VOW Terms of Use — registrant must acknowledge relationship + bona fide interest + personal non-commercial use + MLS ownership/copyright; no redistribution/sublicense (PropTx Rules, primary)
Claim. VOW Terms of Use require the registrant to: (i) acknowledge the broker-consumer relationship; (ii) bona fide interest in purchase/sale; (iii) restrict data to personal, non-commercial use; (iv) not copy, redistribute, retransmit, or otherwise use the data except in connection with consideration of a property; (v) not display, post, disseminate, distribute, publish, broadcast, transfer, sell or sublicense any Listing Information; (vi) acknowledge the MLS's ownership of and copyright in the MLS database.
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"Will not copy, redistribute, retransmit, or otherwise use any of the data… except in connection with the Consumer's consideration of the purchase or sale of an individual property." "Will not, directly or indirectly, display, post, disseminate, distribute, publish, broadcast, transfer, sell or sublicense any Listing Information to another individual or entity."
Source. PropTx Rules (primary PDF), accessed 2026-06-21. Cross-corroborated by NAR VOW policy and CVR MLS / Realcomp model rules.
Confidence. Verified — primary.
Caveats. Operative VOW Terms vary slightly board-to-board; use the actual PropTx Rules PDF and the specific board's Terms of Use when building.
Implication / use. The hard-edged VOW boundary. Anything resembling redistribution, aggregation, sublicensing, or commercial use by the consumer is barred.
Referenced by (5)
- research-notes Research notes (capture-layer): inside the MLS box — what an Ontario member agent's account exposes, what goes unused, and what they're licensed to do with it (June 2026) relates-to
- reference VOW (Virtual Office Website) — password-protected, requires established broker-consumer relationship, carries the deeper historical/sold/off-market layer relates-to
- reference Even where MLS prohibits *displaying* sold/expired/withdrawn/pending data, broker-selected comparables for a CMA are permitted ("both on a VOW and in the office") relates-to
- reference Seller opt-outs propagate — opting a listing out of VOW forces opt-out of IDX/aggregators too; sellers can disable AVMs and blogging relates-to
- reference AVP (Affiliated VOW Partner) — rights are *derivative* of the member's and scoped to operating that member's VOW (PropTx Rules Art. 8; NAR VOW; CVR MLS) relates-to