Data and your website

How Wycka reads your website (for estate agents)

If you list with Wycka, we read the public listing pages on your own website to create and update your listings here, so you don't have to re-key anything or change your CRM. Specifically:

• What we fetch: only your publicly-accessible pages, your sitemap and the listing detail pages a buyer could already open in a browser. We identify ourselves with the user-agent Wycka/1.0 (+https://wycka.co.uk) and fetch politely (about one page a second).
• What we store: the listing facts you already publish, namely address, price, description, key features, and the URLs of your listing photos, held against your agency record on Wycka.
• Your authorisation: we only do this after you've signed up, ticked the consent box, and verified you control the domain (a one-line meta tag). Proving you own the site is separate from authorising us to use its content. We ask for both.
• Staying in control: nothing is shown publicly until it's out of preview, and new listings only go live when you approve them (or when you switch on auto-approve). You remain responsible for the accuracy of what's published. Tell us about anything we've picked up wrong and we'll correct or remove it.
• Copyright & takedown: you confirm at signup that you're authorised to put this content on Wycka. If you withdraw, email [email protected] and we'll remove your listings. We don't sell or relicense your content.

UK government open data we surface

Wycka surfaces a number of UK government open-data signals on every property page (schools, crime, area price trends) and at the map layer (postcodes, base cartography). Every dataset listed below is reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0 unless otherwise stated. We bulk-ingest each dataset to our own database, refresh on the cadence the publisher recommends, and never present these datasets as our own.

Property prices

HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index (HPI) for area-level price trends on each listing.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026.
National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Northern Ireland data: Land & Property Services. Scotland data: Registers of Scotland.

Source: HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index.

Schools

Get Information about Schools (GIAS): the daily English schools register (location, phase, status), and Ofsted state-funded schools latest inspections (MI): current Ofsted ratings keyed by URN.

Contains data from Get Information about Schools (Department for Education) and Ofsted, © Crown copyright. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Sources: get-information-schools.service.gov.uk · Ofsted Monthly Management Information.

Coverage: England only. Ratings shown are from the legacy "Outstanding / Good / Requires Improvement / Inadequate" regime; the new 5-point area-card model introduced on 10 November 2025 is not yet surfaced. Those judgements aren't comparable to the legacy ones.

Crime

data.police.uk monthly bulk archive: street-level crime counts aggregated to LSOA, joined with ONS LSOA mid-year population for the per-1,000 residents calculation.

Includes content from the data.police.uk site, supplied by the Home Office and police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Sources: data.police.uk · Nomis (ONS): dataset NM_2014_1.

Greater Manchester Police data has been incomplete during the GMP IT migration. Property pages in that area carry an explicit coverage note rather than treating the absence as "low crime".

Postcodes & geography

Postcode → coordinate and postcode → administrative-area lookups use the postcodes.io service (MIT-licensed open-source code), backed by the ONS Postcode Directory.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026.
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source: postcodes.io. Northern Ireland postcodes (BT...) are carved out of the OGL grant. Commercial reuse of NI postcodes requires a separate Royal Mail / LPS NI licence; we only surface NI postcodes that originated from the property listings their owners gave us.

Maps

Background tiles and the geocoding fallback come from the OpenStreetMap project; true travel-time isochrones (when configured) come from OpenRouteService at HeiGIT.

© OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence v1.0.
Tile cartography © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Isochrones © openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT.

Sources: openstreetmap.org/copyright · openrouteservice.org/terms-of-service.

Compliance summary

• All ingested datasets are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, which permits commercial use provided the source is attributed.
• We surface a brief credit line on every UI element that uses the data, and link to this canonical page for the full wording.
• We never present these datasets as our own work; we don't relicense them; downstream API responses we serve inherit the OGL v3.0 grant.
• We honour the data publishers' caveats (Greater Manchester crime gap, England-only schools, Northern Ireland postcode carve-out) by surfacing them in context rather than papering over them.