Privacy policy

MattressPriceCheck is a price comparison site. You do not need an account to use it, and we try to collect as little as possible about you.

Who is responsible

MattressPriceCheck is operated by BSB Digital Ventures Ltd, the data controller for this site. Its registered office, company number and a privacy contact address have not been published yet and will appear on the contact page.

What we collect

• Comparison shortlist. The mattresses you add to a comparison are stored in your own browser, not on our servers.
• Retailer link clicks. When you follow a link to a retailer we record which mattress, size and retailer was involved, the type of page and placement it came from, the retailer destination link, and whether the device was mobile or desktop (worked out from your browser's user-agent, which is not itself stored). We do not store your name, email or IP address alongside it.
• Technical logs. Our hosting provider records standard request information, including IP address, for security and to keep the site running.
• Messages you send us. If you contact us we keep your message and reply.

We do not sell your data. We do not run our own analytics or advertising pixels.

Skimlinks

With your permission, we load a script from Skimlinks, an affiliate network, so that eligible links to retailers can be credited to us. It does not load until you choose "Allow" in the affiliate tracking panel; ignoring or closing the panel leaves it off. Once loaded, Skimlinks can read information about your visit, such as the page, your browser and your IP address, and may set or read cookies under its own privacy policy. You can change your choice at any time with "Cookie settings" in the footer.

Why we are allowed to use it

For the click records and technical logs we rely on legitimate interests: we need to know which comparisons are useful, and our retailer partners need to be able to reconcile referrals. We ask for your consent before loading the Skimlinks script, and you can withdraw it at any time. Withdrawing stops it loading on later pages; it cannot remove cookies Skimlinks has already set, which you can clear in your browser.

Retailer and affiliate partners

When you follow a link to a retailer, that retailer and its affiliate network can set their own cookies and see that the visit came from us. What they then do is covered by their own privacy policies, not this one. We receive only aggregate reporting: how many clicks and orders came from our links, never who you are or what else you bought. See our affiliate disclosure and cookie policy.

How long we keep things

We have not yet set up automatic deletion of click records, so they are currently kept until a retention period is decided and put in place. Technical logs are kept by our hosting provider under its own schedule. Messages are kept while the enquiry is open and for a reasonable period afterwards.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask for a copy of any personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how we use it. Because we deliberately avoid storing identifying information, we often hold nothing linked to an individual. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

Children

This site is aimed at adults buying household goods and is not directed at children.

Changes

If this policy changes materially we will say so on this page. Retailer referral links are active for eligible offers. Any example data is labelled separately and is not a live retailer offer.