Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Last Updated: September 11, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
- Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
- Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Topher Realty, 725 Poplar St, Helena MT 59601
- Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
- Country refers to: Montana, United States
- Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service refers to the Website.
- Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
- Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- Website refers to Topher Realty, accessible from topherrealty.com
- You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected:
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
- Sensitive Personal Information (e.g., social security number, tax identification number, images of your driver's license, government issued ID, passport, national ID card), and other similar personal information.)
- Usage Data
- Payment Services (To use certain of our payment services, or to make and receive payments on our platform, you may be required to provide us with financial and other sensitive personal information, e.g., your bank account number, online bank account login, and credit card information. We may also capture additional information when you make payments, such as card type, transaction type, and payee information.)
Device information.
- When you access our Websites or use our Services, we may collect device information that can be used to identify you or your device. This internet or electronic network information may include IP address, hardware and software operating system type and version, browser type and version, crash data, and the pages you have viewed or engaged with before or after accessing our Websites or Services.
Commercial and activity information.
- We may collect commercial information about how you use our Websites or Services, such as content accessed, services you have used or interacted with, date and time of account creation, account status, log in activity, transaction history, time viewed, and links clicked.
Geolocation data.
- When you use some of our Services, we may collect geolocation data about your precise or approximate location based on your IP address, GPS, or nearby devices (e.g., Wi-Fi access points, cell towers).
Cookies and similar technologies.
- We leverage common industry standard capabilities to facilitate feature rich service delivery using website cookies and tracking beacons.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are text files that are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies perform many different functions and we use them for a variety of reasons, including, to learn what content is popular, improve site experience, provide efficient webpage navigation, save user preferences, understand how you may interact with our Websites, and to serve you better ads on other sites.
Cookie Syncing
We may send and receive cookies, Pixels, or other online identifiers, on our Websites to associate cookies with certain third party partners, such as DemandBase and other ad tech providers. This practice involves allowing our third party partners to use cookies and assign online identifiers to increase performance of ad campaigns.
Managing Cookie Preferences
You may manage your cookie preferences and opt out of certain cookies on our Websites by visiting here. Please note that this opt out will not affect account based personalization.
Browser Cookie Management
Certain web browsers may allow you to manage your cookie preferences through their settings. Please see documentation related to your particular browser for more information.
“Do Not Track” Signals
Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals are a way to keep your online behavior from being followed across the Internet by behavioral advertisers, analytics companies, and social media sites. As the industry lacks a comprehensive standard to implement such signals, we are unable to support DNT signals.
Use of Your Personal Data
Providing Our Services
We work hard to provide our users with the features, functionality, and support they need to have an efficient, intuitive, and worthwhile experience while using our Services. To do this, we use your information to:
- Verify your identity, authenticate your account, and maintain your account, settings, and preferences;
- Provide customer support and resolve questions and issues you have about our Services;
- Communicate with you about your use of our Services and notify you about upcoming changes or improvements to our Services;
- Process payments, verify bank account balances, and conduct background checks;
- Collect feedback regarding your experience;
- Understand and personalize your experience within our Services;
- Facilitate additional services and programs with third parties; and
- Operate surveys, sweepstakes, and other promotions.
Safeguarding Your Information and Our Services
Providing you with a secure and safe experience on our Websites and Services is very important to us. To do this, we use your information to:
- Conduct proactive monitoring of suspicious activity across our systems and platforms;
- Monitor and prevent unauthorized access to your information, and account for unlawful or other fraudulent activities;
- Conduct diligence on third parties to ensure they meet our strict security and data protection standards; and
- Continuously review and improve our security and data protection practices to protect information with which we are entrusted to conduct business.
Improving Our Services
We are constantly improving our Services to better serve you. To do this, we use your information to:
- Monitor engagement and interactions and gather data analytics to improve functionalities, operations, and processes, including our security practices, algorithms, and other modeling;
- Assess the capabilities of third party partners;
- Develop new products, features, partnerships, and services;
- Perform research, testing, and analysis; and
- Prevent, find, and resolve software bugs and issues.
Building Our Community and Marketing Our Services
To build our community and engage with our users, we use your information to:
- Communicate with you about events, educational offers, and provide you with our newsletter;
- Personalize and provide content, experiences, communications, and targeted advertising to promote our Services; and
- Provide content for public forums, such as bulletin boards, blogs, or chat rooms on our Websites or within our Services.
For Any Other Lawful, Legitimate Business Purpose
We may use your information for any other lawful, legitimate business purpose including, evaluating job applications and conducting employment interviews; complying with legal obligations and other governmental demands; investigating and resolving disputes; and enforcing our Terms of Service and any other contracts.
How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal information to third parties for money, and we do not act as a data broker. However, we may need to share your information with service providers, third parties, and other users in order to provide our Services and perform tasks on our behalf. This section explains when and why we share your information.
Service Providers
We use a variety of third-party service providers to help us provide our Services and to perform tasks on our behalf, and these third parties may require your information for such purposes. For example, service providers may help us: (a) verify your identity or authenticate your identification documents, (b) check information against public databases, (c) conduct background checks, fraud prevention, and risk assessment, (d) perform product development, maintenance, and debugging, (e) provide customer service, payments, or insurance services, (f) automate administrative tasks; and (g) provide analytics. We have written agreements with all such third parties and they are not permitted to use your information for any purpose other than to deliver the relevant services in a professional manner, and consistent with their legal, regulatory and other obligations. Some of these disclosures may constitute “sharing” of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising purposes under certain U.S. state privacy laws, which we describe in more detail here.
Legal and Regulatory Disclosures
We may disclose your information to courts, law enforcement, governmental authorities, tax authorities, or other third parties, if and to the extent we are required or permitted to do so by law or if such disclosure is reasonably necessary: (a) to comply with our legal obligations, (b) to comply with a valid legal request or to respond to claims asserted against us, (c) to respond to a valid legal request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other of our users to legal liability, or (d) to enforce and administer our Terms of Service or other agreements with users. Such disclosures may be necessary to comply with our legal obligations, for the protection of your or another person's interests or for the purposes of keeping our Services secure, preventing harm or crime, enforcing or defending legal rights, or facilitating the collection of taxes.
Sharing With Your Consent or Upon Your Direction
With your consent or upon your direction, we may disclose your information to interact with a third party and for other purposes, such as with co-sponsors of our events or webinars.
Sharing Between Our Business Customers’ Users
To help facilitate the use of our Services by our Business Customers and among their users, we may need to share certain information within that business account with other users that are authorized to access and use that business account. For example, account login information and other certain personal information may be visible by all members of the business account for purposes of confirming account permissions and users.
Public Information
Some of our Services let you publish information that is visible or available to the public. For example, if you use our website services, you may elect to include certain of your information on websites available to the public at large. Similarly, if you use our Premium Listing product to post your listings to numerous free and paid listings sites, such listings may include your information.
Corporate Affiliates
To enable or support us in providing you the Services, we may share your information within our corporate family of companies, which includes AppFolio and its wholly owned subsidiaries.
Business Transfers
If we are involved in any merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or insolvency event, then we may sell, transfer, or share some or all of our assets, including your information in connection with such transaction or in contemplation of such transaction.
Retention of Your Personal Data
We retain your information for no longer than necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal or reporting requirements, and in accordance with our legal obligations and legitimate business interests. To determine the appropriate retention period for your information, we consider the purposes for which we process the information; the nature and sensitivity of the information; the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information; and any applicable legal and reporting requirements.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Delete Your Personal Data
You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.
Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.
You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.
Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Children’s Privacy
AppFolio is not directed at children and individuals under the age of 18 are not permitted to use our Services. We do not knowingly collect information from individuals under 18 years of age. If we find out that an individual under the age of 18 has given us personal information, we will take steps to delete that information. If you believe that an individual under the age of 18 has given us personal information, please contact us at privacy@appfolio.com.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
- By email: privacy@appfolio.com
- By mail: AppFolio, Inc., 70 Castilian Drive, Goleta, CA 93117
- By website: https://www.appfolio.com/resources/contact