Privacy Policy

School Brokers, Inc. (“School Brokers,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect personal information when you visit schoolbrokersinc.com(the “Site”), submit a form, register as a buyer, request a valuation, or otherwise interact with our services (collectively, the “Services”).

By using the Site or the Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.

1. Information We Collect

We collect the following categories of personal information:

Information You Provide

• Contact information: name, email address, phone number, mailing address.
• Seller information: school name, school address, licensed capacity, current enrollment, financial documents, tax records, enrollment records, and any other materials you submit through the Free Valuation or related forms.
• Buyer information: name, contact information, desired acquisition locations, total budget, cash available, signed confidentiality agreements, and other registration data.
• Communications: the contents of emails, messages, voicemails, or other communications you send to us.

Information Collected Automatically

• Device and usage data: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URL, pages viewed, and timestamps.
• Cookies and similar technologies: see Section 5.

Information from Third Parties

We may receive information from professional advisors (attorneys, accountants, lenders), licensing authorities, public records, and service providers that help us operate our business.

2. How We Use Information

We use personal information to:

• Provide, operate, and improve the Site and Services.
• Prepare preliminary valuations, market analyses, and information memoranda.
• Match buyers with appropriate listings and facilitate transactions.
• Verify identity and conduct buyer pre-qualification, including financial review.
• Communicate with you about engagements, listings, and account matters.
• Comply with legal, regulatory, licensing, and reporting obligations, including those of the California Department of Real Estate.
• Detect, prevent, and respond to fraud, security, and legal issues.
• Send marketing communications, where permitted (you may opt out at any time).

3. How We Share Information

We share personal information only as follows:

• With Sellers and Buyers: only after appropriate confidentiality agreements are in place and only as necessary to advance an engagement, and only to the extent you have authorized.
• With Service Providers: attorneys, accountants, escrow agents, title companies, payment processors, and other vendors acting on our behalf under contractual confidentiality obligations. Our current technology service providers include: Vercel (website hosting and traffic analytics), Supabase (database, authentication, and secure document storage), Google Workspace (email delivery and internal collaboration), and Google Maps Platform (geocoding and map rendering when used in internal tools).
• For Legal Compliance: to comply with subpoenas, court orders, licensing audits, or other legal process, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of School Brokers, our clients, or others.
• In Business Transfers: in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of all or part of our business.
• With Your Consent: in any other case where you have given us specific authorization.

We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as defined by California law.

4. Confidentiality of Seller and Buyer Information

We treat school-identifying information, financial records, enrollment data, staff information, parent/customer lists, and similar materials as strictly confidential. Such information is shared only with parties who have signed a written non-disclosure agreement and only as needed to evaluate or advance a transaction. Listings are published blind, and identifying information is released only to pre-qualified, NDA-bound recipients.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Site uses cookies and similar technologies to remember your preferences, analyze how the Site is used, and improve performance. You can configure your browser to refuse cookies or alert you when they are sent; however, parts of the Site may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

We use Vercel Analytics to collect aggregate, privacy-respecting usage information such as page views, referring URLs, and approximate geographic region. Vercel Analytics does not set cookies and does not track visitors across other websites. We do not use cookies for cross-context behavioral advertising.

6. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as needed to provide our Services, comply with legal, tax, accounting, brokerage-licensing, and audit requirements, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Retention periods vary by category. For example, transaction records and signed confidentiality agreements are retained for the periods required by California real estate law and applicable statutes of limitation.

7. Data Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Files you upload through our forms are transmitted using TLS encryption. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

8. Your Privacy Choices

We do not sell or share your personal information. We also do not use your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. If you are a California resident, you may still exercise the rights described below (right to know, right to delete, right to correct, right to limit use of sensitive personal information). Submit any such request by email to info@schoolbrokersinc.com; we will respond within the period required by law.

9. California Privacy Rights (Detail)

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), California residents have the following rights, subject to legal exceptions:

• Right to Know: request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources, the purposes of collection, and the categories of recipients.
• Right to Delete: request deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to exceptions.
• Right to Correct: request correction of inaccurate personal information.
• Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing: we do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
• Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: request that we use sensitive personal information only as necessary to provide our Services.
• Right of Non-Discrimination: we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at info@schoolbrokersinc.com with your request and reasonable proof of identity. We will respond within the period required by law (generally 45 days). You may also designate an authorized agent to act on your behalf.

10. Other U.S. State Privacy Rights

Residents of other states with comprehensive privacy laws (including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, and others) may have similar rights. Contact us using the information above to exercise any rights granted by your state of residence.

11. Children's Privacy

Our Services are intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Under the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; under the California Consumer Privacy Act we do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will take appropriate steps to delete it. Any enrolled-student records received from client schools in connection with a potential transaction are handled as confidential business records of the client school under the school's own policies and applicable privacy law; we do not collect such records directly from children.

12. Third-Party Links

The Site may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before providing personal information.

13. International Visitors

The Site is operated from the United States. If you access it from outside the U.S., you understand that your information will be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States, which may have different data protection laws than your country.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. We will indicate the date of the most recent revision at the top of this page. Material changes will be communicated through the Site or, where appropriate, by email.

15. Contact Us

Questions about this Policy, or to exercise any of your privacy rights, please contact:

School Brokers, Inc.
Attn: Privacy
Email: info@schoolbrokersinc.com