Privacy Policy
When you visit the Rent Report Team website, we collect your IP address and standard web log information, such as your browser type and the pages you accessed on our website. If you visit our website or open an account, we collect the following types of information from you:
Contact Information – your name, address, phone, email, and other similar information.
Personal Information – Your social security number and date of birth.
Financial Information – the debit and credit card numbers that you link to your Rent Report Team account as well as information about your lease and rent payment history.
Contact Us – if you email us through the “Contact Us” link on the website, we ask you for information such as your name and email address so we can respond to your questions and comments. You may choose to provide additional information as well.
Questionnaires and Surveys – we occasionally may ask visitors to our website to complete online surveys and opinion polls about their activities, attitudes and interests. Comments and notes that you post to the bulletin board and similar areas of our website. Before permitting you to use our Service, we may require you to provide additional information we can use to verify your identity or address or manage risk. We may also obtain information about you from third parties such as credit bureaus and identity verification services. When you are using our Service, we collect information about your account transactions, and we may collect information about your computer or other access device for fraud prevention purposes.
Finally, we may collect additional information from or about you in other ways not specifically described here. For example, we may collect information related to your contact with our customer support team or store results when you respond to a survey. Throughout this policy, we use the term “personal information” to describe information that can be associated with a specific person and can be used to identify that person. We do not consider personal information to include information that has been anonymized so that it does not identify a specific user. We store and process your personal information on our servers in the US,and we protect it by maintaining physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in compliance with applicable US federal and state regulations. We use computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption, we enforce physical access controls to our buildings and files, and we authorize access to personal information only for those employees who require it to fulfill their job responsibilities. Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience on the Rent Report Team site.
We may use your personal information to: Provide the services and customer support you request, as well as send you transaction-specific email correspondence; Process transactions and send notices to you and your payees about your transactions; Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems; Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our User Agreement; Customize, measure, and improve our services and the content and layout of our website; Send you targeted marketing, service update notices, and promotional offers based on your communication preferences; and Compare information for accuracy and verify it with third parties. In addition, we may append your information with additional information obtained from third parties.
We may share your personal information with: Service providers under contract who help with parts of our business operations (fraud prevention, compliance, bill collection, marketing, technology services). Our contracts dictate that these service providers only use your information in connection with the services they perform for us and not for their own benefit. Third party financial institutions that we partner with to process EFT and card payments. These financial institutions may only use this information to process transactions on your behalf, unless you have given consent for other uses. Credit bureaus to whom rent payments will be reported upon the purchase of the service. Companies that we plan to merge with or be acquired by. (Should such a combination occur, we would require that the new combined entity follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal information. If your personal information could be used contrary to this policy, you will receive prior notice.) Law enforcement, government officials, or other third parties when We are compelled to do so by a warrant, subpoena, court order or similar legal procedure We need to do so to comply with law We believe in good faith that the disclosure of personal information is necessary to prevent physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity, or to investigate violations of our Terms of Service.
Last Updated: 05/13/2018