How Flax uses your location information — do i need to worry?

Flax.nz
Flax.nz
Nov 6 · 2 min read

Welcome back to our informative blogs to help you have the best Flax experience.

Flax is proud to offer its users the ability to search for items based on your location, or the location of the item.

For the safety and security of our valued lenders, Flax does not show any exact locations. Our systems will equate location distances down to a minimum of 500m from your given location. — thats a circle diameter of 1km, or approximately 780,000 square metres of ground area. This distance is a short walk or drive from any given borrowers location but has potentially hundreds of houses (approx 800 kiwi loved quarter acre sections) in its area. Finding your place would be like finding a needle in a haystack!

If you are concerned about people seeing where you live or you are negotiating a deal with a new party, it may be a good idea to deliver your item to their house or meet in an open, public location. — Remember, it is your item and your right to decline any borrowers.

The privacy of you, your information, and the information of every single Flax user is top priority to us. Read our privacy policy or contact us with any questions via our live chat at www.flax.nz or email contact@flax.nz

Take care, talk soon.

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