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Florida Tax Certificate API

Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-06-25 — Pre-launch attorney review pending.

1. Acceptance

By accessing or using the Florida Tax Certificate API service (the "Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. About the Service

Florida Tax Certs provides search, REST API, and CSV access to publicly available Florida tax certificate and delinquent-tax records — the county tax certificate sale directory, certificate sales, delinquent parcels, certificate holders, redemptions, lands available, and tax deed applications, sourced from county tax collectors and the public certificate-sale vendor portals. Coverage starts with the official county sale directory and expands into certificate-level data vendor-by-vendor; it is labeled per county and is not represented as complete certificate-level coverage of all 67 counties. Florida Tax Certificate API is an independent data platform and is not affiliated with the Florida Department of Revenue (FDOR), any county property appraiser or tax collector, LienHub, RealAuction, TaxCertSale, or any government agency.

3. Florida Statutes Chapter 197 Compliance

Florida Tax Certs indexes public tax certificate and delinquent-tax records for research, investing, and business intelligence. It may not be used to unlawfully contact property owners, demand payment, harass taxpayers, or violate Florida Statutes Chapter 197.

In particular, under Florida Statutes Chapter 197 (§ 197.432), a tax certificate holder, or an agent of the holder, may NOT initiate contact with the property owner to encourage or demand payment until two years after April 1 of the year the certificate was issued. Violations can bar a holder from bidding at future tax certificate sales and may constitute unfair or deceptive conduct. You agree not to use the Service, or any data obtained through it, in furtherance of any such prohibited contact or any other conduct that violates Chapter 197.

4. Non-Permissible Uses (FCRA)

Florida Tax Certificate API is NOT a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.). You agree that you will not use the Service, in whole or in part, for any purpose constituting a "permissible purpose" under 15 U.S.C. § 1681b. See the FCRA Notice for the explicit prohibited-use list.

5. Account and API Keys

Some features require an account and API key. You are responsible for safeguarding your API keys. Raw keys are shown exactly once at creation and are stored as HMAC-SHA256 hashes; Florida Tax Certificate API cannot recover lost keys. You agree to revoke any compromised key immediately.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

  • Contact, or attempt to contact, a property owner to encourage or demand payment of delinquent taxes in violation of Florida Statutes Chapter 197 (including the two-year owner-contact restriction in § 197.432), or otherwise harass taxpayers
  • Scrape or attempt to scrape county property-appraiser, tax-collector, or tax-certificate-sale systems, or any source upstream of this Service
  • Misrepresent the Service as affiliated with the Florida Department of Revenue, any county office, or any certificate-sale vendor
  • Treat a tax certificate or delinquency record as evidence of property ownership, or use the data to claim or convey title
  • Use the data for any purpose prohibited under Section 4 (FCRA)
  • Resell raw API responses verbatim as a competing public-records data product
  • Attempt to exceed your tier's quota, rate limits, or feature gating through circumvention

7. Data Source and Accuracy

Data reflects the most recent public records published by the source county property appraisers and tax collectors, the FDOR assessment roll, and the certificate-sale vendors we ingest. Florida Tax Certificate API does not independently verify the accuracy or current status of these records. Records may be outdated, incomplete, or contain errors that originated in the source data. The Service is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind.

8. Takedown and Correction

To request suppression of a record about you, contact takedowns@fltaxcerts.com. Verified requests are honored within 7 days. Suppressed records are tombstoned, not deleted, to maintain an audit trail.

9. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Florida Tax Certificate API and its operators are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your use of, or inability to use, the Service.

10. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-law provisions. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Hillsborough County, Florida.

11. Changes

Florida Tax Certificate API may revise these Terms from time to time. Continued use of the Service after a revision constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.