Effective Date: October 7, 2026
Last Updated: October 7, 2026
I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Houston (“I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Houston,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, share, retain, sell, and otherwise process personal information when you visit ibuyhouseswithfiredamagehouston.com (the “Website”), submit information concerning real estate, request a cash offer, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with our services.
We operate within the Texas real estate investment, cash-buyer, property-acquisition, marketing, and related transaction marketplace.
Depending on the property and transaction structure, we may:
- Evaluate property for potential acquisition;
- Make or facilitate a potential cash offer;
- Purchase property directly;
- Work with affiliated or independent investment partners;
- Conduct or arrange inspections and due diligence;
- Coordinate cleanup or property-access services where agreed;
- Work with title companies, escrow or closing providers, attorneys, contractors, engineers, inspectors, appraisers, insurers, and other transaction professionals;
- Acquire contractual or equitable rights;
- Assign contractual rights where legally and contractually permitted;
- Work with licensed Texas real estate professionals where legally required; or
- Determine that we will not pursue a transaction.
By using the Website or providing information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect personal information:
- Directly from you;
- Automatically through the Website;
- From public records;
- From commercial property and real estate databases;
- From advertising and analytics providers;
- From telecommunications providers;
- From service providers;
- From transaction participants;
- From licensed real estate professionals;
- From affiliates and business partners; and
- From other lawful sources.
2. Information You Provide
The Website’s property-offer process currently requests information including:
- First and last name;
- Telephone number;
- Email address;
- Property street address;
- City, state, and ZIP code;
- Number of bedrooms;
- Number of bathrooms;
- Asking price;
- Whether you received an insurance payout;
- Whether you are the owner;
- Whether you are an agent;
- Whether you are a wholesaler; and
- Preferred method of contact, including email, text, or telephone call.
Through the Website or subsequent communications, we may also collect:
- Mailing address;
- Ownership information;
- Authority to act concerning the property;
- Property type;
- Property condition;
- Fire damage;
- Smoke or soot damage;
- Firefighting-water damage;
- Structural damage;
- Roof and foundation condition;
- Electrical damage;
- Plumbing damage;
- Heating and cooling information;
- Occupancy information;
- Tenant information where relevant;
- Repair or restoration information;
- Desired selling timeline;
- Reason for considering a sale;
- Mortgage information voluntarily provided;
- Lien and judgment information;
- Property-tax information;
- Probate or estate information;
- Foreclosure or mortgage-default information;
- Insurance information;
- Insurance-claim information;
- Insurance proceeds;
- Photographs;
- Videos;
- Fire-department reports;
- Inspection reports;
- Engineering or structural reports;
- Environmental or remediation reports;
- Contractor information;
- Repair estimates;
- Permit information;
- Ownership or title documents; and
- Other information you voluntarily provide.
3. Property and Public-Record Information
When you submit a property, we may research it using lawful public and commercial sources.
Information may include:
- Ownership records;
- Harris County assessment records;
- Property-tax information;
- Recorded deeds;
- Mortgages and deeds of trust;
- Liens;
- Judgments;
- Foreclosure notices;
- Property characteristics;
- Property sales history;
- Estimated values;
- Comparable sales;
- Building permits;
- Electrical permits;
- Plumbing permits;
- Mechanical permits;
- Fire-related permits;
- Code-enforcement information;
- Zoning and land-use information;
- Court records where lawfully available;
- Probate information;
- Homeowners-association information;
- Geographic and mapping information;
- Floodplain information;
- FEMA flood information;
- Environmental information;
- Fire or disaster information;
- Property-condition information;
- Real estate market information; and
- Other publicly or commercially available information.
We may combine information from those sources with information you provide.
4. Information Collected Automatically
When you visit or interact with the Website, we and service providers acting on our behalf may automatically collect:
- Internet Protocol address;
- Browser type;
- Browser settings;
- Operating system;
- Device type;
- Device identifiers;
- Approximate location derived from IP address;
- Referring website;
- Referring advertisement;
- Landing page;
- Pages viewed;
- Links clicked;
- Date and time of Website activity;
- Session information;
- Form interactions;
- Advertising identifiers;
- Marketing-campaign information;
- Lead-source information;
- Conversion information;
- Attribution information; and
- Other technical or Website-usage information.
5. Cookies, Pixels, Analytics, and Advertising Technologies
We may use:
- Cookies;
- Tracking pixels;
- Web beacons;
- Tags;
- Scripts;
- Local storage;
- Analytics technologies;
- Advertising identifiers;
- Conversion tracking;
- Call tracking; and
- Similar technologies.
These technologies may help us:
- Operate and secure the Website;
- Prevent fraud and spam;
- Remember preferences;
- Understand Website use;
- Measure traffic;
- Attribute inquiries to marketing campaigns;
- Measure conversions;
- Evaluate advertising effectiveness;
- Create or measure advertising audiences;
- Support targeted or interest-based advertising;
- Improve the Website; and
- Improve our services.
Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy practices.
6. How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information to:
- Respond to inquiries;
- Respond to cash-offer requests;
- Research submitted properties;
- Verify ownership;
- Verify authority to sell;
- Evaluate fire, smoke, water, structural, electrical, or other property damage;
- Evaluate property safety and access;
- Review repair or restoration information;
- Review insurance information;
- Evaluate occupancy or tenant matters;
- Estimate property value;
- Estimate repair, cleanup, permitting, holding, closing, and resale expenses;
- Determine whether we wish to acquire a property;
- Prepare or communicate potential offers;
- Contact property owners and authorized representatives;
- Schedule calls, walkthroughs, inspections, or appointments;
- Conduct due diligence;
- Facilitate potential transactions;
- Coordinate cleanup where agreed;
- Coordinate with title companies, closing professionals, attorneys, contractors, inspectors, engineers, appraisers, insurers, and other transaction participants;
- Maintain inquiry and transaction records;
- Follow up regarding submitted properties;
- Provide customer support;
- Operate and improve the Website;
- Conduct analytics;
- Measure marketing performance;
- Advertise our services;
- Prevent fraud, abuse, spam, and security incidents;
- Maintain legal, accounting, tax, and compliance records;
- Enforce agreements;
- Comply with applicable law; and
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
7. Direct Property Acquisition
The Website presently describes our business primarily as a direct cash-property-acquisition service.
Submitting information allows us to determine whether we may wish to acquire a property or participate in a potential transaction.
A Website submission does not itself create:
- A binding cash offer;
- A purchase agreement;
- An agency relationship;
- A fiduciary relationship; or
- An obligation to buy or sell.
8. Agents and Wholesalers
The Website permits a submitter to state that the submitter is:
- The property owner;
- An agent; or
- A wholesaler.
If you submit information concerning property you do not own, you represent that you have lawful authority or another lawful basis to provide the information.
We may process information supplied by agents or contract holders to:
- Verify authority;
- Confirm ownership;
- Evaluate contractual or equitable interests;
- Evaluate a potential assignment;
- Determine whether applicable real estate licensing requirements are implicated;
- Communicate with transaction participants; and
- Conduct legally permitted due diligence.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy authorizes unlicensed brokerage or unauthorized marketing of another person’s property.
9. Texas Equitable-Interest Transactions
Texas law permits certain persons to acquire an option or interest in a purchase contract and later sell the option or assign the contract without a real estate license where statutory conditions are satisfied.
Where we engage in a qualifying equitable-interest transaction, information may be processed to:
- Document the original purchase contract;
- Confirm the assignability of contractual rights;
- Give required written disclosures to the property owner;
- Give required written disclosures to a potential assignee or buyer;
- Identify the nature of the equitable interest;
- Distinguish contractual rights from legal title;
- Prepare assignment documentation; and
- Facilitate closing.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy authorizes using a contract or option to conduct unlicensed real estate brokerage.
10. Affiliates, Investment Partners, and Transaction Participants
Depending on the transaction, we may disclose information to:
- Affiliated acquisition businesses;
- Investment partners;
- Co-investors;
- Prospective assignees;
- Licensed real estate professionals;
- Title companies;
- Escrow or closing providers;
- Attorneys;
- Inspectors;
- Contractors;
- Engineers;
- Appraisers;
- Insurance professionals; and
- Other persons involved in evaluating or completing a transaction.
11. Service Providers
We may disclose information to providers supporting:
- Website hosting;
- Website forms;
- Customer relationship management;
- Lead management;
- Telephone services;
- Call tracking;
- Call recording where lawful;
- Text messaging;
- Email delivery;
- Marketing automation;
- Advertising;
- Analytics;
- Conversion tracking;
- Property research;
- Data enrichment;
- Cloud storage;
- Cybersecurity;
- Document processing;
- Accounting;
- Legal services; and
- Transaction support.
12. Business Transactions
Information may be transferred or disclosed in connection with an actual or proposed:
- Merger;
- Acquisition;
- Financing;
- Reorganization;
- Affiliate restructuring;
- Sale of assets;
- Bankruptcy; or
- Similar transaction.
13. Legal and Safety Disclosures
We may disclose information where reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law;
- Respond to legal process;
- Respond to lawful governmental requests;
- Investigate fraud or unlawful conduct;
- Protect rights or property;
- Protect another person’s safety;
- Protect our systems;
- Enforce agreements; or
- Establish or defend legal rights.
14. Texas Data Privacy and Security Act
The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”) became effective July 1, 2024.
Subject to statutory exemptions, the TDPSA generally applies to a person that:
- Conducts business in Texas or produces a product or service consumed by Texas residents;
- Processes or engages in the sale of personal data; and
- Is not a small business as defined by the United States Small Business Administration.
The TDPSA does not use a general annual-revenue or fixed consumer-count threshold comparable to many other state privacy statutes.
The inclusion of this section does not represent that I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Houston necessarily falls within every provision of the TDPSA.
Where the TDPSA applies, we will comply with it.
15. Texas Consumer Privacy Rights
Where the TDPSA applies, qualifying Texas consumers may have rights to:
Confirm and Access
Confirm whether we process personal data concerning the consumer and access qualifying personal data.
Correct
Correct inaccuracies in qualifying personal data.
Delete
Request deletion of qualifying personal data provided by or obtained about the consumer, subject to statutory exceptions.
Portability
Obtain qualifying personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format.
Opt Out
Opt out of qualifying processing for:
- Targeted advertising;
- Sale of personal data; or
- Profiling in furtherance of decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects.
16. Texas Privacy Request Timing
Where the TDPSA applies, we generally will respond to an authenticated consumer request:
- Without undue delay; and
- No later than 45 days after receipt.
Where reasonably necessary, the response period may be extended once by an additional 45 days, provided legally required notice and explanation are given within the initial period.
17. Privacy Appeals
Where the TDPSA applies and we decline to act on a qualifying request, consumers may use our appeal process.
We generally will respond to an appeal no later than 60 days after receiving it.
If an appeal is denied, we will provide information concerning the Texas Attorney General complaint process as required by law.
18. Authorized Agents and Opt-Out Technology
Where the TDPSA applies, a consumer may designate another person as an authorized agent for certain opt-out requests.
Qualifying technology may include:
- A Website link;
- Browser setting or extension; or
- Global device setting
that clearly and affirmatively communicates the consumer’s opt-out choice.
We will process qualifying authorized-agent and technology-based requests as required by applicable Texas law.
19. Sale and Targeted Advertising
The TDPSA defines “sale of personal data” according to its statutory terms and exclusions.
Where the TDPSA applies and we sell personal data or process personal data for targeted advertising, we will provide required disclosures and opt-out procedures.
Disclosures made to qualifying:
- Processors;
- Affiliates;
- Consumer-directed recipients;
- Business-transfer recipients; or
- Other statutorily excluded recipients
may not constitute a sale under the Act.
20. Small Businesses
The TDPSA generally excludes businesses that qualify as small businesses under the federal Small Business Administration standard from its primary applicability provision.
However, a Texas small business still may not sell personal data that constitutes sensitive data without the consumer’s prior consent.
21. Sensitive Data
Where the TDPSA applies, sensitive data can include qualifying:
- Racial or ethnic origin;
- Religious beliefs;
- Mental or physical health diagnosis;
- Sexuality;
- Citizenship or immigration status;
- Genetic data;
- Biometric data processed to uniquely identify an individual;
- Data concerning a known child; and
- Precise geolocation data.
Our ordinary property-offer forms are not designed to collect unnecessary sensitive information.
Please do not submit unnecessary:
- Social Security numbers;
- Banking passwords;
- Payment-card security codes;
- Medical records;
- Biometric identifiers; or
- Similar sensitive information
through ordinary Website forms.
22. Data Minimization and Security
Where required by the TDPSA, we will maintain practices designed to:
- Limit collection to data that is adequate, relevant, and reasonably necessary for disclosed purposes;
- Avoid incompatible secondary processing without an appropriate legal basis;
- Maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security safeguards;
- Maintain required processor arrangements; and
- Conduct required data-protection assessments.
23. Data Protection Assessments
Where applicable, Texas law can require data-protection assessments for qualifying processing involving:
- Targeted advertising;
- Sale of personal data;
- Certain profiling;
- Sensitive data; or
- Other activities presenting a heightened risk of harm.
24. Privacy Notice Requirements
Where the TDPSA applies, our privacy notice will identify required information, including applicable:
- Categories of personal data;
- Processing purposes;
- Consumer rights;
- Methods for exercising those rights;
- Appeal procedures;
- Categories of personal data shared with third parties;
- Categories of third parties; and
- Sale or targeted-advertising practices.
25. Residents of Other States
Consumers residing outside Texas may have rights under another state’s privacy law.
Depending on the applicable jurisdiction, those rights may include:
- Access;
- Correction;
- Deletion;
- Portability;
- Sale opt-out;
- Sharing opt-out;
- Targeted-advertising opt-out;
- Profiling opt-out;
- Sensitive-data protections;
- Authorized-agent rights;
- Privacy preference signal rights; and
- Appeals.
26. Telephone Communications
If you provide a telephone number, we may use it to communicate concerning:
- Your property;
- Property research;
- Scheduling;
- Inspections;
- Offers;
- Follow-up;
- Potential transactions; and
- Related services.
Where state or federal law requires additional consent before regulated automated, prerecorded, artificial-voice, or marketing communications are made, legally required consent will be obtained.
You may request that calls stop.
27. Recording of Calls and Communications
Texas generally permits a private person to record a wire, oral, or electronic communication when:
- The recorder is a party to the communication; or
- One party has given prior consent,
unless the interception is undertaken for an unlawful purpose.
We or providers acting on our behalf may record communications for legitimate purposes including:
- Quality assurance;
- Training;
- Documentation;
- Compliance;
- Fraud prevention; and
- Security.
Because another participant may physically be located in a jurisdiction requiring consent from all parties, we may provide recording notice or obtain additional consent.
Where another applicable jurisdiction imposes a stricter requirement, the stricter requirement will be followed.
28. Text Messages
If you provide a mobile telephone number and applicable consent, we may communicate by text concerning:
- Your inquiry;
- Your property;
- Scheduling;
- Inspections;
- Offers;
- Follow-up; and
- Potential transactions.
Where legally required, separate or additional consent will be obtained before regulated automated or marketing messages are sent.
Consent to marketing communications is not a condition of receiving an offer or selling property where prohibited by law.
Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency may vary.
Reply STOP to request that applicable messages stop.
29. Email Communications
We may use your email address to:
- Respond to inquiries;
- Communicate concerning your property;
- Provide potential-offer information;
- Schedule calls or visits;
- Send transaction information;
- Follow up; and
- Send promotional communications where permitted.
Applicable promotional emails will provide an unsubscribe mechanism.
30. Data Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Relevant factors may include:
- Whether an inquiry remains active;
- Whether property remains of acquisition interest;
- Potential future follow-up;
- Whether a transaction occurred;
- Contract requirements;
- Real estate recordkeeping;
- Legal obligations;
- Accounting and tax requirements;
- Fraud prevention;
- Litigation;
- Insurance matters; and
- Legitimate business recordkeeping needs.
31. Information Security
We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized:
- Access;
- Acquisition;
- Use;
- Disclosure;
- Alteration;
- Loss; and
- Destruction.
No electronic system can be guaranteed completely secure.
32. Texas Security-Breach Notification
Texas law requires businesses to maintain reasonable procedures to protect qualifying sensitive personal information.
Where a qualifying system-security breach occurs, we will:
- Investigate the incident;
- Determine its scope;
- Take reasonable corrective measures;
- Restore system integrity; and
- Provide legally required notice.
Required notice to affected individuals generally must be made without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after determining that a qualifying breach occurred, subject to legally permitted exceptions and delays.
Where applicable, additional notice to the Texas Attorney General or other authorities will be provided as required by law.
33. Children
The Website is intended for adults involved in real estate matters.
It is not directed toward children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 through ordinary property-offer forms.
34. Third-Party Websites and Services
The Website may contain links to or integrations with third-party websites or services.
We do not control third-party:
- Privacy practices;
- Security;
- Content;
- Products;
- Services;
- Availability; or
- Conduct.
35. Information About Other People
If you provide information concerning another:
- Property owner;
- Co-owner;
- Heir;
- Family member;
- Personal representative;
- Executor;
- Administrator;
- Trustee;
- Tenant;
- Agent; or
- Other person,
you represent that you have authority or another lawful basis to provide that information.
36. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically.
When changes are made, we will revise the “Last Updated” date.
Where applicable law requires additional notice or consent concerning a material change, we will provide it.
37. Contact Us
Questions, concerns, or privacy requests may be directed to:
I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Houston
Houston, Texas
United States
Website: ibuyhouseswithfiredamagehouston.com