Cookie Policy
HomeViews Platform Limited (HomeViews, we, us, our)
Our website (homeviews.com and business.homeviews.com) uses cookies and other similar tracking technologies, such as pixels, plugins, scripts, tags and device fingerprinting (which we collectively refer to as "cookies" in this Cookie Policy).
We use cookies for many reasons, for example to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.
This Cookie Policy describes:
- what cookies are;
- our use of cookies;
- how you can manage cookies used on our website;
- privacy;
- further information; and
- changes to this Cookie Policy.
By continuing to browse our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, smart phone, tablet or other electronic device. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device's hard drive and some cookies may collect personal data about you. You can find more general information about cookies at: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Our use of cookies
We want you to understand the different types of cookies that are used on our website. We use a variety of types of cookies for the following purposes:
- Strictly necessary cookies: these are cookies strictly necessary for the performance of our website, for example cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website and use your Google sign in.
- Statistical cookies: these cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies: these cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Advertising and Tracking cookies: these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose, so that when you are on another website or social media platform, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website. We may also show you advertising on our website based on your browsing patterns on other websites that we have obtained from our advertising partners.
In addition to cookies, local storage allows us to use a tiny bit of space on your machine to store information, in much the same way as cookies. We use this to store information which, we feel, enhances your journey through the site by remembering previous actions and making them default for the future. All local storage is persistent, with no expiry.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them in the tables below.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
First Party
| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| www.homeviews.com | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | Consent banner and preference centre closed for OneTrust CMP | 1 Year |
| www.homeviews.com | OptanonConsent | Consent cookie for OneTrust CMP | 1 Year |
Third Party
| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| www.google.com | _GRECAPTCHA | To protect our site from spam and abuse by detecting bots. | 5 Months |
Performance Cookies
First Party
| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| homeviews.com | _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Used for analytics and reporting purposes such as counting your visits, sessions, campaign data and keep track of site usage. | 1 Year |
| homeviews.com | _ga | Wildcard to capture the majority of GA cookies. | 1 Year |
Functional Cookies
Third Party
| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| vimeo.com | _cfuvid | Set by Cloudflare to uniquely identify sessions for security purposes, enabling rate-limiting and bot protection. | Session |
| vimeo.com | __cf_bm | To read and filter requests from bots. | 30 Mins |
Targeting Cookies
Third Party
| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| youtube.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | To provide advert delivery or retargeting, store and track a user's identity, store and track interaction and preferences for YouTube embed videos. | 5 Months |
| youtube.com | __Secure-xxxxxxx | Used by YouTube, which collects user data through videos embedded in websites. This is then aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | 30 Mins |
| hsforms.com | _cfuvid | Set by Cloudflare to uniquely identify sessions for security purposes, enabling rate-limiting and bot protection. | Session |
| youtube.com | YSC | To store and track interactions with YouTube embedded videos. | Session |
| youtube.com | VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Used by Youtube.com to stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. | 5 Months |
*Duration means the period that our cookies are installed on your device. Please note your browser may automatically delete cookies sooner than our set duration.
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
- YouTube
- Hubspot
- Vimeo
To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the relevant third party's website to manage the use of these types of cookies.
Profiling
We may use data gathered from cookies for profiling. Please visit our Privacy Policy to find out more about how we use data gathered from cookies for profiling.
How to manage cookies on our website
Cookies do lots of jobs on our website. However, most browsers allow you to disable them if you would like to. If you disable cookies, you may find that you have a less personalised experience on our website and that certain parts of our website do not work at all or do not work correctly.
Each browser is configured differently. To disable cookies via your browser settings, you should follow the instructions given by the publisher of your browser. Alternatively, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org for comprehensive instructions for various desktop browsers. Except for essential cookies, our session cookies will expire after your browsing session.
Privacy
Our Privacy Policy can be accessed here.
Further information
If you have any queries relating to this Cookie Policy please homeviewsinfo@rightmove.co.uk with "Cookie Policy" in the subject line.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
If this Cookie Policy changes, the revised policy will include a new effective date and will be posted on this page. Please check back regularly to keep informed of updates.
This Cookie Policy was last updated on 15th December 2025