Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2026

1. Who We Are

StockLeads ("we", "us", "our") operates the website stockleads.co.uk. We are a UK-based buying service that purchases small bulk lots of secondhand and surplus items from sellers across the UK.

For data protection purposes, we are the data controller of your personal information.

2. What Data We Collect

When you submit items to us via our contact form at /sell, we collect:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • Your phone number (if provided — this is optional)
  • Details of the items you wish to sell (category, description, quantity, condition)
  • Your asking price (if provided — optional)

We do not collect payment information, create user accounts, or store passwords.

3. How We Use Your Data

We use the information you submit solely to:

  • Review your item submission and assess a buying offer
  • Contact you via email (or phone if provided) to discuss your submission
  • Send you a confirmation email when your submission is received
  • Arrange collection if you accept our offer

We do not use your data for marketing purposes, and we do not share it with third parties for marketing.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your data on the basis of legitimate interests (to respond to your enquiry and make you an offer) and contract performance (to fulfil our obligations if you accept an offer).

5. Data Retention

We retain your submission data for a maximum of 12 months from the date of submission. After this period, your data is deleted from our systems. If a transaction is completed (you sell items to us), we may retain basic records for up to 6 years for accounting and legal compliance purposes.

6. Your Rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right of access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  • Right to rectification: You can ask us to correct inaccurate data.
  • Right to erasure: You can ask us to delete your data ("right to be forgotten").
  • Right to restrict processing: You can ask us to stop using your data in certain ways.
  • Right to object: You can object to our use of your data.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us via our submission form at stockleads.co.uk/sell — include "Data Request" in your description field.

7. Cookies and Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect anonymised usage data including pages visited and time spent on site. We do not enable Google Analytics advertising features, and IP addresses are anonymised.

We do not use cookies for any other purpose. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking using the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

8. Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services to operate our website:

  • Resend — email delivery service for sending confirmation and response emails. Resend processes your email address to deliver our messages.
  • Vercel — website hosting. Vercel may process server logs including IP addresses.
  • Google Analytics — anonymised website analytics.

9. Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, loss or misuse. Our website is served over HTTPS. Submission data is sent directly via email and is not stored in a database.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page indicates when it was last updated. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last updated" date.

11. Complaints

If you have concerns about how we handle your data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.