Privacy
This platform publishes facts about organisations and, occasionally, people. Most of them did not ask to be here. That makes this page more important than it usually is, so it is written plainly and it is short.
What we publish, and where it comes from
Every published fact was found in a public document, and every one shows a link to that document on the page. We do not publish anything we cannot cite. If a fact here has no visible source, that is a bug and we want to hear about it.
We do not buy data, we do not scrape private accounts, and we do not infer facts about people. Where a number is an estimate it is labelled as one.
People are treated differently from organisations
A company, a department or an NGO is published on the strength of public documents. A private individual is not.
A record about a private person stays unpublished until that person claims it. There is no approval that overrides this — not in the interface, not in the code, and not in the database, which refuses the write independently. If you are a private individual and you have not claimed a profile, no page about you is public.
People in public roles — a minister, a departmental director acting in office — are treated as public, and only in respect of that role.
We never record home addresses, dates of birth, family members, health, religion or politics. Extraction is instructed to discard them, and anything about a person who appears to be under 18 is rejected outright.
Removal
Removal requests are honoured the same day, automatically, with no review step. You do not have to explain why, and nobody assesses whether your reason is good enough.
When a record is withdrawn, its facts are erased and your name is added to a suppression list so we do not contact you or re-create the record later. What remains is an audit entry recording that a withdrawal happened — not what was withdrawn.
Remove a record, or reply REMOVE to any message from us.
Corrections
You can correct your own record. Corrections do not overwrite: the old value is kept and marked superseded, so the history is honest about what we got wrong. Every change is visible on the record’s history page. Start here.
What we collect from you
If you claim a record or apply to lead a chapter, we hold the email address and details you give us, to reply to you. Nothing else.
No analytics, no tracking pixels, no advertising cookies. The only cookie this site sets is a sign-in session for the people who operate it. Reading the record sets nothing.
The server keeps standard web logs, including IP addresses, for security and troubleshooting.
Who else sees it
The record itself is public and published under CC BY 4.0, so anyone may copy it — that is the point of an open registry. There is a public API serving the same data.
We do not sell anything, and nobody pays to appear or to be described a particular way. Your contact details are never part of the published record and are never passed on.
Email is delivered by a third-party provider, and pages you choose to share are of course seen by whichever platform you share them on.
Getting in touch
Anything on this page, or anything you want taken down: contact us. Removal does not require a conversation — use the form and it happens today.