Who we are
UK Grid News is an independent website that links to news about Great Britain's electricity networks from other publishers. A contact address for anything in this policy will be published here soon.
What we collect
You don't need an account to use this site, and we don't ask for your name or email address. The site shows no adverts.
- Usage statistics. We use Vercel Web Analytics to count page views and see which pages are popular. It does not use cookies and does not identify individual visitors.
- Preferences stored in your browser. Your light or dark mode choice is saved in your browser's local storage. It stays on your device and is not sent to us.
Third-party services
- Vercel hosts the website and provides our cookie-free analytics. Like any web host, it processes technical information such as IP addresses to deliver pages and protect against abuse.
- Google Fonts provides the site's typefaces. Your browser requests them from Google, which receives your IP address as part of that request.
We don't sell or rent personal information. Headlines link to other publishers' websites, which have their own privacy policies.
Why we're allowed to use this information
UK data protection law asks us to say what our legal basis is. For running and protecting the site and counting page views, it is our legitimate interest in keeping the website working, secure and useful.
How long information is kept
We don't hold any personal information ourselves. Vercel and Google keep the information they process for the periods set out in their own privacy policies.
Information sent outside the UK
Vercel and Google are based in the United States and may process information there and in other countries. Each sets out the legal safeguards it uses for these transfers in its privacy policy: Vercel, Google.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, and object to how it is used. If you're unhappy with how information has been handled, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
Changes to this policy
We'll update this page if anything changes, for example if the site starts showing adverts.
Last updated: November 2026