This website is owned and maintained by Rick Daniel Home Inspections, a privately owned, Tracy, California service based company. Rick Daniel Home Inspections conducts home inspections (under contract) for individuals and companies involved in real estate transactions including the purchase and/or sale of residential living spaces and commercial property.
Home Inspector Inc is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Please contact us here if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you. If you would like to request or delete any personal data we may have stored, you can use our online Privacy Tools.
By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – a natural person under 18 years of age.
We/us (either capitalized or not) – Home Inspector Inc
We promise to follow the following data protection principles:
The Data Subject has the following rights:
Information you have provided us with
This might be your e-mail address, name, billing address, home address etc. – mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the website. This information includes, for example, your name and e-mail address.
Information automatically collected about you
This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your shopping cart information, your IP address, your shopping history (if there is any) etc. This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.
Information from our partners
We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds. See the list of our partners here.
Publicly available information
We might gather information about you that is publicly available.
We use your Personal Data in order to:
We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.
On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same to your purchasing history/browsing behaviour to be our legitimate interest.
With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
How We Use Order Information:
We use the information you provide when placing an order to prepare the inspection report template. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
We use the information you provide about someone else when placing an order to prepare the inspection report template. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
Information that appears on the inspection report template will be transferred to the final inspection report and could include some or all of the following:
Unless otherwise instructed, a copy of the inspection report and all information contained therein will be delivered to each of the respective parties listed on the order form with the exception of the Title Company. Where escrow billing is required, the Title Company will receive an invoice that lists the Paying Client’s name, the inspected property address, escrow number and fee.
We use email addresses to deliver reports, conduct correspondence and answer the email we receive. With our clients permission we may also use an email address or cell phone number to solicit for a review. This is conducted through a paid, third party company called Broadly.com. Email addresses are otherwise not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties except where they appear on the inspection report. Inspection reports are only delivered to the client, their respective agent and the sellers respective agent unless the client requests the report not be sent to any other person(s) bedsides themselves.
It is recognized that the California Realtors Association (CAR) CALIFORNIA RESIDENTIAL PURCHASE AGREEMENT AND JOINT ESCROW INSTRUCTIONS, paragraph 12D instructs that the seller of a property is entitled to a copy of the inspection report, where private information can be transferred to outside parties.
It is also recognized that copies of the report may be provided to parties not directly involved in the transaction by persons who have access to the report as a result of the real estate transaction. Rick Daniel Home Inspections specifically advises:
RECEIPT OF THIS REPORT BY THIRD PARTIES OR OTHER PURCHASERS OF THIS PROPERTY (OTHER THAN THE ABOVE LISTED PARTY(S)) IS NOT AUTHORIZED BY RICK DANIEL HOME INSPECTIONS.
We do retain client phone numbers and email addresses for the purpose of communication that may not be specifically related to the inspection report but could be valued as relevant to real estate ownership, maintenance, care and improved value for the property, and, as specified above, for the solicitation of a review.
We may use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers or search engines. For example, we may tell an advertiser or search engine that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
Although we do not sponsor third party ads on this website, we use Google GA4 tracking but NOT Google Analytics Advertising features. GA4 tracking incorporates first-party cookies and tracks: number of users, session statistics, approximate geolocation and browser and device information.
We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfil obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from law, but not longer than 60 months.
We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:
We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.
We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience. We share your data with:
Our Processing Partners:
Our Business Partners:
Connected Third Parties:
We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.
We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymising and pseudonymising where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks.
Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.
If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.
We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services.
We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us.
A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.
We Use Cookies for The Following Purposes:
You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.
Our website and business is based in the United States and conducts regional business only in the United States and the State of California.
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call us at (209) 768-2142 or contact us here.
We reserve the right to make change to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy was last modified on August 1, 2025.
