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Visitor analytics and privacy

Updated 2 November 2026.

Your analytics choice

Google Analytics 4 is used only after you choose Accept analytics. You can decline and still use the property listings. Your choice is saved in a first-party preference cookie for up to six months. Open Analytics settings at any time to change your choice. Declining stops Google Analytics on this browser and removes its first-party analytics cookies; it does not remove events already received by Google.

What Google Analytics measures

When accepted, Google Analytics uses browser identifiers and cookies to help recognise first-time and returning browsers, visits, engagement, and device and approximate-location information. We also measure the sections selected, public property listing IDs whose details are opened or source links clicked, and selected suburb, agency, sorting and activity-range filters. We record whether search is used, not the text typed into it.

We do not intentionally send names, emails, phone numbers, free-text searches, or URL query strings to Google Analytics. A browser identifier is not a person's name. Different browsers, devices or cleared cookies can appear as different visitors. Google receives analytics data and may process it outside Australia. See Google's privacy policy and Google Analytics privacy information, including how Google uses information from sites that use its services. Event-level data retention in this Analytics property is set to 14 months.

Basic Cloudflare statistics

Cloudflare Web Analytics also provides basic visit, page-view, device, country and performance statistics. This is separate from Google Analytics and does not use analytics cookies to identify returning browsers. See Cloudflare's explanation.

Owner and testing exclusions

An owner/testing browser can be marked to exclude it from visitor analytics. The exclusion preference is saved in this site's rpw_analytics_exclude cookie for up to one year and applies to both website addresses. It must be set again for a different browser or device, private browsing, or after clearing cookies. Exclusion cannot reliably remove earlier visits already recorded.

Advertising

No Meta advertising pixel or other social-media retargeting tag is included in this setup. Google advertising signals and advertising personalisation are disabled.