PRIVACY

Privacy Policy

Last updated 2 October 2026

KitPrice (“we”, “us”) operates kitprice.org. This page explains what data we collect from visitors and why. We collect as little as we can get away with while still measuring whether the site is useful.

What we collect

Analytics. We run a self-hosted, cookieless analytics tool (Umami) on our own infrastructure — no third party ever receives this data. It records aggregate figures like page views, referring sites and general device/browser type. It does not use cookies and does not build a profile of individual visitors across sessions.

Retailer link clicks. When you click through to a retailer (or to Amazon or eBay) from a product page, we record which offer was clicked and when, the general way you reached KitPrice (for example a search engine, Bluesky, one of our price alerts, or the name of the website that linked to us), and whether the click looks automated. This tells us which retailers, products and channels get genuine interest. Each click gets a random reference number which may be passed to the retailer’s affiliate network, so we can match any commission to the click that earned it. We do not record your IP address, browser identifiers or any other personal information alongside that click.

We do not use tracking cookies, and the public site has no accounts or newsletter. The only time we ask for any personal detail is if you choose to receive price alerts by email (see below).

Price alerts

Price alerts are optional. If you set one, we store the alert itself (which product, your target price, which stores and how you want to be told) and, depending on what you choose:

• This browser. A random identifier in a cookie (kp_device) so we know which alerts are yours — there’s no account. We only store a scrambled (hashed) version of it. A second cookie (kp_alerts) just tells the site you have alerts, so it knows to check for notifications. Both are strictly necessary for the alerts you asked for and are never used for tracking or advertising.
• Local notifications. A record of each alert that went off, shown to you on KitPrice in this browser.
• Push notifications. The push address your browser gives us when you allow notifications. Notifications are delivered through your browser maker’s push service (for example Google, Mozilla, Apple or Microsoft), which receives the notification text.
• Email. Your email address. We send one confirmation email and only email alerts once you’ve clicked the link in it; unconfirmed addresses are deleted after 7 days. Emails are sent through our email-sending provider. We never use your address for anything except the alerts you set, and never share or sell it.

Our lawful basis is your consent. You can delete any alert at any time from your alerts page, which also has a button to delete everything we hold for your browser; every alert email has a link that stops email alerts and deletes your address.

Hosting and delivery

Pages on kitprice.org are delivered through Cloudflare, a content delivery network that keeps short-lived copies of public pages close to visitors and protects the site from attacks. Like any web host, Cloudflare necessarily handles your IP address and the details of each request in order to deliver the page; it acts as our service provider for this and does not receive your price-alert details, which are never stored in its copies. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Affiliate links

Some retailer links on KitPrice may be affiliate links, meaning we can earn a commission if you go on to make a purchase, at no extra cost to you. Whether or not a link is an affiliate link, our first-party /go/ redirect (see above) is what records the click, not the affiliate network itself — we don’t rely on third-party tracking cookies to measure this.

Cookies

The public site sets no cookies unless you create a price alert, in which case it sets the two strictly-necessary cookies described above. The separate admin area, used only by KitPrice staff to manage the catalogue, uses a single session cookie to stay signed in; this has no bearing on public visitors.

Retailer sites

Clicking through to a retailer takes you to that retailer’s own website, which has its own, separate privacy policy and its own data practices. We’re not responsible for how retailer sites handle your data once you leave kitprice.org.

Your rights

Apart from an email address you give us for price alerts, we don’t collect data that identifies you personally. You can see and delete your alert data yourself on your alerts page. If you believe we hold any personal data about you, or have any question about this policy, contact [email protected] and we’ll look into it. You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk) at any time.

Changes

If what we collect changes, we’ll update this page and the date above.