Privacy Policy

Last Updated: December 23, 2022

This Privacy Policy describes how KD McAlly Group, LLC. and its affiliates (“we,” “us,” or “StowHere!”), process personal information that we collect through the StowHere! Platform. Depending on where you live and what you are doing on the StowHere! Platform, the supplemental privacy pages listed below may apply to you. Please follow the links and review the supplemental information provided there with information about how we process personal information for those regions and services.

1. DEFINITIONS

Undefined terms in this Privacy Policy have the same definition as in our Terms and Conditions (“Terms”).

2. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

2.1 Information needed to use the StowHere! Platform.

We collect personal information about you when you use the StowHere! Platform. Without it, we may not be able to provide you with all services requested. This information includes:

• Contact Information, Account, Profile Information. Such as your first name, last name, phone number, postal address, email address, date of birth, and profile photo, some of which will depend on the features you use.
• Identity Verification and Payment Information. Such as images of your government issued ID (as permitted by applicable laws), your ID number or other verification information, bank account or payment account information.

2.2 Information you choose to give us.

You can choose to provide us with additional personal information. This information may include:

• Additional Profile Information. Such as gender, preferred language(s), city, and personal description. Some of this information as indicated in your account settings is part of your public profile page and will be publicly visible.
• Address Book Contact Information. Address book contacts you import or enter manually.
• Other Information. Such as when you fill in a form, add information to your account, respond to surveys, post to community forums, participate in promotions, communicate with our customer care team and other Members, or share your experience with us. This may include health information if you choose to share it with us.

2.3 Information Automatically Collected by Using the StowHere! Platform and our Payment Services.

When you use the StowHere! Platform and Payment Services, we automatically collect personal information. This information may include:

• Geo-location Information. Such as precise or approximate location determined from your IP address or mobile device’s GPS depending on your device settings. We may also collect this information when you’re not using the app if you enable this through your settings or device permissions.
• Usage Information. Such as the pages or content you view, searches for Listings, bookings you have made, and other actions on the StowHere! Platform.
• Log Data and Device Information. Such as details about how you’ve used the StowHere! Platform (including if you clicked on links to third party applications), IP address, access dates and times, hardware and software information, device information, device event information, unique identifiers, crash data, cookie data, and the pages you’ve viewed or engaged with before or after using the StowHere! Platform. We may collect this information even if you haven’t created an StowHere! account or logged in.
• Cookies and Similar Technologies.
• Payment Transaction Information. Such as payment instrument used, date and time, payment amount, payment instrument expiration date and billing zip code, your address and other related transaction details.

2.4 Personal Information We Collect from Third Parties.

We collect personal information from other sources, such as:

• Third-Party Services. If you link, connect, or login to the StowHere! Platform with a third-party service (e.g. Google, Facebook, etc), you direct the service to send us information such as your registration, friends list, and profile information as controlled by that service or as authorized by you via your privacy settings at that service.
• Background Information. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, we may obtain reports from public records of criminal convictions or sex offender registrations.  We may use your information, including your full name and date of birth, to obtain such reports.
• Other Sources. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may receive additional information about you, such as references, demographic data or information to help detect fraud and safety issues from third party service providers and/or partners, and combine it with information we have about you. For example, we may receive background check results or fraud warnings from identity verification service providers for use in our fraud prevention and risk assessment efforts. We may receive information about you and your activities on and off the StowHere! Platform, or about your experiences and interactions from our partners.

3. HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

3.1 Provide, Improve, and Develop the StowHere! Platform. We use personal information to:

• enable you to access the StowHere! Platform and make and receive payments,
• enable you to communicate with other Members,
• perform analytics, debug and conduct research,
• provide customer service,
• send you messages, updates, security alerts, and account notifications,
• personalize and customize your experience based on your interactions with the StowHere! Platform, your search and booking history, your profile information and preferences, and other content you submit, and

3.2 Create and Maintain a Trusted and Safer Environment. We use personal information to:

• detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, security and safety incidents, and other harmful activity,
• study and combat discrimination consistent with our nondiscrimination policies,
• conduct security investigations and risk assessments,
• verify or authenticate information provided by you,
• conduct checks against databases and other information sources, including background or police checks,
• comply with our legal obligations, protect the health and well-being of our Renter’s Owners, Owners’ employees and members of the public,
• resolve disputes with our Members,
• enforce our agreements with third parties,
• comply with law, respond to legal requests, prevent harm and protect our rights (see section 4.5)
• enforce our Terms and other policies and
• in connection with the activities above, we may conduct profiling based on your interactions with the StowHere! Platform, your profile information and other content you submit to StowHere!, and information obtained from third parties. In limited cases, automated processes could restrict or suspend access to the StowHere! Platform if such processes detect activity that we think poses a safety or other risk to StowHere!, our community, or third parties. If you would like to challenge the decisioning based on the automated process, please contact us via the Contact Information section below.

3.3 Provide, Personalize, Measure, and Improve our Advertising and Marketing. We may use personal information to:

• send you promotional messages, marketing, advertising, and other information based on your preferences and social media advertising through social media platforms,
• personalize, measure, and improve our advertising,
• administer referral programs, rewards, surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by StowHere! or its third-party partners,
• analyze characteristics and preferences to send you promotional messages, marketing, advertising and other information that we think might be of interest to you, and
• invite you to events and relevant opportunities.

3.4 Provide Payment Services. Personal information is used to enable or authorize third parties to use Payment Services:

• Detect and prevent money laundering, fraud, abuse, security incidents.
• Conduct security investigations and risk assessments.
• Comply with legal obligations (such as anti-money laundering regulations).
• Enforce the Payment Terms and other payment policies.
• With your consent, send you promotional messages, marketing, advertising, and other information that may be of interest to you based on your preferences.
• Provide and improve the Payment Services.

4. SHARING & DISCLOSURE

4.1 Sharing With Your Consent or at Your Direction.

Where you provide consent, we share your information as described at the time of consent, such as when authorizing a third-party application or website to access your StowHere! account or participating in promotional activities by StowHere! partners or third parties.

Where permissible with applicable law, we may use certain information about you, such as your email address, de-identify it, and share it with social media platforms, to generate leads, drive traffic to StowHere! or otherwise promote our products and services.

4.2 Sharing Between Members.

To help facilitate bookings or other interactions between Members, we may need to share certain information such as:

• When a booking request is made or dispute is submitted, certain information may be shared between Renter(s) and Owner(s), including profile, name, names of any additional Renters, cancellation history, review information, dispute outcome (when applicable) and other information you choose to share and submit. When a booking is confirmed, additional information is shared to assist with coordinating the rental, like profile photo and phone number. When you as a Owner have a confirmed booking, certain information is shared with the Renter to coordinate the booking, such as your profile, full name, phone number, and Listing address.

4.3 Information You Publish in Profiles, Listings, and other Public Information.

You can make certain information publicly visible to others, such as:

• Your public profile page, which includes your profile photo, first name, description, and city.
• Listing pages that include information such as the Storage or Work Bay’s approximate or precise location description, calendar availability, profile photo, aggregated demand information (like page views over a period of time), and additional information you choose to share.
• Reviews, ratings and other public feedback.
• Content in a community or discussion forum, blog or social media post.

We may display parts of your public profile and other Content you make available to the public like Listing details on third-party sites, platforms and apps.

Information you share publicly on the StowHere! Platform may be indexed through third-party search engines. In some cases, you may opt-out of this feature in your account settings.

4.4 Owner Service Providers.

Owners may use third-party services to help manage or deliver their services, such as cleaning services or lock providers. Owners may use features on the StowHere! Platform to share information about the Renter (like start and end dates, Renter name, Renter phone number) with such third-party service providers.

4.5 Complying with Law, Responding to Legal Requests, Preventing Harm and Protecting our Rights.

We may disclose your information to courts, law enforcement, governmental or public authorities, tax authorities, or authorized third parties, if and to the extent we are required or permitted to do so by law or where disclosure is reasonably necessary: (i) to comply with our legal obligations, (ii) to comply with a valid legal request or to respond to claims asserted against StowHere!, (iii) to respond to a valid legal request relating to a criminal investigation to address alleged or suspected illegal activity, or to respond to or address any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other of our users to legal or regulatory liability, (iv) to enforce and administer our agreements with Members, or (v) to protect the rights, property or personal safety of StowHere!, its employees, its Members, or members of the public. For example, if permitted due to the forgoing circumstances, Owner tax information may be shared with tax authorities or other governmental agencies.

Where appropriate, we may notify Members about legal requests unless: (i) providing notice is prohibited by the legal process itself, by court order we receive, or by applicable law, or (ii) we believe that providing notice would be futile, ineffective, create a risk of injury or bodily harm to an individual or group, or create or increase a risk of fraud upon or harm to StowHere!, our Members, or expose StowHere! to a claim of obstruction of justice.

For jurisdictions where StowHere! facilitates the collection and remittance of Taxes where legally permissible according to applicable law, we may disclose Owners’ and Renters’ information about transactions, bookings, and Storage Taxes to the applicable tax authority, such as Owner and Renter names, Listing addresses, transaction dates and amounts, tax identification number(s), the amount of taxes received (or due) by Owners from Renters, and contact information.

In jurisdictions where StowHere! facilitates or requires a registration, notification, permit, or license application of a Owner with a local governmental authority through StowHere! in accordance with local law, we may share information of participating Owners with the relevant authority, both during the application process and, periodically thereafter, such as the Owner’s full name and contact details, Storage address, tax identification number, Listing details, and number of nights booked.

4.6 Programs with Managers and Owners.

We may share personal information of Owners and Renters such as booking information, and information related to compliance with applicable laws such as storage rental rules and laws with landlords, management companies, and/or property owners (the “Property Management”), in order to facilitate programs with Property Management. For example, Renter booking and personal information, including Renter contact information, may be shared with the Property Management of the property, complex, or community where a owner lives and/or the listing is located, to facilitate rental services, compliance with applicable laws, security, billing, and other services.

4.7 Owner Information Provided to StowHere! for Work Customers.

If a booking is designated as being for business or work purpose and (1) is made by a Renter affiliated with an Company, (2) the Company is enrolled in StowHere! for Work, we may disclose information related to the booking to the Company (e.g., name of the Owner, Storage address, booking dates, Listing details, etc.) to the extent necessary for the adequate performance of StowHere!’s contract with the Company and to provide the services. At the request of the Company or the Renter, we may also share this information with third parties engaged by the Company to provide support services.

4.8 Service Providers.

We share personal information with affiliated and unaffiliated service providers to help us run our business, including service providers that help us: (i) verify your identity or authenticate your identification documents, (ii) check information against public databases, (iii) conduct background or police checks, fraud prevention, and risk assessment, (iv) perform product development, maintenance and debugging, (v) allow the provision of the StowHere! Services through third-party platforms and software tools (e.g. through the integration with our APIs), (vi) provide customer service, advertising, or payments services, (vii) process, handle or assess insurance claims or similar claims, or (viii) facilitate non-profit and charitable activities consistent with StowHere!’s mission. These providers are contractually bound to protect your personal information and have access to your personal information to perform these tasks.

4.9 Business Transfers.

If StowHere! undertakes or is involved in any merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or insolvency event, then we may sell, transfer or share some or all of our assets, including your information in connection with such transaction or in contemplation of such transaction (e.g., due diligence). In this event, we will notify you before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

5. OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

5.1 Analyzing your Communications.

We may review, scan, or analyze your communications on the StowHere! Platform for reasons outlined in the “How We Use Information We Collect” section of this policy, including fraud prevention, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, investigation, product development, research, analytics, enforcing our Terms of Service, and customer support purposes. For example, as part of our fraud prevention efforts, we scan and analyze messages to mask contact information and references to other sites. In some cases, we may also scan, review, or analyze messages to debug, improve, and expand product offerings. We use automated methods where reasonably possible. Occasionally we may need to manually review communications, such as for fraud investigations and customer support, or to assess and improve the functionality of these automated tools. We will not review, scan, or analyze your messaging communications to send third-party marketing messages to you and we will not sell reviews or analyses of these communications.

5.2 Linking Third-Party Accounts.

You can link your StowHere! account with certain third-party services like social networks. Your contacts on these third-party services are referred to as “Contacts.” When you direct the data sharing by creating this link:

• some of the information provided to us from linking accounts may be published on your public profile,
• your activities on the StowHere! Platform may be displayed to your Contacts on the StowHere! Platform and/or that third-party service,
• a link to your public profile on that third-party service may be included in your StowHere! public profile,
• other StowHere! users may be able to see any Contacts that you may have in common with them, or that you are a Contact of their Contact if applicable,
• other StowHere! users may be able to see any schools, hometowns or other groups you have in common with them as listed on your linked social networking service,
• information you provide to us from the linking of your accounts may be stored, processed and transmitted for fraud prevention and risk assessment purposes, and
• publication and display of information that you provide to the StowHere! Platform through this linkage is subject to your settings and authorizations on the StowHere! Platform and the third-party service.

5.3 Third-Party Partners & Integrations.

Parts of StowHere! may link to third-party services, not owned or controlled by StowHere!, such as Google Maps/Earth. Use of these services is subject to the privacy policies of those providers, such as Google Maps/Earth Additional Terms of Use, Google Privacy Policy (see here for more information on how Google uses information), Stripe Privacy Policy and Melio Privacy Policy.  StowHere! does not own or control these third parties and when you interact with them you are providing your information to them.

6. YOUR RIGHTS

You can exercise any of the rights described in this section consistent with applicable law. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity and request before taking further action on your request.

6.1 Managing Your Information.

You can access and update some of your personal information through your Account settings. You are responsible for keeping your personal information up to date.

6.2 Data Access and Portability.

In some jurisdictions, applicable law may entitle you to request certain copies of your personal information or information about how we handle your personal information, request copies of personal information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and/or request that we transmit this information to another service provider (where technically feasible).

6.3 Data Erasure.

In certain jurisdictions, you can request that your personal information be deleted. Please note that if you request the erasure of your personal information:

• We may retain your personal information as necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as prevention of money laundering, fraud detection and prevention, and enhancing safety. For example, if we suspend an StowHere! Account for fraud or safety reasons, we may retain information from that StowHere! Account to prevent that Member from opening a new StowHere! Account in the future.
• We may retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations. For example, StowHere! and StowHere! Payments may keep information for tax, legal reporting and auditing obligations.
• Information you have shared with others (e.g., Reviews, forum postings) will continue to be publicly visible on StowHere!, even after your StowHere! Account is cancelled. However, attribution of such information to you will be removed. Some copies of your information (e.g., log records) will remain in our database, but are disassociated from personal identifiers.
• Because we take measures to protect data from accidental or malicious loss and destruction, residual copies of your personal information may not be removed from our backup systems for a limited period of time.

7. SECURITY

While no organization can guarantee perfect security, we are continuously implementing and updating administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration.

8. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time in accordance with applicable law. If we do so, we will post the revised Privacy Policy and update the “Last Updated” date at the top.  If you disagree with the revised Privacy Policy, you can cancel your Account. If you do not cancel your Account before the date the revised Privacy Policy becomes effective, your continued access to or use of the StowHere! Platform will be subject to the revised Privacy Policy.

9. CONTACT INFORMATION AND RESPONSIBLE STOWHERE! ENTITIES

For questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy or StowHere!’s handling of personal information please contact us.  For payments related matter please use the contact information provided in the Payments Terms of Service page.