Privacy Policy

The app has exactly two places where you can hand me personal information, and both are forms you choose to fill in.

Send a message: your name, email address, phone number, what you are asking about, and, if you include them, a property address, where you are looking, your timeline, and whether you have a preapproval from a lender. Request a home evaluation: the property's address and details such as beds, baths, square footage, condition, and your timeline, along with your name, email address, and phone number.

I use what you send for one purpose, to respond to you about real estate. The message form includes a consent checkbox for follow up contact by email, phone, and text. Consent is not a condition of anything, message frequency varies, and you can reply STOP at any time to end texts.

Form submissions are delivered to my email inbox by Web3Forms, a form delivery service. When you send a message from app.harvrealtor.net, the web version of the app, a second service, Resend, also sends you a single confirmation email in my name. The Android app does not send that confirmation. Both services are used only to deliver these messages.

After that, your message lives where any email lives, in my inbox. It is not loaded into an advertising platform, a data broker, or a marketing database, and I do not sell or rent personal information to anyone.

In the Android app, address suggestions in the tour notebook come from Android's own address lookup, which Google provides. What you type, and the homes and places you pick, are sent to Google to answer each request, under Google's privacy policy. The Drive and Transit buttons open the route in Google Maps, which has its own privacy policy.

Like every internet service, the app's hosting provider, Vercel, keeps standard server logs, which include your IP address and the resources requested, and runs automated bot protection on the confirmation email endpoint so it cannot be abused.

Market data, inventory figures, mortgage rates, my blog posts, the guides, the About page, the video list, and the library you search are fetched as plain data files from my own sites and from content delivery networks. Those requests carry your IP address the way any download does, and nothing else about you.

Pictures in my blog posts and in Today's Report load from wherever each picture is kept. Most come from my own image server, some from harvrealtor.net, and a few listing photos from the photo storage of my MLS connected search site. Each of those servers sees your IP address when a picture loads and may keep it in a standard server log, the way any web server does. The request carries nothing else about you. In the Android app, tapping a picture opens it full screen, which loads that picture again, along with the ones next to it, from the same places.

The Videos screen uses YouTube API Services, and so does a blog post that shows one of my YouTube videos. Both show a thumbnail from YouTube's image server, and pressing play opens the video in YouTube's embedded player. In the Android app it plays in a screen of the app's own, and anything the player stores on your device is discarded when you close it, or at the latest the next time the app starts. On app.harvrealtor.net it plays in YouTube's privacy enhanced player. While you watch, YouTube may show ads and collects information such as an identifier for your device, how you use the player, and ad and performance data. None of it comes to me, and it is governed by the Google Privacy Policy. By watching, you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service.

Opening home search, scheduling a consultation, or tapping through to a listing takes you to external sites, including my MLS connected search site and Calendly, which have their own privacy policies.

Your calculator inputs, unsent form drafts, and display preferences are stored on your device, so your numbers and a half typed note are still there when you come back.

In the Android app, the move tools keep their records on your device too: the stage you picked, the homes in your tour notebook with their photos, ratings, and notes, your saved places, the offers on your home, your showings, and your escrow dates. None of it is sent to me. Deadlines you add to your calendar become events in your own calendar, and deadline reminders are notifications scheduled on your device. To add every date at once, Android asks your permission for the calendar, which the app uses only to find your default calendar and add the events there.

From Settings you can export your homes, saved places, offers, showings, and escrow dates as one file, without the photos, and send it wherever you choose, or erase all of it from your device in one step. Deleting the app removes all of it, except events you added to your calendar, which stay there until you delete them. Nothing on your device is readable by me. If backup is turned on in Android's settings, Android may include this data in your device backup to your own Google account, as it does for other apps.

No accounts and no sign in. The app's own code includes no analytics, no advertising, and no advertising identifier, and it does not track you across other apps or websites. YouTube's player, once you press play, is described above. The app never reads your location or your contacts, and it uses the camera and photo library only to add the photos you take or choose to your tour notebook. No sale or sharing of personal information.

Messages you send me are kept as ordinary business records, which California real estate practice requires of licensees. If you want to know what I have about you, or want it deleted, one email is enough and I will handle it directly. Where a record must be retained by law, I will tell you that plainly instead.

The app is for home buyers and sellers and is not directed to children under 13. I do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and if you believe a child has sent me some, contact me and I will delete it.

If the app ever collects more than described here, this page will say so before the app does it, with a new effective date. This version, the first for the Android app, took effect on October 3, 2026.