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| Rent-Instead upholds a strong commitment to your personal privacy. Our privacy policy is intended to show you exactly how the information we collect on our website is used. In general the information we gather is used to make our site an ideal marketplace for both Owners and Renters. |
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| Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted here to keep you informed of anything that should require updating. Users should access this privacy policy periodically to keep themselves informed and up to date on its contents. |
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| A majority of our site can be accessed and read without providing any personal information. Becoming a registered User allows one to take part in our marketplace, and in order to function in this on-line community, requires us to collect a minimum amount of information. You always have a choice not to provide your personal information which will limit your use to accessing listings of others without entering into any transactions as either an Owner or Renter. |
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| Rent-Instead utilizes AlertPay as a valued partner for sending payments to Rent-Instead users. AlertPay is accessed from this site and Rent-Instead users must have an account with AlertPay to get paid but is seamlessly tied into the final invoicing of all transactions. However, Rent-Instead does not use the information collected by AlertPay for anything other than maintaining the Rent-Instead financial functions including billing information. |
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| Users have the option to not receive future communications regarding types of items they may be interested in renting or Rent-Instead news updates. Please contact our webmaster to stop this type of email correspondence. Certain rental related email is required to transact business through Rent-instead. This type of correspondence is part of the function of our marketplace and cannot be removed as long as you are a registered user of our site. Also, we use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your email and IP address identify you and your activities to help us better serve your specific needs as well as help pull in more business to your listings. |
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| Cookies (information stored on your browser when you visit our website) will use a just a few bytes of memory on your computer, but greatly enhance the functionality of our marketplace and your experience in it. We use cookies to track marketplace activity as well as remembering user names and passwords, making use of our site that much easier. Cookies cannot collect information from your computer memory nor will they be used to store your financial or other personal information. Our users maintain the option of turning these cookies off through your Browser, however, some functionality will be lost and access may be limited. |
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| Rent-Instead undertakes security measures to secure and encrypt your data, preventing unauthorized access cannot while data is being transferred both ways between our system and your computer. Our industry standard internet protocols protect information you provide during all rental, purchase, payment and other information transmission functions. |
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| Non-personal information may also be collected allowing Rent-Instead to help us determine how visitors access our site to continue to increase traffic, which continues to build a stronger and more optimized Rent-Instead marketplace. This information may include your browser version, service provider, IP address, and domain type. |
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| Rent-Instead asks that you not send any confidential or proprietary information to us via our website and by becoming a registered user you agree to abide by this request. Any information you do post to our website will not be considered either proprietary or confidential and will be used royalty free and unrestricted in duration and geography by Rent-Instead to promote commerce to our website to our full discretion. |
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| Rent-Instead links to other websites including AlertPay. These sites are linked for your convenience and enhanced service but this does not imply an endorsement of their policies or practices. Third party site have their own privacy policies that must be understood by the user and are independent of Rent-Instead’s privacy policy. Rent-Instead strives to be a trusted partner in helping you rent and rent out all types of items. To that end, we welcome your feedback which you can easily provide via our email address admin@rent-instead.com or on our Community Forum. |
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