How we verify

How we keep FendLand accurate

FendLand tells property owners who is contacting them, where their data is exposed, and how to get it removed. Those answers are only worth acting on if they are current and correct. This page explains how we check our own work, and where each check stops.

We watch every opt-out link, and a person confirms each form

The removal catalog only helps if the opt-out links still work, and data brokers move, rename, and retire their pages constantly. So twice a week an automated check fetches every active broker's opt-out page and flags any that have died or moved. A page can load normally and still no longer be an opt-out form, so the automated check is not what dates a broker. A person opens the page and confirms a real form is there, and that confirmation is what stamps the broker with the date it was last verified. When a broker moves its form, we update the link and note what changed before re-stamping it.

That date is not hidden in a database. Each broker's removal page shows it in plain language, for example "FendLand last confirmed this opt-out link works in" the relevant month. You can see it on any page in the removal directory. If a page has not been re-verified recently, its date says so.

A person reviews every guide before it publishes

Some of our guides and articles are drafted with the help of an AI model. None of them go live on that basis alone. Every drafted article starts as a draft that is not indexed by search engines, is kept out of the guides hub, and is not listed in our sitemap. It becomes public only after a person reviews it and approves it.

Review means checking that every product claim matches what FendLand does, that the advice is useful and includes steps you can take without us, and that nothing is stated as legal advice. An article that does not clear that bar is rejected rather than published.

The scanner's classifier is tested against real messages

The message scanner decides whether a text reads as a wholesaler, an investor, a realtor, or a scam. Its always-on classifier runs against a labeled set of real and canonical messages as part of our automated test suite, so a change to the scoring rules cannot quietly make it less accurate without a test catching it. The test reports where the classifier confuses one category for another, which is what we work to reduce.

That test has limits. It measures the deterministic rules that run on every scan, not the extra AI check we reserve for genuinely unclear property messages, and it is a lab measurement rather than a promise about your specific text. On iPhone, the on-device junk filter scores the message content locally on your phone and does not send it anywhere.

What we do not guarantee

Brokers relist people, so removal is ongoing work. Shield Pro removes your info for you at most sites, walks you through the rest, and re-checks every 90 days, but we do not guarantee that any list or platform keeps you off. Verification tells you a link works or an article was reviewed; it is not a promise of a specific outcome. If you ever find something on the site that looks wrong or out of date, we want to fix it: email support@fendland.com and a real person will look into it.