Privacy

Who is responsible

The public-facing service responsible for KnowJudges.com is KnowJudges, published as “Know Your Judge by SwansLake.” Its public contact is info@swanslake.com. The operator’s legal-entity name is not stated until it has been verified.

Information we handle

• Public judicial profile information: names, official roles, courts, appointment and service history, official professional contact details, public biographies, education and career information, court rules, published decisions, source URLs, verification notes, and source dates.
• Visitor technical information: information ordinarily transmitted when a site is accessed, such as IP address, browser/device information, requested URL, time, security events, and delivery logs.
• Correspondence: information a person chooses to send in a correction, privacy, licensing, or other inquiry.

KnowJudges does not intend to publish residential contact details, personal contact details, family details, sealed records, or similarly sensitive private information.

Sources and purposes

Profile information generally comes from official public sources and other cited public materials. It is used to identify judicial officers, preserve relevant professional history, organize and verify public records, provide source-linked legal research, correct errors, protect the service, and support responsible journalism, scholarship, and public understanding. Technical information is used to deliver, secure, debug, and measure the service. Correspondence is used to respond to the request and keep an appropriate audit record.

Legal bases and transparency

Where UK GDPR or similar law applies, KnowJudges expects that some processing of public professional information may be assessed under legitimate interests, including accurate public-record organization, transparency, historical research, and service security. That basis is not automatic: necessity, proportionality, reasonable expectations, impact, and individual rights must be assessed. A formal legitimate-interests assessment and the application of indirect-collection notice duties, including UK GDPR Article 14 where relevant, remain under counsel review.

Publication of this notice does not by itself displace any duty to provide direct notice or otherwise comply with applicable data-protection law.

Recipients, service providers, and transfers

Public profile information is available to site visitors and search services. Information may also be processed by infrastructure, security, communications, and professional advisers that help operate KnowJudges; current site delivery uses Cloudflare infrastructure. Providers may process information in countries other than the visitor’s or profile subject’s country. Where transfer restrictions apply, the operator must use an applicable transfer mechanism and safeguards. Contact us for information relevant to a specific request.

Retention

Public professional and historical information may be retained while it remains relevant to an accurate judicial record, including after a person leaves office. Source provenance and correction records may be retained to explain verification and publication decisions. Technical logs and correspondence are retained only as reasonably needed for security, operations, dispute handling, and legal obligations. Specific retention schedules remain under operational and counsel review.

Your choices and rights

Depending on applicable law, a person may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to processing; receive portable information; or complain to an applicable supervisory authority. These rights can be limited—for example, where accurate public or historical records, freedom of expression and information, legal claims, or other lawful grounds apply.

Use Corrections & Record Review or email info@swanslake.com. We may request information reasonably needed to locate the record, understand the request, and verify authority. Email is not guaranteed to be a secure channel; send only what is necessary. In the United Kingdom, information about complaints is available from the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Changes

Material changes will be identified by a new version and effective date. Older material versions may be retained for reference.