Privacy Policy

Effective date: 4 August 2026

Who we are

scrapsmetalprices.com is an Australian scrap metal price reference site. We publish daily LME-anchored price estimates for scrap metal across 45 Australian cities, and maintain a directory of scrap yards.

To contact us about this policy, email admin@scrapsmetalprices.com — or use the correction form.

Data we collect

Voluntarily submitted via forms

When you submit a yard, price report, or correction via our submission forms, we collect the information you provide in the form. This may include:

• Yard name, address, phone, website, and accepted metals
• Transaction data: metal type, grade, weight, and price per kg
• Correction details: page URL and description of the issue
• Your name and email address, if you choose to provide them (always optional)

We do not require you to create an account or provide any personal information to use the site. Contact details on submission forms are optional and used only to follow up on your submission if needed.

Automatically collected via cookies and analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the site (pages viewed, session duration, geographic region, device type). Google Analytics uses cookies to collect this data. The data is aggregated and anonymised — we do not use it to identify individual visitors.

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. AdSense may use cookies to serve ads based on your interests and prior visits to other websites. This is controlled by Google's advertising infrastructure, not by us.

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking via Google's opt-out browser add-on, and review Google's advertising settings at adssettings.google.com.

How we use your data

• To review and incorporate yard submissions into the directory
• To validate and calibrate our LME-anchored price estimates using aggregate price reports
• To respond to corrections and fix errors on the site
• To understand site usage and improve content (Google Analytics)
• To display relevant advertising (Google AdSense)

We do not sell your personal data to third parties. We do not use submission data for marketing.

Third parties

Data is processed by the following third parties as part of normal site operation:

• Google LLC — Analytics and AdSense. See Google's Privacy Policy.
• KnownHost LLC — our hosting provider. Their servers are located in the United States, so site data, including form submissions, is processed and stored there.
• MetalpriceAPI — daily metal price data; no user data is shared with them.

Cookies and consent

This site uses cookies placed by Google Analytics and Google AdSense. We do not set any first-party analytics cookies ourselves. A full list of cookies used by Google is available in their cookie policy.

This site uses Google Consent Mode v2 with region-scoped defaults. For visitors in the EU/EEA, the UK, and Switzerland, advertising and analytics cookies are denied by default and are activated only if consent is granted via the Google-provided consent banner, which can be revisited via the link at the bottom of the page or in ad settings. For visitors elsewhere, including Australia, analytics and advertising operate on page load as permitted by applicable law.

Data retention

Form submissions (yard suggestions, price reports, corrections) are retained for 12 months from the date of submission, after which they are deleted from our systems. If a yard is added to the directory based on a submission, the yard data itself is retained indefinitely as part of the public directory.

Google Analytics data retention is set to 14 months.

Your rights

You may contact us at admin@scrapsmetalprices.com to:

• Request a copy of personal data we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate data
• Request deletion of your personal data (where we are the controller)

For EU/EEA users (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Union or European Economic Area, you have additional rights under the GDPR. Our legal basis for processing personal data submitted via forms is legitimate interest (improving the accuracy of a public reference resource). For advertising cookies (AdSense), the legal basis is consent where required by applicable law.

For Australian users (Privacy Act)

Australian users have rights under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). You may contact us to access or correct personal information we hold about you.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be noted with an updated effective date at the top of this page. Continued use of the site after a policy update constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.