Last updated: July 20, 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Tax Foreclosures NC ("the service", "we", "us"). By creating an account, purchasing a subscription, or using the service, you accept these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle data. Section 15 requires binding individual arbitration and includes a waiver of your right to sue in court, to a jury trial, and to participate in a class action — please read it.
Tax Foreclosures NC provides North Carolina tax-foreclosure auction listings, refreshed daily, with added context such as deadlines, bid history, maps, watchlists, and email alerts. The service is informational only. It is a research aid — one of several tools you should use when evaluating any property — and is not a substitute for the county's own records, the court file, professional advice, or your own inspection.
You must be at least 18 and able to form a binding contract. Provide accurate account information and keep your credentials confidential; you are responsible for all activity under your account. Accounts are personal to one individual and may not be shared, and access may not be provided to third parties. We may refuse, suspend, or revoke any account at our discretion.
Access to the app requires a paid subscription. The price and billing period are stated at purchase. If a subscription includes a free or discounted trial, it converts to a paid subscription at the then-current rate when the trial ends unless you cancel before the trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period, and the then-current rate is charged to your payment method, until you cancel. You can cancel at any time through the billing portal; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep access until then. We may change prices with notice to you; changes apply from your next renewal, and your remedy if you disagree is to cancel before it. Prices exclude any applicable taxes, which are your responsibility and may be added at checkout. If a payment fails, we may suspend access until payment is made. Payments are processed by Stripe; we do not store card numbers.
All payments are final and non-refundable except where these Terms or applicable law expressly require otherwise. Without limiting that: no refunds or credits are provided for partial billing periods, unused time after cancellation, downtime or unavailability, changes to features or data sources, or dissatisfaction with the service or its data. Any goodwill refund we choose to give in one instance does not obligate us to give one again. If you believe a charge is wrong, contact us at the address in Section 20 first and we will work with you to correct genuine billing errors. Initiating a payment-card chargeback for charges you authorized is a breach of these Terms and grounds for immediate termination.
The service is provided on an "as available" basis. We work to keep it available, but we do not promise any particular level of availability and provide no service-level agreement, no uptime guarantee, and no credits or refunds for downtime. The service may be interrupted by maintenance, updates, infrastructure or network failures, or events outside our control, with or without notice.
Nothing on this site is legal, financial, tax, or investment advice, and no professional or fiduciary relationship is created by your use of the service. We are not your attorney, broker, agent, or advisor; we are not an auctioneer; and we are not a party to, and do not participate in, any auction, sale, or transaction.
Assumption of risk: tax-foreclosure purchases carry significant risk, including — without limitation — risks relating to title defects, liens and encumbrances, unpaid taxes and assessments, occupancy and eviction, property condition and environmental hazards, zoning and code issues, procedural defects, deadlines, deposit forfeiture, overpaying, financing, insurability, and resale value. All bidding and purchasing decisions are yours alone, and you knowingly and voluntarily assume all risk arising from them, whether or not a particular risk is listed here. Consult qualified professionals and do your own diligence — including reviewing the court file, confirming facts with the county, and inspecting the property — before bidding on any property.
Release: to the fullest extent permitted by law, you release and forever discharge us from any and all claims, demands, losses, and damages, known or unknown, arising out of or relating to auction outcomes, bids made or not made, deposits paid or forfeited, properties purchased or not purchased, deadlines met or missed, amounts paid or overpaid, the condition or title of any property, or your use of or reliance on any information provided by the service. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code § 1542, which says: "A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party." This release does not apply to liability that cannot be released under applicable law.
We do not independently verify listings or other data, which may be incomplete, out of date, or contain errors — including errors that originate outside the service — and these disclaimers apply regardless of the cause or origin of any inaccuracy. Facts can change at any time: sales are canceled, postponed, or reopened, upset bids are filed, and amounts, dates, and statuses change, and the service may lag those changes or never reflect them. Where a fact is unknown, the service shows it as unknown rather than estimating it. We have no obligation to update, correct, or continue publishing any particular listing or data point. Some content shown in the service (for example, map and street-level imagery) is supplied by third-party services, is subject to their terms, and may itself be inaccurate or outdated. You are responsible for verifying every detail with the county, the court file, and your own inspection before acting on it. This applies to every individual listing: before bidding on any property, independently confirm that listing's material facts — including the sale date and time, the upset-bid deadline and bid amounts, taxes and costs owed, title and lien status, occupancy, and property condition — and complete your own full due diligence using records, professionals, and inspections independent of the service. We make no guarantee of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or availability of any data.
You may use the service only for your own property research. You may not: resell, republish, redistribute, or make available the service's data or any derived dataset; access the service by automated means (scraping, crawling, bulk export) beyond the features it provides; use the service or its data to train, tune, or improve any machine-learning or artificial-intelligence model or dataset; use the service to build or assist a competing product or dataset; frame or mirror any part of the service; share an account or circumvent access controls; probe, disrupt, or overload the service; or use the service in violation of law. We may throttle, suspend, or terminate access that we believe violates this section, and we may pursue any other remedy available to us.
The service — including its compilation, selection, arrangement, curation, presentation, derived metrics, software, design, and branding — is owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual-property and other laws. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the service for your own property research while your subscription is active. This license includes the outputs the service's built-in features generate for you — such as printed court-form packets and spreadsheet exports — which you may print, save, and share privately with your spouse, co-investor, attorney, or another professional assisting your own property research; you are responsible for ensuring that anyone you share an output with uses it only to assist your research. It does not permit publishing any output, distributing outputs beyond that circle, or using outputs to assemble any dataset or competing resource; Section 8 applies to outputs the same way it applies to the service. All rights not expressly granted are reserved; no other rights are transferred, by implication or otherwise.
We claim no ownership of individual facts as such. That acknowledgment is not a license: your only rights in the service and in anything obtained from it are the license above, and it does not permit copying, extracting, or redistributing the service's data at any scale — Section 8 governs what you may do. You keep ownership of the content you save in the service (notes, tags, and similar); you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, process, and display that content as needed to operate the service. If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without restriction or compensation.
We may add, change, or remove features, data sources, or content at any time, with or without notice, and without liability. If we discontinue the service entirely, your sole and exclusive remedy is a pro-rata refund of any prepaid, unused portion of your subscription.
You may cancel at any time as described in Section 3. We may suspend or terminate your access immediately if we believe you have breached these Terms, in which case no refund is due. We may also terminate for convenience, in which case your sole and exclusive remedy is a pro-rata refund of any prepaid, unused portion. Sections 4–18, and any other provision that by its nature should survive, survive any termination of these Terms.
THE SERVICE AND ALL DATA ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE SERVICE CREATES ANY WARRANTY.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (A) WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST OPPORTUNITIES, OR LOSSES ARISING FROM BIDS, PURCHASES, NON-PURCHASES, OR MISSED DEADLINES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY; AND (B) OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (i) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM AND (ii) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100). THESE LIMITS APPLY REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY AND EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
You will defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from and against claims, demands, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) brought by any third party — including a seller, owner, occupant, other bidder, or governmental body — arising from or relating to your use of the service, your bidding, purchasing, or property decisions or transactions, your content, or your breach of these Terms or of law. We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, at your expense, and you agree to cooperate with our defense.
Any dispute arising out of or relating to the service or these Terms will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. BECAUSE DISPUTES ARE RESOLVED BY ARBITRATION, YOU AND WE EACH GIVE UP THE RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT (EXCEPT SMALL-CLAIMS COURT) AND THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this section. Before starting an arbitration, the party raising the dispute must first send the other a written description of it — to the contact in Section 20, or from us to your account email — and allow 60 days for the parties to try to resolve it informally; arbitration may begin only after that period, and the one-year period in Section 16 is paused (tolled) while this informal-resolution process runs. The arbitration will be conducted in North Carolina or, at your election, by video or written submission; arbitration fees are allocated as the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules provide; and the arbitrator's decision is final and enforceable like a court judgment. You and we each also waive the right to participate in a class action, class arbitration, or representative proceeding; claims may not be consolidated with anyone else's. If twenty-five (25) or more similar arbitration demands are filed against us by the same or coordinated counsel, the AAA's mass-arbitration procedures and fee schedules apply. Notwithstanding the rest of this section, either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court to protect its intellectual property or to stop a violation of Section 8. If the class-action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, then that claim or request — and only it — must be decided by a court, and the rest of this section continues to apply to everything else. You may opt out of this arbitration provision by written notice to the contact in Section 20 within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your account email and that you opt out of arbitration; opting out does not affect the rest of these Terms.
To the extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to the service must be filed within one (1) year after the event giving rise to it, or it is permanently barred. This section does not shorten any period that applicable law does not permit to be shortened.
We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages of hosting, network, or data-source providers, power failures, weather, labor disputes, governmental action, or acts of God.
These Terms (plus the terms presented at purchase) are the entire agreement between you and us about the service and supersede prior discussions. If a provision is found unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum extent necessary and the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. There are no third-party beneficiaries to these Terms, except that the protections in Sections 6, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 17 also extend to our owners, operators, employees, contractors, and licensors, each of whom may enforce them. We may assign these Terms (for example, in a sale of the business); you may not assign them. We may provide notices via the service or to your account email, and you consent to receiving notices, disclosures, and other communications from us electronically. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and any claim not subject to arbitration must be brought in the state or federal courts located in North Carolina.
We may update these Terms at any time, with or without individual notice to you. The current version is always posted on this page with its "Last updated" date, and posting it here constitutes notice; for significant changes we may also notify you by email or an in-app notice. Changes take effect when posted, and your continued use of the service after posting constitutes acceptance; if you disagree with a change, your sole remedy is to cancel and stop using the service.
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