Last updated: 10 August 2026
UK Law Citation offers a free website for UK case citation lookup and a Google Docs add-on for finding, previewing, and inserting UK legal citations. The website and add-on send only the citation search typed by the user to the UK Law Citation API. They do not send Google Doc body text to the API.
UK Law Citation is operated by Daniel Cheng. For data-protection questions, requests, or objections, email support@uklegalcite.co.uk.
UK Law Citation uses Google user data only for the citation workflow in the active Google Doc.
UK Law Citation does not request broad Google Drive access, Gmail access, Calendar access, Contacts access, or access to other files in Google Drive. It does not send the body text of the active Google Doc to the UK Law Citation API.
UK Law Citation uses the data above to provide the requested citation lookup and insertion features.
UK Law Citation is a citation lookup and formatting aid. It does not provide legal advice, legal research, case summaries, statutory text, legal propositions, or recommendations about legal arguments.
Open-beta access is free and does not require payment information. UK Law Citation does not receive or store payment-card numbers.
If a person started a subscription before open beta, UK Law Citation may retain the billing email, Stripe customer identifier, Stripe subscription identifier, subscription status, price identifier, billing-period end date, and cancellation status. These historical records are used only for support, accounting, security, and any necessary access-control work.
Some citation results include optional links to external public sources, such as BAILII search results for cases or legislation.gov.uk pages for legislation. These links open only when the user chooses to click them.
When a user opens an external source link, their browser connects directly to that third-party site. The external site may receive information normally sent with a web visit, such as the requested URL, IP address, browser information, and the search terms included in the link. UK Law Citation does not send Google Doc body text to these external source sites.
UK Law Citation does not sell Google user data. It does not use Google user data for advertising, third-party marketing, or training AI models.
The typed citation query is processed by the hosted UK Law Citation API and by infrastructure providers needed to operate the service, such as hosting, networking, database, and logging providers. Stripe may process historical billing data for people who used billing before open beta. These providers process data only to help run, secure, monitor, support, and where relevant account for the service. UK Law Citation may also disclose information if required by law or to protect the security and integrity of the service.
On the UK Law Citation website, we offer an optional choice to allow advertising measurement. If you allow it, Google Ads measures visits from advertising and clicks on the website's Marketplace-install links. This helps us understand whether an advertisement led someone to the point of choosing to visit the Marketplace.
This measurement does not receive Google Doc content, typed citation queries, selected citations, or Google account email. It does not tell us whether a particular person completed a Marketplace installation. You can decline measurement; the website and Marketplace-install links will still work.
The public website lets a visitor search for a known UK case, review a citation, add an optional pinpoint and copy the result. The typed search is processed to return suggestions. Custom citation forms are formatted in the visitor's browser from the details entered; those form details are not sent to the API merely to generate a preview.
Automatic website product telemetry, if enabled, uses only a random website identifier and coarse event categories such as query-length range, broad query format, result-count range, latency range, selected-result rank and whether a citation was copied. It does not store typed search text, copied citation text, custom-form details, case identity, Google account email, document content, raw IP address, session replay or free-form notes.
A search that returns no result does not automatically send its readable text to a feedback queue. If UK Law Citation later offers an optional missing-case submission, it will explain what is sent and provide a separate choice before any readable query is retained.
To request deletion of support records or other data associated with a support request, email support@uklegalcite.co.uk. Do not send confidential document text in support requests.
UK Law Citation relies on its legitimate interests in operating, securing, and improving the open beta for this limited telemetry, while taking steps to minimise the data collected. You may object or ask questions by emailing support@uklegalcite.co.uk. A future optional research programme for people who choose to submit queries or expected citations will have separate information and a separate choice; it is not part of automatic telemetry.
UK Law Citation may contact a limited number of people in their professional capacity to ask whether the product is relevant to their work, whether they would test it, or whether they are the appropriate person to consider or share the invitation. This is targeted business-to-business outreach, not the purchase or compilation of private student contact lists.
For this outreach, UK Law Citation may process:
This information is obtained from public professional sources such as official employer, university, professional-association, chambers, law-firm, society, event, or directory pages. UK Law Citation does not intentionally collect private student lists or sensitive personal information for outreach.
The purpose is to introduce a narrowly relevant citation tool, recruit suitable testers, request professional feedback, and identify organisations or groups that may wish to share an opt-in invitation. UK Law Citation relies on its legitimate interests in developing and promoting the service where those interests are not overridden by the person's rights and where electronic-marketing rules permit the message. The assessment considers the relevance of the person's public professional role, the limited information used, the reasonable expectations of the recipient, and the low frequency and limited impact of the contact.
UK Law Citation does not rely on legitimate interests to override a requirement for consent. Contacts whose subscriber status or appropriate route is uncertain are held back from email outreach until an appropriate route or consent is identified.
Every outreach email should identify UK Law Citation and provide a direct way to opt out. A recipient may object to direct marketing at any time by replying to the message or emailing support@uklegalcite.co.uk. UK Law Citation will stop direct-marketing contact and keep only the minimal suppression information needed to respect the objection.
Outreach records may be processed by service providers used for business email, secure file storage, hosting, and operational support. They are not sold or shared with data brokers. If a provider processes personal information outside the United Kingdom, UK Law Citation uses the safeguards required by applicable data-protection law.
Prospect records are reviewed and normally deleted or anonymised within 12 months of the last meaningful interaction if no relationship develops. Records connected with an active tester, customer, partner, support matter, legal obligation, or objection may be retained for as long as needed for that purpose. Minimal suppression records may be retained so that an opt-out is not accidentally reversed.
Depending on the circumstances, a person may ask for access to their personal information, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or an explanation of how it is used. They may object to processing based on legitimate interests and may object to direct marketing at any time. UK Law Citation does not use outreach information for solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
To exercise a right, email support@uklegalcite.co.uk. A person also has the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint.
For privacy or support questions, email support@uklegalcite.co.uk.