⚠ Placeholder — full policy in preparation
A full GDPR-compliant privacy policy will be published before BuildCompare opens to the general public. This page summarises our practices in the meantime. Last updated 2026-05-14.
What we collect
- • Email address — when you sign up for early access or future accounts
- • Geographic coordinates — only if you grant browser location permission, used for "nearest branch" features
- • IP address — for rate-limiting and abuse prevention; stored in access logs
- • Search queries — anonymous, used for product improvement
- • Click attribution — anonymous click IDs, used for affiliate accounting
Where data lives
All data is stored on EU-resident infrastructure: OVHcloud (Gravelines, France) for the application database, Purelymail for email, Cloudflare for DNS and edge proxy.
Your rights
Under UK GDPR, you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, portability, objection, and restriction. To exercise any of these, email partnerships@buildcompare.co.uk.
You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.
Cookies
We use essential cookies only (session, CSRF, rate-limit). No tracking cookies, no advertising cookies, no third-party trackers. If we ever add optional cookies (e.g. for analytics), they will be opt-in via a cookie banner.
Contact
Data Protection Officer: Ross Churchill — partnerships@buildcompare.co.uk.
Last updated: 2026-05-14. Full GDPR-compliant policy in preparation.