terms
BeforeYouRent is an MVP for sharing structured, building-level rental experiences. These terms describe the product rules we expect people to follow while submitting, searching, disputing, or relying on public report pages. They are written in plain English and are not legal advice.
Use the service responsibly
Reports should be factual, relevant to a rental building, and written in good faith. Do not use BeforeYouRent to harass people, publish private personal information, threaten anyone, organize retaliation, impersonate another person, or submit content you know is false or misleading.
Submissions and evidence
By submitting a report, you give BeforeYouRent permission to review, moderate, redact, summarize, reject, remove, and publish public-safe parts of the submission in connection with the service. Evidence uploads are private by default. They are used for moderation and trust review, not published as raw public files unless a future explicit publishing workflow says otherwise.
Moderation is part of the product
Moderators may change what appears publicly so reports stay focused on building-level information. That can include removing names, contact details, exact unit numbers, raw allegations about private people, unsafe language, duplicate content, unsupported claims, or anything that creates privacy or safety risk. Approval of a public summary does not mean BeforeYouRent independently proves every underlying fact.
Public pages are limited summaries
Search results and building pages should show approved, redacted information only. They may include structured fields, aggregate signals, broad unit context, rent ranges, issue categories, and moderator-written summaries. They should not show submitter identities, private evidence, admin notes, audit logs, or internal review data.
Disputes and removals
If you believe a report is inaccurate, unsafe, identifying, outdated, duplicated, or missing important context, use the dispute path. BeforeYouRent may ask for supporting details, review private moderation history, redact the content, update it, remove it, or leave it in place. The dispute process is a product review process, not a promise of any legal outcome.
These are working MVP terms and should be reviewed by qualified counsel before public launch. They do not replace lease terms, tenancy law, legal advice, or emergency reporting channels.