Privacy notice

Last updated: 13 July 2026

This notice explains how Spectrum UK handles personal data under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR).

The short version

• No cookies. We set no cookies of any kind — which is why you see no cookie banner. PECR consent requirements do not apply because nothing is stored on or read from your device.
• No tracking. No analytics scripts, no advertising, no fingerprinting, no social-media embeds, no third-party JavaScript.
• No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for and no personal data is asked of you.
• No data shared with publishers. News feeds are fetched by our server, not your browser, so the outlets we aggregate never see your IP address or any request from you. Fonts are self-hosted for the same reason. Your browser only ever talks to a publisher if you choose to click through to an article.

What is processed, and why

Like effectively every website, our hosting infrastructure briefly processes your IP address and standard request metadata (user agent, requested page, timestamp) in order to deliver pages to you and to protect the service from abuse. This is the only personal data processed.

• Purpose: serving the website; security and abuse prevention.
• Lawful basis: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR) — running and securing a website. Given that nothing is stored beyond short-lived operational logs and no profiling occurs, we assess the privacy impact as minimal.
• Retention: operational logs are kept by our hosting provider for a short, fixed period and then deleted. We build no databases of visitor data.
• Recipients: our hosting provider, acting as a processor. No data is sold or shared for marketing. Where infrastructure involves transfers outside the UK, they take place under UK-approved safeguards such as the UK International Data Transfer Addendum.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability. Because we keep no visitor database, there is usually nothing for us to look up — but you can always exercise these rights by contacting us. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority.

Controller and contact

The data controller for this website can be contacted at [email protected]. If we ever introduce processing beyond what is described here (for example, analytics or accounts), this notice will be updated first and any consent required by law will be asked for before the processing starts.

Children

The service collects no personal data from anyone, including children, and offers no interactive features.