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Privacy notice
This notice explains what personal data we collect when you use CaseLawDigest, why we collect it, how long we keep it, and what you can ask us to do with it. Last updated 6 August 2026.
Who we are
CaseLawDigest is a trading name of Playblast Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under number 16116921, with its registered office at 71-75 Shelton Street, London, England, WC2H 9JQ. Playblast Ltd is the data controller for the personal data described here.
For anything in this notice — including a request to see, correct or delete your data — write to [TO BE COMPLETED].
What we collect, and why
We collect as little as the service allows. There is no advertising network on this site, no third-party tracking, and we do not sell or share personal data for anyone else’s marketing.
| What | Why | Lawful basis |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address, when you ask for the free weekly digest | To send you the digest you asked for | Consent — withdraw it by unsubscribing at any time |
| Your email address and sign-in link, when you subscribe or sign in | To identify your account and give you access to what you paid for | Performance of our contract with you |
| Your subscription details: plan, chosen practice areas, additional recipients you name, renewal dates | To deliver the right digests to the right people | Performance of our contract with you |
| Billing records held by our payment processor: name, billing address, and the last four digits and expiry of your card | To take payment and meet our accounting obligations | Contract, and legal obligation for tax records |
| What you write when you report an error in a summary, including any contact details you choose to give | To investigate and correct the summary | Legitimate interests — keeping our published summaries accurate |
| Server logs: IP address, timestamp, page requested | To keep the service running and secure | Legitimate interests — security and reliability |
We never see your card number. Card details are entered on our payment processor’s own pages and are never sent to or stored on our servers.
If you name a colleague as a recipient
Firm plans let you add colleagues as digest recipients. When you enter a colleague’s email address, you are giving us their personal data — please make sure they are expecting it. We use their address only to send the digests your firm subscribes to, and any recipient can ask us to remove them directly, without going through you.
Cookies
We set one cookie. It records that you are signed in, so that you are not asked to sign in again on every page. It is strictly necessary for a service you have asked for, which is why there is no cookie banner on this site — there is nothing optional to consent to. It expires after 60 days, or immediately when you sign out. We use no analytics, advertising or social-media cookies.
Who else processes your data
We use a small number of suppliers to run the service. They act on our instructions and may not use your data for their own purposes.
- Supabase — hosts our database and sends sign-in links.
- Stripe — takes payments and holds billing records. Stripe is an independent controller for its own fraud-prevention and regulatory purposes.
- Our email delivery provider — sends the weekly digests.
- Our hosting provider — serves this website.
Some of these suppliers process data outside the UK. Where they do, the transfer is covered by the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
We do not use your personal data to train artificial-intelligence models. Our summaries are generated from published judgments, which are public records — never from subscriber data.
How long we keep it
- Free digest sign-ups — until you unsubscribe, then deleted within 30 days.
- Account and subscription data — for as long as you are a subscriber, then 12 months after your subscription ends, in case you come back.
- Billing and tax records — six years after the end of the accounting period, as UK tax law requires.
- Error reports — kept with the correction history for the summary, so that our record of what we changed and why stays intact.
- Server logs — 90 days.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you may ask us to give you a copy of your data, correct it, delete it, restrict how we use it, or send it to another provider. You may object to processing we carry out on the basis of legitimate interests, and you may withdraw consent for the free digest at any time. We will respond within one month.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, please tell us first so we can put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk, by post at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF, or on 0303 123 1113. Playblast Ltd is registered with the ICO.
Changes to this notice
If we change how we use personal data, we will update this page and change the date at the top. If the change is significant, we will tell subscribers by email rather than rely on you noticing.
See also our terms and our editorial policy, which explains how summaries are produced and corrected.