Effective Date: October 9, 2026
Last Updated: October 9, 2026
I Buy Fire Damaged Homes Fort Lauderdale Florida (“I Buy Fire Damaged Homes Fort Lauderdale Florida,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and otherwise process personal information when you visit ibuyfiredamagedhomesfortlauderdaleflorida.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 Florida real estate investment, direct cash-purchase, property-acquisition, marketing, and related transaction marketplace.
Depending on the property and transaction structure, we may:
- Evaluate real property for potential acquisition;
- Make or facilitate a cash offer;
- Purchase property directly;
- Work with affiliated or independent investment partners;
- Conduct or arrange inspections and due diligence;
- Coordinate property access or cleanout where agreed;
- Work with title companies, closing agents, 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 Florida 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 prospective transaction participants;
- From licensed real estate professionals;
- From affiliates and business partners; and
- From other lawful sources.
2. Information You Provide
When you request an offer, submit a Website form, call us, send an email or text message, schedule an inspection, or otherwise communicate with us, we may collect information including:
- First and last name;
- Telephone number;
- Mobile number;
- Email address;
- Property address;
- 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 or foundation condition;
- Electrical damage;
- Plumbing damage;
- Heating and cooling information;
- Occupancy information;
- Tenant information where relevant;
- Repair or restoration information;
- Asking price or pricing expectations;
- Desired selling timeline;
- Reason for considering a sale;
- Mortgage information you voluntarily provide;
- Lien or judgment information;
- Property-tax information;
- Probate or estate information;
- Foreclosure or mortgage-default information;
- Insurance information;
- Insurance-claim information;
- Insurance proceeds voluntarily disclosed;
- Photographs;
- Videos;
- Fire-department reports;
- Inspection reports;
- Engineering or structural reports;
- Environmental or remediation reports;
- Contractor information;
- Repair estimates;
- Building or fire-permit information;
- Ownership or title documents;
- Preferred communication method;
- Preferred contact time; and
- Other information you voluntarily provide.
3. Information Collected by the Website Forms
The Website currently requests, among other things:
- Street address;
- Phone number; and
- Email address
when a property owner requests a cash offer.
Additional information may be requested during follow-up communications or property evaluation.
4. Property and Public-Record Information
When you submit a property, we may research it through lawful public and commercial sources.
Information may include:
- Ownership records;
- Broward County assessment records;
- Property-tax information;
- Recorded deeds;
- Mortgages;
- Liens;
- Judgments;
- Lis pendens and foreclosure information where publicly available;
- Property characteristics;
- Property sales history;
- Estimated values;
- Comparable sales;
- Building permits;
- Code-enforcement records;
- Unsafe-building records;
- Zoning information;
- Flood-zone information;
- Court records where lawfully available;
- Probate information;
- Rental information where lawfully available;
- Homeowners-association information;
- Geographic and mapping data;
- Fire-related records;
- Environmental information;
- Property-condition information;
- Real estate market information; and
- Other publicly or commercially available information.
We may combine this information with information you provide.
5. Information Collected Automatically
When you use 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 geographic location derived from IP address;
- Referring website;
- Referring advertisement;
- Landing page;
- Pages viewed;
- Links clicked;
- Date and time of activity;
- Session information;
- Form interactions;
- Advertising identifiers;
- Marketing-campaign information;
- Lead-source information;
- Conversion information;
- Attribution information; and
- Other technical or Website-usage information.
6. 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 spam and fraud;
- Understand Website usage;
- Measure traffic;
- Attribute inquiries to marketing campaigns;
- Measure conversions;
- Evaluate advertising effectiveness;
- Create or measure advertising audiences;
- Support interest-based advertising;
- Improve the Website; and
- Improve our services.
Third-party providers may process information under their own privacy practices.
7. How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information to:
- Respond to property inquiries;
- Respond to requests for cash offers;
- Research submitted properties;
- Verify ownership;
- Verify authority to sell;
- Evaluate fire, smoke, water, structural, electrical, or other damage;
- Evaluate property safety and access;
- Review repair or restoration information;
- Review insurance information;
- Estimate property value;
- Estimate repair, cleanup, holding, permitting, closing, and resale expenses;
- Determine whether we wish to acquire a property;
- Prepare or communicate potential offers;
- Contact property owners and authorized representatives;
- Schedule inspections, calls, walkthroughs, or appointments;
- Conduct due diligence;
- Facilitate potential transactions;
- Coordinate cleanout where agreed;
- Coordinate with title companies, attorneys, closing agents, 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, tax, accounting, and compliance records;
- Enforce agreements;
- Comply with applicable law; and
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
8. Direct Property Acquisition
The Website presents our service primarily as a direct purchase of fire-damaged property.
Submitting property information allows us to determine whether we may wish to acquire the property.
A Website submission does not itself create:
- A binding purchase offer;
- A purchase agreement;
- A brokerage relationship;
- An agency relationship;
- A fiduciary relationship; or
- An obligation to buy or sell.
9. Affiliates, Investment Partners, and Prospective Assignees
Depending on the transaction, information may be disclosed to:
- Affiliated acquisition businesses;
- Investment partners;
- Co-investors;
- Prospective assignees;
- Licensed real estate professionals;
- Title companies;
- Closing agents;
- Attorneys;
- Inspectors;
- Contractors;
- Engineers;
- Appraisers;
- Insurance professionals; and
- Other transaction participants.
Any assignment, referral, brokerage, or other regulated activity will be handled subject to applicable Florida law.
10. Insurance Information
Fire-damaged property often involves an insurance claim.
We may collect information concerning:
- Whether a claim has been opened;
- Claim status;
- Amounts already paid;
- Damage assessments;
- Repair estimates;
- Mortgagee involvement;
- Recoverable depreciation;
- Repairs already performed;
- Open supplemental claims; and
- Other information relevant to evaluating the property and a potential purchase.
Collecting or reviewing this information does not make us your insurance representative, public adjuster, or attorney.
11. No Public-Adjuster Relationship
Unless we are separately licensed and retained as permitted by Florida law, we do not act as your public adjuster.
We do not, merely by evaluating or purchasing your property:
- Prepare or file an insurance claim for you;
- Negotiate your covered loss with your insurer on your behalf;
- Represent you in settlement discussions;
- Promise to maximize your insurance recovery;
- Determine what your insurer legally owes you; or
- Provide legal advice concerning insurance coverage.
Information about a claim may be used to evaluate a potential real estate purchase without creating an insurance-adjusting relationship.
12. Service Providers
We may disclose information to providers supporting:
- Website hosting;
- Website forms;
- Customer relationship management;
- Lead management;
- Telephone services;
- Call tracking;
- Lawful call recording;
- 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.
13. Business Transactions
Information may be disclosed or transferred in connection with:
- A merger;
- Acquisition;
- Financing;
- Reorganization;
- Affiliate restructuring;
- Sale of assets;
- Bankruptcy; or
- Similar business transaction.
14. Legal and Safety Disclosures
We may disclose information where reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law;
- Respond to legal process;
- Respond to lawful government requests;
- Investigate fraud or unlawful activity;
- Protect rights or property;
- Protect another person’s safety;
- Protect our systems;
- Enforce agreements; or
- Establish or defend legal rights.
15. Florida Digital Bill of Rights
Florida’s Digital Bill of Rights regulates a comparatively narrow category of very large businesses.
As of October 9, 2026, the statute generally defines a covered “controller” to include a qualifying for-profit entity that, among other requirements:
- Conducts business in Florida;
- Collects and determines the purposes and means of processing consumer personal data;
- Has more than $1 billion in global gross annual revenue; and
- Satisfies at least one additional statutory business-model criterion.
The inclusion of this section does not represent that I Buy Fire Damaged Homes Fort Lauderdale Florida meets those thresholds.
Where the Florida Digital Bill of Rights applies to our operations, we will comply with it.
16. Florida Privacy Rights Where Applicable
Where Florida’s Digital Bill of Rights applies, qualifying consumers may have rights concerning:
- Access;
- Confirmation of processing;
- Correction;
- Deletion;
- Portability;
- Opt-out of sale;
- Opt-out of targeted advertising;
- Certain profiling; and
- Other processing regulated by the statute.
Applicable statutory exceptions may apply.
17. Florida Privacy Requests
Where Florida’s Digital Bill of Rights applies, we will provide legally required methods for submitting consumer requests.
Applicable law generally requires covered controllers to respond within the statutory period and provides an appeal process for denied requests.
Where the law does not apply to us, we may nevertheless consider reasonable privacy requests voluntarily.
18. Voluntary Privacy Requests
Even where no comprehensive privacy statute applies to a particular request, you may contact us to request:
- Information concerning personal information associated with you;
- Correction of inaccurate contact information;
- Deletion where reasonably practicable;
- Removal from promotional communications; or
- Restrictions on future marketing contact.
We may retain information where reasonably necessary for:
- Existing or potential transactions;
- Contract records;
- Tax and accounting obligations;
- Fraud prevention;
- Litigation;
- Security;
- Legal compliance;
- Insurance matters; and
- Legitimate business recordkeeping.
Offering a voluntary process does not create a statutory right where one otherwise does not exist.
19. Residents of Other States
Consumers residing outside Florida may have privacy rights under another state’s law.
Depending on applicable law, those rights may include:
- Access;
- Correction;
- Deletion;
- Portability;
- Sale or sharing opt-outs;
- Targeted-advertising opt-outs;
- Profiling rights;
- Sensitive-data protections;
- Authorized-agent rights;
- Preference-signal rights; and
- Appeals.
20. Sensitive Information
Our ordinary property-offer forms are not designed to collect unnecessary highly sensitive information.
Please do not submit unnecessary:
- Social Security numbers;
- Banking passwords;
- Payment-card security codes;
- Medical records;
- Genetic information;
- Biometric information used for unique identification; or
- Similar sensitive information
through standard Website forms.
Information legitimately needed for a closing may be collected separately by appropriate transaction professionals.
21. 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.
22. Florida Call Recording
Florida generally prohibits interception or recording of protected wire, oral, or electronic communications unless an applicable statutory exception applies.
For ordinary confidential business calls, our operational practice should obtain consent from all participants before recording.
We or our service providers may record calls for:
- Quality assurance;
- Training;
- Documentation;
- Compliance;
- Fraud prevention; and
- Security,
but only where legally permitted.
Where another jurisdiction imposes stricter requirements, the stricter requirement will be followed.
23. 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 texts are sent.
Consent to marketing 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.
24. Email Communications
We may use your email address to:
- Respond to inquiries;
- Communicate concerning your property;
- Provide offer information;
- Schedule calls or inspections;
- Send transaction information;
- Follow up; and
- Send promotional communications where permitted.
Applicable promotional emails will provide an unsubscribe mechanism.
25. Data Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Relevant factors may include:
- Whether an inquiry remains active;
- Whether the property remains of acquisition interest;
- Potential follow-up;
- Whether a transaction occurred;
- Contract obligations;
- Real estate recordkeeping;
- Tax and accounting requirements;
- Insurance matters;
- Fraud prevention;
- Litigation; and
- Legitimate business recordkeeping needs.
26. 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 or Internet transmission method can be guaranteed completely secure.
27. Florida Security-Breach Requirements
Florida law imposes requirements following certain qualifying breaches of personal information.
Where applicable, we will:
- Investigate the incident;
- Determine its nature and scope;
- Restore the reasonable integrity of affected systems;
- Provide legally required consumer notices;
- Notify applicable governmental authorities where required; and
- Comply with legally authorized law-enforcement delays.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. Contact Us
Questions, concerns, or privacy requests may be directed to:
I Buy Fire Damaged Homes Fort Lauderdale Florida
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
United States
Website: ibuyfiredamagedhomesfortlauderdaleflorida.com