Request your data from any company

Any company

Thanks to GDPR, you can ask any company what they know about you and they have to reply within 30 days by law.

Personal data that many companies collect:

• Name
• Contact details
• Cookies and IP address
• Debit and credit card details
• Economic, social and cultural information

Credit files

Send a request to see your credit files to make sure you:

• are in the best place to apply for a mortgage, loan, or any form of finance
• know what a lender can see when making a decision
• can see why previous lending decisions were made about you
• can stop inaccurate information affecting your credit score
• can see if you've been the victim of fraud

Dating apps

Find out what dating apps know about you to understand what sensitive data they have.

Most dating apps also share personal data with advertisers, like:

• Name and gender
• App activity
• Preferences

Many have been controversial: Grindr, for example, only stopped sharing users' HIV status with other companies in 2018.

Social media

Social media companies often collect, and sell on:

• Name and address
• Tastes and habits
• Cookies & IP address
• Relationship status
• Facial recognition data
• Behaviour on other apps
• Economic, social and cultural information

Send a subject access request to find out what they know about you today.

Political parties

Political parties often collect:

• Name and address
• Tastes and habits
• Contact details
• Cookies and IP address
• Economic, social and cultural information
• Employment status
• Income
• Presence or absence of children in the household age
• Family structure
• Level of educational achievement
• Onomastic data (looking at names to guess other characteristics) to identify gender

Data brokers

A data broker is a company that sells personal information about you, in the form of detailed 'profiles'.

Profiles can include:

• Name and date of birth
• Tastes and habits
• Contact details
• Economic, social and cultural information
• House price data
• Family details
• Previous addresses

American political parties

Political parties create detailed 'profiles' by collecting:

• Name, gender, address
• Family structure
• Occupation and employment status
• Income
• Political leaning
• Economic, social and cultural information
• Level of educational achievement
• Debt profile
• Information gleaned from social media profiles

Recruitment agencies

Recruitment agencies collect a huge amount of personal data about you in order to match you with potential job opportunities.

This often includes details about your employment history, earning potential and your:

• Name and address
• Contact information
• CV
• Cookies and IP address
• Economic, social and cultural information

Estate agents

Personal data that estate agents typically store:

• Name and address
• Contact details
• Likely income bracket
• Cookies and IP address
• Economic, social and cultural information

Online news publications

Online news publications often collect:

• IP address
• Geolocation data
• Browsing history
• Device and browser type, device ID
• Name, date of birth, email address
• Postal address and contact information
• Financial details
• Website and app usage
• GPS data
• Residential or billing address
• Social media data
• Photograph