Privacy policy
Last updated: May 27, 2026
American Bureau of Liens is a private data and notice company. We are not a court, recorder's office, government agency, collection agency, or law firm, and this site does not provide legal advice.
We use public-record lien data, mailed notice activity, website activity, and information you submit to verify notices, operate this service, maintain suppression records, and, when requested or allowed, route verified matters to attorneys, law firms, legal-service providers, or other business partners. Those disclosures may be considered a sale or sharing of personal information under some state privacy laws.
We collect the categories of information listed below from public records, county portals, third-party data providers, mailing and address vendors, your browser or device, QR-code and link activity, and forms or communications you submit. We use the information for the purposes listed in this policy, retain it as described below, and may sell, share, or disclose it as described in the “How we disclose information” section.
You can submit a privacy preference through the Do not sell or share my information page, the mail opt-out form, or by emailing privacy@ablien.org.
Lien filing information, recording numbers, filing dates, incident or service dates when present in the record, lien amounts, county or jurisdiction, filing parties, debtor or subject names, mailing addresses, document images, OCR text, source metadata, and related case identifiers.
Secure notice codes, form selections, name, phone number, preferred contact time, consent records, opt-out requests, privacy requests, corrections, dispute notes, and other communications you send to us.
IP address, browser and device details, timestamps, QR-code or notice-link activity, referring page, campaign or source parameters, page interactions, security events, and approximate location inferred from network data.
Verification status, delivery status, suppression flags, routing eligibility, duplicate-detection signals, quality-review notes, and internal audit records about how a notice or request was handled.
Hosting, storage, database, mailing, postal-address processing, document rendering, security, analytics, support, and professional-service vendors that help us operate the service.
When you request help, consent to contact, or otherwise ask to be connected, we may disclose your notice response, contact details, and filing information to participating attorneys, law firms, attorney referral services, lien-resolution providers, or their authorized staff. We may receive compensation for verified referrals or accepted leads.
Where permitted by law and not limited by an opt-out request, we may disclose, license, sell, or share public-record-derived lead data, verification data, and contact or response data to parties that evaluate or provide services related to lien resolution, legal representation, settlement support, or notice operations.
Courts, regulators, law enforcement, auditors, professional advisers, insurers, successors, or counterparties when necessary to comply with law, protect rights, complete a business transaction, or investigate misuse.
Some lien records may suggest medical treatment, an injury claim, a legal dispute, or a financial obligation. We treat that context as sensitive. Do not submit Social Security numbers, full medical records, bank details, or passwords through this site.
Many records we process come from public government sources. Even if we suppress, delete, or stop using information in our own systems, we cannot remove the underlying public record from a court, clerk, recorder, county portal, third-party archive, or another company.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to know, access, correct, delete, opt out of sale or sharing, limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, appeal a decision, use an authorized agent, and be free from discrimination for exercising privacy rights. We may need enough information to match your request to the correct record and may ask for additional verification for access, deletion, or correction requests.
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as an opt-out preference signal for the browser or device that sends it, where required by applicable law.
Submit a request at /do-not-sell or email privacy@ablien.org. We do not knowingly sell or share personal information about consumers under 16.
We keep notice, campaign, verification, lead, document, audit, consent, and referral records for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described here, including compliance, dispute handling, suppression, security, and business records. Suppression and opt-out records may be retained longer so we can avoid contacting or mailing the same person or address again.
We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information, but no system is perfectly secure. We may update this policy as our service, laws, vendors, or data practices change. The date above shows the latest update.
Privacy questions and requests may be sent to privacy@ablien.org or by mail to American Bureau of Liens, PO Box 38402, Phoenix, AZ 85069.