Privacy and cookies
This site sets no cookies and keeps nothing about you.
That is unusual enough to be worth explaining properly, so this page says exactly what happens when you visit onethread.uk, use the demonstration, download the paper sheets or make your own. It is written in plain English on purpose. It was last updated on 8 November 2026.
The short version
- No cookies. None, of any kind. There is no cookie banner because there is nothing to ask you about.
- No analytics or tracking. We do not count visitors, measure clicks or use any advertising or analytics service.
- No accounts, no forms, no databases. There is nothing to sign up to and nowhere for information to go.
- No third-party scripts or fonts. Everything the pages need is served from onethread.uk itself, so no other company sees that you were here.
- The sheet-maker keeps everything on your computer. What you type never leaves your browser. The only copy that exists is the file you choose to save.
Who is responsible
onethread.uk is published by The Novacene Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 14324471) and registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a data controller (registration ZB761243). It holds OneThread in stewardship for a public-benefit body being set up, as described in the stewardship statement. For anything about privacy on this site, the data protection contact is dataprotection@thenovacene.com. Because the site collects nothing, The Novacene Ltd holds no personal information about visitors and has none to give you, correct or delete; the section on hosting below explains the one place where visitor information exists at all. When the public-benefit body takes over OneThread, it will become the organisation responsible and this page will say so.
What happens when you visit
| Part of the site | What it does with information | |
|---|---|---|
| Any page | Sends you the page. Nothing is recorded by us. See "Hosting" for what the hosting provider's servers keep. | nothing stored |
| The demonstration (Sam, Scan) | Keeps your choices within the demo, such as which lines you switched on and the invented access log, in your browser's session storage so that the views work as you move between them. It holds only the invented example record and your clicks. It is never sent anywhere and your browser deletes it when you close the tab. "Reset the demo" clears it sooner. | session only, invented data |
| Paper sheets (PDF downloads) | Sends you a file. Nothing is recorded by us. | nothing stored |
| Make your own sheets | Runs entirely inside your browser. What you type stays in the page's memory until you close it. It is not sent to us or to anyone; there is no server to send it to. If you press "Save to a file", your browser writes a file to your own computer, and that file is yours. If you save the page itself, it works with the internet switched off. | your computer only |
| Links to other sites | GitHub, gov.uk, the Charity Commission and others have their own privacy policies, which apply once you are there. |
Cookies and similar storage, in full
UK law (the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations) covers cookies and anything else a website stores on your device, and requires consent unless the storage is strictly necessary to provide the service you asked for. This site uses:
- Cookies: none.
- Local storage: none.
- Session storage: one entry, used only by the demonstration, only while its tab is open, holding only the invented example and your clicks within it. It is strictly necessary for the demonstration to work as a single page you move around in, which is why there is no banner, and it contains nothing that identifies you.
- Anything else (pixels, fingerprinting, embedded players, social buttons): none.
If that ever changes, this page will change first, and anything that is not strictly necessary will ask you before it is set.
Hosting
The site is a set of static files served by GitHub Pages. Like every web server, GitHub's servers see the internet address (IP address) your device uses, the page you asked for and the kind of browser you are using, and GitHub may keep that in its logs for security and to meet its legal obligations. We do not receive those logs and cannot see them. GitHub acts under its own privacy statement. The domain name is registered with Cloudflare, which answers the question "where is onethread.uk?" when your browser asks it; it does not carry the pages themselves.
If you make your own sheets
The information a family puts into the sheet-maker, and the printed sheets that come out, are the family's own and will often include health information about a child. A few practical points, because this is a privacy page and that is the information that matters most:
- Save the file somewhere you control and would be comfortable losing a phone or laptop with, such as a password-protected device or an encrypted drive. The file is plain text, readable by anyone who has it.
- Give each professional only their sheet, and write on the cover sheet who has what. That is the point of the design.
- Ask for sheets back, or for them to be destroyed, when they are no longer needed.
- The account of what happened is written for the people the young person names. Do not photograph it or send it by message to anyone else.
- OneThread has no copy of any of it and cannot recover a lost file.
Children and young people
The site is written for adults and professionals, and for young people using it with a parent. It collects nothing from anyone, of any age. A young person who makes their own sheets owns what they write, and the sheet-maker is built so that a parent cannot see it unless the young person shows them.
Your rights, and complaints
Under UK data protection law you have rights of access, correction, erasure and objection over personal information an organisation holds about you. The Novacene Ltd holds none from this site, so there is nothing to exercise those rights over here; if you believe otherwise, write to dataprotection@thenovacene.com and we will answer within a month. You can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk at any time.
Changes
If OneThread ever adds a donation page, a mailing list or any feature that handles information, this page will be updated before it goes live, with the date at the top, and the change will be visible in the public history of this page's source.