Legal

Privacy Notice

Effective November 15, 2026

This notice explains what information Fairbeez ("we," "us") collects on fairbeez.com, how we use it, and the choices you have.

1. Information you give us

When you fill out a form on Fairbeez (for example, to see if you can finance a deal, find a broker, ask an owner if they'd sell, order a report, save a search, join the account list, or submit an owner request), we collect:

your name, email address and phone number;
deal information, such as the business you're looking at, industry, city, revenue and earnings, cash for a down payment, timing and anything you type into a message box;
for partner inquiries, your organization and the markets you serve;
for owner requests, the business name, address and what you'd like us to do.

2. Buyer accounts

You can use Fairbeez without an account. If you create one, here is what it holds:

Email address and password. Sign-in is handled by our account provider, Supabase. Your password goes straight to Supabase and is stored there in protected (hashed) form; Fairbeez never sees it.
Google sign-in (optional). If you choose "Continue with Google," Google shares your name and email address with us so we can create your account. We don't get your Google password or access to your other Google data.
Saved lists. The businesses you save and the lists you put them in.
Private notes. Notes you write on a business are visible only to you when you're signed in. They're never included when you share a list or link with someone else.
Saved searches and alert emails. The searches you save and, if you turn them on, emails about new matches. You can turn alerts off anytime in your Account, or use the unsubscribe link in any alert.

Inquiries and lead forms. When you send an inquiry (for example, asking about a business, contacting a broker, or checking financing), we collect what you enter in that form and share it with brokers or lenders only when you ask us to, as explained in section 4. Loan quote summaries you see are anonymous: lenders don't get your name or contact details until you pick a lender and ask to be contacted.

You can delete your account and its saved lists, notes and searches by asking us at the address below.

3. How we use it

to respond to your request and follow up about it;
to verify ownership before changing or removing a business;
to send emails you asked for, such as saved-search alerts, and the weekly owner update if you claimed a business (you can unsubscribe anytime);
to operate, secure and improve the site.

We don't sell your personal information.

We share your contact and deal information with lenders, brokers or other partners only when you request it by submitting a form and checking its consent box (for example, "Share my details and this deal with up to 3 SBA lenders so they can contact me"). Each form says who will receive your information. Partners use it under their own privacy policies. Fairbeez may be paid by partners for introductions you request.

We may also share information with service providers that host the site, process forms or store our data (such as Netlify and Supabase) on our behalf, or when required by law.

Buyer screening and verification documents

Before you contact a broker, request a meeting or request financials, Fairbeez asks a short set of screening questions (cash available as a range, how you'll pay, credit score range, timeline, experience, SBA eligibility) and you sign the listing's confidentiality agreement and certify your answers by typing your name. We keep your answers, your typed name, the date and time and the agreement version (no IP address) in your account to run the screen, prefill it next time, enforce contact limits and stop abuse. The broker of a listing you contact sees a Buyer Card with your name, email, these answers as ranges, your fit score and screening level, and the date you signed. Brokers see your phone number only if you tick “share my phone with this broker”. If a partner lender pre-qualifies you from an anonymous quote request, brokers you contact see that lender's name and the amount.

We do not ask for, collect or store bank statements, proof-of-funds letters, personal financial statements, tax returns, account numbers or Social Security numbers. Brokers and lenders ask for proof of funds and run credit checks directly, under their own agreements and privacy policies, after you sign their NDA. Attempts that don't pass screening are not sent to anyone; we keep a record of them (listing, reasons, answers as ranges) to understand demand. You can ask us to delete your screening answers at any time (see Contact).

5. Calls and texts

By checking the consent box and providing a phone number, you agree that Fairbeez and, where the form says so, the partners you selected may contact you at that number about your request, including by call or text, which may use automated technology. Consent is not a condition of any purchase. Message and data rates may apply. You can opt out at any time by replying STOP to a text or telling the caller, or by emailing us.

6. Cookies, browser storage and analytics

Fairbeez uses your browser's local storage to remember things on your device, such as businesses you've saved and display preferences. If you aren't signed in, this data stays in your browser and isn't sent to us; if you are, your saved items are kept in your account (section 2). You can clear browser storage in your browser settings. We don't use advertising cookies.

Site analytics (our own, anonymous)

To see which pages and businesses are useful, Fairbeez keeps its own simple, anonymous usage log. It uses no cookies, and we don't use ad pixels. What's recorded:

a random ID created by your browser (not your name, email or device ID), so we can count visits without knowing who you are;
what happened: a page view (or, for a page that isn't ready yet, the address you tried, without anything after the "?"), a search, opening a business or a report, saving a business, sending a form, creating an account, saving a buyer profile or opening a shared list; running an owner estimate or a buyer price check (only the level, industry and city, never your numbers); starting or verifying a business claim; your answer to "Thinking of selling?" (no, maybe or yes); asking to be matched with brokers; or subscribing to the owner update;
which business, city or industry it was about, plus small details such as the filter you chose, the website you came from (its name only) and whether the screen is phone-sized. If you saved a buyer profile, only its letter grade (A–E) is recorded, not your answers;
if you're signed in, your account ID is attached so we can count sign-ups and saves.

We don't record your IP address, what you type into search or message boxes, or your contact details in this log. It is kept for 13 months, then deleted. Only the Fairbeez team can see it. We may share totals from it with brokers and partners (for example, visitors per month, the most-viewed cities and industries, or how many owners said they're thinking of selling), and each listing broker sees view, save and inquiry counts for their own listings. Never anything about one person.

Google Analytics (only if you allow it)

Fairbeez may also use Google Analytics to understand which pages are useful. It loads only after you click "Allow analytics" in the notice at the bottom of the page, never if you choose "No thanks", turn analytics off below, or your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. When allowed, Google sets analytics cookies and receives technical information (such as your IP address, browser and the pages you visit) under the Google Privacy Policy. We turn off Google's advertising features and send no names, emails or phone numbers.

Technical error reports

If a page breaks in your browser, Fairbeez records a short technical report so we can fix it: the error message, the page address (without anything after the "?"), your browser type and the site version. We remove email addresses, phone numbers and sign-in tokens before saving, and we never include what you typed into forms.

Turning it off. Analytics is off automatically if your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal. You can also turn it off for this browser here:

Where form submissions are stored

When you send a form, it is delivered to us by email through Netlify and also saved in our database (Supabase), so we can follow up and route it to the broker or lender you asked for. Phone numbers and contact details are visible only to the Fairbeez team and to partners you chose; they are never shown on the site. We keep submissions only as long as needed to handle your request and meet legal obligations (section 10).

7. Google Maps, Street View and Google Places photos

Fairbeez may use Google Maps, Street View images and photos from Google Maps (the Google Places API) to show where off-market businesses are and what they look like. These maps and photos are Google Maps content, loaded directly from Google when you view them, and each photo is credited to the person who took it. We don't store copies of Google's photos or Street View images; we only keep Google's place identifier for each business so we can ask Google for its current photos. Businesses listed for sale never show Google photos or Street View, because their exact location is confidential.

When Google content loads, Google receives technical information such as your IP address, browser details and the page you're on, and handles it under the Google Privacy Policy. Your use of Google Maps content is also subject to the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service. To limit costs, your browser keeps a simple count of how many Google images it has loaded today (in local storage, not sent to us).

8. Information about businesses from public records

Business pages are built from public sources such as Texas Comptroller mixed-beverage receipts and sales-tax permits, Texas Health and Human Services childcare licenses, US Census and IRS statistics, and county appraisal district records. These records are about businesses, not about website visitors. From the Texas sales-tax permit list we publish only the business's operating name, type, location and start year, never the owner's name, taxpayer number or home address (for individually owned businesses we leave out the house number). Estimates derived from them are modeled opinions, not the businesses' own figures. See How estimates work.

9. Business owners: correction and removal

If you own a business shown on Fairbeez, you can ask us to correct its information or remove it using the owner request form or by emailing fairbeez.team@fairbeez.com. We'll verify you're authorized before making changes.

Owner-submitted business facts. If you claim a business, we keep your legal business name and Texas taxpayer or SOS file number to verify ownership (checked against Texas Comptroller public records), and the facts you enter (for example revenue, earnings, staff, lease and hours). Each fact is private unless you mark it public. Private facts are used only to calculate your own owner-updated estimate and, in anonymized and aggregated form, to improve Fairbeez Estimates; only you and Fairbeez staff can see them. Public facts appear on your business's page only after we verify your claim, and money amounts are shown only as ranges. We keep a history of changes. You can update or delete your facts at any time by emailing us. If you ask us to match you with business brokers, we share the details shown on that form with up to 3 brokers, and only if you tick the consent box.

Sale outcomes. When a broker or owner closes out a listing on Fairbeez, the sale details they report (such as final price, closing date, financing terms and days to close) are confidential. Fairbeez never publishes a single sale, business, broker or owner. They are shown, shared or exported only as anonymized aggregates of 3 or more sales (for example median price-to-earnings multiples by industry), including in the market data used in Fairbeez Estimates and in reports for brokers, lenders and investors.

Saved estimates. When you are signed in and choose "Save my estimate" in "What's my business worth?", we store your answers (industry, city or ZIP, revenue, earnings, tax-return figures and add-backs you enter, and whether you're thinking of selling) and the results shown, linked to your account, so you can see them on any device; we keep earlier versions too. Only you and Fairbeez staff can see a saved estimate. If you leave "Use my answers, without my name, to improve Fairbeez Estimates" ticked, we also use it in anonymized, aggregated form, only in groups of 3 or more businesses. You can delete it at any time with "Delete my saved estimate", which also deletes its earlier versions.

Buyer analyses. "Check a business you're looking at" reads a listing you paste right in your browser. We never store the pasted text, and Fairbeez never visits or copies the listing page. If you are signed in and choose "Save this analysis", we store only the numbers you confirmed (such as asking price, revenue, cash flow and your answers), the results shown and the listing link you typed, linked to your account; we keep earlier versions too. Only you and Fairbeez staff can see a saved analysis. If you leave "Use these numbers, without my name, to improve Fairbeez Estimates" ticked, we also use them in anonymized, aggregated form, only in groups of 3 or more. You can delete an analysis at any time from "Your saved analyses".

Sale prices you share

If you use "Share a real sale price", we store the business, the price, the month and year of the sale, whether real estate and inventory were included, your role in the sale, your account and any proof you upload. We never show an individual sale price publicly, and never next to a business's name. Verified prices are used only in aggregate, for example a median across five or more sales of the same kind of business, and to improve Fairbeez Estimates. To verify a price we compare it with public SBA loan records or review it by hand. Proof files are kept in private storage that only Fairbeez staff can open. To delete a price you shared, email fairbeez.team@fairbeez.com.

Reports and report credits

When you unlock a Full Fairbeez Report, we record which report your account unlocked (the kind of report, industry, city and estimate level, no numbers) so it stays in your account, and keep a record of the report credits your account earned and used.

Community photos and contributor profiles

If you add photos of a business, we store the photos, the time you took them, your phone's location and its accuracy at that moment, any location and date stored in the photo file, the distance to the business's address, quality measurements and a small image fingerprint used to spot duplicates. The location is used only to check that the photos were taken at the business; it is never shown publicly. To find a business's position we send its public street address (never anything about you) to the free U.S. Census Geocoder.

Publicly we show only accepted photos, with the display name you chose (a nickname or first name and last initial) or "Community photo" if you're anonymous, plus your optional picture or initials badge. Your contributor page uses a random ID, never your legal name or email, and shows your photo counts, level and report credits earned. You can switch to anonymous at any time. If you delete your account, your contributor profile is deleted and any photos that remain show as "Community photo". Reports about photos or profiles are kept with the reporter's account so each person counts once.

10. Your choices

You can ask us to access, correct or delete the personal information you've submitted by emailing us. We keep form submissions only as long as needed to handle your request and meet legal obligations.

11. Security and children

We use reasonable safeguards, but no website is perfectly secure. Fairbeez is not intended for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information.

12. Changes

We may update this notice and will post the new version here with a new date.

13. Contact

Privacy questions or requests: fairbeez.team@fairbeez.com