Policy
Privacy
The short version: we run no analytics trackers and no advertising cookies, and the only personal information we hold is what you choose to put in a form.
Reading the site
Pages are served with standard web-server logging (the infrastructure records requests, including IP addresses, for security and operations). We do not run analytics scripts, tracking pixels or advertising cookies. Fonts load from Google Fonts, which involves your browser requesting font files from Google's servers; that request is governed by Google's own privacy policy.
Tips and corrections
Name and email are optional on tip and correction forms, deliberately: source protection matters more to us than contact lists. What you submit (message, evidence links, any attached files) is stored securely, used only to verify and act on the submission, and never published. Attached files are held privately and deleted automatically after 30 days. If you leave an email, we use it only to reply about your submission.
Advertising enquiries
The advertising form asks for organisation and contact details because it starts a business conversation; we use them for that conversation and nothing else.
What we never do
No selling or sharing of personal information, no marketing lists you did not ask to join, no re-identification of anonymous tipsters, and no analytics profiles of readers. If a story ever draws on submitted material, it runs only after independent verification against public primary sources, and without identifying the submitter.
Questions or removal requests
Use the contact forms. If you have previously submitted something and want it deleted, say so; absent a legal reason to retain it, we delete it.