Privacy Concerns

Many people have concerns with posting details of things they have to lend out, because they are worried that someone might then come to their house or shed and steal those things.

The main answer to this problem is that your address is not listed on the site – unless you decide to put it up there. If someone emails you wanting to borrow your electric drill, say, you can either respond by agreeing to drop it off at their address or meet up elsewhere, or you can decline, saying that you don't know them so you'd rather not. In our experience so far, people won't ask to borrow things until after they've gotten to know you anyway.

If you are very concerned about your personal privacy, you may not want to join the Sharehood, and that's fine. The whole point is for people to get to know others in their local area.