Privacy
Privacy
No cookies, no analytics, no advertising, no accounts and no forms. There is very little to disclose, and we would rather explain properly than in shorthand.
The short version
- We set no cookies and run no analytics, tracking or advertising scripts.
- Your checklist progress never leaves your browser and is never transmitted to us.
- The free PDF is a direct download. We do not ask for an email address and keep no record of who downloaded it.
- This site has no contact form, so there is no message inbox to collect personal data.
- We do not sell, share or transfer your personal data to anyone.
- Because we hold no personal data about you, there is nothing for us to export or delete on request.
Who we are
This site is published as independent guidance about the UK Deposit Return Scheme. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of the scheme administrator. The site operator can be contacted through the routes on the contact page.
For data protection purposes the operator is the data controller for the limited processing described in this notice. As the site collects no personal data from you, that processing is confined to ordinary web request logs handled by the hosting provider.
Lawful basis and applicable legislation
We process the minimal technical information described below under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The relevant legislation and guidance are:
- UK GDPR — the retained EU Regulation 2016/679 as it forms part of UK law, together with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) Regulations 2019. Regulation 6(1)(f) is the lawful basis for the request data our host processes to deliver pages and defend against abuse.
- Data Protection Act 2018 — the UK’s implementing legislation, including the exemptions and lawful bases it defines.
- Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR) — governs cookies and similar technologies. We store nothing under it: there are no cookies, no similar technologies and no consent banner, because nothing requires consent.
- ICO guidance — the Information Commissioner’s guidance on cookies and similar technologies, on data minimisation, and on privacy notices.
Because we operate no cookies and no tracking, we are not required to run a consent mechanism, and asking for consent we do not need would be misleading. Your rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection are set out below.
What we collect
Nothing that identifies you. There are no accounts, no contact form, no newsletter sign-up, no account creation, no analytics, no pixels and no third-party embeds.
The only data processed is the ordinary technical information any web server processes to deliver a page: your IP address, user agent string, requested URL, referring page and the time of the request. This is handled by our hosting provider under Cloudflare under its own privacy terms, which it links to in its documentation. We do not use it to build a profile of you, we do not combine it with any other data set, and we do not attempt to identify you from it.
The checklist: stored in your browser only
The preparation checklist on the retailer page lets you tick off tasks and keeps your progress between visits. That progress is saved with your browser’s local storage feature, on your device, under this site’s origin.
The data never leaves your browser. It is written by your browser, stored by your browser, read by your browser and cleared by your browser. There is no server-side copy, no account, no sign-in and no transmission of any kind. Clearing your browser data — or opening the site in private browsing — removes it permanently. Export a copy first if you want to keep it.
Two consequences follow from that, and we state them plainly rather than relying on the phrase “no personal data”:
- Strictly speaking, local storage is still processing under the UK GDPR, and the data is personal data while it sits on your device. It is processed entirely on your device, so it never reaches us and we never act as a controller in relation to it.
- Because we never receive it, we cannot access, correct, export or erase it for you. You are the only party who can. That is a deliberate trade-off for having no tracking, and it is why we ask you to export rather than telling you we hold a backup.
Using your browser’s local storage here relies on you having stored it. Some privacy settings and private modes block it. The checklist still works for the current page view; your progress simply will not persist, and the checklist will tell you when that has happened.
The free PDF
The scheme summary is a direct file download. There is no form, no email field and no gate. The file is served as a static asset and your browser saves it to your device.
We do not ask for your email address and we keep no record of who downloaded it. The only related data processed is the ordinary request log described above, which cannot tell us who you are.
If a future version of this site introduces a way to contact us or to have something sent to you, this notice will be updated before it goes live, and it will state exactly what is collected, why, the lawful basis, how long it is kept and how to have it deleted.
Third parties
We do not embed third-party trackers, advertising pixels, fonts, analytics or social widgets, so no other party receives data about your visit through us.
This site links to external resources, including Exchange for Change , government publications, legislation and trade body guidance. Those are separate organisations with their own privacy practices, which we do not control and this notice does not cover. Links marked with an external icon open in a new tab. Once you follow a link, your visit is governed by their notice, not ours.
Your rights
Under the UK GDPR you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object to and port your personal data, and to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. In practice we hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing for us to retrieve or delete, and these rights do not bite on this site. The one exception is request logs held by our host, which we cannot extract individual entries from.
If you have a question about any of this, use the routes on the contact page. If you wish to raise a formal concern, the ICO’s details are at ico.org.uk.
Accuracy, liability and sources
This site is an independent summary of publicly available scheme information. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the scheme administrator. Every figure is drawn from a published source and linked from the resources page, which also sets out the underlying legislation.
Content is provided for general information only. It is not legal, tax, accounting or financial advice, and it is provided without warranty of accuracy or completeness. Scheme rules, fees, dates and exemption criteria change — verify anything carrying financial or legal consequence against the official source and your own professional advisers before acting on it.
The primary legislation for England and Northern Ireland is the The Deposit Scheme for Drinks Containers (England and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2025 (UKSI 2025/67). Scotland and Wales operate separate schemes under their own arrangements, so the rules differ by nation.
Changes
This notice was last reviewed in September 2026. If the site’s data practices change, this page will be updated before the change takes effect.