Permit Digest

Terms of service

Last updated October 6, 2026. Questions go to [email protected].

The service

Permit Digest is a subscription that emails you a weekly summary of building permits issued in one Ohio county, filtered to the trades you pick. Coverage today is Stark County and Summit County. It is operated by a sole proprietor in Ohio.

Plans and billing

New subscriptions start with a 14-day free trial. After the trial, the plan bills monthly through Stripe until you cancel. Cancel any time from your management page or by unsubscribing from a digest; cancellation stops future charges and takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for. We do not prorate partial months. If a charge looks wrong, write to [email protected] and we will sort it out.

What the data is, and what it is not

Everything we send comes from public records supplied by building departments. We reproduce what those departments report and we do not invent, estimate or infer missing values; a field the department left blank arrives blank. Departments make mistakes, send late, and sometimes skip a week. A permit appearing in a digest is not a guarantee that work is underway, that it is unclaimed, or that the record is accurate.

Verify before you act on it. This is lead information, not a professional opinion, and it is not legal, financial or engineering advice.

Acceptable use

Your subscription is for your own business's use. Please do not resell, republish or redistribute the digests as a data product, and do not scrape this site. You are responsible for your own compliance with the laws that govern how you contact people, which in Ohio and federally includes the rules on calls, texts and faxes. We give you public permit records; how you use them is on you.

Availability

We aim to send one digest a week. We depend on building departments answering records requests, and when a department goes quiet there may be nothing to report for that county that week. A week with no new permits still counts as a delivered week. If a source goes dark for long enough that your subscription stops being worth what you pay, write to us and we will refund or pause it.

Liability

The service is provided as is, without warranties of any kind, to the extent the law allows. We are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including lost business or lost profits, arising from use of the service or from errors in the underlying public records. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Changes and governing law

We may change these terms; material changes will be announced in a digest before they take effect, and continuing to pay after that is acceptance. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio.