Findrent

Cookie Policy

Last updated: 8 November 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how findrent.nl ("Findrent", "we", "us") uses cookies.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your device. Cookies are used to make websites work, to keep you logged in, and sometimes to measure how a site is used.

Cookies we use

Findrent currently uses only strictly necessary cookies. These are required for the Service to function and cannot be switched off:

  • Session and login cookies – keep you signed in as you move between pages.
  • Security cookies – protect the Service against fraud and misuse (for example against cross-site request forgery).
  • Cookies that remember something you have just asked for or chosen – each is set only when you do the thing it describes, and holds only what is needed for it:
    • Email alert request – if you ask for an email alert before signing in, this cookie remembers the city and the maximum rent you chose, so the alert can be set up once you have signed in. It is deleted as soon as the alert has been set up, and expires after 30 minutes in any case.
    • Product-update choice at sign-up or sign-in – if you tick the box asking for product-update emails when you sign up or sign in, this cookie carries that choice through the sign-in so that we can record it on your account. It is set only if you tick the box, and expires after 15 minutes.
    • Smart Filters answers – while you answer the Smart Filters questions, this cookie holds your answers from one step to the next, including while you sign in, until they are saved to your account. It is deleted when they are saved, and expires 2 hours after your last answer in any case.
    • Smart Filters hidden – if you choose to hide the Smart Filters panel, this cookie remembers that choice on this browser. It contains the pseudonymous account identifier described below, so that the choice applies only to your own account. Showing the panel again deletes it; otherwise it expires after 30 days.

Because these cookies are strictly necessary to provide a service you have asked for, EU and Dutch law do not require us to ask for your consent to use them, and we do not show a cookie consent banner.

Analytics – and why it needs no cookie

We measure how the Service is used, so we know which pages people find useful and whether new features work. We do this with Umami, privacy-friendly analytics software that we run on our own server. It is not a third-party service: your visit is not sent to Google, to an advertising network, or to anyone else.

Our analytics sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. There is no identifier saved in your browser and nothing to read back on your next visit. Instead, visits are grouped together using a value our own server works out from technical information your browser sends with every request anyway (such as your IP address and browser type), combined with a secret that we change at the start of every month. We do not store your IP address itself. Because that secret changes each month, the value changes with it, so the same browser cannot be recognised from one month to the next. Within a single month, and on a connection that does not change, visits from the same browser are grouped under the same value: that is what lets us tell a returning visit from a new one, and it is the full extent of what the value does.

If you are signed in, we attach a pseudonymous account identifier – a random internal reference, never your email address – to your analytics sessions, so we can see how the Service is used by registered users. Because visits from the same browser are grouped for the whole month, this also covers visits you made from that browser earlier in the same month, before you signed in. The identifier is stored on our own server alongside the analytics data, and our analytics saves nothing about it on, and reads nothing about it from, your device.

Because we do not store or read anything on your device, EU and Dutch cookie rules do not require your consent for this, which is why you still see no cookie banner. We describe the analytics data itself, and your rights over it, in our Privacy Policy.

We do not use session recording, heat mapping, or any feature that captures what an individual visitor does on a page.

What we do not use

We do not use advertising or tracking cookies, we do not use third-party analytics services, and we do not share any data with advertising networks.

If this changes

If in the future we introduce cookies or other technologies that are not strictly necessary, we will update this policy and, where the law requires it, ask for your consent before they are used – for example through a consent banner where you can accept or decline.

Managing cookies

You can delete or block cookies through your browser settings at any time. If you block strictly necessary cookies, parts of the Service – such as staying logged in – may not work properly.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version here and change the "last updated" date above.

Contact

Questions about our use of cookies: privacy@findrent.nl.