Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of TaxSalesFeed at www.taxsalesfeed.com (“the service”, “we”, “us”). By using the site or creating an account, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the service. How we handle personal information is covered separately in our Privacy Policy.

What the service is

TaxSalesFeed collects tax sale notices that were published as public legal notices, such as notices of application for tax deed, keeps structured fields from them (such as the parcel number, sale date, certificate holder and opening bid), and makes them searchable. The methodology describes how that is done and what it misses.

We are not a government agency, a clerk of court, a tax collector, an auction platform, a real-estate brokerage, or a law firm, and we are not affiliated with any county, certificate holder or auction platform named in a notice.

The data has limits

Each record reflects a notice as it was published. After publication, a sale is often cancelled because the owner paid the taxes, rescheduled or withdrawn, and we may not learn of it. Extraction from notice text can also be wrong or incomplete. So:

• the service is for research and lead generation, and it is not an authoritative record of any sale, debt or title;
• always confirm the status, date, time, place, opening bid and terms of a sale with the county clerk or tax collector before you act on it;
• nothing on the site is legal, financial, tax or investment advice.

If a record disagrees with its source notice, tell us at support@taxsalesfeed.com and we will check it.

Accounts

• You can sign in with Google or with a one-time link sent to your email address. You must give an email address you control.
• You must be at least 18 and able to form a binding contract to create an account.
• An account is for one person. Do not share your sign-in or your API keys, or let others use your account.
• You are responsible for activity on your account. Tell us promptly at support@taxsalesfeed.com if you think someone else has used it.

Paid plans

The full record, every source notice, saved searches, alerts and export come with a paid plan: Starter ($15 a week), Pro ($49 a month) or Business ($99 a month), as described on the pricing page; Pro and Business also include the data API. Without a plan, you can see how many sales each page and each search covers, and the soonest five sales on each page’s list with their full parcel and certificate numbers and address. Every other sale, and the full record on every sale (such as the opening bid and the owner), open with a plan. What you can see without a plan is described on the pricing page and may change. An account already on Legacy Starter, the earlier monthly plan that is no longer sold, keeps it: full records and alerts in one state it chooses, which can be changed once every 30 days.

• Who you pay: payments are processed by Creem, which acts as merchant of record and is the seller of the subscription for payment, tax and invoicing purposes. Any sales tax or VAT due is added at checkout. Creem’s own terms apply to the payment.
• Free trial: every plan starts with a 3-day free trial. A card is taken at checkout and nothing is charged during the trial. Everything in the plan is open during the trial except CSV export and the data API, which open with the first payment. Unless you cancel before it ends, the first payment is taken when it ends. You can also end the trial early, up to a day before it ends, with the “Start <your plan> now” button under Subscription on your account page: the first payment is then taken at checkout, the plan runs and renews from that day, and the trial is cancelled once the payment is confirmed, so it is never charged as well. One trial per account; an account that has subscribed before starts paying straight away.
• Renewal: Starter is billed every week and the other plans every month, and each renews automatically until you cancel. Cancel any time from your account page. Cancelling stops the next payment, and your plan stays open until the end of the period you have paid for.
• Changing plans: moving to a higher plan takes effect at once and the difference for the rest of the period is charged then; moving to a lower plan refunds the unused part. During a trial a change costs nothing until the trial ends.
• Failed payments: if a payment fails, the card is retried. Records stay readable meanwhile, but alerts, CSV export and the data API pause until the payment goes through, and the plan ends if it never does.
• Refunds: if the service does not work for you, email support@taxsalesfeed.com within 7 days of a payment and we will refund that payment; the plan ends when it is refunded. Otherwise, payments for a period that has started are not refundable, except where the law requires it.
• Changes to prices: we will email you at least 30 days before a price change applies to your plan, and never change the price of a period you have already paid for.

The data API

Pro and Business include read-only access to the records your plan opens through our data API, with keys you create on your account page, as described on the Data API page. Like CSV export it opens with the first payment, not during a free trial, and it answers in JSON: CSV export is part of the website and does not take API keys.

• Your keys are yours alone. A key is a credential for your account, and the account rules apply to it: keep it secret, use it only from systems that you, or people working for you, control, and never put it in a web page, an app others download, a shared document or a web address. You are responsible for every request made with your keys. Revoke a key as soon as you think someone else has it; a key sent in a web address is revoked automatically, and we may revoke one we find published.
• Within your plan. Use the API with your own keys and within the limits stated on the pricing page and the Data API page. Do not use several accounts, or another person’s keys, to take more than one plan allows.
• The same rules for the data. Everything under Acceptable use applies to data from the API. You may use it in your own business; you may not resell, sublicense, republish or redistribute it in bulk, or use it to build or feed a database or service offered to others. It is not a consumer report, and it may not be used to decide anyone’s eligibility for credit, insurance, employment or housing, or to harass anyone named in it. For a licence to do more, write to support@taxsalesfeed.com.
• Changes. We may add to the API at any time. We will email you at least 30 days before we reduce your plan’s API limits, and a change that would break existing use will come as a new version, announced the same way, unless security or the law needs it sooner. We may limit, suspend or revoke access that breaks these terms or puts the service at risk.

Acceptable use

You may use the service and the data you get from it for your own business. You agree not to:

• resell, sublicense, republish or redistribute the data in bulk, or use it to build a competing database or service;
• scrape, crawl or download the site by automated means beyond what our robots.txt allows (the data API, used with your own keys within your plan’s limits, is the way to automate), or get around plan limits, rate limits or access controls, including by sharing keys or using several accounts;
• use the data to decide anyone’s eligibility for credit, insurance, employment or housing. TaxSalesFeed is not a consumer reporting agency, and the data is not a consumer report under the Fair Credit Reporting Act;
• use the data to harass, threaten, stalk or defraud anyone, including owners named in a notice, or to run tax-debt-rescue, surplus-recovery or equity-stripping schemes against them;
• contact people in violation of telemarketing, anti-spam or do-not-call laws;
• interfere with the service, probe it for vulnerabilities without our permission, or break any law in using it.

Ownership

The underlying notices are public records. The site itself — its software, design, and the way we compile, structure and verify the data — belongs to TaxSalesFeed. These terms give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the service as they describe. Anything you save, such as searches and alerts, stays yours.

Emails

By creating an account you agree to receive the service emails needed to run it, such as sign-in links. Alert emails are sent only for alerts you turn on, and each one has an unsubscribe link.

Suspension and closing an account

You can close your account at any time by emailing support@taxsalesfeed.com. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and we will tell you why unless the law or a safety concern prevents it. If we close an account without cause, we will refund the unused part of any period you have paid for.

Disclaimers

The service and all data are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not promise the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or complete for any county or state.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, TaxSalesFeed will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities or losses from a purchase, bid or decision made in reliance on the data. Our total liability for any claim about the service is limited to the greater of the fees you paid us in the three months before the claim, or US$50. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, so they may not fully apply to you.

Indemnity

If your breach of these terms, or your misuse of the data, leads to a claim against us, you agree to cover our reasonable costs and losses from that claim.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The effective date above will change when we do, and if a change materially affects account holders we will email you before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the new terms.

General

If any part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest still applies. Not enforcing a term is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about the service.

Contact

TaxSalesFeed · support@taxsalesfeed.com · contact form