MacMarkets is operated by James McElroy. MacMarkets is a stock intelligence and portfolio tracking service available at macmarkets.co.uk. To contact us or exercise your data rights, email hello@macmarkets.co.uk. Our contact address is available on request. ICO Registration Number: CSN1906641.
| Data | Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Name and email | Account creation and briefings | Contract performance |
| Watchlist stocks | Scoring and reporting | Contract performance |
| Portfolio holdings (encrypted) | AI analysis and valuation | Contract performance |
| Sector preferences | Curated news and briefings | Contract performance |
| Email preferences | Delivery at preferred time | Contract performance |
| Feedback submissions | Service improvement | Legitimate interests |
| Analytics cookies (if accepted) | Understand usage patterns | Consent |
Your data is stored securely on servers hosted by Render (render.com), located in the European Union. Portfolio holdings are encrypted using industry-standard Fernet encryption. We do not sell your data to any third party.
We keep your data for as long as your account is active. If you close your account, we will delete your personal data within 30 days. Anonymised analytics data may be retained indefinitely.
Render — hosting and database (EU servers). SendGrid — email delivery. Anthropic — AI analysis (your holdings and watchlist data is passed to Anthropic's API to generate your briefings; Anthropic does not store or train on this data). yfinance / Yahoo Finance — live stock price data (tickers only, no personal data shared).
You have the right to access, correct, delete, or port your personal data, and to object to processing. To exercise any of these rights, email hello@macmarkets.co.uk. We will respond within 30 days.
See our Cookie Policy at macmarkets.co.uk/cookies.
We may update this policy from time to time. We will notify you by email of any significant changes.
If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the ICO at ico.org.uk.
Questions about privacy or your data rights? Email hello@macmarkets.co.uk