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Data You Can Enter Into This Site
Many of the organisations listed on this site have a ‘Send us a message’ button which gives access to a contact form. This form collects only the information the user types in it, which is sent directly to the recipient via email.
The site has a search form which gathers only the information the user types in it, which is used to perform the search.
Suggest an addition/update forms send an email directly to ourselves containing only the information the user types in it. The contents will be treated as a private communication between the sender and our staff.
Third Party Cookies
As professionals, we use our awareness to avoid filling the site with free widgets that gather your data, and our programming skills to create our own alternatives which don’t. There are currently no browser cookies set by this site that we are aware of (it is always possible a third party plugin will introduce one in an update).
If cookies are a concern, you can tell your browser to refuse them which can apply to all sites you visit, though it is likely to reduce the functionality of some sites.
Protecting Your Privacy Online
If you are concerned about privacy, the most important thing to do is avoid giving your personal data to companies who’s business model is to collect and monetise it. This is most often done while using services they provide for free and the obvious culprits are Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and indeed all the social networks.
Here are some tips to improve your privacy online:
- Avoid using social networks
- Use Apple phones and tablets instead of those running Google Android
- Use a privacy focused search engine like DuckDuckGo instead of Google
- Use a privacy focused email provider and avoid using Google Mail (Gmail)
- Avoid using the Google Chrome web browser, but opt for one of the non-advertising agency owned alternatives like Safari (on Apple devices) or the excellent, but often forgotten, Firefox
- Avoid using services based in Russia, China or the EU whose rulers either have, or plan to have, access to all user’s data
- If you are concerned, that your ISP maybe tracking the sites you visit via the domains names it is resolving for you, set your router to use a privacy focused DNS server like Quad9 DNS (9.9.9.9 and 149.112.112.112). And NEVER use Google’s DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4)
- Serious privacy fans will also want to hide their IP address from the sites they visit by accessing them via a VPN such as Private Internet Access
- When messaging, use an app with end-to-end encryption like Signal. Avoid using Facebook Messenger.
- Never sign in to another website using your Facebook or Google account etc