Privacy & cookies
Updated 26 October 2026
How the 789 UK directory uses browser preferences, handles requests and correspondence, and supports your information rights.
What this notice covers
This notice covers the 789 UK directory at uk.789.work. For directory privacy enquiries, rights requests or complaints, use the email contact below. The directory does not operate accounts, checkout, public-service applications or a contact-upload form. You can browse without sending an email or providing a name.
The directory’s page code does not contain advertising trackers, visitor analytics, social-media embeds or device fingerprinting. It uses the browser storage described below to remember interface choices. This does not mean that web requests are anonymous, that a hosting provider keeps no logs, or that an external provider follows this notice.
Choose whether to remember preferences
Remembering choices is optional. You can stop it here, without losing access to the directory. “Stop remembering” removes the three saved preferences and stops reading or saving them on later pages. The current page keeps its current appearance until you change it or navigate. A separate setting remembers your objection on this browser; it is used only to respect that choice.
Saved interface choices
Use the buttons below to manage saved interface choices.
Local storage stays on the browser and origin where you use it; the directory does not send these values to a server. It has no automatic expiry. Values remain until replaced, removed with these controls, cleared in browser settings or deleted by the browser. Clearing site data also clears the objection setting; you can select “Stop remembering” again. These controls apply to this origin and browser, not other sites or devices.
| Storage key | Purpose and values | When used |
|---|---|---|
789-uk-theme | Light or dark theme. | Saved after you switch theme, if remembering is on. |
789-us-search-engine | Your search provider, or site search. The key retains its shared-template name; it does not send data to the US edition. | Saved after you choose a search option, if remembering is on. |
789-uk-area | All UK, England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. This is your selection, not a detected location. | Saved after you change the nation selector, if remembering is on. |
789-uk-preferences | off records your objection to preference storage. | Set by “Stop remembering”; removed by “Remember future choices”. |
Preference storage is limited to the interface function you choose. The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations cover local storage as well as cookies; the applicable preference exception requires clear information and an easy way to object. No advertising or analytics consent is inferred from these choices or from continuing to browse.
Page requests, search and shared resources
A server delivering a page, image, stylesheet or script receives technical request information, normally including your IP address, the requested address, time and browser-supplied headers. Hosting, delivery and security systems may retain access or error records. Their deployment settings determine logging, storage locations and retention; this notice does not state that these records are disabled or kept only in the UK. Contact the directory for information about the applicable hosting arrangements.
Pages reuse assets from 789.work and its registered country subdomains. Those requests can disclose the same technical information to the systems serving those domains when the page loads. A screenshot shown here is an image file, not a live embedded session with the listed service. Following a provider or UK App Store link opens that provider’s service, where its own privacy and cookie information applies.
Directory matching runs in your browser. A site-search term can nevertheless appear in the page address and in the request used to load the search page, browser history and any corresponding access logs. A web search sends your term directly to the search engine you select. Avoid entering identity numbers, health details, financial information or private case facts into a directory or web search.
If you contact the directory
The directory’s contact mailbox is hosted by Gmail (Google). Sending an email involves your email provider and Google processing the message and related technical information for delivery and their applicable service purposes. See Google’s privacy policy. The directory remains responsible for its own handling of correspondence; naming the email provider does not transfer those responsibilities. The mailbox’s contractual arrangements, storage locations and any applicable international-transfer safeguards have not been confirmed here.
An email supplies your address, message, any attachments and email metadata. Relevant information is used to reply, investigate a correction or rights concern, handle complaints, protect the directory and affected people, and establish or defend legal claims. The ordinary basis for necessary, proportionate correspondence handling is legitimate interests in those purposes. Where a particular legal obligation requires processing, that obligation is the basis for that activity. An unsolicited email is not blanket consent to unrelated use or marketing.
Keep your message relevant and minimise personal data. Authorised people handling the issue and the hosting, email or support providers needed to deliver the service may receive it. Necessary information may also be disclosed to professional advisers, a regulator or another party where justified to investigate a claim or comply with law. Your contact details and full attachments are not automatically published or forwarded with a rights notice.
We retain correspondence only as long as needed to resolve the issue, record the outcome and deal with a genuine continuing legal, security or claims requirement. Relevant criteria include the issue’s complexity, whether a claim remains open and any applicable legal retention duty. Ask for the retention and transfer information relevant to your correspondence.
Your information rights and right to object
Where UK data-protection law applies, you can request access to your personal information, correction of inaccuracies and, in appropriate circumstances, erasure, restriction or portability. These rights have legal conditions and exceptions. If a processing activity relies on consent, you can withdraw that consent without affecting earlier lawful processing. The directory’s page code does not make automated decisions about you with legal or similarly significant effects.
You can object to processing based on legitimate interests because of your particular situation. Explain the processing concerned using the directory email contact. To object to interface storage, use “Stop remembering” above. A data-rights request does not require a special form; proportionate identity checks may be needed to avoid disclosing information to the wrong person. Rights requests are handled within the applicable statutory period, normally one calendar month, with any lawful extension explained.
To make a data-protection complaint, use the directory email contact and describe the concern and the outcome you seek. We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days, investigate it, keep you informed and communicate the outcome without undue delay. This acknowledgement period is separate from the period for responding to a rights request. You can also complain to the UK data-protection regulator, the ICO; its website explains how to raise and escalate a concern. Your right to a judicial remedy is unaffected.
Other services and updates
Listed providers, search engines and app stores decide their own processing purposes, eligibility and account requirements. This directory’s preference controls do not manage their cookies or erase information they hold. Use their own privacy controls and contact routes for those matters.
The date above identifies this version. Changes to the site’s functions, storage or service providers may require an updated notice and, where applicable, separate consent before new processing begins. Read Legal & copyright for the directory’s role, material rights, correction process and accessibility contact.