Privacy & cookie policy
This policy explains what personal data GadgetPricer (gadgetpricer.com) collects, why, who it is shared with, and the choices you have. We have tried to keep it plain.
Who is responsible
GadgetPricer is operated by Phil Jeffries, TW3 4FH, London, United Kingdom, which is the controller of your personal data. The easiest way to reach us about anything in this policy is the contact form.
What we collect and why
Product searches
When you search, the product name you type is sent to our server and passed on to eBay, to our Amazon data provider, and to Anthropic (the Claude AI service we use to estimate prices when live data is not available) so that results can be returned. Please don’t type personal information into the search box. We keep the prices found for each search, with no name or email attached, to build price-history charts. We also use your approximate country, taken from your IP address, to choose the right currency and stores; your IP address is not stored with your search.
Price alerts
If you set a price alert we store your email address, the product and your target price, and send emails through our email provider. We ask you to confirm by clicking a link, and every email contains an unsubscribe link. We keep the alert until you unsubscribe. Legal basis: your consent.
Contact messages
If you write to us, we store your name, email address, subject and message so we can reply. A hidden field and a timing check on the form filter out spam; they do not collect personal data. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in answering you.
Analytics and advertising (only if you agree)
With your consent we use Google’s measurement and advertising tags (Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Google Ads). They record things like the pages you view, your approximate location, your device and browser, and whether you clicked through to eBay or Amazon, and they set cookies such as _ga and _gcl_au. We use this to understand which pages work and to measure whether our ads lead to clicks. Legal basis: consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
If you decline, those cookies are not set. Google’s tags still load and may receive limited signals that do not use cookies, such as the fact that a page was opened.
Fonts
The site’s fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, so your browser connects to Google’s servers and your IP address is sent to Google when a page loads, whatever your cookie choice.
Links to eBay, Amazon and Vinted
When you click an eBay or Amazon link, that retailer may set its own cookies and tell us if you went on to buy, so we can earn a commission. It costs you nothing extra. What they collect is covered by their own privacy policies. Vinted links are not affiliate links.
Storage on your device
The site saves your cookie choice in your browser’s local storage, and caches pages with a service worker so the site loads faster and still opens on a weak connection. Both are essential and stay on your device.
Cookies and similar technologies
| Name | What it does | Type | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|
consent_v1 (local storage) | Remembers your cookie choice on this site | Essential | Up to 12 months, then we ask again |
| Service worker cache | Faster loading and an offline fallback | Essential | Until updated or you clear site data |
_ga, _ga_* (Google) | Tells visits apart for analytics | Analytics — needs consent | Up to 2 years |
_gcl_au, _gcl_aw (Google Ads) | Measures whether ad clicks lead to an action | Advertising — needs consent | Up to 90 days |
Who we share data with
- Vercel — hosts the website and keeps standard server logs, which include IP addresses.
- Supabase — stores price history, price alerts and contact messages.
- Resend — sends alert and confirmation emails.
- Google — analytics, advertising measurement and fonts.
- Anthropic — receives product search terms to generate price estimates.
- eBay and our Amazon data provider — receive product search terms to return listings.
We do not sell personal data. Some of these providers are based outside the UK and the EEA; where that is the case, transfers rely on safeguards such as standard contractual clauses or an adequacy decision.
How long we keep data
- Price history (no personal data): kept to power the price charts.
- Price alerts: until you unsubscribe.
- Contact messages: for as long as needed to deal with your enquiry, then deleted.
- Your cookie choice: up to 12 months, in your own browser.
Your rights
Under the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR you can ask to access, correct or delete your personal data; to restrict or object to how we use it; to receive a copy in a portable format; and to withdraw consent at any time (use the cookie settings link above, or the unsubscribe link in any alert email). Use the contact form to make a request. You also have the right to complain to your data protection authority — in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).
Children
GadgetPricer is not aimed at children under 16 and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Changes
If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of this page.