Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 20, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Alder Investments, LLC ("Alder Investments," "we," "us," or "our"), the owner and operator of the 4029 Rainier Ave Apartments community located at 4029 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118, collects, uses, shares, and protects information in connection with our website at rent4029.com, our online leasing and rental application tools, our identity verification tools, and our related communications and services (together, the "Services").

By using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy. This Policy applies to information we collect through the Services. It does not apply to information collected offline, or to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including the screening, payment, mapping, and social media providers described below.

1. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with us. We collect information that you provide directly, information collected automatically when you use the Services, and information we receive from third parties.

A. Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you choose to give us, for example when you contact us, schedule a tour, ask a question, apply to rent, verify your identity, or pay a fee. Depending on the interaction, this may include:

• Contact and inquiry information: your name, email address, phone number, the unit or apartment you are interested in, your desired move-in date, how you heard about us, and the contents of any message you send us through our contact form.
• Tour scheduling information: your name, email address, phone number, the unit you wish to tour, and your requested tour date and time. When you book a tour, we send you an email confirmation and a calendar invitation that includes your appointment details.
• Questions submitted to our help assistant: the questions and text you type into our on-site help assistant, which uses a fixed set of pre-written answers and does not use artificial intelligence.
• Rental application information: your legal name, date of birth, Social Security number or other taxpayer identification number, government-issued identification details, current and previous home addresses and rental history, contact information for current and previous landlords, employment and income information, bank account information, emergency contacts, personal and professional references, information about other adult and minor occupants, pets, and vehicles, and your answers to rental history and background questions.
• Documents you upload: copies of identification, proof of income such as pay stubs or bank statements, offer letters, and similar supporting documents.
• Identity verification information: images of a government-issued identification document and a self-portrait photograph (a "selfie") used to confirm that you are the person shown on the identification, as further described in Section 4.
• Electronic signature and consent information: the electronic signature you draw or provide, along with the date, time, and Internet Protocol (IP) address recorded at the time you sign or consent.
• Payment-related information: the payment method you select and information needed to process an application fee or other payment, as described in Section 5.

Some of this information, including your Social Security number, date of birth, government identification, financial account information, and identity verification images, is considered sensitive. We collect it only as needed to evaluate and process a rental application and to verify identity, and we handle it as described in this Policy.

B. Information We Collect Automatically

When you use the Services, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain technical information, including:

• Log and device information: your IP address, browser type, operating system, device characteristics, the pages you view, the links you click, the referring page, and the dates and times of your visits.
• Session and security information: information used to keep you signed in during a session, to remember a device so you do not have to re-verify your email each time, to protect against automated abuse and spam, and to limit repeated requests.

We collect this information using cookies and similar technologies, which are described in Section 8. We do not use third-party advertising networks or third-party web analytics trackers on our website.

C. Information We Receive From Third Parties

We may receive information about you from third parties in order to operate the Services and evaluate applications, including:

• Tenant screening companies, which provide consumer reports such as credit, criminal background, eviction, and rental history information, as described in Section 3.
• Identity verification and image analysis providers, which return the results of identity checks, as described in Section 4.
• Payment processors, which confirm whether a payment was completed.
• Property management and availability systems, which provide unit availability and leasing information.

2. How We Use Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To respond to your inquiries, schedule and confirm tours, and provide the information you request.
• To receive, evaluate, and process rental applications, including verifying identity, income, and rental history, and making leasing decisions.
• To obtain and review tenant screening reports and to communicate the results of an application.
• To process application fees and other payments.
• To prepare, deliver, and manage leases and related agreements, and to manage your tenancy if you become a resident.
• To send you transactional and service messages, such as confirmations, reminders, follow-ups, and notices about your application or tenancy.
• To send you informational messages about availability and our community when you have asked to hear from us, consistent with your communication preferences.
• To operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Services, to prevent fraud and abuse, and to protect the safety and rights of applicants, residents, staff, and the public.
• To comply with applicable laws, including fair housing, consumer reporting, tax, and recordkeeping requirements, and to respond to legal process.

3. Background Screening and Consumer Reports

When you submit a rental application, we use a third-party tenant screening company, ACRAnet, to obtain a consumer report that may include credit, criminal background, eviction, and rental history information. These reports are governed by the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and applicable state law. We request your authorization before obtaining a consumer report, and we use the report only to evaluate your rental application. Application fees associated with screening are paid to or through the screening company. If we take an adverse action based in whole or in part on a consumer report, we will provide the notices required by law, including the name and contact information of the screening company and information about your rights. The screening company maintains its own privacy practices, which apply to the information it collects and reports.

4. Identity Verification and Biometric Information

As part of the application and identity verification process, we may ask you to provide an image of a government-issued identification document and a self-portrait photograph. We use these images to confirm that the person applying is the person shown on the identification, which may include an automated facial comparison and a check that the photograph is of a live person, and to read the machine-readable barcode on the identification. To perform these checks, the images may be processed by an image analysis service provider acting on our behalf.

Facial geometry and similar data derived from these images may be considered biometric information under certain state laws. We collect and use this information only for identity verification in connection with your application, we do not sell it, and we do not use it for advertising. We retain identity verification images and related data only for as long as reasonably necessary for verification and recordkeeping, after which we delete or de-identify them, subject to the retention principles in Section 11. If you prefer not to complete automated identity verification, please contact our office to discuss alternatives.

5. Payments

Application fees and other payments may be made by card through a third-party payment processor (Square) or through person-to-person payment services such as Zelle or Venmo, depending on the options offered at the time. When you pay by card, your payment is processed on the payment processor's hosted checkout. We do not collect or store your full card number on our systems. The payment processor and any person-to-person payment service you use handle your payment information under their own privacy practices.

6. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We also do not share your mobile phone number or your SMS/text-messaging opt-in and consent data with third parties or affiliates for their own marketing or promotional purposes. We share information only as described below:

• Service providers. We share information with companies that perform services on our behalf, such as tenant screening, identity verification and image analysis, payment processing, property management and availability systems, email delivery, and website hosting. These providers are permitted to use the information only to provide services to us.
• Affiliates and ownership. We may share information with our affiliated entities and with the ownership and management of the community in order to operate the property and manage applications and tenancies.
• Professional advisors. We may share information with our attorneys, accountants, and similar advisors as needed to operate our business.
• Legal and safety. We may disclose information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, to enforce our agreements and policies, to detect or prevent fraud or security issues, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Alder Investments, our applicants and residents, or the public.
• Business transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, reorganization, bankruptcy, or similar transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to this Policy.
• With your direction. We may share information with other parties when you ask us to or otherwise direct us to do so.

7. Third-Party Services, Maps, and Social Features

Our website includes links to third-party services that are governed by their own privacy policies, not this one. For example, our site links to a map of our location provided by Google Maps and to our page on Facebook. If you follow these links or interact with these features, the third party may collect information about you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties, and we encourage you to review their privacy policies.

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies that are necessary to operate the Services. These include a session cookie that keeps you signed in while you complete a tour booking or a rental application, and a token that can remember your device so you do not have to re-verify your email on each visit. These technologies are functional in nature.

We do not use cookies for third-party advertising, and we do not use third-party web analytics services to track your activity across other websites. Because we do not engage in cross-site tracking, our site does not respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals in a specialized way. You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. If you disable functional cookies, some features, including signing in to complete an application, may not work properly.

9. Your Choices and Communications Preferences

• Email. We send transactional emails related to your inquiry, tour, application, or tenancy. You can opt out of non-essential informational emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in those messages or by contacting us. Please note that we may still send you messages necessary to process your application or manage your tenancy.
• Phone and text (SMS). If you provide a phone number, we may contact you by phone or text (SMS) about your inquiry, tour, or application — including appointment confirmations, reminders, and follow-ups. Message frequency varies, and message and data rates may apply. You can opt out of text messages at any time by replying STOP, and reply HELP for help; you may also ask us to stop contacting you by a particular method. We do not sell your mobile phone number, and we will not share your mobile number or your SMS/text-messaging opt-in and consent data with any third parties or affiliates for their own marketing or promotional purposes. We share this information only with the service providers that help us deliver these messages on our behalf (for example, our text-messaging provider), and only so they can send the messages we ask them to send.
• Cookies. You can manage cookies through your browser, as described in Section 8.
• Account and application information. You may contact us to review or update the information you provided in an inquiry or application.

10. Data Security

We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the information we collect against loss, theft, and unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. These measures include transmitting data over encrypted connections, storing application data in restricted locations, limiting access to authorized staff and service providers, and masking sensitive identifiers such as Social Security numbers in our administrative tools. No method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for keeping any access credentials and verification codes confidential.

11. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, to provide the Services, to make and document leasing decisions, to comply with our legal, tax, fair housing, and consumer reporting obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. When information is no longer needed for these purposes, we delete or de-identify it. Incomplete or abandoned rental applications are automatically deleted after a short period, and submitted applications, supporting documents, identity verification images, and signatures are deleted or de-identified in accordance with our retention schedule.

12. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have some or all of the following rights regarding your personal information:

• The right to request access to the personal information we hold about you and information about how we have used and shared it.
• The right to request correction of inaccurate personal information.
• The right to request deletion of your personal information, subject to legal exceptions such as recordkeeping requirements under fair housing, consumer reporting, and tax laws.
• The right to opt out of non-essential marketing communications.
• The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your privacy rights.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the information in Section 18. We may need to verify your identity before responding, and we will respond within the time required by applicable law. An authorized agent may submit a request on your behalf with proper authorization.

13. Additional Information for California Residents

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (together, the "CCPA"), provides you with additional rights. This section describes how we handle personal information subject to the CCPA. It does not apply to information about our employees, job applicants, or independent contractors acting in those capacities.

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

In the past twelve months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information, as defined by the CCPA:

• Identifiers, such as name, postal address, email address, phone number, IP address, and Social Security number.
• Sensitive personal information, such as Social Security number, government identification, financial account information, and biometric information used for identity verification.
• Personal records, such as signature, financial and banking information, and employment and income information.
• Protected classification characteristics, such as age or date of birth.
• Commercial information, such as the unit you are interested in, desired lease terms, move-in date, and pet and vehicle information.
• Internet or network activity, such as browsing and interaction information on our site.
• Geolocation data, such as general location inferred from your IP address.
• Professional or employment information, such as employer, position, income, and references.
• Education information, if you choose to provide it.
• Inferences, such as conclusions about your eligibility drawn from the information above.

Sources, Purposes, and Disclosure

We collect these categories from the sources described in Section 1, we use them for the purposes described in Section 2, and we disclose them to the categories of recipients described in Section 6. We disclose personal information to service providers and to our affiliates and ownership for the business purposes described in this Policy.

No Sale or Sharing; Use of Sensitive Information

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, including information about consumers we know to be under 16 years of age. We use sensitive personal information only for the purposes permitted by the CCPA, such as verifying identity, evaluating applications, providing the Services, and complying with law, and not for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.

Your California Rights

Subject to certain exceptions, California residents have the right to know and access the personal information we collect, the right to delete personal information, the right to correct inaccurate personal information, the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, the right to limit the use of sensitive personal information, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. To exercise these rights, contact us using the information in Section 18. We will verify your request as required by law. Under California's "Shine the Light" law, we do not share personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.

14. Information for Washington Residents

Our community is located in Washington State. We comply with applicable Washington law in handling your information, including laws governing tenant screening and the use of biometric information. Washington residents may contact us using the information in Section 18 to ask questions about this Policy or to exercise available rights regarding their information.

15. Children's Privacy

The Services are intended for adults seeking housing and are not directed to children. Rental applicants must be adults, or must apply with an adult or guarantor as described in our application materials. Information about minor occupants is provided by the applying adult, not collected from the minor. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 16. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we can take appropriate steps to delete it.

16. Users Outside the United States

The Services are intended for users in the United States, and our community is located in Seattle, Washington. We do not intend to offer the Services to individuals located in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland. If you access the Services from outside the United States, you understand that your information will be processed in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those in your location.

17. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page. If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice as required by law. Your continued use of the Services after an update means you accept the updated Policy.

18. How to Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us:

• Alder Investments, LLC
• Attention: Privacy, 4029 Rainier Ave Apartments
• 12819 SE 38th Street, #56, Bellevue, WA 98006
• Email: contact@rent4029.com
• Phone: (206) 428-7913