Privacy policy

1. Who we are

In short: Hausmates is made by Jesse. You can always email us.

Hausmates is a free platform for finding a room or home in a coliving group or shared house. We are responsible for your data on this website.

Questions or requests? Email hello@hausmates.nl.

2. What data we keep

In short: Only what Hausmates needs to work.

• Your account: email address and name.
• Your profile: photo, stage of life, interests and your answers to the profile questions.
• Your phone number, if you add one. It stays private.
• Your listings and photos, and the address of your home. We never show that address publicly.
• Messages and files you send in chat.
• Replies to homes and votes from housemates.
• Your email address and preferences if you set up a room alert.

3. What we use it for

In short: To connect people who want to live together.

We use your data to run your account and listings, to let you reply and chat, and to email you about new replies and messages.

We only send room alerts if you signed up and confirmed your signup.

4. What others see

In short: Visitors never see your address. Messages are only for the two of you.

• On a listing, visitors only see the neighbourhood or town, not the address.
• People only see your profile when you reply to their home, or when you have a listing yourself.
• Only the two people in a conversation can read it.
• Housemates you invite can read the replies to your listing.

5. Who we share data with

In short: Only services we need. We sell nothing.

We use a few services to run Hausmates: hosting and storage, an email service, Brevo for room alerts, Google if you sign in with Google, and a map service for the maps.

They only use your data on our behalf. We do not sell data or show ads from others.

6. How long we keep it

In short: As long as your account exists.

If you delete your account, we erase your data within 30 days. Sometimes the law requires us to keep something a little longer.

7. Your rights

In short: You can always see, change or delete what we have about you.

• You can view, correct or delete your data, and object to how we use it. Email us and we will reply within a month.
• Unsubscribe from room alerts with the link in every email.
• Not happy with how we handle it? You can complain to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).

8. Cookies

In short: Only what is needed. No tracking.

We only store what is needed to keep you signed in and remember your language. We use no tracking or advertising cookies, which is why there is no cookie banner.

9. Changes

In short: If something important changes, we will let you know.

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