Privacy
No analytics, no cookies, no tracking — and one column of the source register that never gets through the door.
What this site does not publish
The source register carries a Locations column. Most of the time
it holds a mining tenement code, but a few hundred rows hold a street address —
and roughly a quarter of permit holders are named in a way that shows no company
marker, which means some of them are individuals.
That column is dropped when the file is read, before anything reaches a database. There is no geography anywhere on this site: not on a page, not in the search index, not in the datasets we sell. Holder names are published, because a public register of permits is about who holds them; where they live is a different question, and nobody asked it.
What your browser sends
No analytics, no advertising, no cookies, no third-party scripts. Static files only.
Your search never reaches a server. It lives in the part of
the address after the #, which browsers do not transmit, and the
lookup runs in your browser against static index files. We cannot see what you
searched for, because it is not sent.
The host, Cloudflare Pages, keeps ordinary server logs — IP address, time, file requested — as any host does. We have no per-visitor analytics.
If you send us a message
Two forms collect an email address: a general enquiry, and a bulk access or dataset enquiry. Both are handled by Formspree, which forwards them to our mailbox.
- Bulk access and dataset enquiries — we reply, and keep the exchange while the enquiry is live and for as long as we have a business relationship.
- General enquiries — we reply, and we pass the enquiry to holders whose authority is in effect so they can respond to you. That is the point of the form. We do not sell lists, and we pass nothing on if you tell us not to.
Ask us to delete what you sent and we will, at the contact address.
If you hold an authority
Your authority is a public fact and we republish it as the department does, minus the location column. If something here is wrong, write to us and we will look at it the same week.