The small print

Legal, without the fog.

Terms, privacy, cookies and accessibility, written to be read.

Terms of use

This website is published by Gordon Down & Company Ltd, registered in England and Wales under company number 04694243, with its registered office at 144 Walter Road, Swansea SA1 5RW.

The content of this site, including the calculators and checkers on the Tools page, is provided for general information only. It is not accountancy, tax or legal advice, and it should not be relied on as a substitute for advice on your own circumstances. Using this site does not create a client relationship with the firm. A client relationship begins only when we have agreed terms of engagement with you in writing.

We take care to keep the information here accurate and current, but we make no guarantee that it is complete or free of error, and we accept no liability for loss arising from reliance on it. Nothing in these terms limits any liability that cannot be limited by law.

The text and design of this site belong to Gordon Down & Company Ltd. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.

Privacy policy

Gordon Down & Company Ltd is the data controller for personal information collected through this website. You can reach us about anything in this policy at mail@gordondown.co.uk or by post at 144 Walter Road, Swansea SA1 5RW.

When you use the contact form we collect your name, your email address, your phone number if you choose to give it, and the contents of your message. We use this information to respond to your enquiry and, where it leads to an engagement, to set up our work together. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in responding to people who contact us.

Form submissions are processed by our website hosting provider on our behalf. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it except with providers who help us run this site and our practice, or where the law requires.

We keep enquiry information for as long as we need it to deal with your enquiry and any engagement that follows, and we review what we hold at least once a year. Where you do not become a client, we delete the enquiry once it is closed.

Because we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object to our use of your information at any time, and we will stop unless we have a compelling reason to continue. You also have the right to see the information we hold about you, to correct it, to ask us to delete it, and to ask us to restrict how we use it. Some of these rights are qualified by law. To exercise any of them, contact us at the address above. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

The site loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, so your browser requests those font files from Google when a page opens; that request carries your IP address to Google, which is a US company. No other third party receives information about your visit.

Our work as accountants involves further personal information, which is handled under our terms of engagement. This policy covers the website.

Last reviewed September 2026.

Cookies

This website does not set cookies. There is no analytics tracking, no advertising, and nothing that follows you around the internet afterwards.

The site loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, which means your browser requests those font files from Google when a page opens. If we ever add a service that uses cookies, we will update this notice and ask for your consent where the law requires it.

Accessibility statement

We want everyone to be able to use this website, whatever technology they browse with. Our target is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA.

The site works with keyboard navigation alone, including the menu, the calculators, the service finder and every expanding section. Focus is always visible and never hidden behind the header. Headings follow a logical order, every image has a text description, colour contrast has been checked against the AA thresholds for text and for controls, form fields have labels and describe their errors, results and errors are announced to screen readers, and the site respects your device’s reduced motion setting. All content remains readable if scripts are blocked.

How this was tested

In September 2026 every page was checked with an automated accessibility rule set (axe-core), the colour palette was checked by calculation against WCAG contrast thresholds, and the code was reviewed for keyboard operation, focus handling, structure and announcements. The site has not yet been tested with a screen reader by a person who relies on one, so we treat this as partial conformance until that has been done.

Known limitations

The typefaces load from Google Fonts. The three calculators need JavaScript to produce figures; without it, the page explains what each tool does and offers our contact details instead.

If any part of this site is difficult for you to use, we would genuinely like to know. Ring us on 01792 543520 or email mail@gordondown.co.uk and we will provide the information another way and fix what we can.

Statement prepared 19 September 2026. Next review September 2027.