This Agreement was last revised on August 21, 2026.

Welcome to RentChek, a website and online service operated by Chesley Brown ("RentChek," "we," or "us"). RentChek is not currently operated through an incorporated company; "RentChek" is a trade name under which Chesley Brown personally operates the Service. This page explains the terms by which you may use the RentChek web site, web widgets, feeds, mobile device software applications (the "RentChek Software"), application program interfaces, applications for third-party web sites and services, and any other web or mobile services or applications owned, controlled, or offered by RentChek in association with this site (collectively the "Service"). By accessing or using the Service, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement"), whether or not you are a registered user of our Service.

We reserve the right to amend this Agreement at any time by notifying you as provided in this Agreement, provided that no notice shall be required for non-substantive changes to the Agreement. If we substantively amend this Agreement, we will give you at least seven (7) days notice before the changes take effect, during which period of time you may reject the changes by terminating your account. Your continued use of the Service after any such change constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Use Agreement. If you do not agree to any of these terms or any future Terms of Use Agreement, do not use or access (or continue to access) the Service. This Agreement applies to all visitors, users, and others who access the Service ("Users").

1) Use of Our Service

RentChek provides a new way to manage all your rental properties. You do not have to register in order to visit RentChek. To access certain features of the Service, though, such as creating properties, you will need to register with RentChek and create a "Member" account. Your Member account gives you access to the services and functionality that we may establish and maintain from time to time and in our sole discretion.

This Service is intended solely for Users who are eighteen (18) years of age or older. Registration, use, or access to the Service by anyone under 18 is strictly prohibited and in violation of this Agreement.

You may never use another Member's account without permission. When creating your account, you must provide accurate and complete information. You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs on your account, and you must keep your account password secure. You must notify RentChek immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account. Although RentChek will not be liable for your losses caused by any unauthorized use of your account, you shall be liable for the losses of RentChek or others due to such unauthorized use.

You may update your account information (such as your name, email address, and password) at any time on the Service. By providing RentChek your email address you consent to our using the email address to send you Service-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. We may also use your email address to send you other messages, such as news about changes to features of the Service. If you do not want to receive such messages, you may opt out by contacting us. Opting out may prevent you from receiving messages regarding updates or improvements.

The Service is currently offered free of charge. We reserve the right to introduce fees for some or all of the Service in the future, with advance notice as provided in this Agreement; you will never be charged without having agreed to the fees first.

All aspects of the Service are subject to change or elimination at RentChek's sole discretion. RentChek reserves the right to interrupt the Service and/or to permanently or temporarily terminate, suspend, or otherwise refuse to permit your access to the Service with or without prior notice for any reason or no reason. You agree that RentChek will not be liable to you for any interruption of the Service or your account.

2) User Content

The Service lets you create and manage records about your rental properties, tenants, receipts, and expenses (collectively, "User Content"). You are solely responsible for the accuracy of the User Content you enter, and you represent that you have the right to provide any tenant or other third-party personal information that you enter into the Service. You agree to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy with respect to your User Content.

User Content is private to your account and is not published to the public or to other Users, except where you direct the Service to send it to a specific tenant (for example, emailing a receipt) or where sharing is otherwise described in our Privacy Policy. RentChek takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for the accuracy of User Content that you enter; any loss or damage resulting from your use of User Content is solely your responsibility.

The Service is not your system of record. You are responsible for maintaining your own independent copies of any information you need to keep, including for tax, legal, accounting, or tenancy-dispute purposes. RentChek is not a backup, archival, or records-retention service, and does not guarantee that User Content will be preserved, retrievable, accurate, or available at any particular time. Export or otherwise retain your own copies regularly. If your account is terminated, suspended, or deleted -- by you or by us -- your User Content may be permanently deleted and unrecoverable.

3) License Grant

By entering User Content into the Service, you grant RentChek a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide license to host, store, reproduce, and process that User Content solely as necessary to provide, maintain, and support the Service to you -- for example, storing your records, generating receipts, and displaying your data back to you. This license ends when the relevant User Content is deleted from the Service, except to the extent copies persist for a limited time in routine backups.

4) End User Licenses

RentChek Service. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you are hereby granted a non-exclusive, limited, personal license to use the Service. RentChek reserves all rights not expressly granted herein in the Service and the RentChek Content (as defined below). RentChek may terminate this license at any time for any reason or no reason.

5) Our Proprietary Rights

Except for your User Content, all right, title, and interest in and to the Service and all materials therein or transferred thereby, including, without limitation, software, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, and music (the "RentChek Content") are and will remain the exclusive property of RentChek and its licensors. You agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from any materials or content accessible on the Service. Use of the RentChek Content or materials on the Service for any purpose not expressly permitted by this Agreement is strictly prohibited.

Any feedback, comments, or suggestions you may provide regarding RentChek or the Services is entirely voluntary and we will be free to use such feedback, comments or suggestions as we see fit and without any obligation to you.

6) Privacy

We care about the privacy of our Users. Click here to view our Privacy Policy. RentChek is operated from Canada and uses hosting providers whose servers are located in the United States; by using the Service, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in both countries.

7) Security

We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to implement your privacy settings and secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. You acknowledge that you provide your personal information at your own risk.

8) Your Responsibility for Tenant and Third-Party Information

The Service lets you enter personal information about your tenants and other third parties -- names, email addresses, phone numbers, lease dates, deposit amounts, payment histories, and any notes you choose to add. Those individuals are not parties to this Agreement and have no direct relationship with RentChek. As between you and RentChek, you are the party responsible for that information: you decide what to collect, why, how long to keep it, and what to do with it. RentChek stores and processes it solely on your instructions, in order to provide the Service to you.

You represent and warrant that: (a) you have a lawful basis to collect that information and to provide it to RentChek; (b) you have given each individual any notice, and obtained any consent, required by the residential-tenancy, privacy, and personal-information laws that apply to you; (c) you will handle any request an individual makes about their own information; and (d) entering that information into the Service does not breach any obligation you owe them.

RentChek does not independently verify any of the above and has no means of doing so. If a tenant or other third party brings a claim, complaint, or regulatory proceeding against RentChek arising out of information you entered, the indemnity in Section 12 applies.

9) No Professional, Legal, Tax, or Accounting Advice

RentChek is a record-keeping tool. It is not a lawyer, accountant, bookkeeper, property manager, or tax adviser, and nothing in the Service constitutes legal, tax, accounting, financial, or property-management advice. Receipts, summaries, totals, charts, and exports generated by the Service are conveniences derived entirely from information you enter. They are not audited, not certified, and not guaranteed to satisfy the requirements of any tax authority, court, residential-tenancy board, landlord-tenant tribunal, lender, insurer, or other body.

Residential-tenancy law, receipt and notice requirements, deposit-handling rules, and record-retention obligations vary by province, state, and municipality, and change over time. RentChek makes no representation that the Service, or any document it produces, complies with the requirements that apply to you. You are solely responsible for determining what those requirements are and for meeting them, and you should consult a qualified professional. Any decision you make, or position you take, in reliance on the Service is made at your own risk.

10) Additional Representations and Warranties

In connection with your User Content, you affirm, represent and warrant, in addition to the other representations and warranties in this Agreement, that: (a) you are at least 18 years of age; (b) you have a lawful basis to provide any tenant or other third party's personal information that you include in your User Content, and each such person's rights are not violated by your doing so; (c) your User Content and RentChek's use of it as contemplated by this Agreement and the Service will not infringe any rights of any third party, including but not limited to any Intellectual Property Rights or privacy rights; and (d) you are using the Service for business or commercial purposes, in connection with rental property you own or manage, and not as a consumer for personal, family, or household purposes.

11) Third-Party Links

RentChek may contain links to third-party websites, advertisers, or services that are not owned or controlled by RentChek. RentChek has no control over, and assumes no responsibility or liability for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party websites or services. If you access a third party website from RentChek, you do so at your own risk, and you understand that this Agreement and RentChek's Privacy Policy do not apply to your use of such sites. You expressly relieve RentChek from any and all liability arising from your use of any third-party website or services or third party owned content.

We encourage you to be aware of when you leave the Service, and to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of any third-party website or service that you visit.

12) Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless RentChek, Chesley Brown personally, and RentChek's agents, contractors, and service providers, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to reasonable legal fees) arising from: (i) your use of and access to the Service, including any data or content transmitted or received by you; (ii) your violation of any term of this Agreement, including without limitation your breach of any of the representations and warranties above; (iii) your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any right of privacy, publicity rights or Intellectual Property Rights; (iv) your violation of any law, rule or regulation of Canada or any other country, including any residential-tenancy, privacy, or personal-information law; (v) any claim or damages that arise as a result of any of your User Content or any that is submitted via your account; (vi) any other party's access and use of the Service with your unique username, password or other appropriate security code; or (vii) any claim, complaint, or regulatory proceeding brought by a tenant or other individual whose personal information you entered into the Service.

RentChek may, at its option, assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, at your expense. You will not settle any such matter in a way that imposes any obligation or admission on RentChek without RentChek's prior written consent. This Section survives termination of your account and of this Agreement.

13) No Warranty; Assumption of Risk

You acknowledge that RentChek is built and operated by one individual, not by a company with dedicated staff. There is no guaranteed uptime, no service-level agreement, no dedicated support team, no disaster-recovery commitment, and no assurance that the Service will continue to be offered at all. Support is provided on a best-effort basis, when time permits. You accept this, and accept the corresponding risks, as a condition of using the Service free of charge.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, RENTCHEK, ITS PARTNERS AND LICENSORS DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE CONTENT IS ACCURATE, RELIABLE OR CORRECT; THAT THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME OR LOCATION, UNINTERRUPTED OR SECURE; THAT ANY DEFECTS OR ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED; OR THAT THE SERVICE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. ANY CONTENT DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DOWNLOADED AT YOUR OWN RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM SUCH DOWNLOAD.

14) Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL RENTCHEK, ITS AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR ITS LICENSORS OR PARTNERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, THAT RESULT FROM (A) YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (B) THE SERVICE GENERALLY OR THE SOFTWARE OR SYSTEMS THAT MAKE THE RENTCHEK SERVICES AVAILABLE; OR (C) ANY OTHER INTERACTIONS WITH RENTCHEK OR ANY OTHER USER OF THE RENTCHEK SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, WHETHER OR NOT RENTCHEK HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN IF A REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

Cap on liability. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, RENTCHEK'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR OTHERWISE, WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU PAID RENTCHEK FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED CANADIAN DOLLARS (CAD $100). BECAUSE THE SERVICE IS CURRENTLY PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS CAP MAY BE CAD $100 IN TOTAL.

You acknowledge that the exclusions and limitations in this Section and in Section 13 are a fundamental basis of the bargain between you and RentChek, that RentChek would not provide the Service free of charge without them, and that they apply even if a limited remedy is found to have failed of its essential purpose.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, so some of the limitations above may not apply to you. Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited -- including liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. If any limitation in this Agreement is held unenforceable, it will be reduced only to the minimum extent necessary, and the remainder of this Agreement will continue in full force.

The Service is controlled and operated from Canada. RentChek makes no representations that the Service is appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who access or use the Service from other jurisdictions do so at their own volition and are entirely responsible for compliance with all applicable local laws and regulations, including but not limited to export and trade sanctions laws. You represent and warrant that you are not subject to any Canadian, U.S., or other applicable trade sanctions or export control restriction that would prohibit your use of the Service.

15) Time Limit on Claims

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the Service must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arose, or it is permanently barred. If applicable law does not permit a limitation period to be shortened to one year, the shortest period that law does permit applies instead.

16) Events Beyond Our Control

RentChek is not liable for any failure or delay in providing the Service resulting from causes beyond its reasonable control, including outages or failures of hosting, database, network, or email providers; internet or power failures; hardware or software faults; malicious attacks; changes to third-party services, their pricing, or their terms; natural disasters; illness or incapacity of the individual operating the Service; or acts of government.

17) Assignment

This Agreement, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by RentChek without restriction, including to a corporation formed to operate the Service or to a purchaser of the business.

18) Governing Law

This Agreement is governed by, and will be construed in accordance with, the laws of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. You agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the Service will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Nova Scotia, Canada.

19) Resolving Disputes

Talk to us first. If you have a dispute with RentChek, you agree to contact us at [email protected], describe the issue and the resolution you are seeking, and allow sixty (60) days to resolve it informally before commencing any formal proceeding. Most problems can be sorted out this way. Completing this step is a precondition to bringing a claim.

Individual claims only. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to bring any claim against RentChek only in your individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. If this paragraph is held unenforceable in whole or in part, that holding does not affect the validity of the remainder of this Agreement.

20) General

Notification Procedures. RENTCHEK may provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, to you via email notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on our website, as determined by RentChek in our sole discretion. RentChek reserves the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to our Users, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification as described in this Agreement.

Entire Agreement/Severability. This Agreement, together with any amendments and other legal terms referenced in the Agreement, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and RentChek concerning the Service, and supersedes any prior or contemporaneous understanding on that subject. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be modified and interpreted so as to best accomplish its objectives to the greatest extent permitted by law -- or, if it cannot be so modified, severed from this Agreement -- and in either case the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is between you and RentChek only. No other person -- including any tenant, co-owner, property manager, or other individual whose information you enter into the Service -- is a third-party beneficiary of this Agreement or has any right to enforce any of its terms.

Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of this Agreement.

No Waiver. No waiver of any term of this Agreement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and RentChek's failure to assert any right or provision under this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

Survival. You continue to be bound by this Agreement after termination of your account. Sections 5 (Our Proprietary Rights), 8 (Your Responsibility for Tenant and Third-Party Information), 9 (No Professional, Legal, Tax, or Accounting Advice), 12 (Indemnity), 13 (No Warranty; Assumption of Risk), 14 (Limitation of Liability), 15 (Time Limit on Claims), 18 (Governing Law), 19 (Resolving Disputes), and this Section survive any termination or expiry.

Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions regarding this Agreement.