Privacy
The short version: BritIndex does not want your personal data and does not ask for it. That is also why there is no cookie banner. The long version follows.
Last revised 2026-07-30
What this site collects
BritIndex is a static reference site. It has no accounts, no logins, no comment system and no newsletter. It does not ask you for your name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number, NHS number or any other identifier, and there is nowhere on the site to enter one.
The site search runs entirely in your browser. What you type into it is never sent to a server and never stored.
Server logs
Like any website, the hosting platform records standard request data — IP address, timestamp, requested URL, user agent, referrer — for the purpose of serving pages, preventing abuse and diagnosing faults. These logs are retained by the hosting provider under its own retention policy and are not used to build a profile of you.
Cookies and analytics
The site sets no advertising or tracking cookies of its own, which is why you are not being asked to accept any. Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, consent is required for non-essential cookies — we avoid the question by not setting them.
Fonts are self-hosted through the framework's font pipeline rather than fetched from a third-party font server, so loading a page does not disclose your visit to a font provider.
Links to other sites
Every page links out to UK government departments, devolved administrations, regulators and other organisations. Once you follow one of those links you are on their site, subject to their privacy notice, not this one. Several government services require you to sign in and will handle identifying information; how they do so is set out in their own notices.
Your rights
UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 give you rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection in relation to personal data held about you. Because this site does not collect personal data, there is generally nothing held about you to exercise those rights over — but if you believe otherwise, you can ask.
If you are not satisfied with the response, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's independent data protection regulator, on 0303 123 1113 or at ico.org.uk.
Children
The site is general reference material suitable for a general audience. It does not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this notice changes materially, the revision date below changes with it. There is no mailing list to notify, by design.