Security · Written for board members, not lawyers

Your community's documents, handled plainly.

Boards ask us the same three questions before they hand over a set of CC&Rs. What do you do with them, who else can see them, and can we get them removed later. Here are the answers in ordinary language, with nothing dressed up.

If a question below is not answered clearly enough, call and ask a person.

Plain answers
The short versionAt a glance
Sold or shared with anyoneNever
Used forYour community's questions only
StoredSeparately per community
Card numbers on our serversNone, Square handles payment
Deletion on requestAny time
§1What we do with your documents

They are used to answer your community's questions. That is all.

When your board sends us the CC&Rs, bylaws, rules, architectural guidelines, and whatever else the community keeps on file, those documents are loaded so the AI assistant can answer questions for your homeowners. They are not used to build a generic product, they are not pooled with other associations, and they are not sold or licensed to anyone.

§2Where the answers come from

Only from your own governing documents.

The assistant answers from the material your community provided, and it points to the section it used, so a homeowner or a board member can go check the original. When a question falls outside those documents, it does not guess. It says so, and it routes the question to your manager or the board contact you gave us. The board and the manager keep every decision.

§3Who else sees it

Nobody. We never sell or share community data.

We do not sell your community's data, we do not share it with advertisers or data brokers, and we do not hand one association's documents to another. Each community's documents are stored separately, so the assistant serving your homeowners is working only from your community's file, never from a neighboring association's rules.

§4Payments

Card numbers never touch HOA180 servers.

Payment processing is handled by Square. When a homeowner pays an architectural application fee, or a community pays for the Online Assistant, the card details go to Square directly. We receive a confirmation that a payment succeeded, not the card number.

§5Connections and hosting

Encrypted connections, established US infrastructure.

In transit

  • Encrypted connections, the whole site runs over HTTPS
  • Forms and uploads travel over the same encrypted connection
  • Payment pages are handled by Square over its own secure connection

At rest

  • Hosted on established US cloud infrastructure, not on a laptop in someone's office
  • Each community kept separate, one association's file is not mixed with another's
  • Access limited to the people at HOA180 who need it to run your service
§6Getting your data removed

Ask, and it comes down.

You can request deletion of your documents and data at any time, whether you are ending service or you simply want an outdated document package removed. Send the request from a board email address to info@hoa180.com, or call and tell us. There is no retention clause holding your documents hostage, and nothing about our tools requires you to leave anything behind.

§7What we do not claim

We would rather be accurate than impressive.

Plenty of vendors decorate this page with certifications and slogans. We would rather tell you exactly what is true, so you can weigh it yourself.

§8Common questions

Before your board asks.

Are our documents confidential? Most of ours are already public to owners.

Either way, we treat them as your community's property. Whether your governing documents are posted publicly for owners or kept on request, we use them only to answer your community's questions.

Does the assistant collect homeowner personal information?

Homeowners ask questions in their own words, and some of them include details, an address or a unit number, for example. When a question is routed to your manager, that message goes to the contact address you gave us. We do not build homeowner profiles and we do not sell anything about them.

What happens to our documents if we stop service?

Tell us and we remove them. If you would rather we simply turn the service off and hold the file in case the board returns, we can do that instead. It is your call, and you can change it later.

Do you need access to our management platform or bank accounts?

No. Our tools do not touch your accounting system, your ledgers, or your association's bank accounts. They work alongside your existing operation, and there is nothing to connect.

Who at HOA180 can see our file?

Only the people who need it to set up and run your service. We are a small company in Orange County, and you will know the people you are dealing with by name.

Still have a question your board needs answered?

Ask it directly. You will get a straight answer from a person, and if the honest answer is that we do not do something, we will tell you that.

Get in touch (949) 881-7071