Your visits.
Your choices.

Your account, photos and valuations

Bargain Bandit is operated from 9 River Walk, Braddan, Isle of Man, IM4 4TJ. We use your name and email to provide your account and essential service messages. Convex provides account data and photo storage. Photos and the notes you submit are processed by our AI and search providers, including OpenAI and SerpApi, to identify items and research prices. Do not include unnecessary personal information in uploads.

Saved finds and their photos are private to your account. We retain account, valuation and credit records to provide your history, resolve payment issues and maintain the service. We do not promise that saved records are automatically deleted after a fixed period. Contact nathan@bargainbandit.co.uk to ask about access, correction or deletion of your information.

Payments and your ZIP code

Stripe processes payment details. Bargain Bandit stores payment references, subscription status and credit transactions; we do not store full card numbers. You can optionally provide a ZIP code at signup. It is stored privately with your account and is not included in analytics events. US local event reminders are not currently available, and providing a ZIP code does not subscribe you to them.

Getting-started emails

You can choose our getting-started email series in your email preferences. Creating an account, agreeing to the Terms and Conditions, signing in with Google or Apple, adding a ZIP code or allowing analytics does not sign you up for this series.

These emails cover first valuations, useful features, referral rewards and choosing a plan. We use account activity, such as completed valuations and subscription status, to choose relevant messages and stop reminders you no longer need. We keep a record of your email choice and the messages sent so we can honor that choice and avoid duplicates. Resend handles email delivery for us.

You can turn the series off in your email preferences or unsubscribe from any getting-started email without signing in. This does not change cookie choices or essential account and payment messages. Delivery can also be paused when an address cannot receive our emails or reports them as spam.

Your cookie choice

Select Allow Cookies to enable Google Analytics and Meta measurement, or Don't Allow Cookies to decline both. You can change your choice using the cookie controls on this privacy page. Optional measurement scripts load only after you allow cookies. Declining them does not prevent you from using your account.

• Google Analytics helps us understand page visits and new account signups. We use general page names and paths, without URL query strings, private record identifiers or user-written advert titles. Google advertising storage, advertising personalization and Google Signals are disabled in this setup.
• Meta measurement helps us understand which Facebook and Instagram ads lead to new accounts. Meta receives technical browser and page information and a signup event, and may associate it with your Meta activity. Automatic advanced matching and automatic event collection are disabled in this setup.

What these services receive

These services can receive technical information such as IP addresses, browser information, cookie identifiers and page information. Our measurement events do not include your name, email address, uploaded photos, valuation details or payment information. We do not set a Google Analytics user ID or send account details for Meta advanced matching.

When you allow a service, we can retain the first campaign labels from your visit, such as the campaign and ad identifiers, and associate them with your new-account record. Google receives these labels with the signup event so we can compare ads. We count an actual new account, rather than counting every later login as a signup.

Read how Google uses information from sites that use its services, Google’s privacy policy, and Meta’s privacy policy for their processing, retention and available controls.

Storage and retention

We remember each cookie choice on this device for up to 180 days. Consented campaign labels are kept on this device for up to 30 days. Google Analytics cookies are configured to expire after 180 days without extending that period on each visit. Meta may also set its measurement cookies when you allow Meta measurement.

A record of account creation and any consented campaign labels can be retained with your account for signup measurement. Those server records do not have the browser storage’s 30-day expiry. The providers also retain information they receive according to their own policies and settings.

Change or withdraw your choice

Select Don't Allow Cookies in the cookie controls on this page to turn off Google Analytics and Meta measurement. This stops future optional measurement and clears their campaign labels and measurement cookies accessible to this website. You may need to choose again on another browser or device.

Withdrawing consent does not remove information already sent to the providers or records already saved with your account. Essential account and security functions continue to work independently of these optional choices.