How we publish
This page is the standard we hold ourselves to when we publish somebody else’s record. It is written for journalists, solicitors and regulators, and it is the same answer we give a member of the public.
What we publish, and from where
We publish structured public records — court listings, judgments and other official registers. Every published record attributes or links the official source it came from. We do not publish records we have not taken from an official source.
Provenance
The pipeline preserves the source snapshot behind each published record. That means any record can be checked against what the source said at the time it was taken, rather than against an assertion that it was taken correctly.
What we will not do
- No commentary implying guilt beyond what the record itself states.
- No aggregation designed to shame.
- Record status is labelled clearly wherever the source distinguishes it. A listing is not an outcome. An allegation is not a conviction.
- No synthetic records, ever. Production is automated and AI-assisted; anything published is a named human’s responsibility, and inventing a record is a dismissal offence.
What we are held to
Republication and scraping
Where a page carries personal data we mark it no-archive if the mechanism exists, and we rate-limit and restrict bulk collection of those pages by robots directive. The reason is narrow and worth stating: a record we publish is a record we can correct or remove when somebody asks. A copy sitting in a database we have never heard of is not.
Corrections and removals
Anyone may ask for a record about them to be corrected, contextually updated or removed. The route is published on the site that carries the record, because that is where the person who can check it against its source works. If you cannot find it, Your record explains what to do.
A journalist or a solicitor asking about a specific named individual gets the same route and the same answer as the individual would. There is no off-the-record version.
Accuracy
A claim is unverified until it has been checked against the live source. That applies to our own marketing as much as to our data.
Press and legal
Press enquiries, legal correspondence and regulator contact go to at dts@datatorturingsolutions.co.uk and are acknowledged within one working day. Formal correspondence may be sent to the address in the footer of this page.
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