Privacy Policy

Draft prepared: 25 July 2026

Working draft, pending legal review. This document is a working draft prepared to give the pages real content. It has not yet been reviewed or approved by a qualified legal professional and is not yet final or binding. The wording is expected to change before Beaconry relies on it.

Beaconry is a price tracking and comparison service for model railway and tabletop wargaming hobbyists, operated by Chief Solutions Limited, trading as GuzzlerLabs (the "Company", "we", "us"). This policy explains what personal data we collect when you use the Beaconry website and mobile app, why we collect it, who we share it with, and the rights you have over it.

The data controller is Chief Solutions Limited (trading as GuzzlerLabs), a company registered in England and Wales under company number 06238112, with its registered office at CCM Chichester House, 2 Chichester Street, Rochdale, OL16 2AX. If you have any questions about this policy or your data, contact us at privacy@beaconry.co. [ICO data-protection registration number to be confirmed by legal.]

Data we collect

Account details. When you register, we collect your email address and a password. Your credentials are stored and managed by Amazon Cognito on our behalf; we do not store your password in a form we can read. If you enable multi-factor authentication or sign in with a third-party provider, we also process the related settings and the basic profile information that provider returns.
Your Beaconry activity. Your subscription tier and status, notification preferences, the products on your watchlist, and the price alert beacons you set.
Push notification token. If you turn on push notifications in the mobile app, we store the device token needed to deliver them.
Technical and log data. To run the service securely and diagnose problems, our servers keep operational logs that may include your IP address and request metadata. Where an email address appears in these logs it is pseudonymised using a one-way keyed hash, not stored in readable form.
Essential cookie. We set a single signed session cookie so you stay signed in. We do not currently use third-party advertising or analytics tracking cookies.

How we use your data

To create and manage your account and sign you in.
To operate the core service: showing prices, maintaining your watchlist, and sending the price alerts you have asked for.
To manage your subscription and confirm your access tier.
To keep the service secure, prevent abuse, and fix faults.
To contact you about your account or important service changes.

Legal bases

Under UK data protection law we rely on: performance of our contract with you (to provide the service you sign up for), our legitimate interests (to secure and improve the service), your consent (for push notifications, which you can withdraw at any time), and compliance with legal obligations. If you would like more detail on the basis for a specific use, contact privacy@beaconry.co.

Payments

Paid subscriptions are purchased through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Your payment and card details are handled entirely by Apple or Google; we never see or store them. We receive confirmation of your subscription status through RevenueCat, our subscription management provider, so we can grant the right access tier.

Retailer links and affiliate commission

When you tap through to buy from a retailer, that visit may carry an affiliate identifier so that we earn a commission if you make a purchase. This does not change the price you pay, and it does not affect how we rank or display prices, which are ordered by price. Once you leave Beaconry for a retailer's site, that retailer's own privacy policy applies to your visit.

Who we share data with

We do not sell your personal data. We share it only with the service providers that help us run Beaconry, and only as far as they need it:

Amazon Web Services: cloud hosting, authentication (Amazon Cognito), and our database.
RevenueCat: subscription status management.
Apple and Google: payment processing for subscriptions.
Our email provider: account and price-alert emails.

We may also disclose data where we are required to by law, or to protect our rights and the safety of our users.

International transfers

Some of our providers may process data outside the UK. Where that happens we rely on appropriate safeguards. [Hosting region and specific transfer safeguards to be confirmed by legal.]

How long we keep your data

We keep your personal data for as long as your account is active and for a limited period afterwards where we need to for legal, security, or accounting reasons. [Specific retention periods to be confirmed by legal.]

Your rights

You have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to our use of your personal data, and to request a copy of it. You can delete your account at any time from within the app, which removes your account and its linked data. To exercise any other right, or if you would prefer we handle a deletion for you, email privacy@beaconry.co. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with how we handle your data.

Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your data, including managed authentication and pseudonymisation of identifiers in our logs. No online service can be completely secure, but we work to keep your data safe.

Children

Beaconry is not directed at children and is intended for adult hobbyists. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will change the date at the top of this page and, where the change is significant, tell you through the service.

Contact

For any privacy or data protection question, contact us at privacy@beaconry.co.