Privacy: what a visit leaves behind, and what is not claimed about it

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Why there is so little to say

There is remarkably little to say here, and the reason is structural rather than virtuous. A page of arithmetic has no need to know who is reading it, so nothing was built to find out.

No reader list gets built or sold out of these pages, and there is nothing here that would make one: no account, no profile, no sign-up and no newsletter.

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What a request leaves behind anyway

A request to any web server leaves a trace behind it regardless, and pretending otherwise would be silly. An address, a browser string and the address of the page requested all travel as part of how the web works.

Which of those traces a log retains, and for how long it retains them, is not printed on this page. No retention period is published here, and the period in force can be had by asking.

No third party is named on this page either. Naming one that is not in use would be wrong, and leaving out one that is would be worse, so the list in force is available on request rather than reproduced from memory.

No technical description of security measures appears here. A description of that sort is easy to write, hard for a reader to verify, and worth nothing as a promise, so none is offered in place of the practical point, which is that there is no stored account here to break into.

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What happens at a commercial link

Where a reader follows a commercial link, what gets recorded about that click, and who holds the record, is a matter for the operator’s side of the arrangement rather than for these pages. That arrangement is set out end to end at how this site is paid.

Beyond the link there is another publisher’s site, with its own privacy terms and its own view of what to keep. Nothing written here reaches across that boundary, and nobody should read it as though it did.

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Rights, and the citation that is missing

Rights over personal data in the United Kingdom include asking what is held, asking for a correction, asking for erasure, objecting to a particular use, and complaining to the national data-protection regulator.

No statute is cited for that list, and the reason is worth stating. The sheet of primary sources behind this site covers gambling regulation rather than data protection, and a citation written down from memory is worth nothing at all. The same rule governs every figure here, and it is set out at who publishes this.

Sending a message is where any of those starts, and the route for sending one is at write to us. A request about personal data gets the same treatment as a correction: either it is actioned, or the reason it cannot be is given in writing.

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Age, and changes to this page

Anybody under eighteen should not be reading these sheets at all, and nothing here is written for them.

The reference line above carries a revision figure, which advances each time this page gets rewritten. The narrower question of what a browser is asked to store is handled on the cookies page, and the route for a message about any of it is at write to us.