Privacy

Privacy

The short version: no accounts, no tracking, no ads, and no personal data — ours or yours.

About you

• No accounts. There’s nothing to sign up for, so we don’t hold any user profiles, names, or emails — unless you choose to email us.
• No tracking or advertising. We don’t use analytics cookies, advertising trackers, or third-party profiling. We don’t sell data — we have none to sell.
• Standard hosting logs. Like any website, our host and CDN (Vercel, Cloudflare) process basic request metadata such as IP address and user-agent transiently to deliver the site securely. We don’t use it to identify or profile you.
• The map. If you use “near me”, your location is used in your browser to centre the map and is sent only as a coordinate to look up nearby consents — we don’t store it.

About the consent data we publish

Over the Fence is built from councils’ publicly published resource-consent lists, and we deliberately keep it to facts:

• We store address, application type, our own category, dates, status and the council’s consent reference.
• We never collect or store applicant or agent names, contact details, or other personal information, and we don’t republish councils’ verbatim descriptions.
• Each consent is attributed to its council and labelled with the month it is current “as of”.

This approach reflects the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020: we present property-attached facts, not information about identifiable individuals.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or want a fact about a property removed or corrected? hello@overthefence.co.nz.