Privacy policy

Short version: we don't have user accounts, we don't sell data, and we collect about as little as a website reasonably can.

What we collect

This site doesn't require an account, a login, or any registration to read anything on it. Our hosting provider generates standard server logs (the kind almost every website generates — requested pages, timestamps, general technical information like browser type) for operating and securing the site; we don't combine this with any other data to identify individual visitors.

If you email us or use the "notify me" form

If you contact us directly, or use the Register's "notify me about a provider" form, we use your email only for that purpose — to read and respond to what you sent, or to email you the outcome of a check you asked about. We don't add you to any other list without a separate opt-in, and we don't share your email with anyone else.

Third-party requests this site makes

Pages on this site load web fonts from Google Fonts. Loading a font involves your browser making a request to Google's servers, which is why some sites choose to self-host fonts instead — we haven't made that change yet, and you should assume the same general web-request information (like your IP address) that applies to any external resource reaches Google when a page loads. We don't control what Google does with that request.

Cookies

We don't currently set our own cookies for tracking, advertising, or analytics. If that changes, this page will say so, plainly, before it happens rather than after.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that matters — a new form that collects data, an analytics tool, anything that changes what we said above — we'll update this page and note the date below, not bury the change.

Last updated: 14 September 2026.