Terms of use

A paid plan is a lookup seat, a county parcel data download, or the Parcel data API. A successful place brief is one address or one place id. It can include the situs, parcel id, and, when the public roll publishes them, the owner of record and the tax-roll mailing address for that single parcel, with a source citation.

A county parcel data download is an extract of the parcel rows this index has loaded for the county, metro, state, or loaded CONUS you bought. The Parcel data API returns those same rows one page at a time. Fields that the public roll does not publish are omitted. A dump is not a warranty that every county in the United States is loaded.

Pro covers the states loaded in the index, for up to 3 users sharing one brief allowance (Pro subscriptions started before October 17, 2026 keep the owner plus 5 teammates). Business covers unlimited users and includes 2,500 API calls a month, then $0.03 a call. Every plan priced over $39, including the multi-state and Florida seats bought earlier, covers unlimited users. Team seats and the Coverage plan bought earlier keep their other terms; they are no longer sold. Larger brief pools (50,000 and 250,000) are one organization with unlimited users. A Coverage plan bought earlier is county scores only and does not include teammate seats. County parcel data downloads and the Parcel data API include unlimited users on the organization. Prices and included briefs are on the pricing page. Stripe bills the subscription. You can manage or cancel in the Stripe Customer Portal from Account.

Search is free. Without a paid seat, the first 10 address lookups and 10 PDFs are free; after that the lookup shows an upgrade panel. The tax-roll mailing address stays on the free lookup. It is not a paid seat.

Downloaded files carry the same permitted professional use terms as owner search: not for skip-tracing or marketing. Refunds: full refund within 7 days of purchase if you haven't downloaded more than the free sample. Your account's Downloads section shows whether each purchase is still eligible.

Owner search finds parcels by the owner name printed on a public roll, inside one state and optionally one county. Each result shows the parcel, the situs address, the owner as recorded, the roll vintage and the source, and opens one brief. It never returns mailing addresses.

Owner search is for permitted professional use only (title, real estate, legal, lending, insurance, appraisal and government work on specific properties). It may not be used for skip-tracing, locating people, marketing, mailing lists or solicitation. Searches are logged with the account, query, scope and result count. Unpaid users get 5 free owner searches in total; paid seats and paid API plans are limited only to stop abuse. We may suspend owner search for use that breaks these terms.

A brief may be used for ownership research, title preparation, and investigation. It is a reading of the cited public roll for one place.

Mailing fields from assessor rolls are not for marketing lists, skip-tracing, or driver-privacy misuse. This page states the product purpose and the bans. It is not a certification, and it is not legal advice.

Paid county parcel data downloads and Parcel data API plans may include owner of record, situs, and tax-roll mailing when the public assessor or GIS file published those fields. They are still the public roll, cited to that source.

• No national address file. Address points stay lookup-only, one place at a time.
• No people search, lead list, or skip-tracing file.
• No extract of a county or state that this index has not loaded.

You may not use the service to:

• Compile mailing lists, or use owner or mailing fields for skip-tracing or driver-privacy misuse, even when a dump includes those public-roll columns.
• Fuse results with skip-tracing or other people-search data.
• Produce a consumer report under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, or use a brief for credit, insurance, employment, or tenant screening.
• Circumvent an address-confidentiality program, or try to recover a suppressed or confidential record.
• Resell the National Address Database, or any other lookup-only source, as a downloadable file.

A breach of this section is grounds for suspending the seat and the API key. Fees already paid are not a credit toward a prohibited use.

Public record, cited. Every fact on a brief points to the roll or address file it came from, along with that file's date, so you can check it. AssessorBrief isn't a consumer reporting agency, and a brief isn't a consumer report. Don't use it to decide credit, employment, insurance, or housing eligibility.

An owner of record and a tax-roll mailing address, when the public assessor or GIS roll publishes them, are fields on that one parcel. They are public records cited to that roll. They are not proof of who lives there. Rolls that do not publish a name, including California situs-only and New Jersey name-redacted files, omit it. AssessorBrief does not invent a person.

A field is as current as the vintage cited on that brief. That vintage is the roll or file date stored in this index, not a promise that the county has posted a newer file. There is no service-level agreement on refresh.

Owner string matches the cited roll; it is not a title opinion.

AssessorBrief is not a title company. A brief is a reading of the cited public roll, not a title search and not a guarantee of ownership.

The PDF button on a brief is generated from that lookup. It includes the source, the vintage, the county GIS link, and the accuracy line. A separate sample file, when the footer or coverage page still links one, is marketing only and is not the seat deliverable.

PDF downloads from a brief, the exhibit and the per-lookup PDF, are free for the first 10 in total. After that they need a paid seat. Paid seats download without that limit.

Facts cite the public assessor, parcel, or GIS source that published them, along with Census, address, and named-place layers where those are part of the brief. Coverage scores are aggregates AssessorBrief computed. A citation is not a warranty that the county file is current or complete.

A magic-link email creates the organization that holds the seat. Paid Checkout is billed by Stripe. Use the same email when you sign in so the subscription stays on that organization. The Customer Portal is where you update the card or cancel.

API keys are bound to the organization. The secret is shown once. Successful briefs count against the monthly allowance. Requests that fail, or that are rate limited, do not. A public-demo key stops at its included count. A paid plan keeps working after that count. Each extra brief is metered at the overage price on the pricing page and added to the Stripe renewal invoice for the completed UTC month. A public-demo key stops at 50 briefs and is not invoiced.

AssessorBrief may refuse or end a subscription that is used for a prohibited purpose, for scraping beyond the published rate limits, or for resale of lookup-only data as a file.

A brief is a reading of public records tied to a place. It is not a title opinion, a survey, an appraisal, or legal advice. Confirm anything you will rely on with the publishing office.

AssessorBrief can update these terms by posting a new page here. Continued use after the update is acceptance of the new terms for new lookups. Questions: support@assessorbrief.com.