Fair Housing & Anti-Discrimination Policy

Users of HomeThingy are responsible for complying with all applicable federal, state, and local fair housing, anti-discrimination, and civil rights laws.

These laws may prohibit discrimination based on protected characteristics, which can include, depending on applicable law:

• Race
• Color
• National origin
• Religion
• Sex
• Familial status
• Disability
• And other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local law

HomeThingy may provide information regarding neighborhoods, demographics, schools, safety, crime, amenities, transportation, and other geographic characteristics.

This information is provided for general informational and research purposes.

HomeThingy does not intend for this information to be used to determine whether a person should live in, visit, purchase property in, rent property in, or otherwise be treated differently based on a protected characteristic.

HomeThingy does not endorse or encourage housing "steering."

Users should not use HomeThingy information to direct, discourage, recommend, or exclude individuals from particular neighborhoods or properties based on protected characteristics.

For example, users should not use demographic, school, safety, crime, or neighborhood information to make discriminatory housing recommendations.

AI-generated content may unintentionally reflect biases, limitations, inaccuracies, or patterns contained within underlying data.

HomeThingy does not represent that AI-generated neighborhood or property analysis is free from bias or error.

Accordingly:

AI-generated recommendations should not be interpreted as recommendations about which communities are appropriate or inappropriate for particular people or groups.

Users may not use HomeThingy to:

• Discriminate against individuals in housing transactions
• Make discriminatory housing recommendations
• Encourage or discourage housing choices based on protected characteristics
• Exclude properties or neighborhoods based on protected characteristics
• Create discriminatory housing advertisements
• Engage in unlawful housing steering
• Use demographic information to facilitate discriminatory decisions
• Use HomeThingy to circumvent fair housing requirements

HomeThingy may provide information concerning schools, crime, safety, and other neighborhood characteristics.

Such information is not intended to indicate whether a neighborhood is suitable or unsuitable for a particular person or protected group.

Safety and crime information is also not a guarantee of actual safety or future criminal activity.

Users should independently evaluate such information and consult appropriate authoritative sources.

Users are solely responsible for ensuring that their use of HomeThingy complies with applicable fair housing and anti-discrimination laws.

HomeThingy does not provide legal advice regarding fair housing compliance.

Users should consult qualified legal counsel when they have questions concerning compliance obligations.

If you believe that HomeThingy is being used to facilitate unlawful discrimination or that content generated by the Services may violate applicable fair housing requirements, please contact HomeThingy through the contact information provided on our website.

HomeThingy may investigate reports and may restrict or terminate accounts that misuse the Services or violate applicable laws or our Terms of Service.

HomeThingy is committed to continuously evaluating its products, data sources, AI systems, and features to reduce the risk that its Services facilitate unlawful discrimination.

However, no automated system can guarantee that every output will be free from bias, error, or unintended consequences.

HomeThingy encourages users to independently verify information and use the Services responsibly and lawfully.