Privacy

Free sample requests

When you submit an email address, Rebar Beacon requests the five largest qualifying projects by square feet from the immediately preceding Monday through Sunday. The email address and request are saved in the app. The request is sent to the founder’s Polsia dashboard; if dashboard intake does not record it, the app emails a notification to the company inbox.

The sample is emailed to the address you submitted only when the qualifying permit records are ready. If the records are unavailable or sample delivery fails, the form asks you to try again. A sample request does not take a card, charge you, or enroll you in a paid plan.

Public permit records

The source is the City of Austin public Issued Construction Permits dataset. The current sample may show the permit issue date, address, work type, square feet, valuation when listed, description, contractor company, contractor phone when that field is present, and a link to the official City record. The source dataset is available at data.austintexas.gov.

Coverage is limited to records from the City of Austin. Contractor company contacts are used only when they appear in those public records. Homeowner or personal contact details are not used.

Visitor beacon

When deployment analytics is enabled, the browser creates a random visitor identifier or reuses the identifier already in local storage, then sends that identifier and the app slug to Polsia. When analytics is disabled for a deployment, the beacon is not rendered.

Questions

For questions about this page, email rebar-beacon@polsia.io.