Privacy

Reading the site

You don't need an account to read the site, look up an address or see sample leads, and nothing is stored about what you read. Until you sign in, the site sets no cookies (apart from a short-lived one when you ask for a password reset, which the reset link needs). There is no analytics script, no advertising script and no third-party tracker on any page. The one outside script is Cloudflare's security check on the sign-in and password-reset pages, described below.

The site runs on Cloudflare, which keeps ordinary web request logs (your IP address, the page requested, the time), as any host does. AlderWorks adds nothing of its own to them.

If you look up an address (Illinois Property Report)

The address and town you type are used to find the property in the Cook County Assessor's open data, and the report is then read from the Cook County and City of Chicago open-data portals (run for them by Tyler Technologies). Those requests carry the property's address or tax number, never anything about you. We don't save the lookup or link it to anyone. Cloudflare keeps the portals' answers for up to a day so a repeat visit is fast. Because the search is a plain web form, the address appears in the page's web address, so it ends up in your browser history and in the request logs mentioned above.

If you're signed in, the report also asks our database (Supabase) whether names may be shown for that address; that check is logged like any other database request.

If you have a Rootstone account

Accounts are by invitation for now. This is the whole list of what is kept:

• Your email address and a scrambled (hashed) copy of your password, held by Supabase, which runs accounts and sign-in. Your password itself is never stored.
• The name or company you enter in settings, if you enter one.
• The trades you choose for your weekly email, and the ZIP codes and neighborhoods you save.
• Whether you want the weekly email.
• Which leads went into which weekly email we sent you and when, so the same lead isn't sent twice.
• Sign-in cookies, set only when you sign in, so the site knows it's you. They're needed for the account to work and are removed when you sign out.

The database lets each account read only its own settings and history; leads with owner details are shown only to accounts with access to that trade.

The sign-in and password-reset forms include Cloudflare Turnstile, a check that a person, not a script, is filling them in. It runs in your browser and sends Cloudflare information about your browser and device to make that decision. Nothing from it is stored by AlderWorks. Cloudflare's own privacy policy covers what it does with that information.

Emails

Weekly lead emails and password-reset emails are sent through Resend from mail.alderworksllc.com. Resend sees the address it sends to and the content of the message, and records whether it was delivered. You can stop the weekly email at any time from your account settings; the link is at the bottom of every email.

Messages you send to contact@alderworksllc.com are forwarded by our domain registrar (Porkbun) to an inbox we read, hosted by Google.

Property owners and businesses named in the leads and reports

Rootstone leads come from public records: City of Chicago building violations, building permits, food inspections and administrative hearings, and Cook County Assessor property records. A lead can show a building's address, its open violations and hearing dates, and the owner's and taxpayer's names and mailing addresses as the Assessor publishes them. Restaurant leads show the business name.

We store the facts we use and a link to the original city record, not copies of documents. We don't collect phone numbers or personal email addresses, and we don't keep the names of people listed as respondents or defendants in city cases. Full owner details are shown only to subscribers, and the product is built for mailed letters: we offer no phone numbers and no automated calls or texts.

The Illinois Property Report shows the building's public records to everyone. Owner and taxpayer names and mailing addresses, and the buyer and seller on each recorded sale, are shown only to signed-in accounts; they are read from the Assessor's open data when the report opens, not stored by us. You can search by address only, never by a person's name.

If something about your property is wrong, or you want your name and mailing address left out of the lists we give subscribers and the property report, email contact@alderworksllc.com with the property address (details: removal requests). The database then withholds them everywhere. Corrections to the public records themselves have to be made with the city or the Cook County Assessor.

What we don't do

• We don't sell or rent information about our customers or visitors.
• We don't use it for advertising, and there are no ad networks on the site.
• We don't share it with anyone except the services named on this page, which run the site for us.

Payments aren't taken yet. When paid plans open, this page will say who handles them before any card is asked for.

Keeping and deleting

Account information is kept while your account exists. Email contact@alderworksllc.com from the address on your account to have it deleted; deleting it removes your settings and email history with it. Web request and email delivery logs are kept by the services above under their own schedules.

Questions and changes

AlderWorks is not meant for children and doesn't knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.