Privacy

What this site collects

What you type into the request form, and a short note of how you found the site. There is no account to create, no login, no cookie, and no profile built about you.

The form asks for your name, contact details, the property, and the kind of assignment you need. Some of those answers are sensitive by their nature: a divorce, a death, a bankruptcy, or active litigation.

How you found this site

When you send the form, it also notes how you found this site, such as a search engine, Google Maps, an AI assistant, or a link Scott shared, along with the first page you visited, the page you sent the form from, how many pages you looked at, and whether you were on a phone. That note is kept in your own browser until you send the form, and it is not a cookie. If you arrived from an ad, it notes only that an ad link was used, never the identifier the ad attached to it.

This website keeps a count of requests by source, and a reference number for each request with its date, assignment type, source, and the answer you chose for how you heard about Scott. Those reference records are deleted after 400 days. None of it includes your name, contact details, the property, your notes, anything else you typed, or your IP address. Tapping the phone number or email address adds one to a count, and nothing else.

Where a submission goes

It is delivered directly to Scott by email and is not stored by this website. There is no database behind this site holding your submission, no third-party form service keeping a copy, and no analytics service watching your visit. The only record kept is the count and reference described above, which holds nothing you typed.

That is a deliberate design choice rather than an oversight. The shortest honest answer to "who else can see this" is nobody, and the way to be able to say that is to not keep it anywhere.

How long it is kept, and how to have it deleted

Once a submission reaches Scott's mailbox it lives there like any other email. If you do not become a client, ask and it will be deleted.

If you do become a client, the assignment file is governed by the record-keeping rule below rather than by this policy.

Why an appraiser's obligation goes further

The Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice impose a confidentiality obligation on an appraiser that is stricter than an ordinary privacy policy. Assignment results and client identity are confidential, and they stay confidential after the assignment ends.

It is also why no photograph from an actual assignment appears anywhere on this site. A photograph of a subject property can identify both the client and the assignment.

Record keeping

Where an assignment is performed, the workfile is retained for at least five years, and longer where a matter is pending. That is a professional requirement and it is not something a client can waive.

Contact

Questions about any of this go to Scott directly, at the address in the footer.