Legal & Privacy

Rooms BZ is an independent, non-commercial index of publicly posted housing listings in South Tyrol (Bolzano, Bressanone, Brunico). We surface non-personal facts about each post and link you to the original source. We are not a landlord, an agency, a broker, or a party to any rental agreement, and we charge nothing.

We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano or any listed source.

Listings originate from public sources such as the university accommodation blog. For each post we extract only objective facts and write our own short, neutral summary. We do not mirror, republish, or reproduce the original text, and we do not copy photos. Every entry links back to its source so the full, original post is one click away.

We keep a history of stated prices over time so we can show market trends. Price points carry no personal data: they are numbers attached to a listing, city, and room type only.

We run on a small number of service providers, each bound by a data-processing agreement. Each sees only what its job needs:

• Supabase (Ireland, EU) hosts the database and the photos you upload with a listing.
• Vercel hosts the website; our code runs in Dublin (EU). Its cookieless analytics are described under Cookies below.
• Resend (EU sending region) delivers our emails: confirmations, sign-in links, password resets and the alerts you subscribe to. It receives your email address and the message.
• Google, only if you sign in with Google: we receive the name, email address and picture of the account you choose.
• Telegram, only if you sign in with Telegram or ask for alerts there: we receive your Telegram id and display name. New listings are also posted to our public Telegram channel; they carry no personal data.
• GitHub runs our scheduled jobs (indexing, alerts) against the database and holds no copy of personal data.
• AI providers (OpenAI, Groq) read the text of public listings, and of an ad you paste when posting, to extract facts and to check listings for problems. Contact details are removed before the text is sent, and no account data ever goes to them.

If you post a listing yourself, you give us one contact (email, phone, Telegram, or WhatsApp) so people can reach you about it. This is the only personal data we hold, and we process it on the basis of your consent and to provide the service you asked for.

• Your contact is kept private - it is not shown publicly on the site. Only the non-personal facts and your own neutral summary are published.
• We store the facts of your listing, your chosen contact, and (briefly, for review) the text you paste. We do not store an exact address, photos of people, or ID documents.
• You can withdraw consent and have your listing and contact deleted at any time via Contact. Listings may also expire automatically.
• We may keep a hashed, non-identifying record for a short time to prevent abuse, on a legitimate-interest basis.

We operate in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Italian data-protection law. For indexed listings we hold no personal data at all; for a listing you submit, the only personal data is the contact you choose to give, processed on your consent and kept private (see "Listings you submit" above). We never sell data.

Where the GDPR applies, you have the right to access, rectification, erasure ("right to be forgotten"), restriction, portability, and to object to processing. Since we hold no personal data from listings, these rights are satisfied by design; even so, if you believe an index entry references you, we will remove it promptly (see Removal below).

If you have an account, you can exercise access and portability yourself: the Privacy tab of your dashboard downloads everything we store about your account as one file, and the same tab deletes the account.

We do not perform profiling or automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects on individuals. Basic server logs, if any, are kept only for security and reliability on a legitimate-interest basis and are not used to identify individuals.

Browsing the index sets no tracking cookies and requires no consent banner. Two strictly necessary cookies exist: one remembers the language you chose, and signing in sets a session cookie that keeps you signed in. Your light/dark preference is stored in your own browser and never sent to us.

We use privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics (Vercel Web Analytics) to count page views and understand which pages are popular. It does not use cookies, does not build a profile, and does not track or identify individuals across sites; only aggregate, anonymous usage is collected.

Facts are not protected by copyright. We index objective facts and publish our own neutral summaries rather than copying the source, so we do not reproduce protected expression. We respect the database rights of sources by linking to them instead of republishing their content in bulk. All trademarks and listing content remain the property of their respective owners.

Listings are ranked by freshness. Availability is not guaranteed: a post may already be taken, and details can be out of date or inaccurate. Always confirm directly on the original listing. The service is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind, and we accept no liability for decisions made on the basis of the index or for the content, availability, or conduct of any third-party source or landlord.

Outbound links lead to independent websites we do not control. We are not responsible for their content, privacy practices, or terms. Once you follow a link, the policies of that site apply.

Is an entry yours and you want it removed, or do you believe it references personal data? Use the contact / removal page with the listing link. We remove entries promptly, usually within a few hours, no questions asked.

Rooms BZ is an independent, non-commercial project - it carries no advertising and charges no fees. It is not affiliated with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano or any listed source. The quickest way to reach the operator, including for privacy requests and takedowns, is our contact page.

We may update this page as the service evolves. Material changes will be posted here.