Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 7, 2026
Last Updated: October 7, 2026

I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Columbus (“I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Columbus,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, share, retain, and otherwise process personal information when you visit ibuyhouseswithfiredamagecolumbus.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 Ohio real estate investment, cash-buyer, property-acquisition, marketing, wholesaling where legally applicable, and related transaction marketplace.

Depending on the property and transaction, we may:

• Evaluate property for possible acquisition;
• Make or facilitate a potential cash offer;
• Purchase property directly;
• Work with affiliates or investment partners;
• Conduct or arrange due diligence;
• Coordinate cleanout where agreed;
• Acquire contractual or equitable rights;
• Assign or novate contractual rights where legally and contractually permitted;
• Work with licensed Ohio real estate professionals where legally required;
• Work with title companies, escrow or closing providers, attorneys, contractors, inspectors, engineers, appraisers, insurers, and other transaction professionals; or
• Decline the opportunity.

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 information:

• Directly from you;
• Automatically through 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 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, complete a Website form, call us, send an email or text message, or otherwise communicate with us, we may collect information including:

• First and last name;
• Telephone number;
• Mobile telephone number;
• Email address;
• Property address;
• Mailing address;
• Whether you are the owner;
• Whether you are an agent or wholesaler;
• Ownership information;
• Authority to act concerning the property;
• Property type;
• Number of bedrooms and bathrooms;
• Property condition;
• Fire damage;
• Smoke or soot damage;
• Firefighting-water damage;
• Structural damage;
• Roof or foundation damage;
• 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 voluntarily provided;
• Liens or judgments;
• Property-tax information;
• Probate or estate information;
• Foreclosure information;
• Whether an insurance payout has been received;
• Insurance information;
• Insurance-claim information;
• Photographs;
• Videos;
• Fire-department reports;
• Inspection reports;
• Engineering or structural reports;
• Environmental or remediation reports;
• Repair estimates;
• Contractor information;
• Permit information;
• Ownership or title documents;
• Preferred communication method;
• Preferred contact time; and
• Other information you voluntarily provide.

3. Property and Public-Record Information

When you submit a property, we may research it using lawful public and commercial sources.

Information may include:

• Ownership records;
• Franklin County property records;
• Property-tax information;
• Recorded deeds;
• Mortgages;
• Liens;
• Judgments;
• Foreclosure filings;
• Property characteristics;
• Property sales history;
• Estimated values;
• Comparable sales;
• Building permits;
• Damage-repair permits;
• Electrical, plumbing, and mechanical permits;
• Code-enforcement information;
• Unsafe-building orders;
• Zoning information;
• Court records where lawfully available;
• Probate information;
• Rental information where lawfully available;
• Homeowners-association information;
• Geographic and mapping information;
• Flood information;
• Fire-related information;
• Environmental information;
• Property-condition information;
• Market information; and
• Other publicly or commercially available information.

We may combine information from those sources with information you provide.

4. 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.

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 fraud and spam;
• Understand Website usage;
• Measure traffic;
• Attribute inquiries to advertising campaigns;
• Measure conversions;
• Evaluate advertising effectiveness;
• Create or measure advertising audiences;
• Support targeted or interest-based advertising;
• Improve the Website; and
• Improve our services.

Third-party providers may process information under their own privacy practices.

6. How We Use Personal Information

We may use information to:

• Respond to inquiries;
• Respond to cash-offer requests;
• Research submitted properties;
• Verify ownership;
• Verify authority to sell;
• Evaluate property condition;
• Evaluate fire, smoke, water, structural, electrical, or other damage;
• Review repair information;
• Review insurance information;
• Estimate property value;
• Estimate restoration and cleanout expenses;
• Estimate acquisition, holding, closing, and resale expenses;
• Determine whether we wish to acquire a property;
• Prepare or communicate potential offers;
• Contact property owners and authorized representatives;
• Schedule calls, inspections, walkthroughs, or appointments;
• Conduct due diligence;
• Facilitate potential transactions;
• Coordinate cleanout where agreed;
• Coordinate with closing and transaction professionals;
• Evaluate contractual or equitable interests;
• Prepare legally required wholesaler notices where applicable;
• Maintain inquiry and transaction records;
• Follow up regarding submitted properties;
• Operate and improve the Website;
• Conduct analytics;
• Measure marketing performance;
• Advertise our services;
• Prevent fraud, abuse, and security incidents;
• Maintain legal, tax, accounting, and compliance records;
• Enforce agreements;
• Comply with applicable law; and
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

7. Direct Property Acquisition

The Website currently presents our service primarily as a direct property-acquisition model.

Submitting property information permits us to evaluate 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.

8. Agents and Wholesalers

The Website expressly permits a submitter to indicate that the submitter is an owner, agent, or wholesaler.

If you submit property that you do not own, you represent that you have lawful authority or another lawful basis to submit the information.

We may process information submitted by an agent or contract holder to:

• Verify authority;
• Confirm property ownership;
• Verify a contractual interest;
• Evaluate an assignment or novation;
• Determine whether Ohio’s wholesaler law applies;
• Determine whether real estate licensing requirements apply;
• Communicate with transaction participants; and
• Conduct due diligence.

Nothing in this Policy authorizes unlicensed brokerage or unauthorized marketing of another person’s property.

9. Ohio Residential Wholesaling

Ohio regulates certain residential property wholesalers.

Where we engage in a covered wholesale transaction, information may be processed to:

• Identify the record owner;
• Identify the wholesaler;
• Document our contractual position;
• Prepare the separate statutory wholesaler disclosure;
• Obtain signatures and dates;
• Identify an assignee or subsequent purchaser;
• Administer earnest money;
• Document an assignment or novation; and
• Complete closing.

Nothing in this Privacy Policy modifies or waives any disclosure or cancellation right provided by Ohio law.

10. Affiliates and Transaction Participants

We may disclose information to:

• Affiliated acquisition businesses;
• Investment partners;
• Co-investors;
• Prospective assignees;
• Title companies;
• Escrow or closing agents;
• Attorneys;
• Licensed real estate professionals;
• Contractors;
• Inspectors;
• Engineers;
• Appraisers;
• Insurance professionals; and
• Other persons involved in evaluating or completing a potential transaction.

11. 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.

12. Business Transactions

Information may be disclosed or transferred in connection with an actual or proposed:

• Merger;
• Acquisition;
• Financing;
• Reorganization;
• Affiliate restructuring;
• Sale of assets;
• Bankruptcy; or
• Similar transaction.

13. 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;
• Protect rights or property;
• Protect another person’s safety;
• Protect our systems;
• Enforce agreements; or
• Establish or defend legal rights.

14. Ohio Consumer Privacy Framework

As of October 7, 2026, Ohio has not enacted a generally applicable comprehensive private-sector consumer privacy statute comparable to the California Consumer Privacy Act or the comprehensive privacy laws effective in a number of other states.

Ohio has considered comprehensive privacy legislation, but proposed Ohio Personal Privacy Acts have not become law.

Other Ohio and federal privacy, communications, security, financial, health, consumer-protection, and sector-specific laws may still apply.

15. Voluntary Privacy Requests

Even where Ohio law does not provide a comprehensive statutory privacy right applicable to our operations, you may 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:

• Existing or potential transactions;
• Contracts;
• Legal obligations;
• Tax and accounting requirements;
• Fraud prevention;
• Security;
• Litigation;
• Recordkeeping; and
• Rights of other persons.

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

16. Residents of Other States

Consumers residing outside Ohio may have additional privacy rights.

Depending on applicable law, those rights may include:

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

17. Browser Privacy Signals

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

Ohio does not presently impose one generally applicable requirement on every private business to honor such signals for ordinary personal information.

Where another applicable law requires us to recognize a qualifying privacy preference signal, we will process it as required.

18. Sensitive Information

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

• Social Security numbers;
• Banking passwords;
• Payment-card security codes;
• Medical records;
• Genetic information;
• Biometric identifiers used for identification; or
• Other sensitive information unrelated to property evaluation.

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

Information legitimately required for closing may be collected separately by appropriate transaction professionals.

19. Telephone Communications

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

• Your inquiry;
• Your property;
• Scheduling;
• Property research;
• Inspections;
• Offers;
• Follow-up;
• Potential transactions; and
• Related services.

Where applicable law requires additional consent for regulated automated, prerecorded, artificial-voice, or marketing communications, legally required consent will be obtained.

You may request that calls stop.

20. Ohio Call Recording

Ohio generally permits interception or recording of a wire, oral, or electronic communication when:

• The recorder is a party to the communication; or
• One party has given prior consent,

provided the interception is not made for the purpose of committing a criminal offense, tortious act, or other unlawful injurious act.

We or service providers acting on our behalf may record communications for legitimate purposes including:

• Quality assurance;
• Training;
• Documentation;
• Compliance;
• Fraud prevention; and
• Security.

Where another participant is located in a jurisdiction requiring consent from all parties, additional notice or consent may be required.

Where another applicable law is stricter, the stricter rule will be followed.

21. 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 promotional messages 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.

22. Email Communications

We may use your email address to:

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

Applicable promotional emails will provide an unsubscribe mechanism.

23. 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 property remains of acquisition interest;
• Potential follow-up;
• Whether a transaction occurred;
• Contract obligations;
• Real estate recordkeeping requirements;
• Accounting and tax requirements;
• Fraud prevention;
• Litigation;
• Insurance matters; and
• Legitimate business recordkeeping.

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 Internet transmission system can be guaranteed completely secure.

25. Ohio Security-Breach Notification

Ohio law requires notice following specified security breaches involving computerized personal information where unauthorized access and acquisition causes, or reasonably is believed to cause, a material risk of identity theft or other fraud.

Where applicable, required notice generally will be provided:

• In the most expedient time possible; and
• No later than 45 days after discovery or notification of the qualifying breach,

subject to legally permitted law-enforcement delays and measures necessary to investigate the breach and restore system integrity.

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. Information About Other People

If you provide information concerning another:

• Property owner;
• Co-owner;
• Heir;
• Family member;
• Executor;
• Administrator;
• Trustee;
• Tenant;
• Agent; 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 applicable law requires additional notice or consent concerning a material change, we will provide it.

30. Contact Us

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

I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
United States

Website: ibuyhouseswithfiredamagecolumbus.com