Privacy policy

Last updated 19 August 2026

This policy explains how The Lords ("the app") handles information. The app is published by SVPPLY&.CO LIMITED ("we", "us"), a company registered in England and Wales, company number 11377371, with a registered office in London.

For the purposes of UK data protection law, including the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, we are the data controller for any personal data described here.

01What we collect about you

Nothing. We do not ask for your name, email address, postcode or location. The app has no user accounts and no login. We do not use analytics software, advertising identifiers, cookies or any third-party tracking tools.

We cannot see what you search for, which peers you look at, or how often you open the app. That information never leaves your device.

02What is stored on your device

The app stores the following locally, on your device only:

• A cached copy of information downloaded from Parliament, so the app works quickly and can be used offline
• Cached portrait images of members of the House of Lords
• Your app settings and preferences
• A record of any in-app purchase you have made, so the app knows what to unlock

None of this is transmitted to us. Deleting the app removes all of it from your device.

03Connections the app makes

To show you current information, the app requests data directly from the UK Parliament's public APIs and from our own content server. As with any internet request, your device's IP address is necessarily visible to those services in order for them to respond. We do not log, store or analyse IP addresses for our own purposes.

The services the app connects to are:

• UK Parliament open data services — for information about members, debates, divisions, bills and registered interests. Parliament operates these services under its own privacy terms.
• Cloudflare — which hosts this website and serves supporting reference files to the app. Cloudflare processes requests on our behalf as a data processor.
• Apple — for in-app purchases only, as described below.

04Purchases

Any purchase in the app is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see or receive your payment details. Apple confirms to the app that a purchase was made, and nothing more. Apple's own privacy policy governs how it handles that transaction.

05Information about members of the House of Lords

The app displays information about named individuals — members of the House of Lords — including their registered financial and non-financial interests, their speeches, and their voting records.

All of this is published by the UK Parliament as open data and made available under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. We display it as Parliament publishes it. We do not add to it, score it, rank it, or combine it into anything Parliament does not itself publish. We do not store this information on our own servers.

If you are a member of the House of Lords, or acting on behalf of one, and you believe the app is displaying something inaccurately, please contact us. The underlying source is Parliament's published record, but we will check what the app is showing against it and correct any display error.

06Children

The app is rated 13+ because it displays parliamentary debate as published, which can cover difficult subjects. It collects no personal data from anyone, and therefore collects no personal data from children.

07Your rights

Under UK data protection law you have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict and object to the processing of your personal data, and to data portability.

Because we hold no personal data about users of the app, there is in practice nothing for us to give you, change or delete. If you believe otherwise, contact us and we will respond within one month.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's data protection regulator, at ico.org.uk.

08Changes to this policy

If the app changes in a way that affects this policy — for example, if a future version introduces a feature that requires an account — we will update this page and change the date at the top before that version is released.

09Contact

For anything relating to this policy, privacy, or a correction request, email contact@thelords.app.