Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

The short version

Plotex does not sell personal information. We do not exchange your name, email, phone number, company, uploaded files or browsing activity for money or for anything else of value, and we have not done so in the preceding 12 months.

We also do not currently share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. There are no third-party advertising cookies, ad pixels or ad-network tags on this site today.

Our business model is straightforward: builders and developers pay us to build and host their community maps. Selling data is not part of it and is not going to become part of it.

What "sell" and "share" mean under California law

These words are broader in the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the CPRA, than in everyday use.

• "Sell" means disclosing personal information to a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration. It does not require money to change hands.
• "Share" is narrower and means disclosing personal information to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising — the practice of tracking you across unrelated websites to target ads at you.
• Neither term covers disclosures to a service provider that processes data on our instructions and cannot use it for its own purposes. Our hosting, storage and email vendors sit in that category, and they are listed in our Privacy Policy.

Where "sharing" could apply to us

Analytics and advertising cookies are the usual reason a website has to disclose sharing. Some analytics and all advertising tags send information to a third party that can use it to build a cross-site profile, and regulators treat that as sharing even when no money moves.

We use Google Analytics 4, which is a third party, so we will not pretend the question does not apply to us. Two things limit it. Google Signals and ads personalization are turned off on our property, so the data is not fed into cross-site advertising profiles. And the tag does not load at all unless you choose Accept — declining means the Google script is never requested, which is a stronger outcome than an opt-out applied after the fact.

On that basis we do not believe we share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We publish this page and honor the opt-out regardless, because the right exists whether or not we think it is triggered, and because you should not have to take our word for our own configuration.

We run no advertising pixels on this site. If an advertising tag or any additional third-party tag is ever added, this page, the Privacy Policy and the cookie notice are updated before it ships, and the opt-out is offered at the same moment the tag can load — not in a later release.

How to opt out

Any one of these works. You do not need an account, and you do not have to explain why.

• Use the cookie banner. Choose Decline when it appears, or reopen it from the Cookie Notice page and change your choice at any time. Declining stops analytics from loading at all.
• Turn on Global Privacy Control. GPC is a signal your browser or a browser extension sends automatically. We detect it and treat it as a valid opt-out of any sale or sharing for that browser, with no further action from you. Several browsers and extensions support it, including Firefox, Brave, DuckDuckGo and the Privacy Badger extension.
• Email us. Send a note to [email protected] with "Do Not Sell or Share" in the subject line, along with the email address you have used with us. We will apply the opt-out to the records we hold and confirm in writing.

What happens after you opt out

A banner choice and a GPC signal are stored in the browser you are using. If you switch browsers or devices, clear your browsing data, or use private browsing, you will need to make the choice again there. That is a limitation of how browsers work, not a workaround on our part.

An emailed opt-out applies to the records we hold about you, not to a single browser, so it persists.

Opting out of analytics does not log you out of anything, break any part of the site, or stop us from replying to an inquiry you sent us.

We do not discriminate for opting out

Exercising this right costs you nothing. We will not deny you service, charge a different price, provide a lower level of quality, or treat your inquiry differently because you opted out. There is no loyalty program, no financial incentive, and no version of this site you get access to by agreeing to be tracked.

Authorized agents

You can have someone submit a request for you — a family member, an attorney, or a service that files privacy requests in bulk.

Send the request to [email protected] with "Authorized agent request" in the subject line, and include written permission signed by the consumer, the consumer name and the email address or phone number they used with us, and how to reach the agent.

We may contact the consumer directly to confirm the agent is authorized, and we may ask the consumer to verify their own identity. We will not ask either of you for a government ID or a new sensitive document.

If an agent is acting under a valid power of attorney, send that instead and we will not ask for separate written permission.

Requests about people under 16

We do not sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16. California requires opt-in consent before that could happen — from the consumer if they are 13 to 15, and from a parent or guardian if they are under 13 — and we do not seek it, because we do not sell or share at all.

This site is aimed at real estate professionals and is not directed to children.

Timing, verification and appeals

Opt-out requests do not require identity verification and we act on them promptly, within 15 business days at the outside. Requests to know, correct or delete do require us to verify you, and those are handled under the timelines in our Privacy Policy: acknowledgment within 10 business days where required, and a full response within 45 calendar days, extendable once by another 45 with notice to you.

If we cannot verify or complete a request, we will tell you why, and you can appeal by replying to that email with "Appeal" in the subject line. If we deny the appeal, you can complain to your state attorney general — in California, to the California Privacy Protection Agency.

Other privacy rights

Opting out of sale and sharing is one right among several. You can also ask what we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or get a portable copy. Our Privacy Policy lists them all and explains how to exercise each one.

Contact

Privacy requests: [email protected]. Anything else: [email protected].

Questions

Email [email protected] and we will route it to the right person. For privacy requests use [email protected]; for accessibility barriers use [email protected].