Privacy notice

Last updated September 27, 2026

Who we are

NYC Watchdog ("we", "us") is operated by Richmond County Management LLC (d/b/a NYC Watchdog), 29 Port Richmond Ave, Staten Island, NY 10302. We run this website, a free NYC property lookup, and a live-monitoring service (free for one property, paid plans for more) that emails customers about new City records on their buildings. We are an independent service and are not affiliated with the City of New York.

Information you give us

When you use the trial / contact form we store what you type: your name, email, and, if you choose to give them, your phone number, company, number of properties, boroughs, plan interest, any properties you selected on the lookup page, and your message. We also store the date, your browser's user-agent string and the page you came from, so we can spot spam. If you arrived through a link someone shared from a lookup result, we store the anonymous referral code and campaign tags in that link (no names or contact details of the person who shared it).

We use this information only to contact you about NYC Watchdog and to set up the service you ask for. We do not sell it or share it with advertisers. We don't send you anything unless you ask us to contact you.

Text messages (SMS)

Text alerts are optional. If you tick the text-alert box, we store your mobile number, that you agreed, the date and time, the wording you agreed to, and your browser's user-agent string, as a record of your consent. We use your number only to send the property alerts you asked for and to answer HELP and STOP messages. We never use it for marketing and never sell, rent or share your mobile number or consent with anyone for their own purposes.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

Message frequency varies with the City records filed for your buildings. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to any message to stop all texts, or HELP for help. Reply START to resubscribe. Wireless carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

The free property lookup

You don't need an account to search. We don't ask for your name or email to run a lookup.
The addresses you search are sent to our servers and to public NYC data services (NYC Open Data and NYC Planning's GeoSearch, which also powers the address suggestions in your browser) to fetch the records. Lookup results may be cached for a short time to keep the site fast.
Results show public City records about buildings. For owners, we show business entity names only (for example an LLC). We never show individual people's names, phone numbers or home addresses.

Cookies and local storage

We don't use advertising or analytics cookies. If you pick properties on the lookup page and click to start a trial, the browser remembers that list in local storage so the form can show it; it is cleared after you submit. Web fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when the page loads.

Service providers

The site is hosted on Vercel, which processes technical request data (such as IP addresses and the pages requested) to serve and protect the site. Form submissions are stored in private cloud storage on Vercel. If you become a monitoring customer, alerts are sent through an email provider and, if you opted in to texts, through our text-message provider (Twilio), which processes your number only to deliver our messages.

How long we keep it

We keep form submissions for as long as we need them to talk to you about the service, and delete them on request.

Your choices

You can ask us to show you, correct or delete what you've submitted. Email support@nycwatchdog.com or send the request through the contact form (we'll reply to the email address you enter there).

Changes and contact

We'll update this page if our practices change and change the date at the top. Questions: support@nycwatchdog.com.