ParcelScout — Privacy Policy
ParcelScout is built by Glippin Toys, LLC. We respect your privacy. This page describes what ParcelScout collects, why, and how you can control it.
Summary
- No account, no email, no password. ParcelScout signs you in anonymously. We never ask for your name, email, phone, mailing address, or any contact information.
- Listings and evaluations you generate live under your anonymous user ID. You can delete them at any time, or delete your entire account from Settings.
- Parcel records are public. The APN, zoning, assessed value, flood zone, water-provider boundary, and tax-delinquency status we look up come from public county and government GIS records. That data was never personal to you.
- Crowdsourced corrections (you confirming "this parcel is actually landlocked," "this listing actually sold for $X") are de-identified and contribute to a shared ground-truth dataset that improves the scoring for everyone.
- No advertising. No third-party trackers.
- Subscriptions are processed by Apple, Google, and RevenueCat. We never see your payment details.
What we collect
| Data | Why | Retention |
|---|---|---|
| Anonymous user ID | Tie your listings, evaluations, watchlist, and premium status to one identifier | Until account deleted |
| Listing inputs (the URL or address you pasted, the seller's raw description text) | Geocode and match to a parcel; surface to you in your history | Until you delete or delete account |
| Parcel records we looked up (APN, centroid, zoning, assessed value, FEMA / water / tax attributes) | Cache the enrichment so re-running an evaluation is fast and cheap. These are public records, not personal to you. | Refreshed nightly for active watchlist parcels; otherwise retained until you delete |
| Evaluation results you generated (tier, composite, confidence, reason codes, AI narrative if Pro) | Your evaluation history | Until you delete or delete account |
| Watchlist (Pro) — the APNs you've saved | Re-enrich nightly; alert you on material changes | Until you remove from watchlist, unsubscribe, or delete account |
| Ground-truth corrections you submit (de-identified, contributes to shared dataset) | Improve scoring accuracy for the whole user base | Indefinitely (de-identified — your anonymous user ID is retained on the contribution only for abuse prevention) |
| Subscription status (free / pro) | Gate Pro features | Until subscription expires + 90 days |
| Free-tier meter (count of evaluations this month) | Enforce the free-tier limit | Reset monthly |
| Push token (optional, Pro watchlist alerts) | Notify you when a saved parcel's enrichment changes | Until you uninstall |
| Crash reports | Diagnose bugs | 90 days |
What we never collect
- Names, emails, phone numbers, mailing addresses, government IDs
- Your real-estate brokerage account, escrow account, or transaction history
- Your net worth, income, or any financial information beyond what Apple/Google share with us about subscription status
- Your location (we don't ask for GPS; the parcel's centroid is the only coordinate involved, and it's the parcel's, not yours)
- Anything from advertising or tracking SDKs (we use none)
Where your data lives
ParcelScout runs on Google Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Storage) in US-region Google Cloud, in dedicated Firebase projects (parcelscout-dev, parcelscout-prod) isolated from the other Glippin Toys apps. All writes to listings, parcels, evaluations, and ground-truth are server-side via Cloud Functions; the app never writes directly. Per firestore.rules, you can read only evaluations tied to your own anonymous user ID.
Third parties
- Firebase (Google) — anonymous authentication, database, cloud functions, push notifications, crash reporting
- Anthropic (Claude) — generates the qualitative narrative on a parcel only for Pro subscribers, and never produces the numeric score. We send the parcel's enriched attributes (public-record fields + the seller description text); we do not send your user ID or any contact info. Anthropic's paid API does not train on customer data.
- RevenueCat — subscription receipt processing and entitlement state
- Regrid — parcel APN match, zoning, assessed value, centroid. We send an address or rough location; we do not send your user ID.
- ATTOM — tax/delinquency status and sold comps (Pro enrichments only). We send the APN; we do not send your user ID.
- FEMA NFHL ArcGIS — flood zone and floodway lookup. We send a point (lat/lng of the parcel centroid). No user data, no API key.
- State water authority ArcGIS (ADWR) — AMA / INA boundary, community-water-system service area, well registry. Point query at the parcel centroid. No user data, no API key.
- US Census Bureau APIs — county-level population growth; address geocoding. Anonymous, no key.
- Apple App Store / Google Play Store — installation, updates, subscription billing
The ground-truth loop
ParcelScout's edge over a static aggregator feed is the proprietary anonymous ground-truth dataset that buyers like you build together. Pro users can submit ground-truth corrections — confirming that a parcel really is landlocked, that the listed price was the actual sold price, that the water provider declined service, etc. These corrections feed a shared dataset that improves the scoring pipeline's accuracy for every future user who pulls that APN.
AI features in ParcelScout (Pro qualitative narratives) draw on the aggregated dataset, not on individual contributions. The narrative you see is the collective wisdom of every prior anonymous contributor about that area.
Each contribution is stored with your anonymous user ID only for abuse prevention (so we can throttle a bad-faith contributor without knowing who they are). The corrections themselves are public-records facts about parcels, not facts about you. The shared dataset is not for sale, and contributors are not identifiable in it.
Your rights
- Delete account + all data: Settings → Delete Account. Irreversible, immediate. Your listings, evaluations, watchlist, and push token are removed. Ground-truth contributions are retained in the shared dataset but with your anonymous user ID detached.
- Delete a single evaluation or listing: swipe-to-delete in History.
- Remove a parcel from your watchlist: Watchlist screen.
- Disable push notifications: Settings → Notifications.
- Request your data: email support@glippintoys.com
Not financial, legal, or real-estate advice
ParcelScout surfaces public records and assigns a heuristic tier. It does not output a probability of appreciation, an expected return, or a "buy this" verdict. Every non-disqualified evaluation carries a standing "order a title report before purchase" flag. Nothing in the app constitutes financial, legal, real-estate, or brokerage advice.
Children
ParcelScout is intended for adult land buyers, researchers, and investors; it is not designed for or marketed to children under 13.
Changes
Material changes update the "Last updated" date above and are surfaced in-app.
Contact
support@glippintoys.com
Glippin Toys, LLC