Thank you for your interest in RentZa. RentZa is the exclusive property of RentZa Inc. Calgary, Alberta. Hereinafter referred to as “Us”, “We”, or “RentZa”.
The Terms of Use have to be considered jointly with our Privacy Policy and our Pricing Policy.
RentZa provides a collection of services, including without limitation providing an online presence for Users to view, rent, or post Rental Listings and other Content, subject to the following Terms of Use. By using the Service in any way, you are agreeing to comply with the Terms of Use and other RentZa Policies. In addition, when using particular RentZa services, you agree to abide by any applicable posted guidelines for all RentZa Services, which may change from time to time. Should you object to any term or condition, any guidelines, or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with RentZa in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of RentZa. RentZa has the right, but is not obligated, to strictly enforce the Terms of Service and other RentZa Policies through self-help, community moderation, active investigation, litigation and prosecution.
1. Definitions
By “Terms of Use,” we refer to the terms set forth herein.
By ”User”, we refer to all individuals or entities that access the site, whether the user is a member or not.
By ”Member”, we refer to all individuals or entities that are registered on the site in order to use its services.
By “Site” we refer to https://www.RentZa, including any subdomains, and any replacement or successor URL, or portions thereof, (hereinafter referred to as “Site” or “RentZa”).
By ”Member Account”, we refer to the private area reserved for each member. It is accessible via a password and contains personal information regarding the member.
By ”Owner”, we refer to each member who lists at least one item for rent, using the RentZa website.
By ” Renter”, we refer to each member who rents an item on the site.
By ”Rental Agreement”, we refer to the agreement made between the Owner and the Renter, obligating the Owner to transfer the usage of the item (object of the contract), and obligating the Renter to pay in exchange an amount, determined in advance or defined by the rental agreement.
By ”Rent”, we refer to the payment made by the Renter to the Owner in order to enjoy usage of the item.
By ”Rental Listing”, we refer to the information published by the Owner advertising an item available for rental.
By ”Reservation Request”, we refer to the request made by a Renter to rent a particular Rental Listing.
By ”Acceptance of the Reservation or Booking Request”, we refer to the online acceptance by the Owner of a Reservation Request made by a Renter, and the concurrent creation of an effective contract between the Owner and the Renter for a particular rental item.
By “Personal Information”, we refer to any personally identifiable information collected through the Site about the individual, including but not limited to the individual’s name, address, and telephone number.
By “Service”, we refer to the Services that RentZa offers through its website, including but not limited to providing an online presence to view, rent, or post Rental Listings and other Content.
By “Content”, we refer to Rental Listings, comments, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, or other materials posted on, transmitted through, or linked to the Site.
By “Policies”, we refer to all RentZa’s Policies, including but not limited to RentZa’s Terms of Use, Pricing Policy, Privacy Policy, Affiliation Conditions, and Forum Guidelines.
By “RentZa”, “we”, “us”, “our”, We refer to RentZa , its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures or employees, or anyone acting on its behalf.
By “Price” We refer to the financial payment given to the Owner by the Renter in order to gain use of the Item.
2. Website Description
Access personal information (see Privacy Policy);
Create and manage Rental Listings;
Contact Owners through Rentza's messaging system
Provide access to a collaboration of tools
Submit booking requests to owners
3. Conditions of Registration and Membership Status
Our services are reserved to persons lawfully capable, or authorized to be part of a rental contract. If you do not comply with these conditions, you cannot use our services. In addition, we reserve the right to suspend or close Member Accounts without notice for any reason, including, but not limited to:
You will not hold RentZa, its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures or employees) liable for claims, demands or damages (actual and consequential) of any kind for the closing of a Member Account.
The Member Account is personal and cannot be transferred to a third party.
The member commits to keep confidential the password he or she chooses for accessing his or her Member Account. The Member Account and the password are personal and cannot be shared, communicated or transferred to any other individual or entity, except as required by law.
The member recognizes and accepts being solely responsible for use of his password and Member Account. The Member accepts being held solely responsible for all consequences and obligations generated by use of his/her password and Member Account by a third party.
The member recognizes and accepts as well that the site can consider usage of his Member Account, username or password as proof of the usage of the Site by this Member. All usage of the Site by way of these elements attributable to the Member is considered as being made by the Member. All evaluations, ratings information and comments are also specific to the Member.
Registration of a Member Account implies, in particular, to provide a valid email address that will be used to communicate between the Member and the Site, and will be used as the unique identifier for the Member Account. All email communications sent by the Site to the Member is understood as having been received by the Member, who takes full knowledge thereof.
In addition, the Member accepts to provide a physical address, which is required by RentZa upon registration of the Member Account and the publication of Rental Listings by Owners, in order to make the best usage our of the geo-localization tools.
4. Fees and Commissions
Access, registration and usage of the website are free.
Our policies pertaining to Rental Listing fees (corresponding to the online publication of items available for rent), paid tools and services available on the site (Pricing) page are part and incorporated as reference of the present General Terms of Use.
RentZa reserves the right to change at any time its policies regarding Rental Listing fees and other services fees. These modifications will take effect once they are published online and will apply to all transactions upon their publication. You are therefore invited to regularly check the Terms of Use, and in any case before any transaction. In the case of a temporary policy modification, the period of validity for the modification will be clearly published on the website.
Unless posted otherwise, our fees are indicated in Canadian dollars (CAD).
The user, member, Renter and Owner all recognize that when renting a product through the site, RentZa can receive, by virtue of a partnership agreement, affiliation agreement or any other contract, a compensation for having put the parties in contact thus enabling the product rental or the service providing by the user thereof. All accept this source of income for the site and give up challenging RentZa responsibility regarding corresponding income.
5. Billing
The (Pricing) page describes and specifies billing conditions
6. Liability of RentZa
7. Member safety and feedback
RentZa cannot confirm the identity of each member. The overwhelming majority of RentZa Users are trustworthy and well-intentioned. Nevertheless, it's very important to take the same precautions online as you would offline.
RentZa makes available to Members and Users a system of “Comments” or “Evaluations” which allows them to evaluate leave feedback about the person with whom they are doing or have done a transaction. Owners might require positive evaluation or feedback for rental of their Items. The evaluation will also apply to the Owner or the Item, and Renters can evaluate an Owner after a rental.
Moderating Members who list an Item for rent and Users who upload or otherwise post Content on the Site are solely responsible for the content they upload and publish under the law and under RentZa’s Policies. RentZa does not carry out or guarantee the existence of editorial control of the Content published by its Users or Members. Exercising the right to withdraw any Rental Listing or Content that is under dispute does not at all affect the validity, pertinence, quality or legality of any Rental Listing or Content that remains online.
8. Content published on or through the Site.
You understand that all Content posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Site, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. You are solely responsible for any Content that you post, email or otherwise make available through the Site. You understand that RentZa does not control, and is not responsible for Content made available through the Site, and that by using the Site, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, illegal, misleading, or otherwise objectionable. Furthermore, the Content available on or through the Site may contain links to other websites that are completely independent of RentZa. RentZa makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained in any such website. Your linking to any other websites is at your own risk. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, that you may not rely on the Content, and that under no circumstances will RentZa be liable for any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise made available on or through the Site. You acknowledge that RentZa does not pre-screen or approve Content, but that RentZa shall have the right (but not the obligation except as required by law) in its sole discretion to refuse, delete or move any Content that is available through the Site, for violating the letter or spirit of the Terms of Use or for any other reason.
9. Rental Listings and Rental Transactions
1. Description of the Rental Listings describe Items offered for rent. Rental Listings can only include text, documents and images that the Members decide to upload, at their sole responsibility. All the Items listed for rent must be in the appropriate category and the Owner is solely responsible for choosing the category in which they will place the Rental Listing. The Rental Agreement is not our responsibility; it is a document at the disposal of our member. Extra payments related to the rental of an Item, such as delivery, maintenance or other assistance as linked to a particular rental must be clearly indicated in the “description” zone of the Item.
2. Owner Must Have Rights To The Item Offered For Rent The Owner must have either own the Item, or be lawfully allowed to rent the Item which he or she lists for rent.
3. The Owner cannot, in any case, change the price of a transaction, which he or she has already accepted. When accepting a Booking Request, the Owner is committed to charge the price published in the Booking Request.
4. From the moment of the online publication of a Rental Listing for an Item, until the moment the Owner accepts the Reservation Request, the Owner and the potential Renter cannot exchange (whether or not through the Site) their identity, their contact information, the address of the Owner, Renter or Rental Location, their fax or telephone numbers, email address or a web address.
5. Content of Rental Listings Users and members agree not to ask for any form of financial compensation in relation to the use of the Content published on RentZa. RentZa also has the right to monitor, edit, and partially or totally delete any content found in Rental Listings. RentZa has no obligation of diligence with regards to the publication of content.
6. RentZa May Publish Rental Listings On Partner Websites You agree that RentZa may, in its sole discretion, publish all or part of your Rental Listings on third-party websites. You agree that RentZa can use published Content for commercial means (Except personal information – See (Privacy Policy) with third parties.
7. Member Guarantee Regarding Proprietary RightsThe Member guarantees that he or she possesses all the intellectual rights on the Content of the Rental Listings, texts (Title, subtitle, description), and visual elements. The Member also guarantees that he or she possesses the image reproduction rights, right to image and to personality of the Items and persons depicted or otherwise described in the Rental Listing.
10. Taxes, Licenses, and Certifications
Users and Members are solely liable for any taxes resulting from any Rental Agreement or use of our Services or Site.
Whether you are a business entity or individual, or whether you are an Owner or a Renter, you agree that you are solely responsible to determine what taxes, if any, apply to you and to pay any such taxes. RentZa recommends that you seek advice from a tax professional.
Depending on the circumstances, such as the number of transactions you conduct, the subject matter of the transaction, licenses or certifications might be applicable to you. You agree that it is your sole responsibility to obtain any licenses or certifications that might be required to conduct a transaction or otherwise use the Services or Site. RentZa is not responsible for determining whether or not you should be licensed and/or certified for the use of the Services or Site, or for conducting a transaction. RentZa makes no representation or guarantee about licensing or certification of its Users or Members.
14. Modifications
RentZa reserves the right, without any limits or restrictions and at its sole discretion, to modify in whole or in part and at any time, its Policies. All changes will be effective once published on the Site. Use of the Site after these changes have been published constitutes your acceptance of the modified Policies. RentZa reserves the right to; modify, interrupt, or end at any time any service, without taking responsibility for the consequences resulting from these modifications, interruptions or ending of these services.
15. Use of External Applications
Usage of the application Google Maps is subject to implicit acceptance of the Terms and Conditions for Google Maps (https://maps.google/help/terms_maps.html).
Information on the maps obtained via Google is offered as indications only.
16. Intellectual Property
RentZa cannot be aware of all the content published on the site in all the Rental Listings or in the comments. However, RentZa commits to remove as quickly as possible any copyright protected material once notified.
The brand RentZa is a deposited trademark and is fully and exclusively owned by RentZa Inc. All graphic elements, design elements, presentations, logos relative to RentZa are the exclusive property of RentZa. Any reproduction without RentZa written authorization is strictly prohibited.
17. User’s control over personal information
Rentza Inc. has made a declaration to the Commission of Privacy Protection concerning the storage and treatment of personal information related to the Users. All users have a right to access, modify, correct, and delete any of their personal information, a right which can be used at any time via: RentZa Inc. Calgary, Alberta.
18. RentZa’s use of User’s materials
When using RentZa services, you are requested to provide to us or to other Users information concerning RentZa services, including your registration, your Rental Listings and rental transactions, evaluations and comments, your messages or tickets, or any other information you may publish on the Site. You are solely responsible for this information. RentZa only acts as a passive intermediary in publishing them online.
By accepting the present Terms of Use and other RentZa Policies, you accept to only use the personal information of other Members that is provided to you through the Site, to (a) close a transaction that does not involve unsolicited commercial messages but is only related to Rental Agreement, or (b) use third party services provided via RentZa (sequestration, insurance, claims and communications in case of fraud), or (c) for any other use authorized by the User. You agree to use this information in accordance with applicable laws and under these Terms of Use. Subject to the foregoing, you cannot, provide personal information of other Users to third parties without prior written permission by RentZa and the corresponding User.
19. Proprietary Rights
Subject to our Privacy Policy, any Content that you transmit to the Site or to us, whether by electronic mail or other means, for any reason, will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. While you might retain all rights in such communications or material, you grant us and our designated licensees a non-exclusive, paid-up, perpetual, and worldwide right to copy, distribute, display, perform, publish, translate, adapt, modify, and otherwise use such material for any purpose regardless of the form or medium (now known or not currently known) in which it is used.
Please do not submit confidential or proprietary information to us unless we have mutually agreed in writing otherwise. We are also unable to accept your unsolicited ideas or proposals, so please do not submit them to us in any circumstance.
We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask you to do the same. If you or any User of the Site believes its copyright, trademark or other property rights have been infringed by a posting on the Site, you or the User should send notification to our Designated Agent immediately. To be effective, the notification must include:
1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
3. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as address, telephone number and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
4. 4. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be subject to infringing activity and that is to be removed and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the materials;
5. 5. A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, agent, or the law; and
6. 6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringing.
20. Indemnification
Upon a request by us, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold RentZa and RentZa’s Affiliates harmless from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including attorney's fees that arise from your use or misuse of Site. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will cooperate with us in asserting any available defenses.
21. No agency relationship
RentZa and Members or Users are independent parties, acting in its name and for its own purpose. Nothing in this Terms of Use or other RentZa Policies shall be deemed to constitute, create, give effect to or otherwise recognize a partnership, agency, joint venture or formal business entity of any kind or create a fiduciary or similar relationship among the parties; and the rights and obligations of the parties shall be limited to those expressly set forth herein.
22. Legal Fees
The user or member accepts to defend and compensate RentZa Inc. (including reasonable lawyer fees), its agents, directors, administrators, employees, Owners, and representatives against any request or claim made by a third party, caused by or resulting from a violation or any other act for which the user or member is responsible, that arose from them not upholding the instructions, guarantees and/or obligations contained in the present General Terms of Use, or having violated any law or any regulation of this third party. This includes but is not limited to complaints and legal claims with regards to: infringement or violation of intellectual property rights, libel, calumny or other defamation, privacy rights or “false representation”, publicity rights.
RentZa Inc. reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to organize the defense with a lawyer of their choosing, against all legal claims, legal suits or other affairs that request financial compensation from the user or the member.
23. Relationships between Parties
RentZa and members or users are independent parties, acting in its name and for its own purpose. The present Terms of Use do not create any relationship of subordination, agency, representation, partnership, brokerage, corporate partnership, employment relationship or franchise between RentZa Corp, any user, or member of the site.
24. Applicable Law and Legal Jurisdiction
The present Terms of Use are regulated and interpreted in conformity with Canadian law.
The country of the user and/or the country of the member with whom he or she is dealing with may have applicable laws in regard to their transactions with other users that may be independent of the agreements made with RentZa in the Terms of Use, or with the user later on.
The legislation of these countries may have differences with the legislation applicable to the present Terms of Use, including the legislation relative to objects being legally authorized to be offered for rent or rented. There can be additional legal obligations, such as, and without limitations, the obligation of having an authorization in order to offer for rent or rent certain objects, or to record a rental transaction. The users and members are bound to constantly comply with all national and international laws and regulations applicable to the usage of RentZa services and to Rental Listings and rental transactions. RentZa does not constantly track all the legislations of every country, nor do we constantly track all users or all transactions. What other users do does not mean that RentZa has authorized, approved or validated their actions and transactions.
25. Additional Conditions
All notifications at your attention will be sent to the email address you provided when signing up to RentZa. Messages and notifications are considered received 24 hours after the email has been sent, unless we receive a notification stating that the email address is not valid or functioning.