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How Receipts works.

We help people answer questions they used to pay private investigators $500 for. We do that with public records, breach databases, and published web data — nothing you couldn't find yourself with a week of free time and a lot of patience. Here is exactly what that means and the lines we don't cross.

What data we use

  • Public records: court filings, business registrations, property records, sex offender registries, FEC, FARA, SEC EDGAR.
  • Breach databases: publicly indexed, k-anonymity protected (Have I Been Pwned style).
  • Web data: Wikipedia, news, public social media profiles, certificate transparency logs, WHOIS.
  • Pivot links: we point you at other free public sources — we don't scrape them on your behalf.

What we will not do

  • No dark-web stalking. No buying personal data from grey-market brokers.
  • No real-time location tracking. No GPS pings. No cell-tower triangulation.
  • No bypassing privacy controls — we read what people have made public, not what they've hidden.
  • No selling your search history. No advertising trackers. We do not share your queries with third parties.
  • No reports for: stalking, harassment, doxxing minors, or any use prohibited by the FCRA / GLBA / state stalking statutes.

Your privacy

  • Searches are logged for 30 days for abuse detection, then deleted.
  • One-shot guest purchases require only an email address for delivery — no account needed.
  • You can request full deletion of your account and history any time at privacy@receipts.app.
  • GDPR + CCPA compliant. EU and California residents have data-access and erasure rights.
  • 2FA available on every account. We hash passwords with bcrypt.

What this product is — and isn't

Receipts is a research tool. We surface public information faster than you could find it manually. We add a plain-English summary so you can act on it.

Receipts is NOT a Consumer Reporting Agency under the FCRA. You may not use Receipts results to make decisions about: employment, credit, insurance, housing rentals (in some states), or any other FCRA-covered purpose without separately running an FCRA-compliant background check.

For tenant screening and contractor hiring templates, we surface public court records — these are sourced from the same public dockets a paid PI would search. A formal FCRA tenant screening is a separate product. Use Receipts as a first-pass filter, not a substitute for due diligence required by law.

Money-back guarantee

If a one-shot investigation returns no useful results, email us within 7 days at refunds@receipts.app and we'll refund the purchase, no questions asked. Subscription customers can cancel any time from the Settings page; unused prepaid months are refunded pro-rata for annual plans.

Questions?

Real humans read every email.

  • Privacy / GDPR / CCPA: privacy@receipts.app
  • Refunds: refunds@receipts.app
  • Abuse / takedown: abuse@receipts.app
  • Press / partnerships: hello@receipts.app
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