Privacy Policy
PRIVACY NOTICE
Last Updated: 9.1.2026
This Privacy Notice describes how personal data is collected, used, disclosed, and otherwise processed by SPM, LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliates (together, “SPM”) in connection with any specific product, service, or application that references or links to this Privacy Notice. SPM manages residential communities throughout the United States.
Where SPM manages a community on behalf of a third-party property owner, this Privacy Notice describes SPM’s privacy practices as a manager and agent on behalf of that property owner. For more information about the owner’s own privacy practices, you should contact the owner directly.
This Privacy Notice does not address our privacy practices relating to SPM job applicants, employees and other employment-related individuals. This Privacy Notice also does not address data that is not subject to applicable data protection laws (such as deidentified or publicly available information in certain jurisdictions). This Privacy Notice is also not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations not otherwise provided by law.
Our Collection and Use of Personal Data
The categories of personal data we collect depend on how you interact with us and our services. For example, you may provide us your personal data directly when you sign up for our mailing list, register for an account, submit a rental application, schedule a property tour, post a review, participate in an event, contest, promotion or survey, or otherwise contact us or interact with us.We also collect personal data automatically when you interact with our websites and other services and may also collect personal data from other sources and third parties.
Personal Data Provided by Individuals
We collect the following categories of personal data individuals provide us:- Contact Information, including first and last name, phone number, email address, mailing address, and communication preferences. We use this information primarily to fulfill your request or transaction, to communicate with you directly, and to send you marketing communications in accordance with your preferences.
- Rental Application Information, including your name, date of birth, driver’s license, passport or other photo ID details, professional and employment information, and information about your income. We use this information primarily to evaluate your housing application, communicate with you, and comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including to determine your eligibility for certain housing programs where permitted or required by law.
- Resident-Related Information, including security camera footage, resident portal account credentials and profile information, rent payments, insurance coverage, vehicle make, model and license plate, utilities usage, package delivery and locker usage, and your use of smart keys, IoT devices, and other building amenities. We use this information to provide our services, including our property management services, and to maintain security at SPM communities.
- Professional Information, including job title, company name, professional background, and the nature of your relationship with us. We use this information primarily to fulfill your request or transaction, to determine how we communicate with you, to administer your account, to provide you with our services, and for customer support purposes.
- Payment Information, including payment card information, billing address, and other financial information (such as, routing and account number). Please note that we use third-party payment providers to process payments made to us. We do not retain any personally identifiable financial information, such as payment card number, you provide to these third-party payment providers in connection with payments. Rather, all such information is provided directly by you to our third-party payment providers. The payment provider’s use of your personal data is governed by their privacy notice.
- AI-Assisted Leasing Tools. We use AI-assisted leasing tools provided by our property management software platform providers to help respond to leasing inquiries, schedule tours, and answer common questions about our communities. These tools may generate automated responses based on property information and your inquiry, and you may engage with them by phone, SMS, email, online chat or other communications methods. A human leasing team member is available upon request. Information you provide during a leasing interaction (such as your name, contact information, and housing preferences) is used to respond to your inquiry and facilitate the leasing process. Our AI-assisted tools are not used to make automated decisions about your rental application or eligibility.
- Communications Information, including information that you communicate to SPM or SPM representatives, and information and user content you submit in online portals or chats, such as in one of our resident portals. Please note that your communications with us may be monitored and recorded. For example, if you call us by phone or interact with one of our virtual leasing agent chatbots, we may record the conversation for quality assurance or other purposes described in this Privacy Notice. We use communications information primarily to investigate and respond to your inquiries, to communicate with you, and to improve our services.
- Event, Contest, Promotion, and Survey Information, including information provided when you sign up for an event, enter a contest or promotion, complete a survey or submit a testimonial. We use this information primarily to administer and facilitate our products and services, respond to your submission, communicate with you, conduct market research, inform our marketing and advertising activities, improve and grow our business, and facilitate the related event, contest, promotion, or survey.
- Security-Related Information, including name and contact information of visitors to our communities, video recordings from our communities, and electronic login records and access details when a visitor utilizes company technology at one of our communities. We use this information primarily to protect the security of our communities, employees, and our company.
Personal Data Automatically Collected
We, and our third-party partners, automatically collect information you provide to us and information about how you access and use our products and services when you engage with us. We typically collect this information through the use of a variety of our own and our third-party partners’ automatic data collection technologies, including (i) cookies or small data files that are stored on an individual’s computer and (ii) other, related technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, mobile SDKs, location-identifying technologies and logging technologies. Information we collect automatically about you may be combined with other personal data we collect directly from you or receive from other sources.We, and our third-party partners, use automatic data collection technologies to automatically collect the following data when you use our services or otherwise engage with us:
- Information About Your Device and Network, including the device type, manufacturer, and model, operating system, IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, and unique identifiers associated with you, your device, or your network (including, for example, a persistent device identifier or advertising ID).
- Information About the Way Individuals Use Our Services and Interact With Us, including the site from which you came, the site to which you are going when you leave our services, how frequently you access our services, whether you open emails or click the links contained in emails, whether you access our services from multiple devices, and other browsing behavior and actions you take on our services (such as the pages you visit, the content you view, videos you watch, the communications you have through our services, and the content, links and ads you interact with). These third-party technologies may also record information you enter when you interact with our products or services, or engage in chat features or other communication platforms we provide.
- Information About Your Location, including general geographic location that we or our third-party providers may derive from your IP address.
For information about the choices you may have in relation to our use of automatic data collection technologies, please refer to the Your Privacy Choices section below. For additional details about the cookies we use on our websites and to adjust your preferences with regard to those cookies, please visit the cookie preferences manager linked in the footer of our websites.
Personal Data from Other Sources and Third Parties
We may receive the same categories of personal data as described above from the following sources and other parties:- Single Sign-On: We may provide you the ability to log in to our services through certain third-party accounts you maintain. When you use these single sign-on protocols to access our services, we do not receive your login credentials for the relevant third-party service. Instead, we receive tokens from the single sign-on protocol to help identify you in our system (such as by your username) and confirm you successfully authenticated through the single sign-on protocol. This information allows us to more easily provide you access to our products and services.
- Other Customers: We may receive your personal data from our other customers. For example, a customer may provide us with your contact information as a part of a referral.
- Social Media: When you interact with our services through other social media networks, such as when you follow us or share our content on other social networks, we may receive some information that you permit the social network to share with third parties. The data we receive is dependent upon your privacy settings with the social network, and may include profile information, profile picture, username, and any other information you permit the social network to share with third parties. You should always review and, if necessary, adjust your privacy settings on third-party websites and social media networks and services before sharing information and/or linking or connecting them to other services. We use this information primarily to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of our products and services, as well as to communicate directly with you, such as to send you messages about features that may be of interest to you.
- Advertisers, Influencers, and Publishers: We engage in advertising both on our services and through third-party services. Advertisers, influencers, and publishers may share personal data with us in connection with our advertising efforts. For example, we may obtain information about whether an advertisement on our services led to a successful engagement between you and a third-party advertiser.
- Business Partners: We may receive your information from our business partners, such as companies that offer their products and/or services as a part of or in connection with our services. For example, certain of our products and services allow our customers to integrate third-party services. If you choose to leverage these third-party service integrations, we may receive confirmation from our business partner regarding whether you are an existing customer of their services.
- Service Providers: Our service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as to provide background checks, credit screens, fraud detection, payment processing services, rent collection services, analytics and marketing services, collect personal data and often share some or all of this information with us.
- Other Sources: We may also collect personal data about you from other sources, including publicly available sources, or through transactions such as mergers and acquisitions.
- Inferences: We may generate inferences or predictions about you and your interests and preferences based on the other personal data we collect and the interactions we have with you.
Additional Uses of Personal Data
In addition to the primary purposes for using personal data described above, we may also use personal data we collect to:- Fulfill or meet the reason the information was provided, such as to fulfill our contractual obligations, to facilitate payment for our products and services, or to deliver the services requested;
- Communicate with you, including via email, text message, chat, social media and/or telephone calls;
- Facilitate the relationship we have with you and, where applicable, the company you represent;
- Request you provide us feedback about our product and service offerings;
- Address inquiries or complaints made by or about an individual in connection with our products or services;
- Create and maintain accounts for our users;
- Verify your identity and entitlement to our products and services;
- Register you for and provide you access to events, contests, sweepstakes, and surveys;
- Market our products and services to you, including through email, phone, text message, push notification, and social media;
- Infer additional information about you from your use of our products and services, such as your interests;
- Conduct research and analytics on our user base and our products and services, including to better understand the demographics of our users;
- Improve and customize our products and services to address the needs and interests of our user base and other individuals we interact with;
- Test, enhance, update, and monitor the products and services, or diagnose or fix technology problems;
- Help maintain and enhance the safety, security, and integrity of our property, products, services, technology, assets, and business;
- Defend, protect, or enforce our rights or applicable contracts and agreements (including our Terms of Use), as well as to resolve disputes, to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights, and to protect our business interests and the interests and rights of third parties;
- Detect, prevent, investigate, or provide notice of security incidents or other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and protect the rights and property of SPM and others;
- Comply with contractual and legal obligations and requirements;
- Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide your personal data, or for which you have otherwise consented.
Our Disclosure of Personal Data
We disclose or otherwise make available personal data in the following ways:- To Our Affiliates: We are able to offer you the products and services we make available because of the hard work of our team members across SPM entities. To provide our products and facilitate our services, SPM entities disclose personal data to other SPM entities for purposes and uses that are consistent with this Privacy Notice. For example, the SPM entity responsible for our website may disclose your contact information to an SPM entity in your region to facilitate communications between you and a local SPM representative.
- To Marketing Providers: We coordinate and share personal data with our marketing providers in order to advertise and communicate with you about the products and services we make available.
- To Ad Networks and Advertising Partners: We work with third-party ad networks and advertising partners to deliver advertising and personalized content on our services, on other websites and services, and across other devices. These parties may collect information automatically from your browser or device when you visit our websites and other services through the use of cookies and related technologies. This information is used to provide and inform targeted advertising, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics, and market research.
- To Business Partners: We may share personal data with our business partners, or we may allow our business partners to collect personal data directly from you in connection with our services. Our business partners may use your personal data for their own business and commercial purposes, including to send you information about their products and services.
- To Service Providers: We engage other third parties to perform certain services on our behalf in connection with the uses of personal data described in the sections above. Depending on the applicable services, these service providers may process personal data on our behalf or have access to personal data while performing services on our behalf.
- To Other Businesses as Needed to Provide Services: We may share personal data with third parties you engage with through our services or as needed to fulfill a request or transaction including, for example, payment processing services.
- In Connection with a Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may take part in or be involved with a business transaction or reorganization, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose, transfer, or assign personal data to a third party during negotiation of, in connection with, or as an asset in such a business transaction or reorganization. Also, in the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, receivership, or insolvency, your personal data may be disclosed, transferred, or assigned to third parties in connection with the proceedings or disposition of our assets.
- To Facilitate Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose personal data to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement:
- in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
- to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process;
- to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of our agents, customers, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use;
- to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud;
- to reduce credit risk and collect debts owed to us;
- to protect the health and safety of us, our customers, or any person; or
- as otherwise required by applicable law.
- With Your Consent or Direction: We may disclose your personal data to certain other third parties or publicly with your consent or direction. For example, with your permission, we may post your testimonial on our websites.
Your Privacy Choices
Communication Preferences
- Email Communication Preferences: You can stop receiving promotional email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link provided in any of our email communications. Please note you cannot opt-out of service-related email communications (such as account verification, transaction confirmation, or service update emails).
- Phone Communication Preferences: You can stop receiving promotional phone communications from us by informing the caller you no longer wish to receive promotional phone calls from us, following the instructions provided on the call for opting out of promotional phone calls (where available), or replying STOP to any one of our promotional text messages. Please note we may need to continue to communicate with you via phone for certain service-related messages (such as appointment confirmations, lease reminders, or maintenance updates). Standard message and data rates may apply.
Automatic Data Collection Preferences
Certain of our services may provide you the ability to adjust your preferences regarding our use of automatic data collection technologies. For example, there is a cookie preferences manager linked in the footer of our websites that allows you to adjust your preferences regarding certain automatic data collection technologies on the specific website you are visiting for the specific device and browser you are using at that time (which means you will need to change your preferences on each device and browser you use to interact with the specific website you are visiting).You may be able to utilize third-party tools and features to restrict our use of automatic data collection technologies. For example, (i) most browsers allow you to change browser settings to limit automatic data collection technologies on websites, (ii) most email providers allow you to prevent the automatic downloading of images in emails that may contain automatic data collection technologies, and (iii) many devices allow you to change your device settings to limit automatic data collection technologies for device applications. Please note that blocking automatic data collection technologies through third-party tools and features may negatively impact your experience using our services, as some features and offerings may not work properly or at all. Depending on the third-party tool or feature you use, you may not be able to block all automatic data collection technologies or you may need to update your preferences on multiple devices or browsers. We do not have any control over these third-party tools and features and are not responsible if they do not function as intended.
Targeted Advertising Preferences
We engage third parties to help us facilitate targeted advertising designed to show you personalized ads based on predictions of your preferences and interests developed using personal data we maintain and personal data our third-party partners obtain from your activity over time and across nonaffiliated websites and other services. The data we and our third-party partners use for purposes of facilitating targeted advertising, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics, and market research, are primarily collected through the use of a variety of automatic data collection technologies, including cookies, web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, mobile SDKs, location-identifying technologies and logging technologies. We may share a common account identifier (such as a hashed email address or user ID) with our third-party advertising partners to help link the personal data we and our third-party partners collect to the same person, or otherwise target advertising to an individual on a third-party website or platform.In addition to taking the steps set forth in the Automatic Data Collection Preferences section above, you may be able to further exercise control over the advertisements that you see by leveraging one or more targeted advertising opt-out programs. For example:
- Digital Advertising Alliance: The Digital Advertising Alliance allows individuals to opt out of receiving online interest-based targeted advertisements from companies that participate in their program. Please follow the instructions at https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN for browser-based advertising and https://www.youradchoices.com/appchoices for app-based advertising to opt out of targeted advertising carried out by our third-party partners and other third parties that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance’s self-regulatory program.
- Network Advertising Initiative: The Network Advertising Initiative also provides individuals instructions for further controlling how information is used for online advertising. Please follow the instructions at https://thenai.org/how-to-opt-out/ to exercise these controls.
Partner-Specific Preferences
Certain of our third-party providers and partners offer additional ways that you may exercise control over your personal data, or automatically impose limitations on the way we can use personal data in connection with the services they provide:- Device-Specific / Platform-Specific Preferences: The device and/or platform you use to interact with us (such as your mobile device or social media provider), may provide you additional choices with regard to the data you choose to share with us. For example, many mobile devices allow you to change your device permissions to prevent our products and services from accessing certain types of information from your device (such as your contact lists or precise geolocation data), and many social media platforms allow you to change your platform permissions to prevent integrated products and services from accessing certain types of information connected with your profile. Please refer to your device or platform provider’s user guides for additional information about implementing any available platform-specific targeted advertising opt-outs.
- Google Analytics: Google Analytics allows us to better understand how our customers interact with our services. For information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, as well as how you can control information sent to Google, review Google's website here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can learn about Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs, including the Google Analytics Browser Add-On here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. We may also utilize certain forms of display advertising and other advanced features through Google Analytics. These features enable us to use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick advertising cookie) or other third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and display ads based on your past visits to our services. You may control your advertising preferences or opt-out of certain Google advertising products by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager, currently available at https://myadcenter.google.com/?ref=help-center.