Home Cost Australia

Privacy Policy

Updated 20 September 2026

How Home Cost Australia handles personal information. This policy should be reviewed by a qualified legal professional before commercial launch.

Who we are

This site is operated by Home Cost Australia. If you have a privacy question, you can reach us via our contact page.

Information we collect

We aim to collect as little as possible. The calculators run entirely in your browser and we do not store your calculator inputs on our servers. Where analytics are enabled, aggregate usage data may be collected subject to your consent (see our cookie policy). If you contact us, we receive the information you choose to provide.

Cookies and analytics

We use a small amount of local storage to remember your consent choice. Where Google Analytics is enabled, it loads only after you grant consent, with IP anonymisation and without ad-personalisation storage. You can decline, and the site works fully either way.

Advertising

This site does not currently show third-party advertising. If display advertising (initially Google AdSense) is enabled in future, then:

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this site and/or other websites.
  • Google's use of advertising cookies would enable it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this and/or other sites.
  • You would be able to opt out of personalised advertising via Google Ads Settings.
  • Other authorised third-party ad vendors or ad networks may also use cookies where applicable.

We will update this section when advertising is actually enabled.

Consent requirements apply according to your jurisdiction. Visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland are handled through a certified consent mechanism before any personalised ads are served.

Australian Privacy Principles

We aim to handle personal information consistently with the Australian Privacy Principles, including transparency, notification, use and disclosure, security, and access and correction.

Access and correction

You may request access to, or correction of, any personal information we hold about you by contacting us via our contact page.

Changes

We may update this policy; the “updated” date above reflects the latest revision.