Privacy policy

The controller is Okenitemode, 5 Manse Ave, Whitburn, Bathgate EH47 0BB, United Kingdom. Email [email protected]. Telephone +44 7521529948.

This website explains economic indicators. It does not run user accounts, and it does not take payment. If you email or call us, you decide what to include.

What we collect

If you email [email protected] we receive your address, your message, and any attachment you choose to send. If you telephone, we receive the number presented to us and whatever you say. We do not ask you to send special-category data, and we ask you not to include account numbers, full payment-card details, or identity documents.

The site stores a consent record in local storage on your browser if you use the cookie banner. That record contains a status, accepted or rejected, and a time. It stays on your device. We do not receive a copy of it on a server of our own.

Like most websites, a host that serves these pages may keep ordinary server logs, such as IP address, user agent, and the page requested, for security and troubleshooting. Those logs are not used to build marketing profiles.

Why we use it, and the lawful basis

We use correspondence to answer you. The lawful basis is our legitimate interest in running an editorial desk and responding to people who contact it, or steps you ask us to take before any further exchange. We do not sell personal information. We do not use it for automated decisions that produce legal effects.

Typefaces are loaded from fonts.bunny.net and icons from jsDelivr (cdn.jsdelivr.net). Your browser sends those hosts a request, which includes your IP address, so they can deliver the file. That is necessary for the page to appear as designed. We do not add advertising cookies or third-party analytics.

How long we keep it

Correspondence is kept for as long as the exchange is active and for up to twenty-four months afterwards, unless a longer period is required to answer a complaint or meet a legal duty. Server logs, where the host keeps them, are retained for a shorter operational period set by that host. You can clear the local consent record yourself by clearing site data in your browser.

Who else sees it

We do not sell or rent personal information. An email provider and a telephone provider process messages in the ordinary course of delivering them. If we were legally required to disclose information to a UK authority, we would do so only to the extent of that duty. We do not transfer your correspondence outside the United Kingdom as a product. Email routing can technically pass through infrastructure beyond our control; if you need a purely domestic channel, use the postal address.

Your rights

• Access to the personal information we hold about you.
• Rectification of information that is inaccurate.
• Erasure, in the circumstances the law provides.
• Restriction of processing, in the circumstances the law provides.
• Objection to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Portability of information you provided, where the basis is consent or a contract and the processing is automated. Most of what we hold is ordinary email, so portability rarely applies in practice.
• Complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk, or by post to the ICO’s published address. We would like the chance to put something right first.

To use a right, email [email protected] with enough detail for us to find the correspondence. We may need to confirm you are the person the information is about. We respond within one month, or we tell you why we need longer.

Children

The site is written for a general audience, including students. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, email the desk and we will delete it.

This policy was updated on 14 October 2026. If we change it in a way that affects correspondence already sent, we will say so on this page.