Privacy Policy
Purpose
This privacy policy is set to explain how we collect, use, maintain, and disclose personal information from prospects, residents, and employees. Personal information may be provided through our website, by phone, by email, in person or through other means, such as through third-party vendors working with us.
Be cautious when providing any personally identifiable information online and confirm you are dealing with a legitimate party. You will never receive any unsolicited communication from us requesting your personal identifiable information.
Personal Information
Personal information is defined as data that can be used to identify, contact, or locate a specific individual. The following information may be asked to be provided during the application process, whether that be for tenancy, residency, or employment:
- Social security number or ITIN number
- Government-issued photo identification number
- Bank account number or credit/debit card number with or without any required security code, access code, or password
- Email or physical addresses
- Date of birth
- Minor information
- Education, occupation, or employment information
- Phone number
- Resident history such as real property purchased and/or leased
- Debit/Credit card balance, payment history, or information pertaining to your credit, assets, income, or liabilities
- Criminal history / Background check
If you apply for employment with us, personal information may also include your race, drug test results, and employment verification and references.
Personal information does not include publicly available information that is lawfully made available by the federal, state, or local government.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
The personal information collected will be used for legitimate business purposes. This includes:
- Confirming your identity
- Determining your eligibility to rent an apartment
- Determining your suitability for employment
- Completing the leasing process
- Requesting credit and background check reports
- Correspondence regarding inquiries or other necessary communication
- Completing transactions
- Providing third-party service providers with necessary personal information
- Compliance with law, regulation, or government authority requests
- Business transfers such as acquisition, merger, sale, or other property transfers
- Internal business purposes
- Collections of amounts owed
Protection and Access to Personal Information
We will keep the personal information you provide us in our files. If you become a resident at one of our communities, your personal information will be kept in a resident file. If you do not become a resident, we will keep your application and supporting documents in a general file.
The property owner, supervisor, manager, and leasing consultant will have access to these files. We also reserve the right to disclose personal information to others for business-related reasons. The following may require access to your personal information:
- Independent contractors
- Credit reporting agencies
- Background check agencies
- Attorneys
- Collection agencies or their agents
Retention and Disposal of Records
It is our policy to retain business or customer records that contain personal information for the period we believe reasonable to fulfill the purposes for which we hold your personal information unless longer retention is required by law.
Disposal of these records shall be done by shredding or erasing in a manner so that it cannot be read or reconstructed. We may do so by contacting an outside company in the business of record destruction.
Site Usage Information
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Updates to this Policy
We reserve the right to amend this policy at our discretion and at any time. We encourage you to review this privacy policy periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes to it. Any changes will become effective when posted unless indicated otherwise.
Should you have any other questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please complete the email form under Contact Us.