This policy explains what information roc.house collects, how it is used, and what your options are. I've tried to write it in plain language rather than boilerplate, because a privacy policy nobody can read isn't much of a policy.
The short version: the only personal information I collect is what you choose to type into a form on this site. I use it to respond to you about real estate. I do not sell it, rent it, or trade it to anyone. There are no advertising trackers on this website.
Who this is about
This site is operated by Rocco Fazio, a licensed Pennsylvania real estate salesperson affiliated with Compass.
- Email: Rocco.fazio@compass.com
- Phone: 724-944-7663
If you'd rather not use a form, you can always just call or email me directly.
What I collect
Information you give me. The buyer, seller, and "join the team" forms ask for things like your name, email address, phone number, the areas or property you're interested in, your budget or price range, your timeline, whether you're pre-approved, and anything you write in the notes field. Applicants for the team may also share license status and experience.
You choose what to put in those fields. Nothing on this site requires you to create an account, and there is no login.
Information collected automatically. This site is hosted on Netlify, which — like essentially all web hosting — keeps standard server logs. Those can include your IP address, browser type, the pages you requested, and the time of the request. That happens at the hosting layer for security and reliability, not for advertising.
What I do not collect or use
I want to be specific here, because most privacy policies are vague about it:
- No advertising or analytics trackers. No Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no ad retargeting, no session recording.
- No cookies set by this site. This site does not set cookies, and does not use browser local storage to identify you.
- No third-party JavaScript. The scripts that run on these pages are written and served by this site.
- No profiling or automated decision-making. No algorithm here decides anything about you.
- No data from children. This site is meant for adults doing real estate business and is not directed to children under 13. I don't knowingly collect their information.
I do not sell your information
I do not sell, rent, lease, or trade your personal information to third parties, and I do not share it with data brokers or list sellers. I don't send it to anyone for their own marketing.
If that ever changed, I would say so in this policy before it took effect — and where the law requires consent or an opt-out, you'd get one.
How I use what you give me
I use your information to:
- respond to your question and follow up about buying, selling, or leasing;
- send listings, market information, or a valuation you asked for;
- carry out a transaction if we end up working together;
- consider your application, if you applied to join the team;
- keep the records real estate law and my brokerage require.
That's the whole list. I don't use your details for anything unrelated to why you contacted me.
Where your form submission actually goes
This is worth describing precisely, because it's unusual.
Right now, this site has no server that receives form data. When you submit a form, your browser opens your own email program with the details filled in, addressed to me. You send that message, from your own email account — nothing is transmitted to a third-party form service or database in between.
Practically, that means your submission is an ordinary email, and it lives wherever your email and mine live. My email runs through Compass. If I later start using a CRM or form service to receive inquiries, I'll update this section and change the date at the top.
Who else may see it
- Compass, my brokerage, whose systems I use for email and transaction files, and whose policies I work under.
- Service providers who keep the site running — principally Netlify, the host.
- Google Fonts. The typefaces load from Google's servers, so Google receives your IP address and browser information as part of that request. This is common across the web, but it's a real disclosure and you deserve to know.
- Other transaction participants, if we're working together and it's necessary — lenders, title companies, inspectors, attorneys, the other side's agent, and the MLS.
- When the law requires it, such as a subpoena, court order, or a legal or regulatory obligation.
Beyond that, no one.
Calls, texts, and email
If you give me your phone number and ask me to get in touch, I'll take that as permission to contact you about your inquiry — including by text, if that's how you reached out.
You can tell me to stop at any time and I will. Reply STOP to a text, say so on a call, or email me. There's no marketing list you need to escape; I'm one person, not an automated drip campaign. Standard message and data rates from your carrier may apply.
How long I keep it
I keep inquiry information as long as needed to help you, and after that as long as Pennsylvania real estate recordkeeping rules and my brokerage require for transaction records. If you never become a client and you'd like me to delete what you sent, ask and I'll delete it.
Your choices
You can ask me to:
- tell you what information of yours I have;
- correct anything that's wrong;
- delete it, unless I'm required to keep it as a transaction record;
- stop contacting you.
Email Rocco.fazio@compass.com and I'll handle it. I'm not going to make you fill out a form to exercise a privacy right. Depending on where you live, you may have additional legal rights — I'll honor requests like these regardless of which state you're in.
Most browsers offer a Do Not Track setting. Since this site does no cross-site tracking, there's nothing here for it to switch off.
Security
I take reasonable steps to protect your information. The site is served entirely over HTTPS. That said, no method of transmitting data over the internet is completely secure, and email in particular is not a secure channel — so please don't send Social Security numbers, bank account or card numbers, or copies of identity documents through a website form or ordinary email. If we need something sensitive during a transaction, I'll point you to a secure method.
Links to other sites
This site links out to other places — Compass listing pages, Google, news sources cited in journal posts. Once you follow one of those links you're on someone else's site, governed by their privacy policy, not this one.
Fair housing
I follow federal, Pennsylvania, and local fair housing law. I do not use any information collected here to steer anyone toward or away from neighborhoods, or to treat anyone differently based on race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, national origin, or any other protected characteristic.
Changes
If this policy changes, I'll post the new version here and update the "last updated" date at the top. Material changes in how I handle information already collected will be described rather than quietly swapped in.
Questions
Ask me. Rocco.fazio@compass.com or 724-944-7663.