Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

Welcome to www.Meant4Rent.ca ("Meant4Rent Inc."). By accessing Meant4Rent. you are agreeing to the following terms, which are designed to make sure that Meant4Rent works for everyone. Meant4Rent is provided to you by Meant4Rent Inc., Markham (Markham, ON, Canada). This policy is effective December 1, 2011.
Using Meant4Rent. You will post in the appropriate category or area and will not engage in any of the following things:

violate any laws or our Privacy Policy;
be false or misleading;
infringe any third-party right;
distribute or contain spam, chain letters, or pyramid schemes;
distribute viruses or any other technologies that may harm Meant4Rent or the interests or property of Meant4Rent users;
impose an unreasonable load on our infrastructure or interfere with the proper working of Meant4Rent;
copy, modify, or distribute any other person's content;
use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access Meant4Rent and collect content for any purpose without our express written permission;
harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, without their consent;
bypass measures used to prevent or restrict access to Meant4Rent.

Abusing Meant4Rent. Please use the emailing system to tell us about any problems or offensive content so that we can improve and maintain the safety of the site for all users. If we have any suspicion of user(s) acting inconsistently in accordance with our Terms of Use ("TOU") and/or our Privacy Policy ("PP"), we may limit or terminate our service, remove hosted content and take technical and legal steps to keep user(s) off Meant4Rent. However, whether we decide to take any of these steps, remove hosted content or keep a user off Meant4Rent or not, we do not accept any liability for monitoring Meant4Rent or for unauthorized or unlawful content on Meant4Rent or use of Meant4Rent by users.
Fees and Services. Using Meant4Rent is free for posting rental propeties and for College/University students to post their textbooks. We charge fees for certain services when posting your rental property advertisement on the Meant4Rent site. If the service you use charges a fee, you will be able to review and accept that charge. Our fees are quoted in Canadian Dollars, and we may change them from time to time. We may choose to temporarily change our fees for promotional events or new services; these changes are effective when we announce the promotional event or new service (such as a Christmas Special). Our fees are non-refundable, and you are responsible for paying them when they are due. If you don't, we may limit your ability to use the services.
Content. Meant4Rent contains content from us, you, and other users. You agree not to copy, modify, or distribute Meant4Rent, our copyrights or trademarks. When you give us content, you are granting us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights to that content. (We need these rights to host and display your content.) If we suspect any improper use of the Meant4Rent site as outlined by the TOU or the PP, we reserve the right to remove any content, or block unwanted users from using the Meant4Rent site.
Reporting Intellectual Property Infringements Do not post content that infringes the rights of third parties. This includes, but is not limited to, content that infringes on intellectual property rights such as copyright and trademark (e.g. offering counterfeit items for sale). We reserve the right to remove content where we have grounds for suspecting the violation of these TOU, or our PP.
Liability. You agree not to hold us responsible for things other users post or do. Furthermore, any persons using or not using the website provided by Meant4Rent Inc. (i.e. any persons) may or may not post messages, claims, communications, and/or contact in any form anywhere on the internet or not on the internet regarding Meant4Rent; however, we are in no way affiliated with them and are not responsible for any actions and claims whatsoever taken by such persons, as well as any consequences or claims thereafter. Overall, we are in no way liable whatsoever for the actions of others. As most of the stuff on Meant4Rent comes from other users, we do not guarantee the accuracy of postings or user communications or the quality, safety, or legality of what is offered. We also cannot guarantee continuous or secure access to our services. Accordingly, to the extent legally permitted we expressly disclaim all warranties, representations and conditions, express or implied, including those of quality, merchantability, merchantable quality, durability, fitness for a particular purpose and those arising by statute. We are not liable for any loss, whether of money (including profit), goodwill, or reputation, or any special, indirect, or consequential damages arising out of your use of Meant4Rent, even if you advise us or we could reasonably foresee the possibility of any such damage occurring. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of warranties or exclusion of damages, so such disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you. Despite the previous paragraph, if we are found to be liable, our liability to you or any third party (whether in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability in tort, by statute or otherwise) is limited to the greater of (a) the total fees you pay to us in the 12 months prior to the action giving rise to liability, and (b) 100 Canadian Dollars.

Personal Information. By using Meant4Rent, you agree to the collection, transfer, storage and use of your personal information by Meant4Rent (the "Administrator") on servers located in Canada as further described in our PP.

General. These terms and the other policies posted on Meant4Rent constitute the entire agreement between Meant4Rent and you, superseding any prior agreements. This agreement is governed by the laws in Canada. If we don't enforce any particular provision, we are not waiving our right to do so later. If a court strikes down any of these terms, the remaining terms will survive. We may automatically assign this agreement in our sole discretion in accordance with the notice provision below.

Meant4Rent.ca’s Privacy Policy

1. Disclaimer

Meant4Rent respects the various Colleges, Universities and other Institutions’ Trademarks (e.g. McMaster, Ryerson, Charles-Sturt, etc.) and does not use advertising which these various Colleges, Universities and other Institutions states violates the trademarks or implies misleading affiliations with the various Colleges, Universities and other Institutions.

Meant4Rent not affiliated with any Off-Campus Housing services or Student Rentals provided by the various Colleges, Universities and other Institutions.

The various Colleges, Universities and other Institutions whose names are displayed on Meant4Rent do not endorse, sponsor or consent, in any way whatsoever, to any content on this website and to any business conducted by Meant4Rent in relation thereto. Meant4Rent claims no proprietary rights whatsoever in the various Colleges, Universities and other Institutions’ trademarks.

2. Protecting your privacy

We don't run pop ups, pop unders, or any other kind of commercial ads.
We don't share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
We don't engage in cross-marketing or link-referral programs with other sites.
We don't send you unsolicited communications for marketing purposes.
Account information is password-protected. Keep your password safe.
Meant4Rent does not knowingly collect any information from persons under the age of 13. If Meant4Rent learns that a posting is by a person under the age of 13, Meant4Rent will remove that post.
Meant4Rent, or people who post on Meant4Rent, may provide links to their own websites, which may have different privacy practices. We are not responsible for, nor have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites, and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited.

3. Data we collect
- We sometimes collect your email address, for purposes such as sending self-publishing and confirmation emails, authenticating user accounts, providing subscription email services, etc.
- For the paid rental Ad postings, we collect contact information, such as name(s), phone/fax number(s), and address for billing purposes.
- We sometimes collect your phone number for account authentication purposes, and may transmit it to a third party service for tele-robotic verification.
- Meant4Rent does not store credit card information. Credit card transactions are transmitted to a financial gateway, and we endeavor to protect the security of your payment information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.
- We may collect personal information if you contact us directly in the "Contact Us" link in the footer of the Meant4Rent site. Please do not post any information on Meant4Rent that you wish to keep private.
- Our web logs collect standard web log entries for each page served, including your IP address, page URL, and timestamp. Web logs help us to diagnose problems with our server, to administer the Meant4Rent site, and to otherwise provide our service to you.
4. Data we store

Our web logs and other records are stored indefinitely.
Registered rental property posters can access and update their account information through the account homepage.
Although we make good faith efforts to store the information in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security.

5. Circumstances in which Meant4Rent may release information

Meant4Rent may disclose information about its users if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process.
Meant4Rent may also disclose information about its users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our TOU; respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Meant4Rent, its users or the general public.

6. Feedback

We welcome your feedback on this document in the "Contact Us" link in the footer of the Meant4Rent site.

The following activities are prohibited from Meant4Rent:

Posting an Ad if you are not located in Canada
Posting an item for sale/rental that is not located in Canada
Posting an item for sale that is illegal to own, buy or sell in your area of residence
Posting an item for sale that is not associated with:

Buying/selling textbooks (College/University students only)
Renting or Leasing a Property in the Local Area

Posting duplicate Ads in multiple categories or multiple cities
Posting Ads using multiple different email addresses
Posting an Ad that serves no other purpose other than to send traffic to a web site
Posting a multi-level marketing or other prohibited job
Posting an Ad that contains adult, mature or erotic content. Personals are not allowed.
Posting an Ad that defames anyone or contains "hate speech"
Posting deliberately misleading information
Posting an Ad that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability.

Any Ads that do not comply with the Meant4Rent policy will be removed from the site. Additionally, users that violate such policies will be blocked from using Meant4Rent in the future.

Our general rule is that you may not list, buy or sell items/rental properties or services that are illegal to own, buy or sell in your province of residence, or that are not bought or sold in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Furthermore, the Meant4Rent site is only for posting Ad’s regarding rental properties (with the exclusion for College/University students to post their textbooks).You are responsible for ensuring compliance with all applicable laws relating to the item(s) you list, buy or sell.