Privacy
You can read everything on Bertie without telling us who you are. We don't set cookies, we don't run ads, and nothing here follows you around other websites.Read what you need and leave, and we'll never know it was you.
What we count
We use two analytics tools, Plausible and Cloudflare Web Analytics, to see which pages people read. Neither uses cookies and neither builds a profile of you. They record the page you visited, the site that sent you here, your country, and whether you're on a phone or a laptop. We use that to work out which guides are useful and which need more work.
Plausible counts a visit by scrambling your IP address together with a code that it deletes every 24 hours. So it can tell two visits apart on the same day, but it can't recognise you tomorrow. Plausible stores its data in the EU.
Links to other websites
When you click a link that takes you off Bertie, we count the click and the address it went to, so we can see which centres and resources readers find useful. We don't record anything about who clicked. Once you're on the other site, their privacy policy applies.
Our tools
The suitability checkerworks entirely in your browser. Your answers never leave your device and we never see them.
Hosting
Cloudflare hosts Bertie. Like any web host, it handles your IP address to send you the page and to keep out attacks and junk traffic. It doesn't give us that address.
Do you need to accept cookies?
No. We don't set any cookies, so there's nothing to accept and no banner to click through.
If this changes
One day Bertie will ask for some details, for the newsletteror to put you in touch with a local centre. We'll update this page before that happens, and say exactly what's collected and why.
Questions and your rights
UK data protection law gives you the right to ask what we hold about you, and to have it corrected or deleted. Today the honest answer is nothing that identifies you, but you're welcome to ask. Bertie is run by [CHECK: legal entity name and company number], and you can reach us at [CHECK: privacy contact email]. If you're unhappy with how we've handled something, you can complain to theInformation Commissioner's Office.