Cookies and privacy
This site carries no analytics package and does not build a profile of you for its own purposes. It does carry advertising, and advertising involves a third party; what that means in practice is set out below.
What we do not do
This list is being revised as advertising is introduced. Anything it claims is true of the site today.
- No analytics or measurement service.
- No third-party fonts or content delivery networks for page content. Everything the page itself needs is served from this domain.
- No social media embeds or share widgets that report back. Sharing links are plain hyperlinks.
- No account, no login, and no newsletter sign-up, so no mailing list.
The one cookie
If you answer the cookie banner, the site stores a single cookie recording your answer, so that the banner does not ask again. It contains your choice and nothing else. It is not shared with anyone, because there is nobody to share it with.
Clearing your browser cookies for this site removes it, and the banner will ask again next time.
Server logs
Serving a page necessarily involves a request reaching a server, and web servers keep access logs. These are ordinary technical logs used to keep the site running and to see whether it is broken. They are not used to build a profile of you and are not passed to any third party.
Following a link
This site links out constantly, because citing the source document is the whole point. Once you follow a link to a council website, a legislation site or a document repository, you are on somebody else's site under their privacy policy and their cookies, not ours.
If you write to us
If you send us a correction, a response or any other correspondence, we keep it, because the record of what was put to us and when is part of how this site works. See the contact page for how correspondence is handled.