Privacy policy

Leadaby (leadaby.com and app.leadaby.com) is a service of SCA Systems Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 17459287, registered office Piccadilly Business Centre, Aldow Enterprise Park, Manchester, M12 6AE, United Kingdom.

For anything about privacy, email privacy@leadaby.com.

Our registration with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is being processed. Its number will be shown here once it is issued.

• Our customers: web designers, agencies and freelancers who sign up and use Leadaby, plus partners in our partner programme.
• The businesses in the leads: local businesses that Leadaby finds. Most are companies, but a sole trader's name, work phone number or address is personal data, so we treat it with the same care.

Partners also give us the name for their partner card and their link code. To pay them we need bank or Wise details, which they send us directly and which we keep only for paying them.

When a customer searches an area, Leadaby looks for local businesses and checks whether they have a working website. Here is what we keep and where it comes from.

• Google Maps. Searches use Google Maps Platform. Google's terms only let us store a business's place ID. Names, phone numbers, addresses and ratings from Google are shown live and are not stored by us.
• Open data. Business name, phone, address and category from the Overture Maps Foundation's open places data, which may be stored.
• Our website check. We visit the business's own website (its home page, contact page, robots.txt and sitemap) and may use Brave Search to find it. We keep what we found, as plain facts: for example "no website found" or "page title is just 'Home'".
• Companies House. For some UK leads, the company's registered type and status, from the public register.
• Our customers' own work: the notes and call logs a customer writes about a business stay in that customer's workspace.

We do not collect home addresses, personal social media or anything about a business owner's private life, and we never send automated calls, texts or emails. Every call or message is made by a person at one of our customers.

Who decides what. We are the controller for the business data Leadaby finds and checks. For the notes and call logs a customer writes, and for the outreach they do, the customer is responsible for using them lawfully, and we hold them on the customer's behalf.

Use the form at leadaby.com/remove, or email privacy@leadaby.com, with your business name and its phone number or website. We check every request by hand, usually within a day, so nobody can remove a business that is not theirs. Once approved, Leadaby searches leave your business out, matched by that phone number or website, so it is not found again. We reply within one month, usually much sooner, and delete what we hold about your business, keeping only what we need to keep it removed.

You can also object at any time to us holding your details for direct marketing. When you do, we stop: we do not weigh it against our interests.

In the UK you can also register your number with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) or Corporate TPS (CTPS). Our customers are responsible for screening against those lists before they call.

We have weighed these interests against the rights of the people involved.

Because business data comes from public and open sources, not from the business itself, this page is how we tell those businesses what we hold. We do not write to every business individually; that would mean contacting thousands of businesses who may never be called.

These services process data for us. Each one only gets what it needs for its job.

We never sell personal data and we do not use it to train AI models. Anthropic does not train on data sent through its commercial API.

Some of these services are in the USA. When personal data leaves the UK we rely on the UK–US data bridge where the service is certified, or on the UK International Data Transfer Addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses in its terms.

Under UK data protection law you can ask us to:

• give you a copy of your personal data;
• correct it, or delete it;
• limit how we use it, or object to how we use it (always, for direct marketing);
• give you your data in a format you can move to another service.

Email privacy@leadaby.com. We reply within one month. It is free. If you are not happy with our answer, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or on 0303 123 1113. We would like the chance to put it right first.

In the US, you have the same requests available to you, whichever state you live in. We do not sell or share personal information for targeted advertising.

We set two cookies, both only to keep you signed in to the app. We use no advertising or third-party tracking cookies, and no outside analytics service. Some small records live in your browser's storage instead of cookies. All of them are listed here.

Do we need a cookie banner? No. The cookies are strictly necessary. The attribution and visit records are first-party, hold no personal details, and you can switch the website's off below or ask us by email to stop them. This follows the exemption for statistics about a service that the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 added to PECR.

Paying happens on Stripe's own checkout page, and Stripe sets its own cookies there for fraud prevention under its own policy.

Leadaby is a business tool. It is not for anyone under 18.

When we change this page we update the date at the top. If a change matters to how we use your data, we will tell customers by email first.