Privacy
What happens to an address you search, in plain terms.
The short version
Searching an address sends it to BelowGrid’s own servers and to a geocoding provider, so it can be turned into a location. It is stored so the result has a stable link you can return to.
It is never sent to an analytics or advertising service. Looking up your own home tells us where you live, and often that you are about to sell it. That is not data to put into somebody else’s graph.
The address box suggests places BelowGrid covers as you type. Those suggestions are matched inside your browser against a list this page already loaded, so typing sends nothing anywhere — not to BelowGrid, and not to anyone else. Nothing leaves until you press the button.
No account is required, and none is offered. There is nothing to sign up to.
What is collected
- The address you search. Stored in normalized form with the coordinates it resolved to, so the same address searched twice produces the same result rather than a second copy.
- Ordinary server logs. Request paths, timings, status codes and a correlation identifier, so a fault can be traced. Searched addresses are deliberately excluded from these.
- Nothing about you. No name, no email, no account, no advertising identifier, and no attempt to link searches to a person.
Cookies and local storage
One thing is stored in your browser: whether you chose the light or dark theme. It stays on your device, is never sent to the server, and identifies nothing.
There are no advertising or tracking cookies, and no consent banner to dismiss.
Who else sees an address
A geocoding provider, because turning text into a location is what they do. BelowGrid sends the address and receives coordinates; it does not send anything about who asked.
Nobody else. Official sources are queried by location or parcel identifier rather than by your search, and the authorities whose records appear on a result page are not told that you looked.
How long it is kept
A resolved address and its property record are kept indefinitely, because they are what makes a result link stable and repeatable. They describe a property rather than a person, and hold nothing about who searched.
Server logs are kept for 30 days and then deleted.
If you would rather a particular address were removed, ask and it will be.
Property pages are never in search results
A page about a specific address is marked noindex, blocked in robots.txt, and excluded from every sitemap. Three separate mechanisms, because the failure is one-way: once a page keyed to somebody’s home is indexed it is public, and removal takes weeks even when it works.
Pages about a whole jurisdiction can be indexed. Pages about a property cannot.
Asking about your data
There is no account, so there is nothing to log into. Questions and removal requests go through the corrections page.