Privacy Policy

Last Updated and Effective Date: December 21, 2020

SafestApartments.com is a rental search technology platform owned and operated by SafestApartments.com. Rental advertisements as well as any related services that are accessible on SafestApartments.com or through various services, tools, or applications are acquired, managed and provided by SafestApartments.com and affiliates and subsidiaries, if applicable.

Introduction

The SafestApartments.com Privacy Policy (the "Policy") which follows describes the use, disclosure as well as the collection of certain information practices by SafestApartments.com and any affiliates ("we" or "us") in connection with the operation of our website www.safestapartments.com, and any related mobile applications, if applicable, (collectively, referred to as the "Site").

Children

SafestApartments.com does not voluntarily or knowingly use or collect any personally identifiable information (PII) from children under the age of 13, in accordance with privacy laws as stipulated in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Additionally, no information of any kind should be submitted to or posted at the Site by visitors younger than the age of 13. Additionally, the Site does not knowingly provide any personally identifiable information, regardless of source, to any third party for any purpose from visitors younger than 13 years old.

Links

Please note that this Site may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for those websites or the privacy or content practices of any third party. By using our Site, you acknowledge that you have read this Policy and agree that you are bound by our Terms of Service.

Add a Listing Terms of Service

If you choose to use the Site's Listing service in order to advertise a property, it is important to understand that any information you choose to include in your respective listing(s) may potentially be made publicly available via the Site and other media channels in which the Site listings are posted or displayed, which could potentially include any affiliate sites. For example, you may include a phone number and/or an email address to allow users to contact you regarding your listing, and could therefore receive unsolicited phone calls and emails from third parties, even after your listing is removed from the Site. If you wish to access, verify the accuracy of, or change the personally identifiable information in your advertisement, you may email us at contact@safestapartments.com. Therefore, except for required listing information, please do not include any contact or other information in your listing that you do not want other parties to see or utilize in any shape or form.

From time to time we may decide to manually updated your listing without your access of the Customer Portal. In such an event, we will take great care to ensure the listing information is accurate under your guidance and presented information but cannot guarantee that the listing information will be 100% accurate at the time a potential tenant initiates correspondance with you.

Collection of Personally Identifiable Information

You are not required to provide any personally identifiable information to visit the Site, although in certain areas of the Site, we may automatically collect certain data which is described below, and may also collect ZIP codes and other information related to your location or use of the Site (such as the city you are looking to live in or the type of apartment you are looking for). We collect personally identifiable information only when you provide it, and you may be required to provide personally identifiable information to use certain services on the Site.

Please be aware that you may also submit personally identifiable information in other ways, including, but possibly not limited to: (a) participating in online surveys, promotions, (b) subscribing to newsletters or media content, (c) submitting reviews or other content to the Site, if applicable; and (d) in connection with other requests or services and products made available through the Site.

We may also publish email addresses or toll-free phone numbers for many of the apartment listings on our Site, and by calling one of these phone numbers, you consent to the Site or a service provider operating on the Site's behalf recording the time and length of your call, the phone number from which the call originated, the date the call was placed, along with the call itself and other information that may be gathered, if this functionality is available.

Additionally, any personally identifiable information resulting from such calls or email communication with the apartment community leasing consultants could be used as described in this Privacy Policy, including but possibly not limited to for follow up marketing attempts. Additionally, the various types of personally identifiable information collected will depend on the nature of how the information was submitted or which features of the Site were used. Such information could potentially include your email address, phone number, address and/or name.

Cookies

Cookies enable us to recognize you as a Site visitor, and to better personalize your experience. Various web beacon technologies and cookies, which could be placed by another third party tracking partner or us, can potentially offer us insight as to what advertising you may have been exposed to on the Site and how you interacted with it and in what context, and these events could allow us to offer you a more broader collection of advertising data and could also be used together to measure the efficacy and competence of any advertising campaigns through interactions.

You may disable or manage cookies through various tools provided with your browser software and also with other third-party software applications. If you decide to turn off cookies or disable or clear them, please be aware that some of the Site's features may not work as well as they would if you had not turned off cookies or cleared them or may potentially not even work at all.

Additionally, web beacons and related technologies, IP addresses and cookies are also used to gather data regarding various Site usage. This could include but is not limited to: which Web site you came from, how long you were on the Site, what pages of the Site you visit, what Web site did you go to, what type of browser you are using, and other analytics. These various types of web tracking technologies do not identify you personally. Web beacons and related technologies may potentially be included in emails sent by the Site in marketing or transactional emails in order to determine when and if these respective emails are forwarded to another individual or opened by the recipient.

"Share" a Listing Functionality

The Site offers you the ability to share, with other third parties, certain pages which may include blog posts or apartment listings you may be interested in or other content of the Site. If you choose to utilize this "Share" functionality, you may be asked for your email address and the recipient's or recipients' email addresses, and you may also enter a customizable message.

As part of the "Share" functionality, we do not use the email addresses used through the "Share" functionality for any reason other than to send an email to execute the "Share." The "Share" functionality is for various informational purposes only and to share content that others may find useful, and you may not use the "Share" feature for any unlawful reason, which may include but is not limited to threats or harassment of any form. If you decide to share the listing on social media, you agree that you will abide by that social media channel's Terms.

User Generated Content or Reviews

The Site may also offer opportunities for users that are 18 years of age or older to create user generated content ("UGC"), which could be reviews of apartment communities they have lived in, for example. Any UGC you submit may become publicly available for other individuals to view, and as such, you should not include any information in your review or general UGC that you do not want other individuals or parties to see or use for any reason. Additionally, please be aware that any submitted UGC which may include personally identifiable information, such as your email address, city or location or phone number, could potentially be publicly available and you may receive unsolicited calls or emails from third parties, unless it is explicitly stated that the personally identifiable information will not be visible or shared with any unrelated third parties, except in instances with the apartment community that you are referring to in your review, to verify that you lived in the community, to reduce the possibility of spam and fake reviews.

Collection of Information by Third Parties

SafestApartments.com and other third party vendors may potentially collect information about you when using the Site through the use of cookies and various Web beacon technologies. The Site may also utilize third-party vendors in order to collect various statistical data and analytics regarding Site operating metrics and usage statistics in an attempt to improve general user experience. These third-party vendors, could include but are not limited to Google and/or Amazon, and may place a unique cookie on your computer through your browser in an effort to allow them to improve advertising effectiveness.

The Google Analytics feature integrated and used on this Site includes remarketing display advertising, and Google and other third-party advertising agents could receive various statistical data through us for the purpose of targeting and managing advertisements on other websites and/or on our Site. Additionally, Site visitors can opt-out of receiving interest-based ads from Amazon by visiting the Amazon Advertising Preferences page or through visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out page. Similarly, Site visitors can choose to opt-out of Google's cookies use through visiting Google's Google's Ad Settings.

Information Use

We will not continue to send promotional communications if you have previously opted out. If you are interested in opting out, please email us at contact@safestapartments.comAdditionally, you agree that the Site may send to you transactional communications, which you cannot opt out of. This communication could include but is not limited to, account status, a service or a request submitted through the Site, communications regarding illicit or fraudulent activity, or various changes to this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service, or potentially communications to confirm, fulfill and follow up on your registration, if such features are available.

The Site may communicate with you to notify you that you have received a lead regarding an apartment you have advertised.

Personally identifiable information collected by us through your use or visit of the Site may potentially be stored in a cookie on your computer or on servers and we may use this information to confirm or satisfy a request that you make, such as sending you certain apartment information you have requested, in order for us to share your contact information with a certain Site property owner and/or management company.

To send promotional or marketing materials, unless you have indicated that you do not wish to receive such materials by opting out.

To improve your overall user experience.

To manage relationships with customers and other third parties to which the Site may disclose personally identifiable information such as in providing customer support or to provide reporting and analytical insight to customers.

For assisting in administering the Site and to provide key insight and analysis, research and development.

Data which may contain personally identifiable information is used by the Site for research and development and administration purposes, which could include click actions to assess interest in the various areas (locations, cities, listings, etc.) of the Site, and may also include IP Addresses.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

We may from time to time include personal information in various blog posts, and to request the removal of this information, contact us at contact@safestapartments.com. In certain cases if we are not able to remove your personal information, we will inform you of the reasons.

If you would like to update your personal information changes, or wish to no longer use our services, you may update or delete your data by emailing us at contact@safestapartments.com. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Information Sharing

If you request information or services through the Site, you agree that the Site may potentially share personally identifiable information that may be necessary to perform the requested services.

The Site reserves the right to release any personally identifiable information or other information you provide to third parties under the following circumstances: (a) when required by law or by legal process, (b) to protect the property or safety of our users or others, (c) to take action and/or investigate suspected illegal activity or unauthorized use of the Site's services suspected abuse, (d) in relation to the sale or transfer of ownership of all or a part of SafestApartments.com or any of its businesses, and (e) to enforce our Terms of Service.

The Site may choose to share your personally identifiable information with its partners and affiliates on the condition that such partner's or affiliate's disclosure and use of the information is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

If you make any personally identifiable information publicly available on the Site (e.g., by posting a listing which contains personally identifiable information), anyone may see and use such information and we are not responsible for such use. The Site reserves the right to share any personally identifiable information you post on the Site with third parties with your prior consent. To the extent the Site does so, the subsequent use and disclosure of such information is subject to the privacy policies and practices of those third parties.

The Site works with third parties that provide services on its behalf, and the Site may ask that a third party conduct an online survey or send newsletters or advertising on its behalf. In these circumstances, the Site requires that the third party maintain your personally identifiable information as confidential and use the information only to perform the services specified by the Site and not for their own promotional purposes.

Although the Site will make attempts to notify all third-party direct marketers that the information provided to them is confidential, the subsequent use or disclosure of information is subject to those third parties' privacy policies and practices.

Please note that the messages that the Site sends to you in order to confirm, follow up or fulfill a certain request may potentially include promotional material or other content from the Site or its partners, in which case the Site is not sharing your personally identifiable information with those third parties.

Passive Information Which May Be Collected

The Site automatically collects information and could also customize your user experience through various methods, such as:

IP Address Logs: SafestApartments.com may log the Internet Protocol (IP) address, or the location of your computer on the Internet.
Cookies: HTTP Cookies are small pieces of data which are placed on your computer by other computers (or servers) in order to identify your computer and record browser activity.
Web Beacon Technologies: Web beacons (also known as web tags, tracking pixels, page tags) are electronic tracking technologies integrated into a Web page to track various analytics.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on the Site in this location and this Policy will be identified as "Updated". If we change how we use your personally identifiable information, we will notify you here, through email, or through a notice on our home page. Your continued use of the Site after such notice implies that you have accepted any changes.

Security

When the Site collects certain credit card information from you, if applicable, the Site uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, the industry best practice and standard for protecting privacy in Web and online transactions. However, despite integrating these measures, neither we nor the Site guarantee 100% security of its servers and databases, and cannot guarantee that personally identifiable information that you send through the Site will not be intercepted or uncovered.

We follow generally accepted industry standards to keep your personally identifiable information secure in our data centers and that it is accessible only to certain authorized individuals and third party data hosting providers, which are needed to perform operations governed by our Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email us at contact@safestapartments.com.