What databanking.org is for, what it isn't, and who stands behind it.
databanking.org exists to promote the Databanking proposal: a regulated custodial model for personal information, set out in the whitepaper linked throughout this site. The site's job is to make that proposal easier to engage with than the paper alone allows. It also carries technical detail that didn't fit the whitepaper's deliberately concise scope, and will include a forthcoming Technical Architecture Paper.
This is not a product, a company, or a service you can sign up for. No Databank exists yet, and nothing here collects or stores personal data beyond the routine server logs described below. The site is advocacy and explanation for an idea, not an offering.
There is no formal organisation behind Databanking at the time of writing — no company, foundation, or nonprofit. databanking.org is, in effect, the "organisation": the proposal's author publishes and maintains the whitepaper and this site directly. If that changes — if a formal body is ever set up to take the proposal further — this page will say so.
This site has no affiliation with databanking.com or any other domain variant using the word "databanking". The only exceptions are databanking.co.uk, databanking.uk and databanking.info, which are registered by the author and redirect here.
The whitepaper and the pages on this site represent a proposal, not enacted law or an existing system. Where they describe what a Databank "would" do, that is a design intent, not a guarantee about any system that currently exists. Known gaps and unfinished work are tracked internally rather than presented as resolved; absence of caveats on a given page isn't a claim that every detail is fully settled.
The site sets no cookies and runs no analytics, tracking scripts or third-party services. It is served by an ordinary web server, which writes a standard access log: the requesting IP address, the page requested, the time, the referring page and the browser's user-agent string. In the password-protected research area, the log also records the username used to gain access.
Those logs exist to keep the site running and to show whether the research outlines are being read, which is the legitimate interest relied on for keeping them. They are kept for fifteen days and then discarded, are not combined with any other source, and are not shared with anyone. Any questions about them can go to the contact address below.
Feedback on the whitepaper or the site is welcome at contact@databanking.org.