Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the DealScout web application, iOS application, APIs, and related services (collectively, the "Service"), operated by DealScout ("DealScout," "we," "us," or "our"). By creating an account, installing the app, or otherwise using the Service, you ("you" or "User") agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference.

1. Eligibility and intended users

You must be at least 18 years old and capable of forming a legally binding contract in your jurisdiction to use the Service. By using the Service, you represent that you meet these requirements and are not barred from doing so under any applicable law.

The Service is intended for use by real estate investors, wholesalers, and industry professionals conducting lawful research. It is not intended for homeowners seeking foreclosure assistance, members of the general public looking for financial or legal advice, or consumers seeking to modify, settle, or avoid a mortgage or foreclosure.

2. What the Service is — and is not

DealScout aggregates publicly available foreclosure and sheriff-sale records (currently focused on Pennsylvania), enriches them with third-party property data where licensed, and provides investment research tools including comparable-sales tracking, ARV (after-repair-value) estimation, deal scoring, and flip, BRRRR, and rental calculators.

DealScout is not:

• A licensed real estate broker, salesperson, or appraiser.
• A licensed financial, investment, mortgage, or tax advisor.
• A law firm or provider of legal services.
• A party to any foreclosure proceeding, court action, or sheriff sale.
• A multiple listing service, title company, or official record of property data.
• A provider of mortgage-assistance-relief services (as defined in 16 CFR Part 322).

DealScout does not provide:

investment advice, legal advice, tax advice, real-estate advice, appraisals, title reports, or any form of professional services. All outputs — including deal scores, max-offer calculations, ARV estimates, comparables, and flip analyses — are automated estimates generated from imperfect data sources and are provided for informational and research purposes only. You are solely responsible for independently verifying all information and for consulting qualified professionals before making any investment, legal, or financial decision.

3. Accounts and security

To access certain features you must create an account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information, keep your password confidential, and take responsibility for all activity under your account. Notify us immediately at support@trydealscout.com if you believe your account has been compromised. We may suspend or terminate your account at any time if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms or created legal or operational risk for us or other users.

4. Subscriptions, billing, renewal, and refunds

Web subscriptions (processed by Stripe).

Paid subscriptions purchased through our website are billed via Stripe on a recurring monthly or annual basis, as selected at checkout. Your subscription automatically renews at the end of each billing period at the then-current price until cancelled. You may cancel at any time from your account settings or by contacting us; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Except where required by law, we do not issue refunds or credits for partial billing periods, unused time, or features you chose not to use.

iOS subscriptions (processed by Apple).

Paid subscriptions purchased through the DealScout iOS app are auto-renewing subscriptions billed through your Apple ID and governed by Apple's Standard EULA and App Store Terms and Conditions. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You may manage or cancel your iOS subscription at any time by going to your Apple ID account settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active period. Refund requests for iOS purchases must be submitted to Apple; we cannot issue refunds for App Store purchases.

Trials and promotional pricing.

If we offer a free trial or promotional discount, terms will be disclosed at signup. Unless you cancel before the trial period ends, your account will convert to a paid subscription at the then-current price. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription where applicable.

Price changes.

We may change subscription prices on a prospective basis with reasonable notice. If you do not agree to a price change, you may cancel before it takes effect; continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

5. Data sources and accuracy

The Service compiles information from three principal sources:

1. Public records. Sheriff-sale listings, foreclosure filings, and related court and county documents obtained from publicly available government sources. These records are maintained and published by third parties, and we do not control their accuracy, completeness, or timeliness.
2. Third-party licensed data.Property characteristics (beds, baths, square footage, year built, assessed and estimated values, etc.) and related imagery obtained from third-party data providers under license. Availability, accuracy, and scope of this data are subject to those providers' systems and licensing terms.
3. User-submitted data. Information you enter or upload, including properties, comparables, renovation items, notes, and imported CSV files.

Accuracy disclaimer.

We make no representation or warranty regarding the accuracy, completeness, currency, or reliability of any information in the Service. Property records may contain errors, omissions, duplicates, or outdated information. Deal scores, ARV estimates, comparable-sales figures, and calculator outputs are statistical estimates, not appraisals and not investment advice. Before bidding at auction, making an offer, or committing capital, you must independently verify all relevant facts — including property condition, liens, judgments, title status, occupancy, zoning, municipal compliance, taxes, and the terms of the sale — with qualified professionals and primary sources.

6. Third-party data restrictions

Certain data accessible through the Service is licensed to us by third parties, including property data providers and mapping/imagery providers. Your rights to use such data through the Service are limited to the scope permitted by our agreements with those providers. You agree not to:

• Export, scrape, crawl, bulk-download, or otherwise extract data from the Service for any purpose other than your own personal or internal business use as a real estate investor.
• Resell, sublicense, redistribute, republish, or publicly display any data obtained through the Service.
• Use data obtained through the Service to build, train, fine-tune, or improve any machine-learning model, vector database, automated valuation model, or competing product or service.
• Combine data from the Service with other datasets in a manner that allows systematic re-creation of any underlying data source.
• Remove, obscure, or alter any attribution, copyright, watermark, or proprietary notice.

When your subscription ends, you must stop using, and delete from your systems, any cached or downloaded third-party data accessed through the Service. Third-party data providers may be express third-party beneficiaries of this Section 6 and may enforce it directly against you.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to:

• Violate any applicable law, regulation, or court order, including federal and state consumer protection, telemarketing, debt collection, fair housing, real estate licensing, and anti-fraud laws.
• Contact, solicit, harass, or market services to homeowners named as defendants in foreclosure or sheriff-sale records in any manner that violates the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), CAN-SPAM Act, federal or state Do-Not-Call registries, the federal Mortgage Assistance Relief Services Rule (16 CFR Part 322), Pennsylvania's foreclosure-related consumer protection statutes, or any other applicable law.
• Offer, provide, or solicit mortgage-assistance-relief, loan-modification, foreclosure-rescue, equity-stripping, or similar services to distressed homeowners.
• Hold yourself out as a licensed real estate broker, salesperson, appraiser, mortgage broker, attorney, or financial advisor when you are not licensed to do so.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code or underlying algorithms of the Service.
• Use any bot, scraper, crawler, headless browser, or automated system to access the Service or extract its data.
• Circumvent paywalls, rate limits, access controls, authentication mechanisms, or other security features.
• Upload malicious code, interfere with the Service's operation, or probe, scan, or test for vulnerabilities without our express written permission.
• Impersonate another person or create accounts under false pretenses.
• Use the Service in a manner that would subject us to violation of any data license or third-party terms.

Important — investor research only.

DealScout is a research tool for investors. It is not designed for, and you must not use it for, initiating contact with homeowners whose properties appear in our foreclosure data. If you choose to reach out to any property owner, tenant, or other party for any reason based on information learned through the Service, you do so entirely on your own and are solely responsible for compliance with all applicable laws and licensing requirements. You are also solely responsible for obtaining and maintaining any real estate, mortgage, auction, or other professional licenses required for your own activities.

8. User-submitted content

You retain ownership of data you upload or enter into the Service (including CSV imports, properties, comps, notes, and renovation items). By submitting content, you grant DealScout a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable (solely to our service providers) license to host, store, process, transmit, display, and back up that content for the sole purpose of operating and providing the Service to you. You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to submit the content and that it does not infringe any third party's rights or violate any law.

9. Intellectual property

The Service, including its software, design, user interface, scoring algorithms, calculator logic, trademarks, logos, and all related content other than User-submitted content and third-party licensed data, is owned by DealScout or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other laws. Except for the limited license in Section 10, these Terms do not grant you any rights in our intellectual property.

10. License to use the Service

Subject to your continuous compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Service for your personal or internal business use as a real estate investor. This license lasts for the duration of your active account or subscription and terminates immediately on your breach of these Terms or on termination of your account.

11. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, title, accuracy, or uninterrupted use. We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, be secure, be error-free, or operate without interruption, or that data provided through the Service will be accurate, complete, current, or reliable. We do not warrant the outcome of any investment decision, bid, offer, or transaction informed by the Service. Your use of the Service is at your sole risk.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall DealScout, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, or suppliers be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenues, data, use, goodwill, investment returns, business opportunity, or anticipated savings, whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, statute, or any other legal theory, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose.

Our aggregate liability for any and all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall not exceed the greater of (a) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100) or (b) the total amount you paid to DealScout for the Service in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for certain damages; in those jurisdictions, our liability will be limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.

13. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless DealScout and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, and licensors from and against any claim, demand, action, proceeding, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your access to or use of the Service; (b) your breach of these Terms, including your violation of Section 6 (Third-Party Data Restrictions) or Section 7 (Acceptable Use); (c) your violation of any law or any right of any third party, including any contact you initiate with a homeowner, defendant, tenant, or other party based on information obtained from the Service; (d) any content you submit to or through the Service; and (e) any investment decision, bid, offer, transaction, or other action you take in reliance on the Service.

14. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time from Settings. We may suspend or terminate your access to all or part of the Service, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, if your account poses legal or operational risk, if required by law, or if we decide to discontinue the Service. On termination, your license to use the Service ends and Sections 5, 6, 8 through 13, 15, and 17 will survive.

15. Governing law, arbitration, and class waiver

Governing law.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Informal resolution first.

Before filing any claim, you agree to contact us at support@trydealscout.com with a written description of the dispute and attempt to resolve it informally for at least 30 days.

Binding individual arbitration.

Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service that is not resolved informally shall be resolved exclusively by binding, individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, which are available at www.adr.org. The arbitration will be conducted in English in Pennsylvania, or, if you live in the United States, in the federal judicial district in which you reside, unless both parties agree otherwise. The arbitrator may award any relief that a court could award on an individual basis. Judgment on the arbitral award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class-action waiver.

You and DealScout agree that each may bring claims against the other only in your or its individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, representative, mass, or private-attorney-general action. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding. If this class-action waiver is found to be unenforceable, then the entirety of this Section 15 (other than this sentence and the Small-Claims Carve-Out) is null and void.

Small-claims carve-out.

Either party may bring an individual action in small-claims court for disputes within that court's jurisdiction, as an alternative to arbitration.

30-day right to opt out of arbitration.

You may opt out of this arbitration agreement and class-action waiver by sending written notice to support@trydealscout.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. Your notice must include your name, the email address associated with your account, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out. Opting out will not affect any other portion of these Terms.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide reasonable notice (for example, by email or in-app notification) before they take effect, except where a shorter period is required by law or by exigent circumstances. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service.

17. Apple App Store additional terms

The following provisions apply only to your use of the DealScout iOS app obtained from the Apple App Store:

• These Terms are concluded between you and DealScout only, and not with Apple Inc. ("Apple"). DealScout, not Apple, is solely responsible for the iOS app and its content.
• The license granted in Section 10 is limited to a non-transferable license to use the iOS app on any Apple-branded products that you own or control as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support services with respect to the iOS app.
• If the iOS app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) for the iOS app to you. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the iOS app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be DealScout's responsibility.
• DealScout, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims you or any third party may have relating to the iOS app, including (i) product liability claims; (ii) any claim that the iOS app fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.
• In the event of any third-party claim that the iOS app or your possession and use of it infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, DealScout, not Apple, will be responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of any such claim.
• You represent and warrant that (a) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and (b) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

18. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any additional terms disclosed at the point of purchase, constitute the entire agreement between you and DealScout regarding the Service and supersede any prior or contemporaneous understandings.
• Severability. If any provision is found to be unenforceable, the remainder will remain in full force and effect.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce any right or provision will not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.
• Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms. We may assign these Terms without restriction in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.
• Force majeure. We will not be liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
• No agency. Nothing in these Terms creates any agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship between you and DealScout.
• Notices. We may provide notices to you by email, in-app notification, or posting on the Service. You may provide notices to us at support@trydealscout.com.

19. Contact

For questions about these Terms or to exercise any opt-out rights, contact:
DealScout
Email: support@trydealscout.com