Privacy Policy
Effective Date: August 23, 2026
Modern Times Homes LLC (“Modern Times Homes,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the home-sale calculator available at compare.moderntimeshomes.com and related webpages.
This Privacy Policy explains the information we collect, how we use it, when it may be disclosed, and the choices available to you.
1. Information We Collect
Contact Information:
- First name
- Last name
- Phone number
- Email address
Property Information:
- Property address
- Estimated property value
- Property condition
- Estimated repair amount
- Intended repair or listing strategy
- Approximate mortgage or property-secured loan balance
- Desired selling timeline
- Reason for considering a sale
- Additional property information voluntarily provided
Calculator Information:
We may store calculator answers, assumptions, estimated traditional-sale proceeds, estimated as-is cash-sale proceeds, adjustments made to calculator assumptions, and whether an actual cash offer was requested.
Technical and Marketing Information:
We may collect IP address, browser and device information, date/time of access, referring webpage, calculator session identifier, marketing campaign identifier, postcard creative identifier, ZIP-code and mailing-route attribution, UTM campaign parameters, and general website usage information.
2. Information We Do Not Request
Do not provide:
- Social Security numbers
- Driver’s license numbers
- Bank account information
- Credit or debit card numbers
- Mortgage account numbers
- Online banking credentials
- Passwords
- Government-issued identification numbers
3. How We Use Information
We may use information to:
- Provide the home-sale comparison requested
- Calculate estimated sale proceeds
- Review the property if a cash offer is requested
- Contact the user regarding the property submitted
- Respond to questions
- Evaluate whether Modern Times Homes may be interested in purchasing the property
- Maintain customer and lead records
- Follow up by telephone, text message or email when permitted
- Measure postcard and marketing performance
- Analyze website use
- Improve the calculator and services
- Prevent fraud, abuse and unauthorized access
- Maintain consent and communication-preference records
- Comply with applicable laws and legal obligations
4. Calls and Text Messages
If the user affirmatively provides consent through the calculator, the user authorizes Modern Times Homes LLC to contact them at the telephone number provided regarding the property submitted.
Depending on the consent provided and technology used, communications may include telephone calls and text messages sent using automated technology and may include artificial or prerecorded voice messages where permitted.
Consent is not a condition of purchasing goods or services or receiving a cash-offer evaluation.
Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies.
Consent to text messages may be revoked by replying STOP. A user may also request that telephone calls stop.
5. Email Communications
We may email users regarding the property or their request. Marketing emails will include an appropriate method to stop future marketing emails where required by law.
6. Service Providers
We may use service providers for:
- Website hosting
- Database hosting
- Customer relationship management
- Communications
- Analytics
- Website security
- Infrastructure
- Email or text-message delivery
These may include Vercel, Supabase, Google Analytics, REsimpli, or replacement providers performing similar functions.
7. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to measure website and calculator activity and marketing effectiveness.
The calculator is configured not to intentionally send Google Analytics:
- Name
- Phone number
- Email address
- Street address
- Mortgage balance
- Free-text property notes
8. Cookies and Similar Technologies
The website may use cookies, browser storage and similar technologies to maintain calculator progress, preserve sessions, remember selections, protect authorized actions, measure website usage, and attribute marketing campaigns.
9. Disclosure of Information
We may disclose information:
- To service providers working on our behalf
- When necessary to evaluate or respond to a property inquiry
- To professional advisers when necessary
- When required by law or lawful process
- When reasonably necessary to protect Modern Times Homes, users or others
- In connection with a merger, financing, sale, restructuring or transfer of the business
Modern Times Homes does not sell lists of calculator users’ personal information for money.
10. Data Security
We maintain administrative, technical and organizational measures designed to protect information from unauthorized access, acquisition, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.
No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.
11. Data Retention
We retain calculator submissions, lead records, communication records and consent records for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to requests, evaluate properties, maintain business records, document communications and consent, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, and meet legal obligations.
Certain suppression/do-not-contact records may be retained to ensure requests are honored.
12. User Choices
Users may contact us to:
- Correct contact information
- Ask us to stop calling
- Stop receiving text messages
- Stop receiving marketing email
- Ask questions about information associated with a calculator submission
- Request deletion where applicable
13. Children
The website and calculator are intended for adults considering transactions involving real property and are not directed to children under 13.
14. Security Incidents
If a security incident occurs involving information for which applicable law requires notification, notification will be provided as required by law.
15. Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The current effective date will be shown on the page.
16. Contact
Modern Times Homes LLC
598 Durham Ln
Hoffman Estates, IL 60169
Phone: 815-974-0359
Email: info@moderntimeshomes.com