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Terms of Use & Legal

Effective June 10, 2026 · Last updated June 10, 2026

DeelScout is a prospecting and research tool, not professional advice. Everything it shows — zoning, FAR and buildable-area estimates, incentive-area flags (TIF, Opportunity Zone, TOD, 606/Pilsen and similar), lot and building figures, and any scoring or analysis — is an estimate derived from public data and may be incomplete, out of date, or wrong. It is not legal, zoning, engineering, tax, or investment advice. Always verify with the City of Chicago, Cook County, and your own licensed professionals before making any decision or spending any money.

1. Acceptance

By accessing or using DeelScout (the “Service”) you agree to these Terms of Use. If you create an account, you will be asked to affirmatively accept these terms; continued use also constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. What the Service is

DeelScout aggregates and interprets publicly available property, zoning, and incentive-area data for the Chicago market to help you identify and screen potential real-estate opportunities. Outputs are intended as leads to investigate, not as final determinations of what may be built, permitted, financed, or acquired on any parcel.

3. No professional advice; verify before acting

The Service does not provide legal, zoning, land-use, architectural, engineering, environmental, appraisal, tax, accounting, brokerage, or investment advice, and no fiduciary or advisory relationship is created by your use of it. Zoning classifications, allowable FAR and density, buildable area, setbacks, overlay and special districts, incentive eligibility, ownership, and valuation must be independently confirmed with the relevant government authorities and qualified, licensed professionals before you rely on them.

4. Data sources, accuracy, and timeliness

The Service is built on third-party and government open-data sources, including (without limitation) the City of Chicago Data Portal, Cook County data catalogs and assessor records, U.S. Census / TIGER, and federal program designations. We do not control, audit, or guarantee these sources.

Data is refreshed periodically and is presented “as of” the date shown; it may lag the official record.
Spatial matches (e.g. which district a parcel falls in) are computed approximately and may be wrong for boundary, split, or irregular parcels.
Some records are missing or incomplete; absence of a flag is not proof of absence in reality.
The official government record always controls over anything shown here.

5. Our interpretations

We do not claim ownership of the underlying public data. We do claim our own compilation, calculations, scoring, presentation, and software. You may use outputs for your own internal real-estate research. You may not scrape, bulk export, resell, redistribute, or build a competing dataset or product from the Service except as expressly permitted in writing.

6. Acceptable use

Do not use the Service for any unlawful purpose or to violate any third party’s rights.
Do not use property-owner or other personal information shown or derived from public records for harassment, unlawful solicitation, discrimination, or any purpose prohibited by law (including the Fair Credit Reporting Act — the Service is not a consumer report and may not be used to make decisions about any individual’s credit, housing, insurance, or employment).
Do not attempt to circumvent access controls, rate limits, or security measures.

7. No warranty

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any estimate or flag is correct.

8. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, DeelScout and its operators will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any lost profits, lost deals, or losses arising from reliance on the Service or its data. Our total aggregate liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amounts you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the claim or USD $100.

9. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless DeelScout and its operators from any claim or demand arising out of your use of the Service, your reliance on its outputs, or your violation of these Terms.

10. Changes

We may update these Terms or the Service at any time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, by notice in the app. Continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.

11. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and any dispute will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Cook County, Illinois.

12. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Contact [email protected].

This page is provided for transparency and is not itself legal advice. We recommend reviewing these Terms with your own attorney before launch.