Privacy Policy for Beyond Reasonable Doubt Investigations
Last updated: 22 November 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to Beyond Reasonable Doubt Investigations ("we", "us", or "our"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
2. Controller
BRD Investigations is the controller and responsible for your personal data.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us using the details set out below.
Contact Details:
Email address: [email protected]
Website: www.brdinvestigations.co.uk
3. The Data We Collect
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity Data: includes first name, last name, or username (if you leave a comment).
Contact Data: includes email address (if you contact us via our contact form or subscribe to email updates).
Online Identifiers & Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website. We collect this via cookies and similar tracking technologies.
Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website, such as which articles you read and how long you spend on the site.
4. How We Use Your Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
To communicate with you: When you contact us with a tip, query, or complaint, we use your data to respond. (Lawful basis: Consent).
To improve our website: We use analytics to understand how visitors interact with our journalism so we can improve our content. (Lawful basis: Legitimate Interests).
To serve advertisements: We use third-party advertising to fund our investigative work. (Lawful basis: Legitimate Interests).
5. Cookies and Advertising
This website uses cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.
Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to display ads. Google uses cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors engage with our site. This tool collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors.
6. Who We Share Personal Information With
We rely on third-party service providers to host our website and provide functionality. We may share your personal data with:
Google LLC: We use Google services to host this website (Blogger), analyse website traffic (Google Analytics), manage comments, and serve advertisements (Google AdSense).
International Transfers:
As Google is a US-based company, your data may be processed outside the UK/EEA. We rely on Google's standard contractual clauses and data processing terms to ensure your data is protected in accordance with UK law. We do not sell your personal data to any third parties.
7. How Long We Keep Information
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Contact Inquiries: If you contact us via email or our contact form, we will retain your correspondence for up to 2 years to ensure we can refer back to your query if needed, after which it will be securely deleted.
Analytics Data: User-level and event-level data stored by Google Analytics is automatically deleted from Google's servers after 26 months.
8. Your Data Protection Rights
Under UK data protection law (UK GDPR), you have rights including:
Your right of access: You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification: You have the right to ask us to correct personal information you think is inaccurate.
Your right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing: You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
To make a data protection rights request, please contact us at [email protected].
9. How to Complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House, Water Lane
Wilmslow, Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
