1. What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
2. How We Use Cookies
Housie uses cookies to enhance your user experience, understand how our Service is used, and for marketing purposes. Specifically, we use cookies for:
- Operating our Service: Some cookies are essential for the operation of our website, for example, to keep you logged in to your account.
- Analysing Performance: We use cookies to analyse user activity in order to improve the website. For example, we can use cookies to look at aggregate patterns like the average number of property searches that users perform.
- Personalisation: We use cookies to store your preferences, such as your recent searches, so we can make your next visit more personal and convenient.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
We classify our cookies into the following categories:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are required for the operation of our Service. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. You cannot opt out of these cookies.
- Analytics/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Service. This helps us to improve the way our Service works. We use services like Google Analytics for this purpose. You can opt out of these cookies via our cookie consent banner.
- Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our Service. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences. You can opt out of these cookies.
- Targeting/Marketing Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our Service, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We may use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. You can opt out of these cookies.
4. How to Manage Your Cookies
Your primary method for controlling non-essential cookies is through the cookie consent banner that appears upon your first visit to our site.
Additionally, you can control and/or delete cookies as you wish by changing your browser settings. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
To find out more about how to manage cookies on popular browsers, see the links below:
5. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, you can contact us at: privacy@housie.ie.