At yirent (Shanghai) Ltd, Co. ("yirent", or "we," "us," or "our"), provider of the yirent.com website (the "Site"), we respect the importance of your privacy, and we are committed to taking steps to ensure that your personal information is kept strictly confidential. We believe that you should know what information about you is collected when you use the Site, including our services through the Site, as well as how that information is used, maintained and, in some cases, shared. Therefore, we have created this Privacy Policy to set forth our privacy practices and policies.
BY USING OR ACCESSING THE SITE IN ANY WAY, OR BY TRANSMITTING INFORMATION TO US BY EMAIL OR OTHER ELECTRONIC MEANS, YOU ASSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SITE OR OTHERWISE ENGAGE IN THESE ACTIVITIES.
INFORMATION COLLECTION, USE AND SHARING
When you register with the Site we collect certain personally-identifiable information from you, which we use and provide to others as follows:
Renters
- Contact Information. If you fill out a profile with the Site, we collect basic contact information about you (including your name, telephone number and e-mail address). We will not provide your contact information to other users of the Site, provided that upon Your request we will provide your full contact information to agents and/or landlords with whom you wish to conduct business.Agents/Landlords
- Contact Information. We collect from agents and landlords basic contact information (including your name, company name, telephone number and e-mail address). We will not provide your contact information to other users. However, renters will be able to see your information as part of your public profile on the Site and in connection with listings you post on the Site.INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
In addition to the sharing and disclosure of information described above, we may also share information about you as follows:
- Service Providers. yirent uses Service Providers to perform certain of the technical processing, administration and support of the Site and services. Such Service Providers generally are permitted to use and disclose your personally identifiable information only as provided in this Privacy Policy. However, with respect to certain services, some Service Providers may have their own privacy policies that will apply to their use or disclosure of your information obtained through those services. You will be notified of any other privacy policies or terms when you sign up for these services, and you may decline to receive any such service if you do not agree with those other terms.LOG FILES
As is true of most websites, yirent and our Service Providers gather certain information automatically and stores it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP) information, referring/exit pages, operating system information, date/time stamps, and clickstream data. We and our Service Providers use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site and services, to track users' movements around the site and services, and to gather demographic information about our user base in aggregate. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information. We use one or more third-party tracking services that may use cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate for marketing research purposes.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
The Site contains links to third party sites that are not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected, retained and accessed by the Site, including services available through the Site. In addition, certain Service Providers may have their own privacy policies that will apply to certain services, as described above.
BUSINESS TRANSITION
In the event that yirent goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information. This Privacy Policy will become binding upon the new owner of the information until amended.
CONSENT TO TRANSFER AND PROCESSING
Personal information collected through the Site and/or its services may be stored and processed in the United States or in any other country in which yirent or its providers (or its or their affiliates or providers) maintain facilities. By using the Site and/or its services, you consent to any such transfer and processing of information outside of your country.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
If you are under the age of 13, please do not use or access the Site or services in any way. We will not knowingly collect or use any personal information from any children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected any personal information from children under 13, we will promptly delete such information from our databases.
TERMS OF SERVICE
Your use of the Site and its services is governed by our then-current Terms of Service for Renters or Terms of Services for Agents/Landlords, as applicable.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
yirent may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and when we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we consider any change to this Privacy Policy to be material, we will place a prominent notice on the Site or we may notify you directly by e-mail, at our discretion. Changes are effective upon posting to the Site, unless we say otherwise in our notice, so please check this site often for changes.
UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION; QUESTIONS
You may view or edit your personal information online by accessing your account for the Site at www.yirent.com, using your user name and password for the Site. Please feel free to contact us at info@yirent.com, to assist in updating your personal information or if you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy.
Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, yirent has implemented procedures for receiving written notification of claimed infringements. yirent has also designated an agent to receive notices of claimed copyright infringement.
Please note the following about yirent and the services we provide:
•yirent is a service provider that allows the uploading of text, photos, and other media by our users at the sole direction of those users.If you believe in good faith that your copyright has been infringed, provide a written communication which contains:
•An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interestPlease submit your notice to yirent Corporation’s Copyright Agent at the address:
www.yirent.com