Cookies at homehogs
Last updated 20 August 2026
This page lists every cookie homehogs uses, by name, with what each one does and how long it lives. It is a short list. We would like it to stay that way.
homehogs is a service of Homehogs Ltd, registered in England and Wales under company number 17353377, whose registered office is 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom. We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under registration ZC222992. This page covers cookies only; the wider story of what we hold and why is told in our privacy notice.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small piece of text a website asks your browser to keep and hand back on later visits. It is how a site remembers you between pages: that you are signed in, which country you are in, what you answered last time. A cookie cannot run anything on your device and cannot read anything else on it.
How we use them
Nearly all our cookies are the working kind. They keep you signed in, keep forms secure and remember choices you have made. The service does not work without them, so they cannot be switched off individually, and all of them belong to our own site and can be read by nobody else.
The one exception is analytics on our public website, which is entirely your choice and off until you say yes. It has its own section below.
We never use cookies for advertising. Apart from the analytics you may have said yes to, nobody but us sets cookies on our pages, and nothing you do inside your account is tracked, measured or profiled.
The cookies the service needs
These are the essential ones. Which of them you actually meet depends on what you do: somebody reading a guide picks up one or two, a member signing in collects the account ones.
| Cookie | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|
.AspNetCore. |
Keeps you signed in as you move between pages. | Until you close your browser, or two weeks if you ticked "Remember me" |
.AspNetCore. |
Carries you from entering your password to entering your sign-in code, so we know the two belong to the same sign-in. | A few minutes |
.AspNetCore. |
Remembers a device you asked us to trust, so it is not asked for a sign-in code every time. | Two weeks |
.AspNetCore. |
Proves that a form you send really came from a homehogs page, which protects your account from forged submissions. The full name ends in a string of letters. | Until you close your browser |
Identity. |
Carries a one-line confirmation, "password changed" for example, across a page change. | A few seconds |
hc-geo |
Remembers which country's version of homehogs to show you, so the lookup runs once rather than on every page. | 30 days, or 90 days when you confirm your country yourself |
hc-analytics |
Remembers your answer to the analytics question below, so you are not asked on every visit. It holds the word granted or the word denied and nothing else. | One year |
hc-lead-retry |
If you ask for one of our free guides and the form has to send you back, after a typo or a failed robot check, this carries what you had typed so the form returns filled in. It is encrypted and deleted the moment it has been read. | Ten minutes |
hc-logbook-… |
Appears only if somebody shares a property logbook with you that needs an emailed code: it remembers that this browser entered the code correctly. The number on the end names the share it belongs to. | Twelve hours |
ARRAffinity, ARRAffinitySameSite |
Set by Microsoft Azure, which hosts homehogs, so that your requests keep reaching the same server while you use the site. | Until you close your browser |
Analytics, only if you say yes
On our public website, this page and the pages around it, we use Google Analytics to count page views and see which guides people find useful. It never runs inside your account. We ask first, nothing is stored until you say yes and you can change your answer whenever you like using the button below.
If you say no, or say nothing, no analytics cookies are set: the only
thing kept is your answer, in the hc-analytics cookie
above, so we do not ask again. If you say yes, Google Analytics sets
these two:
| Cookie | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|
_ga |
Tells returning visitors apart by giving your browser a randomly generated number. It does not know who you are. | About 13 months |
_ga_… |
Counts the pages you view and holds them together as one visit. The name ends in a code identifying our site. | About 13 months |
Analytics is never used for advertising: the Google settings that would allow it are switched off permanently. Even if you decline, Google still receives a basic signal that a page was loaded; it carries no identifier and cannot be linked to you or to any other visit. There is more on all of this in our privacy notice.
What you will not find
No advertising cookies, no tracking pixels and no social media buttons quietly reporting your visit. A few of our forms use Cloudflare's "confirm you are human" check, which runs in a small frame of Cloudflare's own rather than on our pages; what Cloudflare processes is described in our privacy notice.
Managing cookies in your browser
Your browser can show, block and delete cookies whenever you like; its help pages explain where the controls live. You are welcome to clear ours at any time. Worth knowing before you do: without the essential ones you will be signed out, forms will refuse to send and the site will ask about your country again.
Changes and questions
If a cookie is added, changed or retired, this page and the date at the top change with it. If you have a question, message us from the support page or reply to any email homehogs has sent you. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.