What this site holds about you

UK Bills and LCMs is run by Dr Steven MacGregor, who decides on applications and is the only person who sees the details given in them. It is separate from legislativedata.org and its other sites: an account on one is not an account on another, and they share nothing about you.

Nothing. There are no analytics and no cookies, and your IP address and browser are not recorded. The site's log records which pages were asked for and when, and nothing about who asked. If a request fails, the web server's error log can record the address it came from; that log is kept for 14 days.

If you switch to light mode, that choice is kept in your own browser and is never sent to the site.

• Your email address, name, title and position, and the date you applied.
• Whether your application was approved, and when.

An approved application is kept while you have an account. A refused one is deleted once you have been told.

• A sign-in code. It works once, for 15 minutes, and is held only in a scrambled form that cannot be used to sign in. Its record is kept for an hour, so that no address is sent more than three codes an hour (five for the person who runs the site), and is then removed.
• One cookie, called __Host-lcms_signed_in, set only when you sign in. It keeps that device signed in for 30 days and does nothing else.
• For each device you are signed in on, when you signed in and when that ends. Not the device's address, its browser or where it is.

Signing out removes the cookie and the site's record of that device. Nothing is recorded about what you look at while signed in.

What you type, with passages from the public documents and records the site holds about Bills and procedure, is sent through OpenRouter to an outside AI model (Google's Gemini), and only to hosts that say they keep no data and do not train on it. Nothing about you is sent with it. OpenRouter, a company in the United States, passes the request to the model's host and keeps a record of its size, cost and timing, not what was sent. Please type nothing sensitive.

The answer is shown to you and is not kept. The site keeps a log of each question: what was typed, when, the model, and what it cost, but not who asked. It is seen only by the person who runs the site, to check the answers and the cost, and is deleted after 90 days.

The data names the people the public record names: Members and Ministers who sponsor a Bill, speak in a debate or move a motion, and the authors and witnesses that published documents name. It is taken from the UK Parliament's and the Scottish Parliament's own publications, as they were published. The site holds nothing else about any of them.

If you think something about you is wrong, write to comparativelegislativedata@gmail.com. The data follows the public record, so a correction made there reaches the site with the next nightly update.

The accounts are kept on the site's machine only. They are not yet copied to a backup elsewhere, so if the machine failed, people would need to apply again. This page will say so when that changes.

Resend sends the site's emails: your sign-in codes and the decision on your application. It sees your email address and keeps a copy of each email for 30 days, in the United States.

OpenRouter and the AI model's host see what is sent when you ask a question (see above), and nothing else about you.

The site runs on a rented machine. The company it is rented from runs the machine and is given nothing about you.

No one else. The site uses no advertising, no analytics, and no fonts or scripts from anywhere else.

Write to comparativelegislativedata@gmail.com to ask for a copy of what is held about you, to have it corrected, or to have it deleted. Deleting an account removes your details, codes and signed-in devices together. That address is an ordinary Gmail account, so your message is held by Google like any other email.

If you are unhappy with how your details have been handled, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.