Privacy policy

Last updated: 2 Nov 2026

Who is responsible

The controller of this website is Dean Cahill FCCA, contact@shortagewatch.org.

What we collect

shortagewatch has no accounts and no forms. We do not ask for your name, email or health information. Our host, Cloudflare, processes technical data such as IP addresses to deliver and secure the site and produces aggregated traffic statistics without cookies.

Advertising and cookies

This site may show advertising served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites, and to measure ad performance. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info. Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent through a Google-certified consent banner before any advertising cookies are set. You can change your choice at any time from the "Privacy and cookie settings" link that the banner provides.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access, correct, delete or restrict processing of your personal data, to object to processing and to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (in France, the CNIL). Write to contact@shortagewatch.org to exercise these rights.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 16.

Changes

We will update this page if our practices change.