Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 6, 2026
Last Updated: October 6, 2026

South Dakota Fire House Buyer (“South Dakota Fire House Buyer,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, share, sell, retain, and otherwise process information when you visit southdakotafirehousebuyer.com (the “Website”), submit information concerning real estate, request a cash offer, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with our services.

South Dakota Fire House Buyer operates within the real estate investment, cash-buyer, property-acquisition, marketing, referral, and lead-generation marketplace. Depending on a particular property and transaction, we may evaluate a property ourselves or connect a property owner with an affiliated or independent cash buyer, real estate investor, contract purchaser, acquisition partner, property-acquisition business, assignee, holder of contractual or equitable rights, licensed real estate professional, or other prospective purchaser.

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 when you use the Website;
  • From public records;
  • From commercial real estate and property databases;
  • From advertising and analytics providers;
  • From telecommunications providers;
  • From service providers;
  • From prospective purchasers;
  • From licensed real estate professionals;
  • From affiliates and business partners; and
  • From other lawful sources.

2. Information You Provide

When you request an offer, complete a Website form, call us, send an email or text message, or otherwise communicate with us, we may collect:

  • First and last name;
  • Telephone number;
  • Mobile telephone number;
  • Email address;
  • Property address;
  • Mailing address;
  • Ownership information;
  • Whether you own or are authorized to act concerning the property;
  • Property type;
  • Property condition;
  • Fire damage;
  • Smoke damage;
  • Firefighting-water damage;
  • Structural damage;
  • Roof damage;
  • Foundation damage;
  • Electrical damage;
  • Plumbing damage;
  • Heating and cooling information;
  • Water and sewage information;
  • Occupancy information;
  • Repair or renovation information;
  • Desired selling timeline;
  • When you acquired the property;
  • Reason for considering a sale;
  • Asking price or pricing expectations;
  • Mortgage information you voluntarily provide;
  • Lien information;
  • Property-tax information;
  • Homeowners-association information;
  • Probate or estate information;
  • Foreclosure or mortgage-default information;
  • Inheritance information;
  • Insurance information;
  • Insurance-claim information;
  • Photographs;
  • Videos;
  • Fire-department reports;
  • Inspection reports;
  • Engineering or structural reports;
  • Contractor information;
  • Repair estimates;
  • Permit information;
  • Insurance documents;
  • Ownership or title documents;
  • Preferred communication method;
  • Preferred contact time;
  • Information concerning a potential transaction; and
  • Other information you voluntarily provide.

3. Property and Public-Record Information

When you submit information concerning a property, we may research that property through lawful public and commercial sources.

Information may include:

  • Ownership records;
  • County assessment records;
  • Property-tax records;
  • Register-of-deeds records;
  • Recorded deeds;
  • Mortgages;
  • Liens;
  • Encumbrances;
  • Judgments;
  • Property characteristics;
  • Sales history;
  • Estimated property values;
  • Comparable sales;
  • Building permits;
  • Building-code information;
  • Zoning information;
  • Court records where lawfully available;
  • Probate information;
  • Foreclosure information;
  • Homeowners-association information;
  • Geographic and mapping information;
  • Flood information;
  • Fire or disaster information;
  • Environmental information;
  • Property-condition information;
  • Market information; and
  • Other publicly or commercially available information.

We may combine that information with information you provide.

4. Information Collected Automatically

When you use the Website, we and providers operating on our behalf may automatically collect:

  • Internet Protocol address;
  • Browser type;
  • Browser settings;
  • Operating system;
  • Device type;
  • Device identifiers;
  • Approximate geographic location derived from an 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 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 spam and fraud;
  • Remember preferences;
  • Understand Website usage;
  • Measure traffic;
  • Attribute leads to campaigns;
  • Measure conversions;
  • Evaluate advertising effectiveness;
  • Build 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 requests for cash offers;
  • Research submitted properties;
  • Verify ownership;
  • Evaluate property characteristics;
  • Evaluate fire, smoke, water, structural, electrical, or other damage;
  • Review repair information;
  • Review insurance information;
  • Estimate property values;
  • Estimate repair and renovation expenses;
  • Estimate acquisition, holding, closing, and resale expenses;
  • Determine whether we or another prospective purchaser may be interested;
  • Match homeowners with prospective cash buyers;
  • Route property opportunities to buyers, investors, or licensed real estate professionals;
  • Prepare or communicate potential offers;
  • Contact property owners and authorized representatives;
  • Schedule calls, appointments, walkthroughs, or evaluations;
  • Conduct due diligence;
  • Facilitate potential transactions;
  • Coordinate with buyers, brokers, attorneys, title companies, closing providers, inspectors, contractors, engineers, lenders, 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, spam, abuse, and security incidents;
  • Maintain accounting, tax, legal, and compliance records;
  • Enforce agreements;
  • Comply with applicable law; and
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

7. Lead Generation and Buyer Matching

South Dakota Fire House Buyer operates, at least in part, as a real estate lead-generation and buyer-matching service.

When you submit information concerning a property, we may evaluate the opportunity ourselves or provide information concerning you and the property to:

  • Affiliated real estate businesses;
  • Independent cash buyers;
  • Real estate investors;
  • Local property buyers;
  • Contract purchasers;
  • Property-acquisition businesses;
  • Investment groups;
  • Redevelopment businesses;
  • Acquisition partners;
  • Persons acquiring contractual or equitable interests;
  • Licensed real estate professionals; and
  • Other prospective purchasers.

Recipients may use the information to:

  • Research the property;
  • Evaluate condition;
  • Estimate repairs;
  • Determine purchase interest;
  • Estimate investment value;
  • Contact you;
  • Prepare or communicate an offer;
  • Conduct due diligence;
  • Negotiate transaction terms; or
  • Facilitate a potential transaction.

Independent recipients may maintain their own privacy practices.

Submitting information does not guarantee an offer or completed transaction.

8. Real Estate Licensing and Lead Routing

South Dakota regulates specified real estate brokerage activity performed for another for compensation or expected compensation.

Depending on how a:

  • Referral;
  • Buyer-matching arrangement;
  • Negotiation;
  • Assignment;
  • Option;
  • Property-marketing arrangement; or
  • Compensation arrangement

is structured, South Dakota real estate licensing requirements may apply.

Where legally required:

  • Regulated brokerage activity will be performed through appropriately licensed persons or entities;
  • Applicable brokerage disclosures and agreements will be used;
  • Referral compensation will comply with applicable law; and
  • Personal information will be handled consistently with applicable professional obligations.

Nothing in this Policy represents that every prospective purchaser receiving property information acts as our agent.

9. Service Providers

We may disclose information to providers of:

  • 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.

10. Transaction Participants

Information may be disclosed to:

  • Buyers;
  • Sellers;
  • Brokers;
  • Attorneys;
  • Title companies;
  • Closing agents;
  • Inspectors;
  • Contractors;
  • Engineers;
  • Appraisers;
  • Lenders;
  • Insurance professionals; and
  • Other persons involved in a potential transaction.

11. Affiliates and Business Transfers

Information may be disclosed among affiliates or transferred in connection with:

  • A merger;
  • Acquisition;
  • Financing;
  • Corporate restructuring;
  • Affiliate restructuring;
  • Sale of assets;
  • Bankruptcy; or
  • Similar transaction.

12. 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.

13. Lead Transfers, Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising

Providing a homeowner lead to an independent prospective purchaser may constitute a:

  • Sale;
  • Sharing;
  • Referral;
  • Marketing disclosure;
  • Consumer-directed disclosure;
  • Processor disclosure;
  • Affiliate disclosure; or
  • Other regulated transfer

under another state’s applicable privacy law.

We may also use Website activity or advertising identifiers for targeted or interest-based advertising.

Where an applicable privacy law provides an opt-out right, we will process qualifying requests as required.

14. South Dakota Consumer Privacy Law

As of October 6, 2026, South Dakota has not enacted a generally applicable comprehensive private-sector consumer privacy statute comparable to the broad privacy laws currently effective in many other states.

A 2026 proposal concerning online data of users age 16 and younger was introduced but did not become law.

Accordingly, South Dakota residents do not presently have one generally applicable state statute providing every consumer with rights to:

  • Access all personal information held by a private business;
  • Correct all personal information;
  • Delete all personal information;
  • Obtain portability;
  • Opt out of all sales of personal data;
  • Opt out of targeted advertising;
  • Opt out of qualifying profiling; or
  • Appeal privacy-request decisions.

Other federal and South Dakota laws may provide rights or requirements concerning particular data, sectors, activities, or security incidents.

15. Voluntary Privacy Requests

Even where South Dakota law does not provide a comprehensive statutory privacy right, 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;
  • Restrictions on future marketing contact; or
  • Information regarding our privacy practices.

We may honor voluntary requests where reasonably practicable and consistent with:

  • Legal obligations;
  • Existing or potential transactions;
  • Contract records;
  • Tax and accounting obligations;
  • Fraud prevention;
  • Litigation;
  • Security requirements;
  • Legitimate business needs; and
  • Rights of other persons.

Providing a voluntary request process does not create a statutory right where one otherwise does not exist.

16. Residents of Other States

Consumers residing outside South Dakota may have additional privacy rights under the law of their state.

Depending on applicable law, rights may include:

  • Confirmation;
  • Access;
  • Correction;
  • Deletion;
  • Portability;
  • Sale opt-out;
  • Sharing opt-out;
  • Targeted-advertising opt-out;
  • Profiling opt-out;
  • Sensitive-data protections;
  • Authorized-agent rights;
  • Universal preference-signal rights; and
  • Appeals.

17. Browser Privacy Signals

Some browsers and devices transmit privacy preference signals such as Global Privacy Control.

South Dakota does not presently impose a generally applicable requirement on every private Website to recognize such signals.

Where another applicable law requires recognition of a qualifying signal, we will process the signal as required.

18. Sensitive Information

Our standard property-offer forms are not designed to collect unnecessary highly sensitive information such as:

  • Social Security numbers;
  • Bank passwords;
  • Payment-card security codes;
  • Genetic information;
  • Biometric identifiers used for unique identification;
  • Medical diagnoses;
  • Religious beliefs; or
  • Other highly sensitive information unrelated to property evaluation.

Please do not submit unnecessary sensitive information through ordinary Website forms.

Information required for an actual transaction or closing may be collected separately by appropriate professionals.

19. Telephone Communications

If you provide a telephone number, we may use it to communicate concerning:

  • Your property;
  • Property research;
  • Scheduling;
  • Your requested offer;
  • Buyer matching;
  • Follow-up;
  • Potential transactions; and
  • Related services.

Where federal or state 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.

20. Recording of Calls and Communications

South Dakota generally permits a person to record a communication or conversation where:

  • The person recording is a sender, receiver, or participant; or
  • At least one party has consented,

subject to applicable statutory restrictions.

We or service 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 of all parties, additional notice or consent may be required.

Where another applicable law imposes a stricter requirement, we will follow the stricter rule.

21. Text Messages

If you provide a mobile telephone number and applicable consent, we may communicate by text regarding:

  • Your inquiry;
  • Your property;
  • Scheduling;
  • Offers;
  • Buyer matching;
  • Follow-up; and
  • Potential transactions.

Where 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.

22. Email Communications

We may use your email address to:

  • Respond to inquiries;
  • Communicate regarding your property;
  • Provide potential-offer information;
  • Schedule calls;
  • Follow up regarding prospective purchasers or transactions; and
  • Send promotional communications where permitted.

Applicable marketing emails will include an unsubscribe mechanism.

23. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Factors may include:

  • Whether an inquiry remains active;
  • Whether a property remains of interest;
  • Potential follow-up;
  • Whether a transaction occurred;
  • Contract obligations;
  • Legal requirements;
  • Tax and accounting obligations;
  • Fraud prevention;
  • Litigation; and
  • Legitimate business recordkeeping needs.

24. 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 storage or transmission system can be guaranteed completely secure.

25. South Dakota Security-Breach Notification

South Dakota law imposes notification requirements concerning qualifying breaches of computerized personal or protected information.

Where applicable, we will:

  • Investigate a suspected breach;
  • Determine its nature and scope;
  • Restore the reasonable integrity of affected systems;
  • Notify affected South Dakota residents as required;
  • Comply with lawful law-enforcement delays; and
  • Notify the South Dakota Attorney General where required.

Qualifying resident notices generally must be provided no later than 60 days after discovery or notification of the breach, unless a lawful delay applies.

A qualifying breach affecting more than 250 South Dakota residents also generally requires disclosure to the South Dakota Attorney General.

Where an appropriate investigation determines that the breach is not likely to result in harm, notice may not be required if the statutory investigation, Attorney General notice, documentation, and record-retention requirements are satisfied.

26. Children

The Website is intended for adults involved in real estate matters.

It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 through ordinary property-inquiry forms.

27. Third-Party Websites

The Website may link to or integrate with third-party websites or services.

We do not control third-party:

  • Privacy practices;
  • Security;
  • Content;
  • Products;
  • Services;
  • Availability; or
  • Conduct.

28. Information About Other People

If you provide information concerning another:

  • Property owner;
  • Co-owner;
  • Heir;
  • Personal representative;
  • Trustee;
  • Family member;
  • Tenant; or
  • Other person,

you represent that you have authority or another lawful basis to provide that information.

29. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically.

When changes are made, we will revise the “Last Updated” date.

Where additional notice or consent is legally required, we will provide it.

30. Contact Us

Questions, concerns, or privacy requests may be directed to:

South Dakota Fire House Buyer
South Dakota
United States

Website: southdakotafirehousebuyer.com