Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

BAV Tech Solutions Ltd ("we", "our", "us") is the data controller responsible for your personal data. We are based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, UK.

Contact: contact@bavtechsolutions.com
Website: bavtechsolutions.com

2. What Data We Collect

We only collect data that you voluntarily provide. Depending on how you interact with us, this may include:

• Contact form: your name, email address, and any message content.
• Free tools (e.g. GBP Grader): your name, email address, and business name, if you choose to unlock a full report.
• Business information you enter into tools: business type, location, and self-reported answers. For the tools that run entirely in your browser, this is processed on your own device and never reaches our servers at all.
• Website addresses you submit to our checking tools: the Contact Checker, Schema Checker and Alt Text Checker need to fetch the page you give them, so the address you enter is sent to our server. See section 3 for exactly what happens to it.
• Your IP address, used briefly by our checking tools to apply a rate limit and stop the service being abused. It is used to count recent requests and is not stored against you or used to identify you.

We do not collect any sensitive personal data and we do not use automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects.

3. How We Collect Your Data

We collect data through the following means:

• Contact forms on our main website are processed via FormSubmit (formsubmit.co). Your submission is emailed directly to us. FormSubmit does not store your data after delivery. See their policy at formsubmit.co/privacy.pdf.
• Free tool email capture is processed via FormSubmit (formsubmit.co) on our newer tools and Formspree (formspree.io) on the GBP Grader. Your submission is forwarded to us. See their policies at formsubmit.co/privacy.pdf and formspree.io/legal/privacy-policy. Where a tool offers to email you a copy of your report, what we receive is your email address, the web address you checked, and the list of findings. We do not receive a copy of your page.
• Our website checking tools (Contact Checker, Schema Checker and Alt Text Checker) run on Cloudflare Workers. When you submit an address, our server fetches that page, reads it in memory, works out the findings and discards it. The content of the page you check is never saved, never written to a database and never logged. Only the findings are returned to your browser, and they are gone when you close the tab.
• Server request logs. Like almost any web service, our checking tool keeps short-term technical logs of the requests made to it, which include the address you asked us to check, your IP address and the time. These are held by Cloudflare for a few days for diagnosing faults and preventing abuse, then deleted automatically. They are not used to build a profile of you.
• Tools that never send us anything. The Image Compressor, Schema Generator, Logo Background Remover, QR Code Generator and Invoice Generator run entirely inside your browser. Your images, business details and documents are processed on your own device and are never uploaded to us or anyone else. You can confirm this by disconnecting from the internet once the page has loaded: they still work.

4. Why We Use Your Data

We use the data you provide for the following purposes:

• To respond to your enquiry or request.
• To follow up regarding your use of one of our free tools and offer relevant assistance.
• To provide the services or information you have requested.

Lawful basis: Where you tick a consent checkbox, we rely on consent (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(a)). For general business enquiries and follow-ups, we rely on legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)), specifically our interest in responding to prospective customers.

We will never sell or rent your data. The only marketing-related sharing is the Meta (Facebook) advertising pixel described in the Cookie Policy below, which loads only if you choose to accept it.

5. How Long We Keep Your Data

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected , typically the duration of our business relationship or enquiry, plus a reasonable period afterwards. If you ask us to delete your data, we will do so promptly.

Two things are much shorter than that. The pages fetched by our checking tools are held only in memory for the few seconds a check takes and are never written down at all. The technical request logs described in section 3 are kept by Cloudflare for a few days and then deleted automatically.

6. Your Rights Under UK GDPR

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Access, request a copy of the data we hold about you.
• Correction, ask us to correct any inaccurate data.
• Erasure, ask us to delete your data ("right to be forgotten").
• Restriction, ask us to limit how we use your data.
• Objection, object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Portability, request your data in a portable format.
• Withdraw consent, where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, email us at contact@bavtechsolutions.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office).

7. Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites you visit.

By default, our website and free tools use only strictly necessary cookies , those required for basic security and hosting functions. The one exception is our advertising landing pages (such as the free mockup request page), which offer a Meta (Facebook) pixel. That is a non-essential marketing cookie, so it only loads if you accept it on the cookie banner. Decline, and no advertising or tracking cookies are set.

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to see which pages and tools are actually being used. It is deliberately chosen because it is privacy-first: it sets no cookies, does not fingerprint your device, and does not track you across other websites. It records aggregate figures such as page views, referring site and country. Because it stores nothing on your device and cannot identify you, no consent banner is required for it. See cloudflare.com/web-analytics.

On the pages we use as advertising landing pages (such as our free mockup request page), we offer the Meta (Facebook) pixel. If you accept it, it sets a cookie (_fbp) and tells Meta that you visited the page and whether you submitted the form, so we can measure and improve our ads. It does not load unless you choose Accept on the cookie banner; choose Decline and it never runs. You can change your mind any time by clearing this site's cookies in your browser. Meta explains how it uses this data at facebook.com/privacy/policy.

If we introduce any further tool that sets cookies or tracks you, we will update this policy and ask for your consent first.

8. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to external sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites and recommend you review their privacy policies separately.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with a revised "last updated" date. We encourage you to check back periodically.