Privacy notice

When you open a listing, or follow a link to the site that published it, we record:

• which listing it was, and when;
• the Harimila page you came from;
• the kind of device: phone, tablet or computer.

We use these counts to see which listings and markets people are interested in. We don’t record your IP address, and the records aren’t linked to a person.

We set two preference cookies, lang for your language and view for list or card layout, each kept for a year, and sid, a random code that counts one browser’s listing views and clicks once rather than many times. It isn’t linked to an account. There are no advertising cookies.

We use Google Analytics to understand how the site is used: pages viewed, searches, shares, and whether people install the app or create an account. Its cookies (_ga and _ga_…) keep a random ID for up to two years. Google Analytics doesn’t log or store IP addresses, and we’ve turned off Google signals and ad personalization, so none of it is used for advertising. We never send it your name, email or anything you type into a form. You can opt out with Google’s opt-out add-on.

If you sign in, a session cookie keeps you signed in for up to 30 days, with a short-lived copy that saves a lookup on each page. Signing out removes both.

You only need an account if you want one. When you create it we keep:

• your name and email address;
• your password, scrambled one way so that nobody, us included, can read it;
• if you sign in with Google, the name, email and photo Google shares;
• your signed-in sessions: when each started and when it ends. Not your IP address or device.

You can change your name or delete the account, and everything above with it, from the Account page.

• For private sellers, we never store a name, phone number, email address or profile photo, and we never reveal contact details.
• We keep the seller type (private, dealer, agent or member) and a one-way scrambled code that lets us group one seller’s ads without knowing who they are.
• Businesses with a public storefront on the site we index, such as an ikman shop or a riyasewana showroom, are shown by the shop name and logo they publish there, with a link to that page. We don’t store their contact details either.
• Phone numbers and emails written into ad text are removed before it’s stored.
• Photos aren’t copied. They load directly from the site that published them.

We store what you enter (title, details, price, location and photos) to publish your listing. Phone numbers, emails and links aren’t accepted in titles or descriptions.

We keep listing prices over time, including price changes, to build market statistics such as medians, price per perch and trends. These are about property and vehicles, not about people.

Questions about your data, a correction or a request to delete something: write to contact@harimila.com.