Privacy & cookies

Last updated 14 October 2026

BouWise is run by AfroTech. This page explains what happens to information when you use the site, as the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) asks.

What we store

BouWise has no user accounts. The jobs, client details, prices, business profile and calculator inputs you enter, your recently used calculators and your theme choice are saved in your browser’s local storage on your device. They are not sent to our servers. Clearing your browser data deletes them, so use Download backup on the jobs page to keep a copy.

Cookies

BouWise itself sets no cookies. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, may set a cookie that is strictly necessary to protect the site from automated traffic.

Advertising

BouWise shows no advertising and sets no advertising cookies at the moment. If that changes, this page will say so before any ads appear.

Hosting and data outside South Africa

The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which serves pages from data centres in South Africa and abroad. Like any web host, Cloudflare handles the technical details your browser sends with each request, such as your IP address, to deliver the pages and protect the site, and it may do so outside South Africa under its data processing terms. Fonts and the PDF tool are served from our own domain, so your browser does not contact Google Fonts or other outside services when you use them.

Sharing quotes

When you share a quote or a calculator, its contents are encoded into the link itself; nothing is stored on our servers. Anyone with the link can open it, so share it only with people you trust. If you send a quote by WhatsApp or email, it goes through that service under its own privacy policy.

If you contact us

If you email us, we use your name, email address and message only to reply, and keep them no longer than we need to.

Your rights

Under POPIA you may ask whether we hold personal information about you, ask for a copy, and ask us to correct or delete it. Because your jobs and quotes stay on your own device, we normally hold nothing beyond emails you have sent us. You may also complain to the Information Regulator at inforegulator.org.za.

Contact

Questions about privacy: hello@bouwise.co.za.