Terms of Service
Last Updated July 21, 2026
Table of Contents
Terms of Service
1. About Platuni and these Terms
2. Definitions
2.1 Defined Terms
- “Account” means an account used to access the Services.
- “Applicant” means a person who searches for housing, asks about a listing, or submits a rental or residency application through the Services.
- “Authorized User” means a person whom a Customer permits to use an Organization Account, including an employee, contractor, agent, owner, resident, Applicant, or service provider.
- “Customer” means a person or organization that purchases, administers, or uses the Services to manage properties, housing, residents, or related operations. Customers may include property owners, landlords, property managers, portfolio managers, universities, student housing providers, affordable housing providers, shared living operators, community managers, and their authorized representatives.
- “Customer Data” means information, records, documents, communications, and other content submitted to the Services by or for a Customer or its Authorized Users.
- “Organization Account” means an Account created or administered for a Customer and its Authorized Users.
- “Order Form” means an ordering document, online checkout page, proposal, statement of work, or similar record that identifies purchased Services, pricing, usage limits, or other commercial terms.
- “Resident” means a tenant, occupant, household member, student resident, prospective resident, or other person who uses resident features of the Services.
- “Services” means the Platuni products and services covered by these Terms.
- “User” means any person or organization that accesses or uses the Services. “You” and “your” refer to the applicable User.
- “User Content” means text, images, recordings, documents, data, reviews, messages, instructions, and other material that a User submits, uploads, transmits, or makes available through the Services.
3. Platuni provides technology, not housing or in-person property management services
5. Accounts, credentials, and security
6. Organization Accounts and administrators
7. Platform features and configuration
8. Listings, inquiries, and applications
9. Identity verification and tenant screening
9.1 Customer Obligations for Screening Information
A Customer that requests or uses screening information represents and agrees that it will:
- Have a lawful and permissible purpose for every request.
- Obtain all required notices, authorizations, and consents before requesting a report.
- Use screening information only for the disclosed housing purpose.
- Apply lawful, relevant, consistent, and nondiscriminatory criteria.
- Independently review results and use appropriate human judgment.
- Provide all required notices when taking adverse action, including the provider’s contact information and information about the Applicant’s rights where required.
- Provide a reasonable process for Applicants to question or correct information.
- Protect reports from unauthorized access and securely dispose of them when no longer required.
- Comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act where it applies, Canadian privacy and consumer reporting laws, fair housing and human rights laws, and all other applicable requirements.
9.2 Suspension of Screening Access
Platuni may suspend screening access if it reasonably believes that a User lacks a permissible purpose, has not obtained required consent, or may misuse screening information.
10. Artificial intelligence and automated features
11. Leases, documents, templates, and electronic signatures
12. Payments, payouts, and financial information
13. Maintenance requests and service providers
14. Resident experience, household tools, and roommate matching
15. Communications, notices, and messaging
16. Fair housing, human rights, accessibility, and legal compliance
17. Privacy, Customer Data, and security
18. User Content and Customer Data rights
19. Acceptable use
19.1 Prohibited Uses
- Break a law, regulation, court order, contract, or another person’s rights.
- Discriminate unlawfully or support an unlawful housing practice.
- Harass, threaten, stalk, exploit, defame, or harm another person.
- Submit false, deceptive, fraudulent, or misleading information.
- Request or use a screening report without a lawful purpose and required consent.
- Collect, disclose, sell, or misuse personal information without lawful authority.
- Send spam, deceptive messages, or unlawful marketing communications.
- Upload malicious code or interfere with the security, integrity, availability, or performance of the Services.
- Probe, scan, test, or bypass a security or access control without written permission.
- Access another person’s Account or data without authorization.
- Scrape, crawl, harvest, copy, frame, or systematically extract data or content except through an authorized integration or written agreement.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, translate, modify, or create derivative works from the Services except where law does not allow this restriction.
- Use the Services or their outputs to build, train, benchmark, or improve a competing product or model without written permission.
- Overload the Services, evade usage limits, conceal origin, or interfere with another User.
- Upload content that infringes intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or contractual rights.
- Upload unlawful sexual content, content that exploits minors, violent threats, or instructions intended to facilitate serious harm.
- Misrepresent an affiliation with Platuni or suggest that Platuni endorses a User, property, provider, listing, decision, or statement.
- Help another person do anything prohibited by these Terms.
20. Licence to use the Services
21. Integrations and third party services
22. Fees, subscriptions, renewals, and taxes
23. Trials, free Services, and beta features
24. Availability, support, and changes
25. Confidentiality
26. Feedback
27. Suspension, termination, and data access
28. Copyright and intellectual property complaints
29. Disclaimers
30. Indemnity
30.1 Covered Claims
- The Customer’s properties, listings, housing operations, services, or agreements.
- A decision or action made by the Customer or its Authorized Users.
- Customer Data or User Content supplied by or for the Customer.
- The Customer’s breach of these Terms or applicable law.
- A dispute between the Customer and an Applicant, Resident, vendor, owner, employee, or other person.
- Alleged discrimination, unlawful screening, improper notice, payment error, property condition, maintenance failure, privacy breach, or misuse of personal information caused by the Customer or its Authorized Users.
30.2 Defence of Claims
Platuni will promptly notify the Customer of a covered claim and provide reasonable cooperation at the Customer’s expense. The Customer may control the defence, but may not settle a claim in a way that admits wrongdoing by Platuni, imposes an obligation on Platuni, or fails to release Platuni without Platuni’s written consent. This section does not require a consumer to indemnify Platuni where applicable law prohibits it.
31. Limitation of liability
32. Disputes, governing law, and courts
33. Changes to these Terms
34. General terms
34.1 Entire agreement
These Terms and applicable Supplemental Terms are the entire agreement about the Services and replace prior statements and agreements on that subject, except for a negotiated written agreement signed by Platuni.
34.2 Assignment
You may not assign or transfer these Terms or an Account without Platuni’s written consent. Platuni may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or transfer to an affiliate, subject to applicable law.
34.3 No agency
These Terms do not create a partnership, franchise, joint venture, fiduciary, employment, or agency relationship between Platuni and a User.
34.4 No third party beneficiaries
Except as expressly stated, these Terms do not give rights to a person who is not a party to them.
34.5 Force majeure
Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including natural disaster, severe weather, epidemic, war, terrorism, civil disorder, labour disruption, government action, utility failure, internet failure, provider outage, or cyberattack, except for payment obligations already due.
34.6 Severability
If a provision is found unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions will continue.
34.7 Waiver
A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. A waiver must be in writing and applies only to the stated instance.
34.8 Interpretation
Headings are for convenience. “Including” means including without limitation. A reference to law includes amendments and replacement laws. The singular includes the plural where context requires.
34.9 Notices
Platuni may send notices to the email address or Organization Account associated with your Account, through the Services, or by another method permitted by law. Legal notices to Platuni must be sent to legal@platuni.com and to the registered address stated above.
34.10 Language
The parties have expressly requested that these Terms and related documents be drawn up in English. Les parties ont expressément demandé que les présentes conditions et les documents connexes soient rédigés en anglais. This language clause applies only where lawful and does not limit a right to receive documents or services in French or another language where law requires it.
