Privacy policy

How your data flows

1. Everything you type stays in your browser while you work. The calculator runs locally — the dates and rent figures are not sent anywhere while you are filling in the form.
2. Your draft is kept in sessionStorage, which your browser clears when you close the tab. You can also clear it at any time with the “Clear all data” button.
3. When you press Preview, the details are sent once over HTTPS to render the PDF. They are held in memory for the seconds that takes and are then discarded. They are not written to disk, not written to logs, and not written to our database.
4. The finished PDF is streamed straight back to you. We keep no copy.

What we do store

One anonymous row per generated document, so we can see which counties and dwelling types the tool is used for:

County

Derived from the first three characters of the Eircode, e.g. D08 → Dublin.

Dwelling type

Apartment, house, duplex, studio, room in a shared house or other.

Size of the increase

The euro difference between the old and new monthly rent.

Which limit applied

Whether the CPI change, the annualised 2% cap or the deflation floor bound the increase.

Timestamp

When the document was generated.

This row cannot be linked back to you, to a tenant, or to a specific address.

What we never store

Nothing you type into the calculator or the notice generator is kept. Specifically, we never store:

• Landlord or agent names, addresses, PSRA licence numbers or phone numbers
• Tenant names
• The property address or the full Eircode
• The comparable properties you enter
• The generated PDF — no copy is kept on our servers
• IP addresses or browser fingerprints linked to a generated document

Counting visits

We count page views so we know which guides are useful and whether anyone is finding the site at all. This is done with Umami, which we run on our own server — it is not a third-party service, and no visit data is shared with anyone.

• No cookies, no tracking across sites. Nothing is stored in your browser and you are not given an identifier that follows you around. That is why you are not being asked to click through a cookie banner.
• What is recorded. The page you viewed, the site that linked you here if any, your approximate country, and the type of browser and device. These are aggregate counts — they are not attached to you as a person.
• Your IP address is not stored. It is used momentarily to work out the country and then discarded. It is never written to disk.
• Nothing you type is recorded. The calculator, the notice generator and the contact form are outside this entirely — what you enter there is covered by the sections above and never reaches the visit counter.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in understanding whether the site works and is being found (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). Because the data is aggregate and holds no identifier for you, there is no individual record to access or erase.

Third parties

We fetch the Consumer Price Index from the Central Statistics Office on a schedule, not in response to anything you do — the CSO never sees your requests. We use no advertising networks and no third-party analytics that profile you. The visit counter described above runs on our own server and is not a third party.

Our servers and database are hosted in the EU.

Every one of them is established in the EU. No personal data is transferred outside the EEA. There is no payment processor in this list because nothing on this site is for sale, and no email provider because there is nothing to email you about.

Your rights

Using the calculator and the notice generator leaves us holding nothing about you at all — there is no record to access, rectify or erase, because none is created.

You also have the right to complain to the Data Protection Commission, Ireland’s supervisory authority.