Privacy notice
Where Countries Stand uses no cookies, no advertising and no tracking, and needs no account. This notice explains the little it does store, and why.
Last updated 25 October 2026.
Who is responsible
Where Countries Stand is a project of the charity Where They Stand. It is run by Rob Mitchell, who is the data controller for the personal information described here. Contact: admin@wheretheystand.uk.
What is stored, and why
Your questions and the briefings written for them
Each briefing is saved with its question for up to seven days, so that the same question can be answered again without paying for a new briefing. Saved briefings are not listed anywhere and are not linked to you. If a briefing cannot be written, the question and the error are noted, so that the fault can be found; these notes are deleted after 90 days. Please do not put personal details in a question.
A daily visitor code, not your IP address
To apply the daily limit on new briefings and prevent abuse, your IP address is turned into a scrambled code, which is kept with the time and cost of each briefing you ask for. The secret used to make the code changes every day and the old one is deleted, so a code cannot be linked to the next day’s or turned back into an address. Your IP address itself is not stored.
Settings on your device
The briefing length you choose is part of the page’s address, not stored by us.
Information about people in the record
The site republishes the United Nations’ public records, which name the people who spoke: heads of State and Government, ministers, diplomats and UN officials. Briefings describe them by their public role, as the record does. This is processed in the public interest of reporting on what countries say at the United Nations. The record itself can only be corrected by the United Nations; if you think a briefing gets something wrong about you, use the contact details above.
Who else is involved
- Anthropic writes the briefings. Your question, and the UN records found for it, are sent to Anthropic’s API to read the question and to write each briefing. Under Anthropic’s commercial terms, this is not used to train its models. See Anthropic’s privacy policy.
- Cloudflare carries visits to wherecountriesstand.com to the server, to shield the site from floods of automated requests. It sees each request as it passes, including your IP address, possibly outside the UK, under Cloudflare’s privacy policy. Its analytics and visitor tracking are turned off for this site. If Cloudflare ever has to check that a visitor is not an automated program (during an attack, say), it may set a short-lived security cookie of its own for that purpose only.
- The hosting provider runs the server and has no access to the site’s data beyond keeping it running.
Nothing is sold or shared for marketing. The site loads no third-party scripts, fonts or trackers.
Legal basis and how long it is kept
Information is processed on the basis of legitimate interests: running a free public service, keeping its costs within budget, preventing abuse, and correcting errors. Saved briefings are deleted after seven days, and notes of failed briefings after 90 days. Visitor codes cannot be traced to anyone after the day they are made. Server error logs are kept briefly, and requests are not logged.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask for a copy of information held about you, and ask for it to be corrected or deleted, or object to its use. Because the site does not know who you are, it may need your help to find it, such as the question you asked and when. Email admin@wheretheystand.uk.
If you are unhappy with the answer, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.