the Cookie, especially when the user visits the Facebook services, services that are provided by other members of the Facebook Fan Page and services by other companies that use Facebook services.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook Privacy Policy here: https://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy

CCPA Privacy

Under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:

The right to notice. You must be properly notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.

The right to access / the right to request. The CCPA permits You to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of Your Personal Data that has been collected in the past 12 months by the Company or its subsidiaries to a third-party for the third party’s direct marketing purposes.

The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data. You also have the right to ask the Company not to sell Your Personal Data to third parties. You can submit such a request by visiting our “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” section or web page.

The right to know about Your Personal Data. You have the right to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of the following:

  • The categories of Personal Data collected
  • The sources from which the Personal Data was collected
  • The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the Personal Data
  • Categories of third parties with whom We share Personal Data
  • The specific pieces of Personal Data we collected about You

The right to delete Personal Data. You also have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data that have been collected in the past 12 months.

The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your Consumer’s rights, including by:

Denying goods or services to You

Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties

Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to You

Suggesting that You will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

In order to exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA, and if you are a California resident, You can email or call us or visit our “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” section or web page.

The Company will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonable necessary and with prior notice.

We do not sell personal information. However, the Service Providers we partner with (for example, our advertising partners) may use technology on the Service that “sells” personal information as defined by the CCPA law.

If you wish to opt out of the use of your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA law, you may do so by following the instructions below.

Please note that any opt out is specific to the browser You use. You may need to opt out on every browser that you use.

You can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our Service Providers by following our instructions presented on the Service:

From Our “Cookie Consent” notice banner

Or from Our “CCPA Opt-out” notice banner

Or from Our “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” notice banner

Or from Our “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link

The opt out will place a cookie on Your computer that is unique to the browser You use to opt out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, you will need to opt out again.

Your mobile device may give you the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps you use in order to serve you ads that are targeted to your interests:

“Opt out of Interest-Based Ads” or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” on Android devices

“Limit Ad Tracking” on iOS devices

You can also stop the collection of location information from Your mobile device by changing the preferences on your mobile device.

“Do Not Track” Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

However, some third party websites do keep track of You browsing activities. If You are visiting such websites, You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of Your web browser.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

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