House rules, in writing.
Two documents, written to be read: what we do with your data, and what we expect from everyone who uses the registry. Last updated August 2026.
Privacy policy.
We hold two kinds of personal data: what you type into an account or a listing, and what we copy off a public listing site about the agent named on it. We sell neither. Ask us what we hold and we will tell you, and take it down, apart from what this page names below rather than hides.
1 What we collect from you
An account takes your name, your email address, your mobile number, and a role you pick for yourself: seeker, owner or broker. Sign in with Google instead and Google passes us your name, your email address and your profile picture. A listing takes what you type into its form, including the phone number, Viber handle and WhatsApp number you want seekers to use. Browsing needs no account. The one thing a visitor can hand us is an email address, to be told when a unit goes live in a building; the building-alerts clause below says exactly what happens to it. Your network address still reaches our host and the two photo services named below, the way it does on any website.
2 What we collect about agents from other websites
Units.ph is built to file condo units from public listing sites into the registry. When we do, we take what those pages show: the unit’s details, the photographs, and the agent’s name, phone number, email address and Viber handle where the page prints them. We also keep the address of the page we found it on, so the same unit is never filed twice. Nobody typed any of that here, and we did not ask first. What the law gives us instead of consent is a legitimate interest, and ours is kept narrow: we copy nothing a seeker could not already read on that page, we show the unit to no one until its agent confirms it, and we write to the agent already named on it, about their own unit. Its asking price does enter the building page’s aggregate figures before that, as one number inside a median, a range or a count, never as a listing of its own. The photographs are copied, not linked. They go onto our image host outside the Philippines the moment the draft is filed, because a private draft has to show you which unit we mean.
3 What a private draft is
A unit we collected is a private draft. It is not on the site, not in search, and not in our sitemap. One unguessable link reaches it, and we send that link to the agent named on the unit. Anyone holding that link can open the draft and remove the unit. That is deliberate, because saying no should not need an account, and it is why the link is not one to post in public. Publishing is the step that proves who you are, and it needs a code we email to the address already on the listing.
4 What we use it for
Showing a listing, putting the agent named on it in control of it, and sending the mail those steps need. Nothing else without asking. If we hold your details because we copied them off another listing site, we use them for one thing: to reach you about that draft and ask whether you want it. That message comes from a person. The mail Units.ph sends by machine is mail you asked for or agreed to: the code that confirms a listing, the link that confirms a new account, the link that resets a forgotten password, the two reminders before a listing ends after 30 days, and the building alerts you confirm yourself.
5 What we never do
We do not sell or rent contact details, and we run no marketing list at all. A building alert is not one: it goes only to an address that clicked a confirmation link, says only that a unit went live, and stops the moment you unsubscribe. There is no message inbox here and there never will be, so nothing you say to a lister passes through us.
6 What a live listing publishes
A listing an agent posted here shows what they chose to publish, unit number included. On a unit we copied, the wording came from the other site, and a title or description sometimes carries a phone number or a name inside the text itself. We do not strip those out, so read the wording as well as the contact details before you publish a draft of ours. And once a listing is live, everything on it is public data, contact details included: it can be read and copied in bulk, by us or by anyone else.
7 Cookies and analytics
Browse signed out and this site sets no cookie at all. One exception: if a page’s language differs from the one your browser asked for, we keep a note of which language you are being shown, and it goes when you close the browser. Sign in and a cookie keeps you signed in, occasionally split in two because it is long, plus a short-lived one while a Google sign-in is in flight. Your saved units, your compare list and your light-or-dark setting sit in your own browser and never reach us. Vercel Analytics counts page views and sets no cookie. There are no advertising trackers here, and nothing records your screen.
8 Where your data is processed
The database holding accounts and listings runs in Singapore, and Vercel runs the site itself, so Vercel receives the network address of every request because it is the machine answering it. Photographs are stored with Cloudinary and the mail goes out through Resend, both outside the Philippines. Crash reports go to Sentry, on servers in the European Union, and your network address is never attached to them. Two more companies see your visit without us sending them anything: your browser fetches photographs straight from Unsplash and from Cloudinary, so both of them see your network address. Signing in with Google tells Google that you use Units.ph. When we start collecting, that runs on our own server and fetches other people’s pages through Bright Data, a company that retrieves web pages on our behalf. We stay responsible for all of it under the Data Privacy Act. The search box on the home page reads with AI: the words you type there are sent to Anthropic, whose model turns them into search filters and nothing else. The text goes alone, with no account detail and no network address, and Units.ph does not keep it.
9 Taking a listing down
The link on a private draft removes it in one click. No queue, nobody to persuade, no account needed. It takes the unit off Units.ph and adds it to a do-not-file list the database itself enforces, so nothing we build can file that unit again. Removing our copy does not shut you out. The list blocks our version of your unit, never your own listing, and you are free to post the same unit here yourself. Ask us at listings@units.ph and we delete the photographs we copied as well.
10 What a removal does not erase
Not everything goes, and you should hear it from us rather than find out. The listing keeps its row, marked removed and invisible, still carrying the details that were on it. Deleting a listing from your own dashboard is the other path, and that one deletes the row outright. The entry on the do-not-file list keeps the building name, the unit number, the email address and the address of the page we copied from. Matching those is how we recognise your unit if it turns up again, so that entry is meant to last. And every code we emailed about a listing leaves a record of the address it went to and the time, never the code itself, kept for as long as the listing is. One thing is not built yet, and this page says so before it starts rather than after. When the removal link begins recording who used it, that record will hold a one-way scramble of the network address the request came from, never the address itself, so that one person quietly clearing forty other agents’ listings looks different from forty agents each clearing their own. The scramble cannot be turned back into an address and carries nobody’s name, though the record will note which unit went and when. It will be deleted after 90 days, by a job that ships alongside it.
11 What a Legit Check keeps
A check stores a perceptual hash of each photo you gave (a 64-bit fingerprint of the image, not the image), the building and price you typed, the verdict and its reasons, a scrambled form of the link you pasted, and a scrambled form of your network address, which is blanked after 24 hours. The images themselves are deleted the moment they are hashed, except for a high-risk verdict, whose images are kept 30 days so a person can review them and are then deleted. The post’s text is scanned for a short list of phrases and dropped. A check and its share link are deleted after 180 days. A verdict link is public to whoever holds it: share it knowing that.
12 Your rights
Under the Data Privacy Act of 2012 you may see, correct or delete the personal data we hold about you, object to what we are doing with it, and complain to the National Privacy Commission. You need no account to ask about a listing we built from your details. Write to listings@units.ph and we answer within 15 days.
13 How long we keep things
An account and its listings stay while the account does. Delete the account from your dashboard and it takes every listing on it and the photographs you uploaded with it, at once, and there is no undo. A draft we built that nobody has claimed stays a private draft: we have set no expiry on one yet, and until we do, one message to listings@units.ph or one click on the link we sent you removes it. A building-alert signup you never confirm is deleted after 7 days; a confirmed one stays until you unsubscribe, and unsubscribing deletes the address outright. The one-way scramble of the network address behind an alert signup is kept 7 days, to count signups per connection, and is never an address. The exceptions are named above and they are deliberate, because a do-not-file entry that expired would let a removed unit come back. The home-page search counts searches per connection with the same one-way scramble, kept 24 hours and never an address. The anonymous record behind it, a time and whether the search found nothing, is kept 35 days for the weekly count.
Terms of use.
List only what’s real, and never ask for money before the seeker has seen the unit. Photos we copied from another site stay off the public page until you tick the rights to each one. Break the deposit rule and you’re out. Permanently.
1 The service
Units.ph is a registry of condo units, each one filed under its building. Units arrive two ways. An agent posts one here. Or, once we start collecting, we copy one from a public listing site and hold it as a private draft until the agent named on it claims it. We are not a broker, we are not a party to any transaction, and we take no commission. Claiming a listing is free, now and always.
2 Listing rules
Real units, real photos, real prices. Post one here only if you own the unit or are a broker authorised to list it. No watermarks from another platform, no bait pricing, no relisting a unit that has gone. Nobody reads a listing and judges it before it appears. There is no queue. What stands between a listing and the public is the confirmation step, which proves the person publishing controls the email address printed on the listing. We remove what breaks these rules when we find it or when someone reports it.
3 The deposit rule
No lister may request any payment (deposit, reservation, or “processing fee”) before the seeker has seen the unit, in person or by live video tour. Pre-selling payments go to the developer, never to an individual. One verified violation means permanent removal and a report to the PRC where applicable.
4 Accounts
One account per person, under your real name. You are responsible for what your account publishes. That covers a draft we built from another site and you then took over.
5 Fees
Posting is free. Nothing on Units.ph charges money today. If paid features launch, their price and terms appear here at least 30 days beforehand, and never retroactively.
6 Content and takedowns
Photographs and text you upload stay yours, and you license us to show them on the registry. Photographs on a unit we copied from another site are a different matter, because nobody licensed those to us. They sit on a private draft, they never appear on a public page, and they reach one only if the agent claiming the unit ticks each photograph to say the rights are theirs. We keep a note of which account ticked which photograph and when, because that tick is the only thing standing behind our right to show it. Anything left unticked never reaches a public page and is deleted when the listing publishes. The removal link on a draft we built takes the whole unit down in one click. A listing you posted yourself is deleted from your dashboard. Either way a takedown request also reaches a person at listings@units.ph.
7 Liability
We do not inspect units, and nobody here judges a listing before it appears. The confirmation step proves who is publishing, not that the unit is as described. Building profiles are editorial, offered in good faith, and no substitute for your own viewing and your own checks. The service is provided as-is.
8 Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of the Philippines. Disputes go first to a good-faith conversation at listings@units.ph, then to the proper courts of Metro Manila.