Last updated: 12 July 2026
Who we are
bridgingradar is a deal-matching platform for unregulated UK bridging and development finance. The platform is operated by bridgingradar, a free-zone limited liability company being incorporated in the United Arab Emirates; this page will be updated with full company details on completion. Because we offer our services to people in the United Kingdom, we handle personal data in line with UK data protection law (UK GDPR). Our UK data protection registration is in progress (reference to follow). Questions or requests: contact us and mark your message "data protection".
What we collect
- Enquiry and application data — what you tell us about yourself and your deal: name and contact details, the borrowing entity, the property, the loan you want, your exit plan, and any credit history or circumstances you choose to explain.
- Documents you upload — sales particulars, valuations and similar. These may contain personal data such as addresses.
- Deal activity — how your application progresses: matches, submissions, terms received, milestones.
- Technical data — standard server logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested) used for security and to keep the service working.
We do not collect anything we do not need to arrange your finance. Using the calculator or reading the Knowledge Base requires no personal data at all.
How we use it
- To arrange your finance — matching your deal against lender criteria, preparing your application, and progressing it to completion. This is the whole point of the platform, and our lawful basis is taking steps at your request before entering a contract.
- AI processing — when you type your deal in plain language or upload a document, our systems use an AI service (Anthropic's Claude) to read it and pre-fill your application. You review everything before it goes anywhere. Our AI provider does not use your data to train its models.
- To improve accuracy — when you correct something our systems pre-filled, we record the correction so the same mistake is not made twice. Our legitimate interest is an accurate service.
- To meet legal obligations — identity and anti-money-laundering checks where required, and record-keeping.
Who sees your data
- Lenders you choose. Your deal goes only to the lenders you decide to approach. It is never broadcast, published or circulated to a panel.
- Our specialist partners — if your deal needs structuring outside the platform's scope, we will tell you before making any introduction.
- Service providers — hosting (Railway), AI processing (Anthropic), and, when live, our email provider. Each processes data only on our instructions.
We never sell your data. You will never appear on a marketing list because you made an enquiry, and introducers' clients never appear on one because they were referred.
Where your data lives
Our systems are hosted with established cloud providers whose infrastructure may be located in the UK, EU or US, and our company is based in the UAE. Wherever data moves, it moves under contractual protections designed to keep UK-standard safeguards attached to it.
How long we keep it
Enquiries that do not proceed are deleted within 12 months. Completed transactions are kept for 6 years, because commission disclosure and complaint handling require a record. Lender criteria data is not personal data and is kept as long as it is useful. You can ask us to delete your data sooner — see your rights below.
Cookies and local storage
We use no advertising cookies, no analytics cookies and no tracking pixels. The application form saves your progress in your own browser's storage so you do not lose your work — that data stays on your device until you submit. The lender and introducer portals use a single session cookie to keep you logged in. That is the complete list.
Your rights
Under UK GDPR you can ask us for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, delete it, restrict how we use it, or object to a use of it; where processing is based on consent you can withdraw that consent at any time. Contact us and we will respond within one month. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, the date above changes with it and significant changes will be flagged on the site. No quiet rewrites.