Privacy policy.

DigPermit indexes building permits from public government sources. To run the site we collect your email if you sign in, payment details if you subscribe, and standard server logs. We do not sell your data. Questions go to hello@digpermit.com.

DigPermit is operated by Sam Ojling from Sweden. The site is hosted on Vercel in the United States and our database runs on Neon. Using the service means your data may be processed in both the United States and the European Economic Area.

Three buckets:

1. What you tell us. Your email when you sign in or set up an alert. Any saved searches, watched contractors, or feedback you submit. If you pay for Pro, Stripe collects your card details directly and we only see a customer ID and the subscription status.
2. What your browser sends. IP address, user agent, requested URL, referrer, and timestamp, kept in server logs. A session cookie set by better-auth when you sign in. Aggregated, anonymized page-view and performance metrics from Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights. No advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking.
3. Public permit records. The permit data on the site comes from government open-data portals, ArcGIS feeds, county clerk sites, and state license boards. Owner names, contractor names, and permit values were public before we indexed them.

• Signing you in (we send a magic link by email).
• Sending the alert digests, watch notifications, and saved-search updates you opted into.
• Processing Pro subscription payments through Stripe.
• Debugging, blocking abuse, and keeping the service running.
• Replying when you email us.

We do not use personal data for advertising. We do not sell or rent it. We share it with the providers listed below and nobody else.

A session cookie for sign-in and a CSRF cookie when you submit a form. That is it. Vercel Analytics is cookieless. Block or clear cookies in your browser if you want to, but you will not be able to stay signed in.

Each one gets only the data it needs to do its job.

• Vercel· hosting, web analytics, performance metrics.
• Neon· the Postgres database where your account and alerts live.
• Stripe· payments for Pro. Your card never touches our servers.
• Resend· sends transactional email (sign-in links, alert digests, watch notifications).
• Google· if you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email, and Google account ID per the OAuth flow. We do not request other scopes.

If you appear on a permit and want the record corrected or pulled from search, email hello@digpermit.com. We do not control the government source the data came from, so corrections at the source can take time to flow through.

Some contact fields are gated behind a free signup or paid Pro. The point is to make wholesale scraping inconvenient and to give us an audit trail if something is misused.

You can ask us to:

• Show you what we have on you.
• Fix something that is wrong.
• Delete your account, alerts, and saved searches.
• Export your alerts and saved searches.
• Stop or limit how we use your data.

Email hello@digpermit.com from the address on your account. We reply within 30 days. If you live in the EEA or UK you can also complain to your national data-protection authority.

• Account email and sign-in records· until you delete your account.
• Alerts, watches, saved searches· until you remove them or unsubscribe.
• Server logs· up to 30 days.
• Payment records· retained by Stripe and us as long as tax and accounting rules require, typically seven years.

HTTPS everywhere. Session tokens hashed. No passwords stored because we use magic-link sign-in. Production database behind authentication and not publicly reachable. If you find a security issue, email hello@digpermit.com and we will get on it.

DigPermit is not for kids under 16 and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you think a child gave us information, email us and we will delete it.

If we change this policy we update the date at the top. For anything material we also email active users. Using the site after a change means you accept the new version.

Sam Ojling, DigPermit
hello@digpermit.com