What we hold, and why.
Last updated · 9 September 2026
Reside is a curated rental platform for the Maldives. This page says what we collect, why we hold it, and what you can ask us to do with it. It is written to be read, not to be survived.
To run Reside. In practice that means:
We do not sell your personal information. We do not share it for advertising.
Verification is optional. You can browse, list and rent without it.
If you apply, your ID is used for one thing: confirming you are who you say you are. It is stored in a private area that is not reachable from the public site, it is never shown on your profile or your listings, and it is seen only by the Reside staff reviewing your application. Ask us to delete it and we will.
A published listing shows the name and contact number given for it, along with the property details and the map pin. That is the point of a listing, so treat everything you enter there as public.
Your email address is not shown on a listing. Neither is your ID, or anything you send us privately.
Three outside services, each doing one job:
Beyond those, we share information only where the law requires it.
Information travels over a secure connection and is stored with access controls in place. Passwords are hashed, never stored as text. No system is perfect, and we will tell you if something happens that affects you.
Reside sets a small number of things in your browser, and none of them are advertising. A cookie remembers whether you chose light or dark. Another notes which of our own links you arrived on, and the code of whoever invited you if somebody did, so that we can tell which of the things we make are worth making and pay the people who are owed something. Local storage holds your sign-in session and a few preferences, like the last search you ran. None of it follows you anywhere else and none of it is shared. That is the whole list.
Your account and its listings stay until you delete them. A listing that is not confirmed within 30 days stops being visible to renters, but stays in your profile until you remove it. Delete your account and your listings, photos, messages and usage records go with it.
You can ask to see what we hold, correct anything wrong, or have your account deleted. You can delete your account yourself from your profile, and you can pause or delete a Reside Watch any time.
Write to hello@reside.mv for anything else.
Reside is for people 18 and over. If we find we hold information about someone younger, we remove it.
When this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.
Questions about privacy? hello@reside.mv, or the contact page.