Privacy by default.
The first version of True Home Cost does not require an account and performs its calculator math in your browser.
Calculator inputs
The current calculator does not send your purchase assumptions to a True Home Cost server. Calculations are performed in your browser.
Accounts and personal profiles
The current version has no user accounts, saved-home profiles, or advertising trackers.
Location input
When you enter a U.S. ZIP or ZIP+4 code, the browser sends its first five digits to Zippopotam.us for a place-name lookup. The calculator also uses a Census-based ZIP-to-county crosswalk bundled with this site to select a county-level property-tax benchmark. It does not request a street address or send your purchase price, loan assumptions, or other calculator values to that lookup service. A city-and-state or state-only input is parsed in your browser and does not trigger the ZIP lookup.
Rental searches and external links
If you submit a search in the homepage Rental Finder, the location text you enter is sent to Google as part of a search query for listings on Zillow or Realtor.com. Rental listing links open third-party websites, which control their own privacy policies, prices, availability, and terms. Review those policies before sharing personal information or applying for a property.
Property submissions and contact details
When the property-submission feature is enabled, we collect the information you enter in the form: your name, email address, optional phone number, city, state, ZIP code, property type, bedroom and bathroom counts, asking price, description, uploaded property photos, and your confirmations that you have the right to submit the content and advertise the property. Do not upload identity documents, deeds, bank details, or other sensitive records.
Submission records are stored in Cloudflare D1 and uploaded photos are stored in Cloudflare R2. Cloudflare Turnstile is used for abuse prevention and may process technical and network information, including your IP address, to verify the submission. Cloudflare may also process standard request and security logs when delivering the site.
Pending submissions are private and are not shown in public search results. If a submission is approved, its property details and photos become public. Your name, email, and phone are shown publicly only if you separately select the optional public-contact checkbox. Do not select it unless you want prospective buyers or renters to contact you directly.
Retention and removal of property submissions
Rejected submissions are removed from the listing database and their uploaded photos are deleted. Approved listings stop appearing publicly 60 days after submission. Expiry hides a listing from public results; it does not automatically erase the stored record or photos. Expired records and photos must be manually purged by the site administrator. Pending submissions may remain in private review storage until approved, rejected, or manually removed.
Before public submissions are enabled, the site operator must publish a monitored contact method on this page for privacy, correction, and deletion requests. If no such contact method is published, do not submit personal contact information through the property form.
Browser storage and clipboard
Your selected language is stored in your browser's local storage. If you choose “Copy my estimate,” the browser writes the estimate to your clipboard. The website host may also process standard request logs needed to deliver the pages.
Changes to this notice
This notice will be updated if the site adds accounts, saved homes, analytics, advertising, or additional external data services that change what information is processed.