Privacy policy

Last updated November 14, 2026

AcreScout is operated by Buretto Technologies Inc., a British Columbia company. This policy explains what AcreScout collects and why, in line with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

What we collect

Your email address, to sign you in and send account notices, including one email about your free trial. If you sign in with Google, Google tells us only your email address and that it has checked it; we don't get your name, contacts or anything else from your Google account.
A sign-in cookie, which keeps you signed in, and a device cookie, set when you start a free trial, so each device gets one trial. We don't use advertising or tracking cookies.
Your IP address, briefly, to limit abuse of free trials, sign-in emails, downloads and the data service AI assistants can call.
Your approximate region (country and province), which Cloudflare works out from your IP address, to pre-fill the buyer profile until you choose one. It is sent only to your browser and is not stored.
Your shortlist, if you're signed in, so it's on every device you use.
The listings you open during a free trial, and how each compared with nearby lots of about the same size, so we can show you what you used when the trial ends and name one in the email about your trial.
Your email alerts, if you turn one on: the search it watches, and the wording you agreed to and when (Canada's anti-spam law asks us to keep that proof). Alert emails go out at most once a day, only when new listings match, and each has a one-click unsubscribe link that stops that alert straight away.
Anonymous usage counts (for example, how many visits or trial starts happened in an hour), which aren't linked to you.
Where your visit came from: your browser keeps a note, for 7 days, of whether your first visit came from a search engine, an AI assistant or elsewhere, so those usage counts can say which visitors went on to open a listing's ad or start a trial. The note stays in your browser, and only the kind of source (never the page or search) goes into the counts.
Payment details are handled by Stripe, which sells our plans as merchant of record and needs your card, billing country and postal code to charge the right sales tax. We never see or store your card number.

Who processes it

Cloudflare hosts the site and our database, and counts page views with Cloudflare Web Analytics, without cookies or tracking you across sites. Resend sends sign-in, trial and alert emails. Google signs you in if you choose "Continue with Google". Google Workspace hosts our support inbox. Stripe processes payments, sends receipts and keeps payment records as tax law requires. Sentry receives error reports when something breaks, which can include your IP address and browser details but not your email. Anthropic's AI model writes due-diligence reports from the listing's data and public rules; it never receives your email or anything else about you. Each of them handles data under its own privacy terms, and some of them store data outside Canada.

While you use the site, your browser also loads a few things straight from other companies, which see your IP address and browser details the way any website does: map tiles from Esri (ArcGIS satellite imagery), OpenStreetMap and OpenFreeMap, elevation tiles for the topo view from Amazon Web Services (AWS Terrain Tiles), the map overlays you turn on from the government map services that publish them (the BC Data Catalogue, the Government of Alberta, Quebec's CPTAQ, Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts and Ministère de l'Environnement, Land Information Ontario, GeoNB, Natural Resources Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada), the visit counter from Cloudflare Web Analytics, the error reporter from Sentry, the anti-bot check on sign-in from Cloudflare Turnstile, and Stripe's checkout page when you pay. None of them get your email or shortlist from us. Where our data comes from is on the About page.

How long we keep it

IP addresses: at most 7 days.
Sign-in links: 30 minutes. Sign-ins: 60 days, or until you sign out.
The device cookie: 2 years, in your browser.
Your account, shortlist, listing unlocks and reports: until you ask us to delete them.
The listings you opened during a free trial: 90 days.
Anonymous usage counts: 90 days.

What we don't do

We don't sell or rent your information, and we don't send marketing email unless you ask for it.

Your choices

Email support@acrescout.ca to see, correct, or delete your information. Deleting your account ends any paid access.

Contact

Our Privacy Officer is responsible for this policy and can be reached at support@acrescout.ca or by mail at Buretto Technologies Inc., 422 Richards St, Suite 170, Vancouver, BC V6B 2Z4. If you're not satisfied with our answer, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, or in Quebec to the Commission d'accès à l'information.