Privacy notice
This site has no accounts and no advertising. The only personal data it touches is what you send through the contact form, plus anonymous page counts. This notice says exactly what happens to both.
Who we are
ManchesterExperts is an independent guide to professional services in Manchester. The site is operated by MintMarketing LLC, 75 East 3rd Street, Sheridan, Wyoming, United States, which is the data controller for the processing described below. You can reach us through the contact page.
What we collect
Reading the site
Nothing identifying. There is no login, no newsletter sign-up and no comment system. You can read every ranked list, guide and page without giving us anything.
The contact form
The form on our contact page is the only place this site asks you for anything. It collects three things: your email address, the topic you pick from the list, and whatever you write in the message box. There is no name field, no phone field and no company field — if you want us to have any of those, you put them in the message yourself.
Submissions are delivered to us as email by Resend, acting as our processor. Nothing you type is written to a database on this site; it is passed straight through and then lives in our inbox like any other email.
Analytics
We use Vercel Analytics, which is cookieless. It sets no cookies, no advertising identifiers and no cross-site tracking identifiers, and it does not build a profile of you across websites. That is why this site shows no cookie banner — there is nothing to consent to. What we see is aggregate: page paths, referring site, country, browser and device type, and counts. We cannot identify an individual reader from it.
Server logs
Our hosting provider keeps short-lived technical logs (IP address, timestamp, requested URL, user agent) for security and abuse prevention. We do not use these logs for analytics or marketing.
Why we process it
- To read and reply to your message, and to act on a correction or a suggestion you send us.
- To keep an audit trail of corrections, so that a change to a ranked list can be traced to the evidence that prompted it.
- To understand which pages are read, in aggregate, so we know which lists to re-check first.
- To keep the site available and defend it against abuse.
The legal basis is our legitimate interest in running an editorial site and answering the people who write to it, and — where you started the conversation — the steps you asked us to take.
Who else sees it
- Resend — delivers contact form submissions to our inbox.
- Our email provider — holds the resulting correspondence.
- Vercel — hosting and cookieless analytics.
We do not sell personal data, we do not share it with advertisers or data brokers, and we do not pass your message to the firms we write about unless you explicitly ask us to introduce you. We are based in the United States, and some of these providers also operate outside the UK, so using the contact form involves an international transfer.
How long we keep it
- Correspondence — kept for up to 24 months from the last message, then deleted. Where a message led to a published correction, we keep a minimal record of what was changed and when, without the sender’s contact details.
- Analytics — aggregate only, retained no longer than our provider’s standard window. It is never linked to a person.
- Server logs — retained by the host on their standard short rolling window.
Your rights
Under UK GDPR you can ask us for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, or object to us holding it at all. Because we hold very little, most of these requests are quick. Send the request through the contact form and we will reply within 30 days.
If you think we have handled your data badly, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. We would rather you told us first, but you do not have to.
Children
This site is written for adults arranging professional services. It is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
Changes to this notice
If we change how any of this works, we update this page and move the date at the top. Material changes will be summarised here rather than buried in a rewrite.
Contact
Everything goes to the same place: the contact page. Questions about this notice, data requests, corrections, suggestions and questions about a ranking are all read by the same people.