Privacy Policy

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE

Crime Cover Directory is owned and operated by Andrew Benington trading as SuperPowerSeven, who is the data controller for the personal data described here. You can contact me at [email protected].

This service is a private directory for criminal defence professionals. It is not a service for the general public and membership is by application.

WHAT I COLLECT

When you apply to join, and when you maintain your profile:

• Your first name and surname
• Your professional status, and whether you hold police station or court accreditation
• Your DSCC PIN, if you provide one
• Your email address, and your phone number if you provide one
• Your employment status
• Your preference for how you are contacted
• The name, address, telephone number and email address of your organisation if provided
• A home address or work address, if you choose to add one to your details
• Your password, stored only as a cryptographic hash and never in readable form

When you publish your availability:

• The court or police station you select, or
• The latitude and longitude of your phone at the moment you choose Here
• The start time and the expiry time of that availability if set

When you use the service:

• A session token, stored only as a hash, to keep you signed in while you use the app
• The member(s) you mark as favourites or colleagues, so that they are ordered first in your searches
• A record of each occasion on which you open another member's details, and on which another member or organisation opens yours
• If you use facial recognition or fingerprint login, this creates an encrypted passkey on your phone which avoids you having to enter login details for our application only. This encrypted passkey is recognised by our servers.

LOCATION

This is not a tracking app. It is a cover directory.

Recording location. You set this once, either by setting the court or police station you are present at, or by having the app record your gps coordinates. This is saved as your location. If you go elsewhere your recorded location does not change until either the default time out is activated, you cancel your entry, or you set another location.

Location is x miles from a venue. So if you are at y court you will show as 0 miles from that court and, if you chose, your distance in miles from other venues.

HOW LONG IT IS KEPT

Your availability stops showing to other members automatically:

• Court availability at 16.30
• Police station availability after 4 hours
• GPS entries at midnight

After that, a record of it is kept for six years: the court or police station and the times. A GPS entry is kept as "GPS location" with its times only. The coordinates themselves are not kept.

Each occasion on which another member or an organisation opens your details is recorded, and so is each occasion on which you open theirs. These records name the other party and are kept for six years.

Your organisation can see your availability and lookup record only if you tick the box on your membership details page. You can tick or untick it at any time.

I also keep anonymised counts for each court and police station: the number of members available, the number of times members' details were opened, and the number of searches. Daily figures are kept for 35 days, weekly figures for 12 weeks and monthly figures for six years. These figures identify no one and are not deleted when you delete your membership.

Session tokens and sign-in challenges are cleared within 15 minutes of expiring.

Your membership details are retained until you delete your membership. You can amend any details. Your previous details are not retained.

When you delete your membership, your availability and lookup record is first emailed to you as a PDF, and the membership is deleted only once that email has been sent. Your name is then removed from other members' records; the fact that a lookup took place is not.

You can have the same PDF emailed to you at any time, without deleting anything, from the My Data page.

WHO CAN SEE YOUR LOCATION

Other members searching for cover can see your availability for their selected venue, your name, professional status, accreditations, organisation, and chosen contact details. They see this only while your availability stands.

Administrators of the service can see application details in order to approve applications and maintain the directory.

PASSKEYS AND BIOMETRICS

If you add a passkey, only its public key is stored on the server. Your fingerprint or face is never sent to the service and never leaves your device. The passkey is bound to superpowerseven.com and cannot be used anywhere else.

SHARING

I do not sell, rent or trade your data. I do not use advertising networks and the app contains no third party analytics or tracking.

Two service providers process data on my behalf: the hosting provider that runs the server, and Resend, which delivers outbound email such as application correspondence. They act on my instructions only.

YOUR RIGHTS

Under UK data protection law you may ask for a copy of the personal data I hold about you. The personal data I hold is what is on your membership details page, which you can access, amend or delete at any time, and the availability and lookup record on your My Data page, which you can have emailed to you as a PDF at any time. Deleting your membership deletes both. If you would rather I provided a copy, amended your details or deleted them for you, email [email protected] and I will respond within one month.

If you are not satisfied with my response you may complain to the Information Commissioner at ico.org.uk.

SECURITY

Passwords and session tokens are stored as hashes. The site is served over TLS. I will use my best endeavours to protect your data from cybersecurity threats using commercially available security.

Your part in protecting your data is to use a long and complicated password, and not to share it.

CHANGES

If this policy changes, the revised version will appear on this page with a new date at the top.

CONSENT

By completing an application for membership you are consenting to the above terms.