Audi Breaker Yards — UK Specialist Marketplace

Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2026

Audi Breaker Yards ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (UK GDPR) of the UK. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website at https://audibreakeryards.co.uk or interact with our services.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information:

  • Personal Information: Name, email address, phone number, and vehicle details when you submit a contact form or request a quote.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, including pages visited, time spent, and referring sources.
  • Device Information: Browser type, operating system, IP address, and device identifiers.
  • Communication Data: Records of enquiries made via email or our web forms, including the vehicle and part you are looking for.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • Respond to your enquiries and match you with Audi breaker yards who can quote for the part you need
  • Share your enquiry with relevant third-party suppliers so they can contact you with a quote
  • Improve our website and services
  • Send you relevant updates about parts availability (only with your consent)
  • Comply with legal obligations under UK law
  • Detect and prevent fraud or abuse

3. Lawful Basis for Processing

Under UK GDPR, we process your personal information based on the following lawful grounds:

  • Consent: You have given us explicit consent (e.g., submitting a form)
  • Contractual necessity: Processing is necessary to fulfil a quote request
  • Legitimate interest: Improving our services and website
  • Legal obligation: Compliance with UK tax and commercial law

4. Cookies & Tracking Technologies

Essential Cookies

Required for the website to function properly:

  • Session cookies: Maintain form data during your visit
  • Security cookies: Protect against spam and abuse

Analytics Cookies

Help us understand how visitors interact with our website:

  • Google Analytics: Anonymous traffic and usage analysis
  • Event tracking: Form submissions and link clicks

Advertising Cookies

Used by third-party advertising networks to serve relevant advertisements:

  • Google AdSense: May display personalised ads based on your browsing history and interests. Google uses cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this and other websites.
  • Third-party ad networks: May track browsing activity across websites to deliver targeted advertisements.

You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. For more information on how Google uses data, visit Google's Privacy & Terms.

You can control cookie preferences through your browser settings. Disabling non-essential cookies will not affect core website functionality.

5. Sharing Your Information with Audi Breaker Yards

Audi Breaker Yards is a quote-matching service. The core thing we do with your enquiry is share it with third-party Audi breaker yards and parts suppliers so they can contact you with a quote. This is the service you are asking us to provide when you submit a contact, quote, or part enquiry form.

When you submit an enquiry, we pass the details you provide — typically your name, phone number, email address, the vehicle and part you are looking for, and your location — to one or more independent breaker yards or parts suppliers in our network who are most likely to stock what you need. Those suppliers then contact you directly with their quote.

Lawful basis. We share your details on the basis that doing so is necessary to provide the quote-matching service you have requested. In data-protection terms this is supported by our legitimate interest (and yours) in connecting you with suppliers who can quote for the part — it is the entire purpose for which you submitted the form. You can ask us to stop sharing your details at any time using the contact details below, although we cannot match you with a supplier without doing so.

About the suppliers. The breaker yards and parts suppliers we share your enquiry with are independent businesses, not part of Audi Breaker Yards. Once your details reach them, each supplier acts as an independent data controller and is responsible for how it then uses your information and for its own privacy practices. We are not responsible for the marketing or data-handling decisions of those independent suppliers.

We also use a small number of service providers to operate the website:

  • Email service provider (Resend): To deliver enquiry notifications and transactional emails
  • Google: Analytics and advertising services

Other than sharing your enquiry with the breaker yards described above, we do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to unrelated third parties.

6. Cross-Border Data Transfers

Some of our third-party service providers process data outside of the UK:

  • Google (USA): Analytics and advertising services
  • Resend (USA): Email delivery service

All international transfers comply with the UK GDPR. These service providers maintain data protection measures equivalent to or exceeding UK GDPR standards.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal information for the following periods:

  • Quote and enquiry records: 2 years from date of enquiry
  • Marketing consent records: Until consent is withdrawn
  • Website analytics: 26 months (Google Analytics default)

After these periods, your data is securely deleted or anonymised.

8. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These include encrypted form submissions, secure server configurations, and access controls.

However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Data Breach Notification

In the event of a personal data breach that poses a risk to your rights:

  • We will notify the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) within 72 hours where required, in line with Article 33 of the UK GDPR
  • Affected individuals will be notified as soon as reasonably possible
  • We will provide details of the breach and remedial actions taken

10. Your Rights Under UK GDPR

Under the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (UK GDPR), you have the right to:

  • Access the personal information we hold about you
  • Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of your personal information
  • Object to the processing of your data
  • Withdraw consent at any time
  • Lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details below.

11. Marketing Communications

We will only send marketing communications if you have explicitly opted in by:

  • Checking the opt-in box on our contact or quote forms
  • Subscribing to our mailing list

You may withdraw consent at any time by:

  • Clicking "unsubscribe" in any marketing email
  • Getting in touch through our contact form

12. Data Protection Contact

To reach our designated contact responsible for UK GDPR compliance — including to exercise any of your data rights:

  • Contact form: get in touch through our contact form
  • We operate as an online marketplace and do not have a public premises. Our contact form is the primary way to reach us, and is the channel for all data-protection and data-rights requests.

13. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

If you are not satisfied with how we handle your personal information, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection authority:

  • Phone: 0303 123 1113
  • Email: icocasework@ico.org.uk
  • Post: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
  • Website: ico.org.uk

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us:

15. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.