What we collect, why we collect it, and who else sees it. This describes what the site actually does, so it changes when the site does.
Last updated 30 July 2026.
Reserving asks for your name, email address, and phone number. We keep them alongside the listing you reserved and its price at the time.
Your details go to the shop holding that tire. That is the point of a reservation: the shop needs to know who is coming and how to reach you. We email those details to the shop, and they appear in that shop's portal. We do not sell your details, and we do not pass them to any other shop or to advertisers.
You do not need an account to reserve, and no payment details are collected anywhere on this site. You pay the shop directly when you collect.
A shop account holds an email address, a name, and a password stored only as a salted hash, never as text we could read. Shop records hold the business name, address, phone, and ZIP, all of which appear publicly on listings so buyers can find you.
Applying through the partner form stores what you enter on it: shop name, contact name, email, phone, city and state, shop type, and rough monthly volume. That reaches us so a person can follow up.
Photos taken during grading are stored with the tire record and shown on its listing. We keep the original of each photo as well as the version displayed, so a grading can be checked later. Photograph the tire, not people, paperwork, or number plates.
If you let the site use your location to find nearby tires, those coordinates stay in your browser and are never sent to us. If you type a ZIP instead, that ZIP reaches our server to look up a rough area centre, and we do not store it against you.
One, strictly functional, not used for advertising and not shared with anyone. tcd_session keeps you signed in. Browsing tires needs no cookie and no account.
We record page views and server request timings on analytics infrastructure we host ourselves. No third-party advertising or tracking network runs on this site. Account sign-up and sign-in events currently record the email address involved, which we are narrowing to a non-identifying value.
Reservation and grading records are kept as the history of what was inspected and sold, which is what makes a published grade checkable later. Rejected-tire records are deliberately permanent, so an unsafe tire cannot be quietly re-listed.
To see what we hold about you, correct it, or have your personal details removed, email us and we will action it. Removing a buyer's contact details does not erase the grading record for the tire itself.
Questions about any of this, or a request about your data: [email protected].