Privacy.

The short version

• No account, no forms, no newsletter, no payments.
• Only the cookies the site needs to work. No analytics, no advertising cookies, no profiles.
• To answer a search we pass on your search words, never your IP address: to a web search provider, a shopping data provider, and the AI models of Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.
• We keep no search history. Your last search can stay in your session for 2 hours after your last page, and a click on a shop link records the shop page you went to.
• When you click a shop link we can earn from, we record the click, with your IP address, so that we get paid.

Who is responsible

The controller for look&find (lookandfind.me) under the UK GDPR and, for visitors in the European Union, the EU GDPR is:

For any question about your data, or to use your rights, contact us at the address above.

When you open a page

Every time your browser loads a page, it sends our server some technical data: your IP address, the page’s address (with your search words, if you searched), the time, your browser and operating system (the user agent), your preferred languages and the page you came from. That’s how the web works. Here is what we do with it.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in a website that works, is secure and can’t be abused (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

When you search

To answer a search, we pass on only what each source needs: your search words, the country you search in, the site’s language and your filters (like “past week”). Our server does the asking, so none of these services gets your IP address, your browser details or a cookie of yours.

We keep no search history and build no profiles. Apart from the caches above, which aren’t linked to you, your search words show up in our server logs and your session, as part of a page address, and now and then in an error log, when something breaks while we answer. Today’s browsers tell the sites you open from look&find only that you came from lookandfind.me, not what you searched for.

Legal basis: giving you the results you asked for (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and our legitimate interest in a fast, affordable search (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

When you click a shop link

Links to shops go through our redirect, lookandfind.me/out. When we have an affiliate partnership with that shop for your country, the click continues through our click tracker and the affiliate network to the shop; otherwise it goes straight to the shop.

For a click through an affiliate partnership, we record:

• the time, the shop, the page you’re going to and where on look&find you clicked (a price, a web result, a suggestion),
• a click ID, which the affiliate network gets in the link,
• your IP address and your country,
• your user agent and what your browser says about itself: browser, operating system, device type, languages and similar hints,
• the domain of the page you came from,
• an ID made from your IP address and browser that changes every day.

We use this to get our commission credited and paid, and to spot fraud and automated clicks. From us, the affiliate network gets the click ID, the address of the shop page you’re going to and, for some networks, our site’s address; your IP address and browser details reach the network and the shop straight from your browser, as with any website you open.

Click records stay on our server for 10 days, and in our commission accounting for as long as we need them to settle and check commissions with the networks.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in paying for look&find through commissions and in preventing fraud (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Cookies and storage in your browser

We use only what the site needs to work and what you ask for: no analytics, advertising or social media cookies. That’s why we don’t ask for your consent. This is everything look&find keeps in your browser:

Local storage is a small store in your browser that only our pages can read. Nothing in it is sent to us.

Legal basis: these are strictly necessary for the site or for something you asked for (regulation 6(4) PECR, Art. 5(3) ePrivacy Directive), and our legitimate interest in a site that works (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). You can delete them in your browser’s settings at any time; the site keeps working, it just forgets your choices.

Data outside the UK and the EU

Some services we use are outside the UK and the European Union: the web search provider, Anthropic, OpenAI and Google in the United States, and the shopping data provider in Israel. We send them data only with the safeguards the law asks for: an adequacy decision (the UK and the EU recognise Israel, and US companies certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK Extension) or standard contractual clauses (with the UK Addendum).

Our company is in the United Kingdom, which the EU recognises as protecting personal data adequately.

How long we keep what

Web results

2 minutes

AI answers

Up to 1 hour

Products

15 minutes; a product’s details up to 1 day

Suggestions

1 hour

Limits against abuse

Up to 1 day

Your session

2 hours after your last page

Server logs

14 days

Error logs

14 days

Error logs about shop clicks

3 days

Click records

10 days on our server; in our commission accounting as long as needed to settle and check commissions

Cookies and local storage

See the table above

Where the law makes us keep a record longer, for example for tax, we keep it for that time only.

Your rights

You have the right to:

• find out what data we hold about you and get a copy (access),
• have wrong data corrected (rectification),
• have data deleted (erasure),
• have its use limited (restriction),
• get data you gave us in a format you can reuse (portability),
• object at any time to what we do on the basis of our legitimate interests, for reasons arising from your situation (objection).

As you use look&find without an account, we usually can’t tell which data is yours. If you’d like us to look, tell us your IP address and roughly when you visited.

We make no automated decisions about you and build no profiles.

Complaints

If you think we handle your data wrongly, please tell us first, and we’ll try to put it right. You can also complain to a data protection authority. Ours is the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO): ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, phone 0303 123 1113. If you live in the EU, you can also turn to the authority in your country.

Changes to this page

We update this page when what we do changes. The date at the top shows the current version.