Privacy
There are two different things on this site and they work differently, so this notice deals with them separately. The free tools store nothing. Becoming an advice client is what creates a file, and that file has to be kept.
Part 1 — using the free tools
Nothing you enter into the tool or the calculator leaves your device. Your offence, your speed, your income, your dates: the calculation runs in JavaScript in your browser. It is not transmitted to a server, not stored, and not visible to anyone, including us. Closing the page discards it.
You do not have to give a name, an email address, or anything else to use them. There is no account and nothing to sign up for.
Cookies
This site sets no cookies. That is why you have not been asked to accept any.
Analytics
We use privacy-preserving, cookieless analytics to count page views and see which pages are read. It does not use cookies, does not fingerprint your device and does not track you across other websites. It records aggregate information such as page URL, referrer, country and general device type. It does not identify you and it cannot see what you typed into the tool.
Server logs
The site is served by a hosting provider which, like all web hosts, processes technical request data including IP addresses in order to deliver pages and protect against abuse. That processing is necessary for the site to function and to keep it secure.
Part 2 — enquiring about advice, and becoming a client
This part applies only if you send an enquiry about paid written advice. It does not apply to anyone who only uses the tools.
If you send an enquiry
An enquiry form asks for your contact details and for information about your case, so that a decision can be taken on whether the instructions can be accepted. That information is held while the enquiry is considered.
If the instructions are declined, the enquiry is deleted within three months, apart from a minimal record that an enquiry was received and declined, which is kept to check for conflicts of interest. Nothing is charged for an enquiry.
If the instructions are accepted
You become a client of a barrister, and professional rules then require a file to be kept. The file contains your contact details, the work you asked for, the advice given, the correspondence between us, the payment record, and a list of the documents you provided.
That file is kept for seven years. This is a professional obligation under the Bar Standards Board’s public access requirements, not a choice, and it is not something you can ask to be shortened while the obligation lasts. The lawful basis for keeping it is compliance with a legal obligation, and, for the advice itself, performance of our contract.
Who sees it
The file is held securely and is not shared with anyone else, except where disclosure is required by law or by a regulator, or where you ask for it to be shared. It is not used for marketing and it is not sold or transferred to anyone.
Special category and sensitive information
Advice about a driving matter sometimes involves health information, caring responsibilities or financial circumstances, because those are the things that make a case what it is. Where you give us information of that kind it is used only to advise you, and it is held on the same basis as the rest of the file.
Both parts
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction and objection in relation to personal data held about you, and a right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Two practical points. Because the tools collect nothing, there is generally nothing held about a tool user to access or erase. And where information forms part of a client file, the right to erasure is limited for as long as the seven-year retention obligation applies.
Who is responsible for your information
The data controller is Conall Bailie, a barrister practising in England and Wales, of 2BR, 95 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1DT. He is responsible for the personal data described in this notice, both for the site and for any advice client file.
Contact
hello@pointsandbans.co.uk, or by post to the address above.
If you are not satisfied with how a request or a concern has been handled, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.