Who we are
Promote Your Business is a free UK business directory operated by InstaWebsite (Codemind Ltd, UK). Our domain is promoteyourbusiness.co.uk. For any privacy questions, contact [email protected].
What we collect
When you submit a business listing via our form, we collect:
- Email address (required)
- Business name, contact name, mobile number (optional)
- Business category, city / region, description (optional)
- Whether you have a website and the URL if you provide it (optional)
- Your IP address and browser user-agent at submission, for spam-prevention purposes only
When you visit the public site, we record click events on outbound listing links. These store a one-way hash of your IP (salted daily, never stored as plain text) and the page that referred you, so we can show listing owners how many clicks their entry received. We do not use third-party analytics or advertising trackers.
Why we collect it
- To publish your listing in the directory once approved
- To email you when your listing goes live, or to let you know if we couldn't publish it
- To detect and reject spam submissions (rate limiting + Cloudflare Turnstile)
- To give listing owners traffic stats on their listing page
If you submit a listing, we may add your contact details to our internal CRM (operated by InstaWebsite) so we can follow up about your business's online presence. You can ask us to remove you from this CRM at any time.
Who we share with
We share your data with:
- Cloudflare — runs Turnstile (the "I'm not a robot" check on the submit form)
- The mail server hosting our domain — used to send your confirmation and approval emails
- Hetzner Cloud (EU) — hosts our servers
We do not sell or rent your data. We do not pass it to advertisers.
How long we keep it
- Approved listings: published indefinitely until you ask us to remove them
- Rejected submissions: kept for 6 months for spam-pattern analysis, then deleted
- Click-tracking events: 12 months, then aggregated anonymously
Your rights (UK GDPR)
You have the right to:
- See what data we hold about you
- Correct anything that's wrong
- Have us delete your data ("right to be forgotten")
- Withdraw consent and have your listing removed
Email [email protected]with your request and we'll act on it within 30 days. You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.
Cookies
We don't set tracking cookies. The only cookies on this site are essential ones from our session-management framework when you sign in to the admin area, and third-party cookies set by Cloudflare Turnstile during the security check on the submit form.
Changes to this policy
If we make material changes we'll update the "last updated" date at the top and, where appropriate, email submitters of active listings.
See also: Terms of listing.