Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting Hometown Storage Internet web site. This privacy policy details certain policies implemented throughout Hometown Storage governing our collection and use of personally identifiable information about users of our site and our services.

Privacy Policy Updates

Due to the Internet’s rapidly evolving nature, Hometown Storage may need to update this privacy policy from time to time. If so, we will post its updated privacy policy on our site along with a change notice on the site. We may also send registered users of our services a notice that this privacy policy has been changed. Hometown Storage encourages you to review this privacy policy regularly for any changes. Your continued use of this site and/or services and/or your continued provision of personally identifiable information to us after the posting of such notice will be subject to the terms of the then-current privacy policy.

Hometown Storage reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Online Privacy Policy at any time. Accordingly, Hometown Storage recommends that you revisit this Online Privacy Policy from time to time to ensure that you are aware of the current privacy practices. Your continued use of the web site following any changes signifies your acceptance of these changes.

Information Collection

You can generally visit our site without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. However, in certain sections of this site, we may require you to submit your personally identifiable information to us and we may invite you to submit questions, comments, and request information.

Due to the nature of some of our services, you may provide us with personally identifiable information, but not be limited to, name, physical address, telephone number, facsimile number, email address, company name, title, credit card number, and expiration date. The credit card information that is collected is used strictly for billing purposes. We collect your email address so we can send you information about your transaction and its status. We may use your email address to inform you about current offers or events. We will never share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone without your advance permission or unless ordered by a court of law.

Information Use

We may use your personally identifiable information to deliver our services or information you have requested, verify your authority to enter certain password protected areas of the Site, verify that you are a customer or prospective customer, send you information that you have signed up to receive, notices about our products and/or services that you have used or that may be of interest to you and notices about events, and improve the content and general administration of the Site and our services.

If you are a user of our services, we may use your personally identifiable information to provide the services to you.

Hometown Storage does not sell information to unrelated third parties. Hometown Storage does send your contact and order information to the facility that you selected for purposes of completing your payment or reservation.

Children’s Privacy

Hometown Storage recognizes the privacy interests of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. Neither our site nor our services are intended for children under the age of 13. We do not target its services or this site to children under 13. Hometown Storage does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

Cookies

We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.

On our Site, we use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate the Site by remembering your locale preferences and to improve and track the overall Site experience. For our Site, we set a persistent cookie to authenticate your login and authorization to use the services. Persistent cookies enable us to track, store and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Site. If you reject cookies, you may still use our Site, but your ability to use some areas of our Site may be limited.

Third Party Analytics Tools

Beyond the personally identifiable information you voluntarily provide to us, Hometown Storage utilizes analytics tools including third party technologies, such as Google Analytics, to collect non-personally identifiable information utilizing cookies. Certain types of information, including geolocation, device type, onsite website usage and behavior, demographic data, and purchase history, is collected and aggregated across our site users for our analysis and advertising efforts.

Hometown Storage uses Remarketing with Google Analytics and Google Adwords to display relevant advertisements to users who have previously visited our site. Referred to as remarketing or retargeting, we may utilize previous session information to serve display advertisements to you on the site, and based on such session information, Google may set a cookie and serve ads to you on third-party websites on the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors such as Google may display our ads on websites across the Internet. Aggregated user data may be utilized to create remarketing/retargeting “lists,” or groups of users with similar onsite behaviors or demographics.

Hometown Storage also uses Google Display Network Impression Reporting and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting and Interest-Based Advertising to display advertisements to users based on their inferred interests and demographics. We do not run interest-based advertising campaigns that collect personally identifiable information.

Users may learn more about Google Analytics use of cookies by visiting the Google Privacy and Terms page.

You may opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics by:

  1. Turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser
  2. Downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add on available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
  3. Opting out of user interest and demographic categories in the Settings for Google Ads feature to manage or opt out of Google interest based ads at: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated 
  4. Managing cookies used for online advertising across multiple companies at the US-based Network Advertising Initiative at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1

Aggregate Information

The Site may track the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, browser type, IP addresses, External Web Sites (defined below) linked to and other aggregated data collected through our services and we may analyze this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information. We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users’ movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information

We may provide your personally identifiable information and the data generated by cookies and third party analytics tools and the aggregate information to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing our services to you.

We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation, or other government authority or to assist in any investigation, to protect our or our users’ rights or to enforce our terms of use. We will not sell your personally identifiable information to any company or organization except we may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation, or other corporate reorganization in which Hometown Storage participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially all of our assets to which this site relates.

Links to Third Party Sites

The site may provide links to other Web sites or resources over which Hometown Storage does not have control (“External Web Sites”). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by us of those External Web Sites. You acknowledge that Hometown Storage is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that we are not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites. Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked to External Web Sites.

Security

We may employ industry standard procedural and technological measures that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Hometown Storage may use, without limitation, firewalls, password protection, secure socket layer, and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.

Self Storage Tenant Insurance Program

We understand that the personal property you store in your storage unit is valuable and important to you. However, our storage facility is not responsible for property stored at our facility. Some, but not all, homeowners’ and renters’ insurance policies cover property stored in self-storage facilities. You should contact your insurance agent to confirm whether your insurance policy will cover the property you store at our facility, and ask your agent about applicable policy deductibles and exclusions.

As a convenience, we make available to our tenants a Self Storage Tenant Insurance Program administered by Tenant One. The Self Storage Tenant Insurance Program is underwritten by one of the most reputable carriers in the marketplace. Note that the operator may receive remuneration for its administrative services, such as assisting in enrolling the tenant in the Program and collecting the monthly premium, and that affiliates of some owners of certain facilities enrolled in the Program may own an interest in the program administrator.

Again, you are not required to purchase insurance through the Tenant One.

Refund Policy

We do not refund payment of rent or fees. For further information, please contact the Property Manager of the location where you are a customer.

Questions

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy please contact us.

At Hometown Storage, our mission is dedicated to delivering flexible, secure, and dependable self-storage solutions in Tennessee. We emphasize outstanding customer service and aim to build enduring relationships with our clients. Our focus is not just on meeting storage needs, but also on ensuring each customer's experience with us is positive and satisfying.

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