Privacy Policy
Effective date: September 9, 2026
Hepworth Investment Group ("Hepworth," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use it, how we share it, and the choices you have. It applies to our website (www.hepworthinvestments.com and hepworth.managebuilding.com), our online rental application and resident portal, and our communications with you by phone, email, and text message (SMS).
1. Information We Collect
We collect information you provide directly to us, including:
- Contact information – your name, mailing address, email address, and telephone number(s).
- Rental application information – employment and income details, rental history, references, date of birth, government identification, and other information needed to evaluate an application and, where applicable, to run credit, criminal, and eviction screening.
- Lease and account information – lease terms, occupant and vehicle information, payment history, maintenance requests, and correspondence related to your tenancy or account.
- Payment information – bank account or card details you provide to pay rent or fees. Payments are processed by third-party payment processors, and we do not store full card or account numbers on our own systems.
- Communications – the content of emails, text messages, voicemails, web forms, and other messages you exchange with us.
We also collect certain information automatically when you use our website, such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, and cookies or similar technologies used to operate the site and understand how it is used.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use personal information to:
- Respond to rental inquiries and schedule property showings;
- Process and evaluate rental applications and conduct applicant screening;
- Prepare, sign, and administer leases and renewals;
- Collect rent and fees and process payments;
- Coordinate maintenance, repairs, inspections, and property notices;
- Communicate with you about your inquiry, application, lease, or account, including by text message if you have opted in;
- Operate, secure, and improve our website and services;
- Protect the safety of our residents, staff, and properties; and
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our agreements.
3. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal information. We share personal information only as described below:
- Service providers – companies that help us run our business, such as our property management software provider, payment processors, tenant screening providers, electronic signature services, communications and telephone providers, and maintenance vendors. These providers may use your information only to perform services for us.
- Property owners – the owners of properties we manage, to the extent needed to manage their property and your tenancy.
- Legal and safety purposes – when required by law, subpoena, or court order; to respond to a lawful request from a government authority; to enforce our leases and agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Hepworth, our residents, or others.
- Business transfers – in connection with a merger, sale, or transfer of all or part of our business or the properties we manage.
All of the categories above exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
4. Text Messaging (SMS) Program
If you consent to receive SMS text messages from Hepworth Investment Group, you agree to receive text messages related to your inquiry, application, lease, or account. These messages may include property showing and appointment scheduling, application and lease status updates, maintenance and property notices, rent and payment reminders, and replies to questions you send us.
- Consent is not a condition of applying for or renting a property.
- Message frequency may vary.
- Message and data rates may apply.
- Opt out at any time by replying STOP to any message you receive from us. After you send STOP, we will send one final message confirming that you have been unsubscribed. You can also opt out by calling (801) 295-3351 or emailing info@hepworthinvestments.com.
- For help, reply HELP to any message, call (801) 295-3351, or email info@hepworthinvestments.com.
No mobile opt-in or text message consent will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes. Mobile information will not be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. We will only share your mobile information with service providers, such as our messaging platform provider, to the extent necessary to deliver the messages you have agreed to receive.
5. Cookies and Website Analytics
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to keep the site working properly, remember your preferences, and understand how visitors use the site. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent; some features of the site may not function properly without them.
6. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. No method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
7. Data Retention
We keep personal information for as long as needed to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, to comply with our legal, accounting, and reporting obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements.
8. Your Choices
You may contact us at any time to ask what personal information we hold about you, to request that we correct or update it, or to ask that we delete it where we are not required to keep it. You may opt out of text messages by replying STOP as described above, and you may unsubscribe from non-essential emails by following the instructions in the email or by contacting us. We may still need to send you communications that are required by law or by your lease.
9. Children's Privacy
Our website and services are not directed to individuals under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
10. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website and resident portal are hosted by a third-party property management platform, and our site may link to other websites and services (for example, payment processors or screening providers). Those third parties have their own privacy policies, and we encourage you to review them. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by third parties on their own sites.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised policy on this page and update the effective date above. Your continued use of our website and services after a change means you accept the updated policy.
12. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your information, please contact us:
Hepworth Investment Group
140 South Main
Bountiful, UT 84010
Phone: (801) 295-3351
Email: info@hepworthinvestments.com