Last updated April 27, 2026
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how MLS Guardian collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information when you use our websites, applications, subscriptions, alerts, and related services.
Information We Collect
Account information, such as your email address, password credentials handled by our authentication provider, and phone number if you choose to receive SMS alerts.
Property monitoring information, such as property addresses, city, state, ZIP code, normalized address, monitoring status, detected listing details, listing agent contact details, and alert history.
Subscription and billing information, such as your selected plan, subscription status, Stripe customer ID, and payment status. We use Stripe for payment processing and do not store full card numbers.
Technical and usage information, such as device, browser, IP address, log data, session data, pages visited, and actions taken in the Service.
Communications information, such as support requests, email notifications, SMS delivery records, and related metadata.
How We Use Information
Provide, operate, secure, and improve MLS Guardian.
Create and manage your account, authenticate users, and administer subscriptions.
Validate property addresses, monitor listings, detect potential unauthorized listings, and send SMS or email alerts.
Process payments, manage billing, prevent fraud, troubleshoot issues, and enforce our Terms of Service.
Comply with legal obligations and respond to lawful requests.
How We Share Information
Service providers that help us operate the Service, including hosting, database, authentication, payment processing, SMS, email delivery, address validation, analytics, monitoring, and customer support vendors.
Listing, property, or address data providers as needed to validate addresses and monitor listings.
Legal, safety, and compliance recipients when required to comply with law, protect rights, prevent fraud, or respond to lawful requests.
Business transfer recipients if we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets.
SMS and Email Communications
If you provide a phone number, you authorize us to send SMS alerts related to monitored properties. Message and data rates may apply. You can remove or update your phone number in your account settings.
We may send transactional emails related to your account, subscription, security, alerts, and service changes. You may not be able to opt out of essential transactional messages.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and our service providers may use cookies, local storage, and similar technologies to keep you signed in, remember preferences, secure the Service, understand usage, and improve functionality.
Your browser may allow you to block or delete cookies. Some features may not work correctly if cookies are disabled.
Your Privacy Choices
You may access and update certain account information from your account settings.
You may request access, correction, deletion, or portability of personal information by contacting us.
You may opt out of SMS alerts by removing your phone number from your account or contacting us.
We do not sell personal information for money. We also do not knowingly share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
California Privacy Notice
California residents may have rights to know, access, correct, delete, and obtain a copy of certain personal information, and to opt out of sale or sharing of personal information where applicable.
The categories of personal information we may collect include identifiers, account credentials, commercial information, internet or network activity, geolocation approximated from IP address, property monitoring information you provide, and communications with us.
We use and disclose these categories for the business and commercial purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of consumers under 16.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising applicable privacy rights. We may need to verify your request before responding.
Data Retention
We keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Service, maintain records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, comply with law, and protect our rights.
If you delete your account or request deletion, we may retain information where required or permitted by law, including billing, security, fraud prevention, and legal records.
Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Children
MLS Guardian is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child provided us personal information, contact us so we can take appropriate action.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new last updated date. If changes are material, we may provide additional notice as required by law.
Contact Us
To exercise privacy rights or ask questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at privacy@mlsguardian.com.