Privacy
This site is a static public handbook. It is not an evidence vault, a reporting service, or a place to upload private documents.
The preparation page uses prompts only. It does not contain an intake form, submit button, copy tool, evidence upload, or browser fields for private case details. Sensitive medical, legal, financial, crime, family, capacity, care, or abuse evidence should be kept offline and taken to an appropriate professional or official route.
ICO guidance says privacy information should explain what personal data is used, why it is used, how long it is kept, and whether it is shared. ICO cookie guidance also says non-essential cookies or similar technologies need clear information and consent.
The public pages are informational and do not set non-essential cookies, run advertising trackers, or intentionally enable Cloudflare Web Analytics. Hosting and security infrastructure may still use ordinary server logs or operational network-error reporting to deliver and protect the site. No cookie banner is used because the public pages do not set non-essential cookies.
If a website asks for personal details, private evidence, account information, or consent to cookies, visitors should expect clear privacy information about what is collected, who receives it, why it is needed, how long it is kept, and how to get help.
ICO guidance says organisations must identify a lawful basis before processing personal data. Special category data, such as health, biometric, ethnicity, religion, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, or trade union information, needs both an Article 6 lawful basis and an Article 9 condition. Criminal offence data has separate restrictions. This public handbook avoids asking visitors for that kind of material.
| Privacy area | What this means for visitors |
|---|---|
| DPIA | The public handbook does not intentionally collect, store, profile, monitor, or publish visitor evidence or personal data. Visitors are not asked to create a case file here. |
| Article 6 lawful basis | The website does not ask visitors to submit case content, so it does not present itself as having a lawful basis to receive visitor-submitted case material. Ordinary hosting and security logs may be handled on the basis of legitimate interests in delivering and protecting the website. |
| Article 9 special category data | The website does not ask visitors to submit special category data. Do not paste health, abuse, vulnerability, capacity, care, or similar private evidence here. |
| Criminal offence data | The site discusses crime and suspected wrongdoing as public education, but it does not collect reports about named people or publish allegations. |
The ICO says its guidance is being updated as changes from the Data Use and Access Act 2025 come into force. Visitors should treat this page as a public privacy snapshot for this handbook, not as legal advice or a guarantee about other websites.
The Online Safety Act duties apply to services such as user-to-user services and search services. GOV.UK describes this as covering services that allow users to post content online or interact with each other, and search services. Ofcom guidance focuses on proportionate duties for in-scope services, including risk assessment, illegal content measures, reporting, and complaints.
This site is a static handbook. It does not let visitors publish content, interact with other users, upload files, message each other, search user content, or create accounts. That boundary is part of the safety and privacy design. This is a feature-based check, not legal advice.