This site is designed to collect as little personal data as possible. It has no accounts, no newsletter and no advertising network, and the one interactive feature, the self-assessment, runs entirely on your own device. This notice explains, in plain terms, what that means for your privacy.
What personal data we collect
We do not ask you to register, log in, or submit any personal details, so we do not collect names, email addresses, dates of birth or payment information. There are no contact forms on the site. In short, there is no database of visitors, because we never gather the information that would fill one.
The self-assessment stays on your device
The problem gambling self-assessment is deliberately built to protect your privacy. Every question you answer, and the score that results, is processed by your browser on your own device. Nothing is transmitted to us, stored on a server, saved to a cookie, or shared with any third party. Closing or refreshing the page discards your answers immediately, which is why you can use the tool as honestly and as often as you like.
Cookies and analytics
The site sets no advertising cookies and no cross-site tracking cookies, and it does not run third-party advertising or profiling scripts. We do not build behavioural profiles of visitors or sell any data, because we hold none to sell. If a privacy-respecting, aggregate visitor-count tool is ever added, it will be limited to anonymous totals that cannot identify an individual, and this notice will be updated to say so before it goes live.
Server logs and lawful basis
Like virtually every website, the server that delivers these pages keeps standard technical logs that may include your IP address, browser type, and the pages requested. This information is used only to keep the site secure and running reliably. It is never used to identify you or to follow you around the web. Where this processing involves personal data such as an IP address, the lawful basis under UK GDPR is our legitimate interest in operating a secure and reliable website. These logs are kept only for as long as they are useful for security and troubleshooting, and then deleted.
Links to other websites
Some pages link to gambling operators and to support organisations such as GamCare, GAMSTOP and the National Gambling Helpline. When you follow an external link you leave this site, and the privacy practices and cookies of those websites apply instead of ours. We have no control over, and take no responsibility for, how those organisations handle your data, please read their own privacy notices before providing any information to them.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you have rights over any personal data an organisation holds about you, including the right to access it, correct it, or ask for its deletion. Because this site holds no personal records beyond transient server logs, in most cases there is simply nothing to retrieve or erase. If you believe your personal data has been mishandled, you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection regulator.
Getting in touch about privacy
Because the site is intentionally accountless, there is no marketing inbox or customer database tied to your visit. If you have a question about how this notice applies to you, the Information Commissioner's Office publishes clear, free guidance on your rights, and the support organisations linked throughout this site can point you toward independent advice as well.
Changes to this notice
If our practices change, for example, if any measurement tool is introduced, this notice will be updated on this page so that it always reflects what actually happens. We recommend checking back occasionally if privacy matters to you.