OpenCrime

Privacy

You can read every page here without giving us anything and without accepting anything. No accounts, nothing sold. The site carries Google advertising, which sets cookies of its own. This is what we collect and how to make us delete it.

Last updated 30 October 2026

The short version. Reading the site collects nothing that identifies you. Visitor numbers are counted without cookies. Google Analytics runs only if you said yes, and you can change that from the footer of any page. Use the contact form and we keep your message and address so a person can reply. Answer the questions about a place and we keep your answers and one-way hashes that stop one person answering twice. Add a note and we keep it, with the first name if you give one, and publish it only once a person has read it.

What we collect, and why

Everything this site holds about a visitor, what it is for, the lawful basis under UK GDPR, and how long it stays.

What Why Lawful basis Kept
Server and security logs Your address, the page, the time and your browser string, so the site runs and attacks can be filtered. Cloudflare keeps similar records in front of us. Legitimate interest in a working, secure site 90 days
Cookieless visitor counts Ahrefs Web Analytics counts how many people read a page, and a few things done on one: opening the share panel, which network was chosen, printing, and searching inside a table. It sets no cookie, writes nothing to your device and builds no profile, which is why it needs no permission. No message, contact detail, answer or note is ever sent to it. Legitimate interest in knowing which pages are worth keeping Aggregate only
Google Analytics Which pages are read, in more detail, and a few things done on them: opening the share panel, which network was chosen, printing a page, and searching inside a table. Google receives your address and the pages you view. No message, contact detail, answer or note is ever sent to it. It does not load at all until you accept it. Your consent, withdrawable at any time Up to 2 years, deleted on withdrawal
Google preferred source button Pages load a script from news.google.com to draw Google's button for adding this site as a preferred source in your Google results. Loading it sends Google your address and the page you are on, as any request to Google does. If you press the button, what you choose is held in your Google account, under Google's privacy policy, not here. Legitimate interest in letting readers follow the site in Google Nothing kept by us
Contact form Your name, email address and message, so a person can read and reply. Also a one-way hash of your address, which we cannot reverse, to stop flooding. Legitimate interest in answering people who write to us While useful, reviewed periodically
Local views Your answers to the questions about a place, which place, and when. Two one-way hashes that cannot be reversed: one built from a random identifier and your address, so answering again changes your answer instead of adding a second; one from your address alone, to limit how much one connection can submit in a day and to block abuse. No name, no account, no email. Answers are only ever shown added up, with how many people they come from. Legitimate interest in local views that one person cannot stuff Counted for two years, then no longer shown
Notes about a place The note, the first name if you chose to give one, whether you live, work in or visit the place, and the address hash above. Every note is read before it is published; anything naming or pointing at a person, a household or an address is not. Ask through the contact page and we will take yours down. Your choice to publish it, withdrawable at any time Until you ask us to remove it
Bot checks Cloudflare Turnstile decides whether a form submission came from a person, using technical signals from your browser. Legitimate interest in not being vandalised Per submission

We never use the address you give on the contact form for anything except replying. There is no mailing list, because there is nothing to send.

Cookies

Two of these need your permission. The rest either record a choice you made or make a feature work at all.

What Purpose Consent Lasts
Google Analytics Measures which pages are read, and a few actions on them Required Up to 2 years
Google advertising Serves the advertising on the page and limits how often one advert repeats Required Up to 2 years
Your analytics answer Remembers what you chose, so we stop asking Not needed, it records your choice Until you clear your browser
ocvid Random identifier, set only if you answer questions about a place, so one person's answers count once Not needed, the feature needs it One year
Cloudflare Security and bot checks in front of the site Not needed, strictly necessary Session to one year

Ahrefs Web Analytics is absent from this table because it sets nothing at all. Change your analytics choice.

Who else sees anything

We do not sell data. Four suppliers see something because of how the web works: Cloudflare, which serves and protects the site; Ahrefs, for cookieless counts; Google, for analytics where you accepted it, for the advertising on every page, and for its preferred source button; and OpenStreetMap, whose servers see a request from your browser when a map draws its tiles. Where they act for us they do so under contract.

Some operate outside the United Kingdom, and data reaching them is transferred under the safeguards in their agreements, such as the UK addendum to the standard contractual clauses. We disclose information if the law requires it, and not otherwise.

The crime statistics themselves are not personal data and do not describe you. They arrive from government sources as counts and locations, never as records about identified people, and the police snap street-level crime to anonymised map points rather than addresses. How the figures work sets that out.

Your rights

Where we hold personal data about you, which in practice means a message you sent us, you can ask for a copy, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, object to or restrict what we do with it, and ask for it in a portable form. Where we rely on consent you can withdraw it at any time without giving a reason.

Email us and we will answer within one month, at no charge. We may need to check a request is genuinely yours, which for a message normally means replying from the address that sent it.

If you think we have handled your data badly, tell us first so we can put it right. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, which regulates data protection in the United Kingdom.

Who is responsible

OpenCrime is published by Search Ventures Ltd, registered in England and Wales under company number 10588553, which is the data controller under the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018. The registered office is on the public Companies House record linked above.

For anything on this page, including a request to see or delete what we hold, write to [email protected]. One person reads that inbox.

This site has no accounts, no profiles and nothing directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them. If this notice changes we update the date at the top. Where a change materially affects what we do with personal data we will say so on the site rather than change the page quietly.