Effective Date: 18th August 2026
OctopusBonus.co.uk is owned and operated by Startup Deals Ltd. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, share, and protect personal data when you visit OctopusBonus.co.uk or interact with our services.
OctopusBonus.co.uk is an independent website and is not owned, operated, endorsed by, or otherwise affiliated with Octopus Energy Group Limited or any of its associated companies.
1. Who We Are
OctopusBonus.co.uk is an independent website owned and operated by Startup Deals Ltd, a UK-based company.
The website provides information about Octopus Energy referral offers, referral links, sign-up incentives, promotional offers, and related information.
We may receive referral rewards, affiliate commissions, or other compensation when visitors use certain links featured on our website. This helps support the operation and maintenance of the website.
We are not Octopus Energy and do not represent or act on behalf of Octopus Energy.
2. Description of Our Services
Through OctopusBonus.co.uk, we may provide:
- Access to Octopus Energy referral links and referral codes
- Information about sign-up bonuses, account credit, or other referral rewards
- Guides and FAQs relating to Octopus Energy referral offers
- Information designed to help visitors understand how referral offers work
- Referral or affiliate links to third-party websites
Any referral reward, account credit, eligibility requirement, tariff, price, or other offer is ultimately subject to the terms and conditions of the relevant third-party provider.
When you use our website, we may collect limited personal data to operate and improve the website, understand how visitors use it, measure referral activity, and comply with our legal obligations.
3. What Data We Collect
We may collect the following categories of personal data:
a) Contact Information
If you contact us directly, subscribe to communications, or use a contact form on our website, we may collect information such as:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Any information you voluntarily include in your message
b) Technical and Usage Data
Certain information may be collected automatically when you visit the website, including:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type and operating system
- Pages visited
- Time spent on the website
- Approximate location derived from your IP address
- Referral source
- Link and click activity
This information may be collected through cookies, analytics services, server logs, or similar technologies.
c) Marketing and Preference Data
Where applicable, we may collect information relating to:
- Your communication preferences
- Your cookie preferences
- Your engagement with emails or website content
We Do Not Intentionally Collect:
- Special category or sensitive personal data
- Payment or banking information
- Octopus Energy login credentials
- Octopus Energy account details
- Energy meter readings or consumption information
If you follow a referral link and subsequently provide information to Octopus Energy or another third party, that information is provided directly to that organisation and is subject to its own privacy policy.
4. How We Use Your Data
Depending on how you interact with the website, we may process personal data for purposes including:
- Responding to enquiries
- Sending newsletters or promotional communications where you have consented to receive them
- Operating, maintaining, and securing the website
- Analysing website traffic and performance
- Understanding how visitors interact with our content
- Measuring referral and affiliate activity
- Diagnosing technical issues
- Preventing fraud, abuse, or misuse
- Complying with applicable legal and regulatory obligations
Lawful Bases Under UK GDPR
Depending on the processing activity, we may rely on the following lawful bases:
| Purpose | Lawful Basis |
|---|---|
| Email marketing | Consent |
| Website operation and performance | Legitimate interests |
| Certain analytics activities | Consent and/or legitimate interests, as applicable |
| Fraud prevention and security | Legitimate interests |
| Responding to enquiries | Legitimate interests |
| Non-essential cookies and similar technologies | Consent |
| Compliance with legal obligations | Legal obligation |
Where consent is the lawful basis for processing, you may withdraw that consent at any time.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
OctopusBonus.co.uk may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Provide essential website functionality
- Remember preferences
- Analyse website traffic and visitor behaviour
- Measure referral or affiliate activity
- Improve website performance and user experience
Cookies may include essential, functional, analytical, and marketing cookies.
Where required by law, non-essential cookies will only be used after you have provided your consent.
You can manage your cookie preferences through our cookie consent tools, where available, and through your browser settings.
For further information about the cookies used on this website, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
6. Referral and Affiliate Links
Some links on OctopusBonus.co.uk are referral or affiliate links.
If you click a referral link to Octopus Energy or another third-party website, the relevant provider or tracking system may record that you arrived through our referral link. If you subsequently complete a qualifying action, we may receive a referral reward or commission.
This does not normally require us to receive your Octopus Energy account details, payment information, or login credentials.
In particular:
- We do not operate Octopus Energy’s website or systems.
- We do not process applications to become an Octopus Energy customer.
- We do not receive or store your Octopus Energy password or login credentials.
- We do not collect your payment information on behalf of Octopus Energy.
- We may receive information confirming that a qualifying referral has occurred, depending on the relevant referral or affiliate programme.
Independence from Octopus Energy
OctopusBonus.co.uk and Startup Deals Ltd are independent of Octopus Energy.
Nothing on this website should be interpreted as suggesting that OctopusBonus.co.uk, Startup Deals Ltd, or their operators are Octopus Energy, represent Octopus Energy, or are officially endorsed, sponsored, approved, or operated by Octopus Energy.
References to Octopus Energy and its products, services, offers, or trademarks are made for informational and referral purposes only.
Third-Party Websites
Our website contains links to websites operated by third parties.
Startup Deals Ltd does not control those websites and is not responsible for their content, availability, security, data processing, or privacy practices.
When you leave OctopusBonus.co.uk, you should review the privacy policy and terms of the relevant third-party website before providing personal information.
7. How We Store and Protect Your Data
We take reasonable and appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data against:
- Unauthorised access
- Accidental loss
- Misuse
- Alteration
- Unauthorised disclosure
- Destruction
We may use trusted third-party providers to host our website, process analytics, manage communications, or provide other services.
Personal data is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including satisfying applicable legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements.
8. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your personal data.
We may share limited personal data with trusted service providers where necessary to operate the website and provide our services. These may include:
- Website hosting and infrastructure providers
- Analytics providers
- Email and communications providers
- Website security and fraud-prevention providers
- Professional advisers where necessary
- Referral or affiliate technology providers
Where appropriate, these organisations process personal data on our behalf and are required to handle it securely and in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.
We may also disclose personal data where required by law, regulation, court order, or another lawful authority.
Some service providers may process personal data outside the United Kingdom. Where this occurs, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that relevant safeguards are in place as required by applicable data protection law.
9. Your Rights Under UK Data Protection Law
Subject to applicable legal requirements and exemptions, you may have the right to:
- Access personal data we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data
- Request deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances
- Object to processing based on legitimate interests
- Request restriction of certain processing
- Request data portability in certain circumstances
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Object to direct marketing
- Lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
To exercise your rights, please contact us using the details below.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator.
10. Children’s Privacy
OctopusBonus.co.uk is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
If we become aware that personal data relating to a child has been collected inappropriately, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, how we process personal data, or wish to exercise your data protection rights, please contact:
Startup Deals Ltd
Email: hello@startupdeals.co.uk
Registered Address: 86–90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE
Company Registration Number: 16455426
For the purposes of applicable UK data protection law, Startup Deals Ltd is the data controller for personal data collected directly through OctopusBonus.co.uk.
12. Updates to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services, third-party providers, or applicable legal requirements.
When we make changes, we will publish the updated Privacy Policy on this page and revise the effective date shown at the top.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to remain informed about how we handle personal data.