WhyBuy Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the whybuyrentals.com website located at www.whybuyrentals.com (the "Website"). The Website is owned by WhyBuy, LLC (the �?�?¬ø¬ΩCompany,�?�?¬ø¬Ω "we," "our," or "us"). We respect the privacy of the personally identifiable information of the users of this Website (�?�?¬ø¬Ωuser,�?�?¬ø¬Ω �?�?¬ø¬Ωyou�?�?¬ø¬Ω or �?�?¬ø¬Ωyour�?�?¬ø¬Ω). We provide this notice explaining our practices with regard to online information and the choices available to you concerning the way that we use the information that may be collected online at this Website.

The Company has teamed up with reputable third party vendors and service providers so that our users will have easier access to the goods and services those vendors provide. We refer to these third party vendors and service providers as Service Partners. We refer to users who are browsing the Website or have submitted listings as other users.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

•  Personally Identifiable Information

The types of personally identifiable information that we collect at this Website, during registration and when you send a communication to another user may include, without limitation, your name, street address, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth, and credit card information. We may collect information about the types of products and services that you purchase or view through our Website. In addition, we may request information from you about your use of, or interest in, the types of products and services offered by Service Providers that are available at this Website and at other websites. We may collect information about your use of the Website, including the links you click and other actions you take related to the Website. When you click on links to third-party websites, we may collect information about page views on those websites as well.

We collect your personally identifiable information when you sign up to receive products and/or services at the Website or otherwise provide such information, such as when you otherwise agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy at this Website, but do not complete the full registration process.

•  Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We may collect certain non-personally identifiable information about you when you visit many of the pages of this Website. This non-personally identifiable information includes, without limitation, the type of browser that you use (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), your IP address, access times, the type of operating system that you use (e.g., Windows or Mac OS), the referring website address, and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink). We may also use information from other companies in combination with your information. For example, other companies may provide services that determine your general geographic area based on your IP address so that we may target advertisements based on your geographical area.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use your information to operate and improve the Website and to deliver the services the Website provides and for other purposes identified in the User Agreement. We will also use your information to provide you with any requested information, goods, or services and may also send you information about additional goods or services. In addition, we may use your information to perform research to improve our Website, to improve our services, and to display content that is based on your general geographic area or information that you have entered as part of the registration process, such as your gender or age. If and when we use your information to target advertising to you, we take steps to protect your privacy, including, but not limited to, segregating your personally identifying information from your non-personally identifying information.

We reserve the right to use the information you provide to us through actions carried out on the Website such as creating a membership and offering real property or personal property for rent or for sale or offering services (�?�?¬ø¬Ωyour Listing�?�?¬ø¬Ω).  Your information may be used for other users to contact you about your Listing, or to contact you in a case of fraud, for example.  The information that may be displayed on your Listing is your full name, phone number, email address, and, in some cases, your address.

Your information may be shared with Contractors. Contractors are third parties with whom we contract to perform services for us, including, but not limited to, contracts to operate or maintain the Website or to provide customer support. Finally, your information may be shared with or sold to any successor to or purchaser of part or all of the assets of the Company.

We will not sell telephone numbers to telemarketing companies. This Policy and WhyBuy's User Agreement provide you control over the manner in which your information is used. You may opt not to share your information with third parties by opting out of Categories of communications, as described below and in the User Agreement. If you choose not to receive special promotions and offers from any third parties, your contact information will not be sold to Internet marketing companies. We will use your information to facilitate Service transactions. If and only if you have not opted out of receiving communications about special promotions and offers from third parties, we may use your information for any purpose that is legally permissible, including selling or transferring information at any time to third parties, including Internet marketing companies. THE USER AGREEMENT SPECIFIES HOW YOU MAY CHOOSE NOT TO HAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS SHARED WITH OTHER USERS OR INTERNET MARKETING COMPANIES.

When you submit your information to us, you provide affirmative consent to and grant to us the right to use your personal information for any legal purpose, including and without limitation: a) any purpose related to the services provided by the Website, including, without limitation, to post an advertisement or to effect communications between users related to the Service; b) marketing purposes such as sharing your information with third parties, including, without limitation, advertisers, retailers or direct marketers; c) providing promotional offers to you through email advertising, direct mail marketing, pop-ups, pop-unders, and/or online banner advertising; d) to track compliance with both the Website's User Agreement and Third Party Advertiser's marketing terms and conditions, and e) for suppression, validation, for the purpose of improvements to content, or for collecting feedback.

You agree that we may contact you at any time with updates and/or any other information that we may deem appropriate for you to receive in connection with your continued use of the Website.

You may revoke your affirmative consent to the disclosure of your information to other users or for marketing purposes by following the instructions in the �?�?¬ø¬ΩYour Choices�?�?¬ø¬Ω section of this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy shall serve as your initial "Privacy Notice" as defined under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, 15 U.S.C. 6802 (the GLB Act), to the extent the GLB Act may apply to our services.

By submitting your personal information to us you acknowledge that you have received and read this Privacy Notice and also consent to receive your annual Privacy Notice of the Privacy Policy, where required by federal law, via this Website and via email. Even if you opt not to receive any communications from us, you will continue to receive Privacy Notices in compliance with federal or state law.

We also reserve the right to release current or past member information in the event that we, in our sole discretion, believe that this Website is being or has been used to commit unlawful acts; if the information is subpoenaed, or is required to be disclosed pursuant to other legal process; if it is necessary to protect the safety of any user of the Website or member of the public; if it is necessary to protect or defend the rights or property of the Company; or when we deem it necessary or appropriate.

In connection with paid services offered by us, we may collect your credit card information. We will use your credit card information to bill you for services you have ordered and we may share your credit card information with third parties for the sole purpose of effectuating any transactions that you enter into at the Website. In addition, by submitting your credit card information to us, you authorize us to periodically verify that your credit card account continues to be a valid and active one which may include charging a small sum to the card and then immediately reversing the charges. Such verification may be conducted through a third party service provider and, in that case, we will share your specific credit card information with this third party for verification purposes. Apart from the foregoing uses, we reserve the right to share with other third parties the fact that we have credit card information on file for specific individuals but will not share the actual credit card information with other third parties without your prior informed consent.

In addition, you agree that by submitting your personal information at the Website, such act constitutes a purchase, an inquiry and/or an application for purposes of the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule, 16 CFR Part 310 (the "ATSR"). Notwithstanding that your telephone number may be listed on the Federal Trade Commission's Do-Not-Call List, we retain the right to contact you by telephone in accordance with the ATSR. Moreover, if you register with, make a purchase from, or request information from a third party at or through the Website, such action shall constitute a purchase, an inquiry and/or an application with the respective third party for purposes of the ATSR and you may be contacted via e-mail, direct mail and/or telephone by such third party.

You may receive targeted promotional campaigns through the Website, and for the purpose of formatting future campaigns and upgrading visitor information used in reporting statistics we may share information with third-parties. For this purpose, we may track some of the pages that you visit on our Website through the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs) or other software. By submitting information at and/or registering at this Website, you agree to allow us to share such Website usage information with third parties. In addition your submission of personally identifiable information by registering with this Website shall be considered as your providing affirmative consent to become a member of our list(s), an opt-in, and as such you expressly waive any privacy protection or other benefit(s) afforded by any national or state "Do Not Call" or other similar lists or registries. Such waiver is void in jurisdictions that expressly do not allow such waiver of rights.

USE OF COOKIES

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on a user computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who the user is. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Two types of cookies may be used on this Website: (i) session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of a user's browser until User leaves the Website, and (ii) persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of user's browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie. By submitting information at and/or registering at this Website, you agree to allow the Company and the Website to use cookies to track Website usage, to personalize your experience, and to improve the content and offerings on the Website. To find out more about cookies, please visit www.cookiecentral.com . Note that the Website will still function even if cookies are rejected.

YOUR ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION

You may view and edit your e-mail address, name, address, phone number, age, and gender under My Account, Preferences.

THIRD PARTY LINKS

We are not responsible for the accuracy of, nor do we endorse, the privacy policies and/or terms and conditions of each third party that may advertise at this Website. Other entities that advertise and/or place banner ads at this Website including, but not limited to, other users and Service Providers, are independent third parties. When leaving our Website to view any third party's website, we encourage you to review the privacy statement of that website as we cannot guarantee the privacy of users while visiting any third party sites. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this Website.

YOUR CHOICES

During registration and/or when you submit personally identifiable information to us at the Website, you are giving us your affirmative consent to use and disclose such information pursuant to this notice and terms of this Privacy Policy. However, we provide you with an opportunity to request that we not share your personal information with third parties and an opportunity to request that we not share your personal information with other users trying to communicate with you about your Listing. If, at any time in the future, you would like to request that we not share your information with third parties or other users, you may opt-out from such sharing practices by modifying your account by going to Preferences on the My Account tab or by sending an email to unsubscribe@WhyBuy.com . Please note that changing your preferences regarding the receipt of marketing communications from us will not prevent other companies with which we already have shared your information, including third parties, from continuing to contact you with new offers. When contacted by these companies, you should notify them directly of your choices regarding their use and sharing of your information.

You can opt-out of receiving any additional email communications regarding this website at any time simply by modifying your account by going to the Preference on the My Account tab or by deleting your WhyBuy user account by sending an email to delete@WhyBuy.com indicating your desire to cancel your membership.

In addition, please note that if you subsequently sign up again for Whybuy, you will need to reconfirm any information sharing preferences that you have previously changed.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are a resident of the State of California and would like to opt-out from the disclosure of your personal information to any third party for marketing purposes, please modify your account by going to Preferences on the My Account tab or email us at: unsubscribe@WhyBuy.com . However, where California residents opt not to permit their personal information to be shared with third parties or other users, such individuals may still receive selected offers directly from us, in accordance with the law.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits visitors to this Website, who are California residents, to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to cservice@WhyBuy.com or write us:

WhyBuy, LLC, 200 Sandy Springs Place, Suite 300A, Atlanta, GA 30328

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR VERMONT CUSTOMERS

In accordance with Vermont law, we will not share information we collect about Vermont residents to nonaffiliated third-party companies except with the authorization or consent of the Vermont resident. By submitting personal information to us, you are providing your affirmative consent for us to sell, transfer, or otherwise disclose information we collect about you to affiliated third parties and non-affiliated third parties for the purposes identified in this Policy. You may revoke your opt-in choice at any time by modifying your account by going to Preferences on the My Account tab or by contacting us at unsubscribe@WhyBuy.com

POLICY REGARDING MINORS

This Website is not directed at individuals under the age of 18, nor do we knowingly collect information from individuals under the age of 18. No information should be submitted to this Website by individuals who are under 18 years of age, nor should any information be posted by individuals who are under the age of 18. We encourage parents and guardians to participate in and monitor the online activities of their children.

SECURITY

Our safeguards against unauthorized access to information employ industry-standard technologies. When users submit sensitive information via the Website, we strive to keep this information protected both online and off-line. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we endeavor to maintain protection for your personal information, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

Regarding sensitive personal information such as credit card numbers, that information is encrypted and protected with SSL encryption software.

As stated we use SSL encryption and may use other security measures in an effort to protect sensitive user information online, and every effort is also made to protect locally stored information. Access to user information is restricted to only those who can demonstrate a company-related need for that information, such as billing and customer service department personnel. We will notify you and any applicable regulatory agencies in the event that there has been an information security breach, in compliance with applicable federal and state law. By submitting personally identifiable information to us, you are providing your affirmative consent to receive such notifications via e-mail in the event of such a breach. Please be advised that notice may be delayed by factors such as addressing the needs of law enforcement, determining the scope of a breach and/or network damage, and implementing remedial solutions.

USER ACCEPTANCE

Use of the Website and/or agreeing to receive information via e-mail from us constitutes agreement to this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right at our sole discretion to change or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and without notice, including adding and removing content. If a change is made to our Privacy Policy, we will post a notice of that change on the Website in a prominent place, and include a link to the revised Privacy Policy so users can always understand our policies with regard to what information we collect and how that information is used or may be disclosed. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we would notify users by way of an email. All changes to the Privacy Policy take effect immediately upon being posted on the Website. Users are advised to check periodically for any changes to the Privacy Policy. Continued use of the Website and/or acceptance of our e-mail communications after any changes to the Privacy Policy constitute your full acceptance of any and all changes.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy statement, or would like more information on our privacy practices, please contact us at cservice@WhyBuy.com