Privacy
- No accounts, no cookies, no tracking.
- What you type is not stored. The postcode or town you enter is sent to postcodes.io to find a location and to The Gazette to find notices. To avoid asking The Gazette twice, the list of notices it returns is kept for up to an hour under a one-way code made from the postcode with a secret that changes every time the service restarts; the postcode itself is not written to any log, database or model trace, and the code cannot be turned back into it.
- Server logs keep no IP addresses. The only counters are daily totals of searches, with no identifiers.
- The thumbs buttons store a count per notice. Nothing else.
- The map view loads map tiles from OpenStreetMap, so when you open it your browser requests tiles from OpenStreetMap's servers for the area shown (their servers see your IP address, as with any website; see their privacy policy). The map is the default view; choose List or Grouped and no map tiles are requested. The map library (Leaflet) is served from this site, not from a third party. Pins sit at the postcodes a notice is filed under, which are part of the public notice record; your own search point is drawn by your browser from the lookup result and is not stored.
- The notices shown are public records published by The Gazette and reused under the Open Government Licence v3. This tool only covers categories published by public bodies and companies acting as authorities. It never fetches, stores or shows notices about private individuals (insolvency, estates, appointments and the like).
- The plain-English text is generated by a language model from the notice's own words, and every generated sentence is checked against the notice before it is shown; sentences that fail are removed and counted. It can still be wrong. The notice itself is the record.
- Contact: by the feedback buttons on each notice.