Value Punter runs the numbers so you do not have to, and we treat your data with the same measured discipline. There are no betting accounts here, no money changes hands, and nobody is asked to sign up, so the volume of personal information flowing through the site sits close to zero. What follows is a short, honest account of the little we do gather, why we gather it, and how the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 set the limits on what we may do with it.
What data reaches us
Two streams of data arrive here, and neither amounts to much. The first is the routine technical signal every browser broadcasts on any page load, roughly a general location, a device type and the list of guides opened. We read that only as aggregate counts and percentages, purely to work out which calculators and explainers are earning their place. The second stream is whatever you type to us yourself, such as a name and a return address attached to a question or a correction you have spotted.
We never ask for special-category details, and we have no use for them. Because nothing on this site involves a login or a transaction, no card number and no record of wagering ever passes through our hands.
Cookies and analytics
Our cookie footprint is trimmed to the bare essentials. Nothing here follows you for advertisers or bookmakers, for the plain reason that we sell no advertising and carry no operator promotions. A small number of cookies may support core page behaviour, alongside privacy-first measurement that tallies visits without tying any of them back to a named person. Clear or refuse them from your browser controls whenever you wish, and every page will still load exactly as before.
Where our links point
On the rare occasion a guide sends you outward, the destination is an official body such as the Gambling Commission or a recognised support service, never a bookmaker and never an affiliate feed. Each of those organisations publishes its own privacy notice, which takes charge the moment you land there, so anything you hand them falls outside what we can control. A link from this site will not deliver your details to a gambling operator, because we hold no such arrangements.
How long we hold it
Personal data stays with us only for as long as its original purpose can justify. A message you send is kept while we work through your query and for a modest window afterwards in case you reply, after which it is deleted. The aggregated technical figures, which point to no single individual, may live longer so we can read trends across months rather than days. Nothing is retained merely because keeping it would be convenient.
The rights you hold under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018
The UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 give you a firm set of rights over your own information. You are entitled to be informed about processing, to see what we hold, and to have it corrected, erased, restricted or objected to. On the rare footing where we rely on your consent, you may take that consent back at any moment.
Send a request to the address further down and we will answer inside the statutory deadline. Should our reply leave you unsatisfied, you can escalate the matter to the Information Commissioner's Office, the independent regulator for data protection in the UK.
Updates to this notice
Law shifts and sites evolve, so this notice may be revised now and again. Whenever it is, we update the date on the page rather than slip the change quietly past you, and anything material is spelled out in ordinary language. If you deal with us often, a quick glance back here from time to time is worth the minute it takes.
Getting in touch
Any query about this notice, or any wish to act on your rights under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, should go to [email protected]. We reply as quickly as we can and handle every data request strictly by the book.
If your reason for writing concerns gambling itself rather than a data question, the GamCare National Gambling Helpline is free, confidential and staffed around the clock on 0808 8020 133.