No cookies. No advertising networks. No data brokers. This page explains the one thing our calculators do record — and gives you a switch to turn it off.
Our calculators — affordability, rent vs buy, amortization, closing fees, zonal value and the rest — run entirely in your browser. When you change a field, your browser sends us one short note that says, in effect: "somebody used the Affordability Calculator today."
That note contains exactly three things:
These things are not collected:
Separately, the site keeps a simple count of how many pages were viewed each day. That is a single running total with nothing attached to it — no IP addresses, no identifiers, no way to trace it to a person.
The first time you use a calculator, your browser generates a random string of characters and saves it on your own device (in something called localStorage). It looks like a3f9c1e08b7d….
It is not built from your IP address, your device details, or anything about you — it is simply a random number. On its own it names nobody. Its only job is to let us tell "one person used four different calculators" apart from "four different people used one calculator each."
It stays on your device, not ours, and clearing your browser data deletes it.
The moment you type your email address into any form on this site, we link that random ID to your email — and that includes the calculator history from before you gave it to us.
We want to be direct about this, because it is the part people don't expect. The forms in question are:
So if you used the affordability calculator in March and subscribed to the newsletter in July, Catherine can see that March activity from July onwards. If you never give us your email, that link is never made and the history stays anonymous.
So that when you hear from us, it's about something you were actually looking into. If your history shows rent-vs-buy and Makati zonal values, you should get notes about buying in Makati — not a generic blast about commercial leases in another province.
It also tells us which calculators are worth improving and which ones nobody uses.
Only GLRA Realty — Catherine and authorised staff — through a password-protected admin dashboard. It is never sold, rented, published, or shared with any third party, advertiser, data broker or analytics company.
We keep it until you ask us to delete it. Ask, and we will delete it.
This switch works on the browser you're using right now, and it takes effect immediately. No account needed, nothing to submit.
What "off" does: it deletes the random ID from this browser and stops any further calculator use being recorded here. Because the setting lives on your device, you'll need to switch it off again on your phone, tablet or other computer if you use those too — and it will need switching off again if you clear your browsing data.
What it doesn't do: it can't remove records we already have. For that, email us — see below.
Under the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act 10173) you can ask us to show you what we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or stop using it — and we have to do it.
Email glrarealty@gmail.com or message us on Messenger and say what you want done. A plain sentence is enough — "please delete everything you have on me" works fine. We'll confirm once it's done.
The same applies to marketing emails: ask to be removed and you're removed.
If you think we've mishandled your information and we haven't sorted it out with you, you can raise it with the National Privacy Commission.
GLRA Realty Group — Catherine SB Sampayo, Licensed Real Estate Broker.
17F, 252 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Ave., Makati City, Metro Manila.
glrarealty@gmail.com · 0917 177 4572