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Privacy and cookies
The calculators
Everything you type into the rent calculator or the exemption checker is worked out in your own browser. Your rent, your dates and your energy ratings are not sent to us, are not stored, and never leave the device. There is no account and nothing to sign into.
Counting the visit
If you agree, Google Analytics counts the visit and sets its own cookie to do it. It tells us which pages are read, which is how we decide what to write next.
If you decline, it does not load. Not loaded and switched off: not loaded. Your answer is kept in your browser’s own storage rather than in a cookie of ours, so declining leaves nothing behind at all.
Advertising
This site carries advertising from Google AdSense, which is what pays for the work behind it. That is a separate question from the one above and it is asked separately, by Google’s own consent message rather than by ours, because Google requires a certified consent platform for readers in Ireland and the rest of the European Economic Area.
What you answer there decides whether advertising cookies are set and whether the ads you see are personalised. You can change that answer later through the same message, and declining it does not take anything away from the site.
Nothing you type into a calculator reaches an advertiser. Your rent, your dates and your energy ratings are worked out in your browser and are never sent anywhere, which is as true with advertising on the page as it was without it.
Changing your mind
Clear this site’s data in your browser and the question comes back the next time you open a page. In most browsers that is under the padlock beside the address.
The map
The main sales map loads OpenStreetMap tiles when you visit it.
“Show homes near me” requests a single location reading when you press it, with your browser’s permission. We use the result in your browser to centre the map. Hous does not save these coordinates or put them in the page URL. OpenStreetMap still receives requests for map tiles covering the area you view. You can also search by address without sharing your location.
Pressing the map button on a place or street page asks OpenStreetMap where that place is, which means your browser contacts them. It happens only when you press it, and the button says so. No map is loaded and nothing is requested before that.
What the data pages show
Sale prices and addresses come from the Property Price Register, which is published by the State and which carries no buyer or seller names. Neither do we. The methodology page sets out every source.
Asking
Hous is published by Onoir Studio Limited. Write to hello@onoirstudio.com with anything, including a request to correct something.