Privacy policy.

1. Who we are

This policy covers wearespotted.com and Spotted, the marketing agency run by Charlie Fagan and Ewan McIntyre. Spotted decides how your details are used. For questions or requests, email charlie@wearespotted.com.

2. What we collect

• When you ask for a free scan: your name, business name, website and email address.
• When you email us: your message and the details in it.
• When you enter the giveaway: your Instagram handle and what you post as your entry. If you win, we'll also ask for what we need to give you the prize, such as content for your website or, for the runner-up, a postal address.
• When we contact your business first: business contact details your business has published, for example on its website or listings.

3. How we use it

• To run your free scan and send you the result.
• To reply to you and follow up about our services. Every email from us lets you say no thanks, and we stop when you do.
• To run the giveaway and contact the winners, as set out in the giveaway terms at wearespotted.com/giveaway.
• To offer our services to businesses we think we can help.

We rely on you asking us (the free scan, your emails and your giveaway entry) and on our legitimate interest in running and growing our business. You can object at any time.

4. Who we share it with

We never sell your details. We use a few services to run Spotted, and they only handle details on our behalf:

• Vercel, which hosts this website and runs the scan form.
• Lovable Cloud, which runs our customer database, and Supabase, which keeps a copy of an enquiry if that database can't be reached.
• IONOS, which runs our email.
• AI tools, including Anthropic's Claude, which help us research businesses and draft emails.
• The scanning tool behind our free scan, which receives your website address and nothing else.
• Instagram (Meta), where the giveaway runs.

Some of these services store or process details outside the UK, including in the United States, Singapore and Australia. Each one only gets what it needs.

5. How long we keep it

• Enquiries and business contacts: until you ask us to delete them, or 2 years after we were last in touch, whichever comes first.
• Giveaway entries: deleted within 3 months of the winners being announced, apart from what we need to give the winners their prizes.
• If you ask us not to contact you again, we keep only your email address on a do-not-contact list, so we never contact you by mistake.

6. Cookies and tracking

This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics or tracking. Some emails we send contain a tiny image that tells us whether the email was opened. Our host keeps short-lived technical logs to keep the site running and secure.

7. Your rights

You can ask to see the details we hold about you, correct them, delete them, or stop us using them, including for marketing. Email charlie@wearespotted.com and we'll reply within one month.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your details, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, or to the data protection authority where you live.

8. Keeping it safe

Only Charlie and Ewan can see your details, apart from the services listed above, and our customer database is invite only.

9. Children

Our services and the giveaway are for adults. We don't knowingly collect details from anyone under 18.

10. Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update this page and the date at the top.