Introduction
Rent Bay (RB) (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates only the website www.rentbay.online. As part of our daily business operations which involves leasing of residential and commercial properties in North America, we collect personal information from our clients and prospective clients to provide them with our products and services, and ensure that we can meet their needs when providing these products, services, and information.
Your privacy is of utmost importance to us at Rent Bay, and it is our policy to safeguard and respect the confidentiality of information and the privacy of individuals. This Privacy Policy sets out Rent Bay's API products and services. “We”, “Us”, and the trading and direct sales services provided by RB, collects, uses and manages the personal information we receive from you, or a third party, in connection with our provision of services to you or which we collect from your use of our services or our website. The Privacy Notice also informs you of your rights regarding the processing of your personal information.
Our Privacy Notice is reviewed regularly to ensure that any new obligations and technologies, as well as any changes to our business operations and practices are considered, as well as that it remains abreast of the changing regulatory environment. Any personal information we hold will be governed by our most recent Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice applies to the processing activities performed by RB to the personal information of its clients and its potential clients and website visitors. We may amend this Privacy Notice at any time by posting the amended version on this website, including the effective date of the amended version. We will announce any material changes to this Privacy Notice on our website.
Information Collection And Use
We collect several types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our services to you.
Personal Data: While using our website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Full name, mailing address, and contact details (e.g. email address, phone number, fax, etc.);
- Occupation, personal references, your inquiries, and our responses;
- Verification information, which includes information necessary to verify your identity such as a passport, driver’s license, or government issued identity card;
- Other personal information or commercial or identification information – whatever information we, in our sole discretion, deem necessary to comply with our legal obligations under various anti-money laundering (AML) obligations in Canada, USA and foreign laws.
- OFAC information;
- Cookies and usage data.
Data Protection
Rent Bay respects the privacy of any users who access its website, and it is therefore committed to taking all reasonable steps to safeguard any existing or prospective clients, applicants, and website visitors. We handle and store any personal data of our clients and potential clients in accordance with the applicable privacy and data protection laws and regulations.
We have the necessary and appropriate technical and organizational measures and procedures in place to ensure that your information remains secure at all times. Furthermore, we regularly train and raise awareness for all our employees of the importance of maintaining, safeguarding and respecting your personal information and privacy. Furthermore, we regard breaches of individuals’ privacy very seriously and will impose appropriate disciplinary measures, including dismissal from employment. We have also appointed a Data Protection Officer, to ensure that our company manages and processes your personal information in compliance with the applicable privacy and data protection laws and regulations, and in accordance with this policy.
The personal information that you provide us with, is classified as registered information, which is protected in several ways. It is your responsibility to make sure that your account passwords are only known to you and not disclosed to anyone else. Registered information is securely stored in a safe location. All personal information is transferred over a secure connection, and thus all reasonable measures are taken to prevent unauthorized parties from viewing any such information.
Use of Data
We may also collect information how the service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This usage data may include information such as your computer’s IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. Rent Bay uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain our service;
- To notify you about changes to our service;
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so;
- To provide customer care and support;
- To provide analysis or information that can improve our service;
- To monitor the usage of the service;
- To detect, prevent, and address technical difficulties.
Transfer Of Data
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those of your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. Rent Bay will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this policy, and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a location unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure Of Data
Legal Requirements: Rent Bay may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- To comply with a legal obligation
- To protect and defend the rights or property of Rent Bay
- To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service
- To protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public
- To protect against legal liability
Security Of Data
The security of your 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, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our service (“Service Providers”), to provide the service on our behalf, to perform service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our service is used. These third parties have access to your personal data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our website. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our website. Examples of cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. We use session cookies to operate our website.
- Preference Cookies. We use preference cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies. We use security cookies for security purposes.
Analytics
We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service.
- Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google may use the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads for its advertising network. You can opt out of having made your activity on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit www.policies.google.com/privacy
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 website. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every website you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party website and service.
Children’s Privacy
Our service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian, and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
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 notify you via email or a prominent notice on our service, before the change becomes effective and update the “effective 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, please contact us: E mail: info@rentbay.online