Your privacy and rights

openLocal Integrator ("our site" or "this site") is owned and operated by Whythawk, a data science consultancy specialising in open data and open access research.

Whythawk works in the field of economic development, transparency, and accountability. We care very much about the privacy and security of the people who use our services, and believe that personal privacy is critical for trust between ourselves and those we work with. We expect similar consideration from the people who use our site.

Please read these site terms of use and privacy policy carefully before using our site. By using our site, you automatically agree to all of these terms. Whythawk may revise these terms from time to time. If you continue to use our site after we post changes to these terms, it will mean that you accept those changes.

Businesses, ratepayers, and transparency

Our data includes commercial trading names, registered company names, and, very occasionally, the names of individual commercial ratepayers. All these data are sourced from public, and openly licenced, data. In the case of data sourced from Freedom of Information requests, the nature of what we may publish has been subject to direct legal review, including decision notices at the Information Commissioner's Office, and court judgements from the Information Tribunal.

Use of data and analysis

Risk is fundamental to research, and entrepreneurship, but you must be aware that your risks are yours to bear and it is up to you to understand the nature and degree of risk you are taking.

You should not invest in any business unless you have conducted your own thorough due diligence and you are prepared to sustain a total loss of the money you have invested, plus any interest or other transaction charges. Before using these data to produce research you need to understand uncertainty in these data.

Purely by way of example, and not as an exhaustive list, here are some potential sources of uncertainty:

• Rental valuation — based on Valuations Office Agency National Non-Domestic Rates assessment (i.e. the official, but not necessarily market-related, valuation) and may differ substantially from that offered by a landlord.
• Rates valuation — based on the standard business rates multipliers (i.e. before any exemptions or reliefs for which the business may qualify).
• Occupation status — based on individual responses from rates authorities declaring whether properties are occupied and is, in many cases, extremely lagging; properties listed as empty may already have tenants, and vice versa. Not all authorities are prepared to publish such data, and not all such data are of high quality.

In all cases, use your discretion and common sense when working with our data.

Your email address

Any and all email addresses saved as a consequence of account creation results in us holding your email address and, if provided, your name.

Your email address will not be used or collected for the purposes of reselling to a third party and will not be added to a bulk emailing list. We will only send you emails relating to service changes, security notices, or account-related matters.

We will never give or sell your email addresses to anyone else, unless we are obliged to by law.

Cookies and advertising

We do not present advertising on this site and all content is served directly by our servers and is not referred via any third parties. We only need to store a very limited number of cookies. Each cookie is a random string of characters used to protect your safety from fraudulent cross-site attacks. These cookies hold the access token and refresh token required to validate your identity. The access token is short-lived; the refresh token expires after 30 days.

Where TOTP two-factor authentication is enabled, a temporary token is used during the verification step and discarded on completion.

No other cookies are presented by this site, and we do not host third-party trackers or advertisers.

Legal basis for processing

In choosing to make use of this site, you are consenting to your data being processed as described on this page. The legal basis for processing your data is your consent as laid out in 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, in force from 25 May 2018.

Your rights

You have the right to know what personal data we hold about you. If you have an account and are logged in, everything we know will always be presented on your settings page.

You have the right to request deletion of your account and all associated personal data. On account deletion, personal data is removed within 30 days.

You have the right to complain if you believe that we have mishandled your personal data. The relevant supervisory body is the Information Commissioner's Office. You can report a concern directly, but please contact us first so that we may try to resolve your concern.

Limitations on Whythawk's liability

The materials on this site are provided solely for informational purposes. Your use and browsing of this site is at your own risk.

While unlikely, the materials could include technical inaccuracies or other errors. They are provided to you "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, non-infringement of intellectual property, and fitness for a particular purpose.

Whythawk does not warrant that the functions contained in this site's materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that our site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. Whythawk does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials on our site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. You (and not Whythawk) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair, or correction.

Under no circumstances, including but not limited to negligence, shall Whythawk be liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of or in connection with the use of, or inability to use, the materials on our site, even if Whythawk or a Whythawk-authorised representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. All connections use TLS 1.3 encryption. Authentication uses TOTP two-factor where enabled. Access tokens are short-lived and scoped to the authenticated person. The database is hosted on infrastructure within the EU.

However, your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by Whythawk. Whythawk shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as the result of a breach of confidentiality with respect to information you transmitted to the site.

Outside links

Whythawk has not reviewed all of the sites linked to this site and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to this site. Such linked sites are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. That another web site is linked to our site does not constitute endorsement by Whythawk of the owner of the other site, the content of its site, or its products or services.

General provisions

The materials on this site are presented for the purposes of data management and subscriber report delivery. Whythawk may make changes to this site at any time without notice. Whythawk reserves the right to deny access to the site to anyone at any time. These terms shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of the UK. Any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to these terms shall be barred unless such claim or cause of action is brought within one year after it arises; any such claim or cause of action shall be brought only in courts in the UK, and you consent to jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating such actions.

This is the entire agreement between us relating to your use of this site. You represent and warrant to Whythawk that you are at least eighteen (18) years old and that you possess the legal right and ability to enter into this agreement and to use the site in accordance with this agreement.

Contact

For privacy enquiries: privacy@whythawk.com

Last updated: April 2026