Effective September 9, 2026. This is what DirtDocket collects, why, who handles it, and how to get it corrected or deleted.
This policy covers dirtdocket.com, the free weekly brief, the paid subscriptions (New Filings Daily, The Tracker, and The Desk), and the emails DirtDocket sends. DirtDocket is based in Orange County, Florida. If something here does not match what you experience, tell us; the contact is at the end.
The free brief. When you sign up, we keep your email address, the market edition you chose, which page you signed up from, and the time. We also generate a random code that powers the unsubscribe links in the emails we send you.
Paid subscriptions. Checkout happens on Stripe's pages, not ours. Stripe tells us your email address, which product you bought, whether the subscription is active, on a trial, or canceled, and a Stripe customer identifier so we can match later events to you. Card numbers never reach DirtDocket.
Logging in. Subscriber pages sit behind Cloudflare Access. You log in with a one-time code sent to your email; there are no passwords. Cloudflare records the login, and while you are logged in each request to the tracker carries your verified email address to our software.
Using the tracker. We count how many data files each logged-in account requests per day. That count is the audit trail the subscriber terms describe, and it expires after three days. If you save a site to your watchlist, we store the case identifiers against your email so the list is there next time and so we can email you when a watched case moves.
Feedback. If you use the feedback button we keep what you wrote, the kind of note you picked, the page you were on, and an email address only if you typed one. Your network address is used to limit how many notes one address can send in an hour and is not stored with the note.
Writing to us. If you email us, we have your address and what you wrote, as with any correspondence.
That is the list. There are no profiles, no advertising identifiers, and no accounts beyond an email address.
To send the brief, the digest, and the watchlist alerts you asked for. To run your subscription: open your login when you pay, close it when you cancel, and send the receipts and notices that go with it. To answer feedback and questions. To enforce the subscriber terms, using the daily count above. And to let the person who runs DirtDocket know that someone signed up, bought, canceled, or sent feedback, so a human can respond.
We do not sell or rent personal information, we do not share it with advertisers, and we do not use it to build profiles.
DirtDocket is small and runs on a handful of services, each of which sees only what it needs:
Pages also load a few things from third parties when you view them, which means those companies see your network address and the page you requested, as with any website: map tiles from Esri (ArcGIS Online), the optional flood and wetlands layers from FEMA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and typefaces from Google Fonts. Links to Google Maps, county portals, and Stripe take you to those sites under their own policies.
DirtDocket sets no tracking cookies and runs no advertising or analytics scripts. When you log in as a subscriber, Cloudflare Access sets the session cookie that keeps you logged in; that cookie is the login. Cloudflare may also set its own short-lived security cookies.
The maps remember your filter choices, your market, and whether you have seen the tour in your browser's local storage. That stays on your device and is never sent to us. Our traffic numbers come from Cloudflare's aggregate, cookieless counters.
DirtDocket compiles public records: county and city agendas, planning application portals, stormwater permit registries, and property appraiser rolls. Applicants, agents, and owners of record named in those filings appear in the tracker because the public record names them. Owner names and mailing addresses from the county rolls are shown only to logged-in subscribers; the public case pages and the free sample map do not carry them. We add nothing to the record: no phone numbers, no personal email addresses, no data bought from data brokers.
If a record about you or your property is wrong, email us with the case number and we will check it against the source and correct it or note the dispute. We will also consider a request to remove a record from the subscriber view, though we cannot change the public record it came from.
Your brief signup stays until you unsubscribe. An unsubscribed address is kept only as a do-not-send marker so we never email it by mistake, and is deleted outright if you ask. Subscription records stay for the life of the subscription and afterward only as long as our accounting requires. Watchlists stay until you remove the sites or ask us to delete the account. Feedback notes stay until they have been read and acted on. The daily request count expires after three days and the feedback rate counter within an hour.
Every brief and digest carries an unsubscribe link. Paid subscriptions can be canceled from the Stripe customer portal linked on the account page and in every digest. Subscribers can sign out from the account page.
To see what we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted, email brief@dirtdocket.com from the address in question. We answer within 30 days and usually within a few days.
Everything is served over HTTPS. Logins use one-time codes rather than stored passwords. The records above live in Cloudflare's storage and are reachable only by the operator and the software that sends your email. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach ever affects your information, we will tell you what happened and what we did about it.
DirtDocket is a professional tool and is not directed at anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect information from children.
When this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new effective date, and subscribers are emailed before a change that matters takes effect. Questions or requests: brief@dirtdocket.com.