Privacy Policy

Overview

CREdocket ("CREdocket," "we," "us") publishes litigation intelligence content, tools, and a subscription service for the commercial real estate industry at credocket.com. This policy explains what information we collect from visitors, account holders, and contacts, how we use it, who we share it with, and the choices available to you.

This version replaces our prior privacy policy in full — it was rewritten to accurately describe the site as it operates today, including the account system, paid tools, and third-party services added since the last version.

Information We Collect

Contact form. If you use the form on our Contact page, the fields you fill in (name, email address, organization, role, and message), the page you sent it from, and a one-way scrambled code derived from your internet address (used only to limit repeated messages) are stored in our database and emailed to us through our email provider, Resend, so we can reply. We use them only to answer you.

Newsletter. If you subscribe to our weekly email, we store your email address, when you subscribed and confirmed, and when we last sent you an issue, in our database (hosted by Supabase). We send it through Resend. We use your address only to send that email and the confirmation and unsubscribe messages that go with it. Every issue has a one-click unsubscribe link; after you unsubscribe we keep your address marked as unsubscribed so you are not emailed again. Subscriptions made before October 6, 2026 were collected through Beehiiv, our previous newsletter provider, under its own privacy policy.

Account information. Creating a free CREdocket account requires an email address and password, handled by our backend provider, Supabase. Your session is kept signed-in using your browser's local storage (not a cookie) so you don't have to sign in again on return visits. Depending on which features you use, your account may also be associated with:

• Until October 6, 2026, which tracked matters you had read, to enforce a monthly reading limit. That limit has been removed and reads are no longer recorded.
• Watchlists you create (companies, states, or practice areas you've chosen to track).
• Cases you follow for court alerts, and a record of which alerts we have emailed you about each one, so you are never sent the same one twice.
• Your digest email frequency preference (daily, weekly, both, or none).
• A record that you accepted the separate Litigation Tools Terms (including its binding arbitration and class-action-waiver provisions) before using a given AI tool, and which version of those terms you accepted.
• Purchase and subscription records for paid tools (see Payments, below).

Case Value Calculator & Lease Clause Redline Checker (AI-assisted tools). These tools accept a typed description of your matter and/or an uploaded or pasted document, and evaluate it through our own proprietary system — including our curated database of real case citations and settlement outcomes and our state-by-state legal rules — which is powered in part by Claude, Anthropic's AI model, accessed through Anthropic's API. As part of generating your analysis, the relevant portion of your submission is processed by that model, subject to Anthropic's own privacy policy and its commercial API data-handling terms. CREdocket itself does not store the text of your description or uploaded document once your result is returned to you — we only log which category of matter and which tool you used, and which credit or subscription allotment it was billed against, so we can enforce usage limits and diagnose problems.

A caution on confidentiality: because this content is sent to a third-party AI provider, do not submit anything subject to a protective order, a sealed record, attorney-client privilege you don't hold personally, or a confidentiality obligation to another party, unless you're authorized to disclose it on those terms.

Contribute a Settlement. If you submit a matter through Contribute a Settlement, we store the extracted text of the petition/complaint and settlement agreement (or judgment) you provide, the structured facts you or our extraction process enter (category, property type, jurisdiction, claimed and settled amounts, and similar), and your attestation that the material isn't confidential. A human reviewer checks each submission — including running it past an automated scan for confidentiality-clause language — before approving it. The case caption and court/docket number you provide are kept private and are never shown publicly; only anonymized, aggregated figures (and, once at least three approved submissions exist for a given category and state, a benchmark range) are ever displayed to other users.

Payments. One-time credit packs and Practitioner/Firm subscriptions are purchased through Stripe. We never see or store your card number — Stripe collects and processes that directly. We do receive and store the resulting transaction/subscription record (email used at checkout, plan type, credit amount or billing period, and subscription status) so we can grant and track access to paid tools.

Automatic data. We use Vercel Analytics, a cookieless, aggregate web-analytics service, to see overall traffic patterns (e.g., which pages are visited, in aggregate) — it does not use cookies and is not designed to identify you individually. We do not use advertising trackers or ad pixels. Standard web server logs (such as IP address and browser type) may also be recorded by our hosting provider for security and reliability purposes.

Anonymous usage events. To see how readers use the site, we record simple events such as a page or matter being viewed, the sign-in prompt being shown, a full write-up being read, or an alert being created. Each event carries the page, the referring website's domain, whether you're signed in, sometimes a matter number, and a random identifier that lasts only as long as your browser tab. The events do not include cookies, IP addresses, names, email addresses, account identifiers, or anything you type into search (our hosting and database providers may log IP addresses with any request, as noted above).

Free reads without an account. Without an account you can read up to 10 full write-ups a month. To count them, your browser stores a list of the matters you've read this month in its local storage, on your device only. It is never sent to us, and clearing this site's data in your browser removes it.

Third-Party Services

Beyond what's described above, this site relies on: Supabase (hosts our database and handles account sign-in); Resend (delivers account-related, digest and newsletter emails); Google Fonts (loading a page may send your browser's IP address and user-agent to Google's servers as part of loading our typefaces); and Pexels (source of our photography, which is hosted directly on our own site — no separate request is made to Pexels when you view a page).

How We Use Information

We use the information described above to operate the site and its paid tools, respond to inquiries, evaluate potential legal matters you raise with us, send the newsletter and digest emails you've opted into, process payments, and enforce usage limits and our Terms of Service. We do not sell or rent your information to third parties.

Data Retention & Security

We retain account, usage, purchase, and contribution information for as long as your account is active, or as reasonably necessary for the purposes above, or as required by law or professional-responsibility record-keeping obligations. Contact and Beehiiv newsletter information is retained per the terms described above. We take reasonable measures to protect information in our possession, but no method of transmission or storage is completely secure.

Your Choices

You may unsubscribe from the newsletter or any digest email at any time using the link in each email, or by changing your digest preference on your Account page. You may cancel a subscription at any time; canceling stops future billing but doesn't retroactively delete past transaction records.

Not Legal Advice; No Attorney-Client Relationship

Nothing on this site, and no information you submit through it — including through the Case Value Calculator, the Lease Clause Redline Checker, or Contribute a Settlement — creates an attorney-client relationship. See our Terms of Service and, for the AI-assisted tools specifically, our Litigation Tools Terms for details.

Children's Privacy

CREdocket is a business-to-business service intended for commercial real estate professionals and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by an updated "last updated" date above.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent through our Contact page.