Privacy

Last updated 9 November 2026

Who runs this site

The Wrong'un Index at wrongunindex.com (“the site”) is published by The Upshot (“we”, “us”), the podcast. The Upshot decides what the site says, who it features and what information it collects, and is the controller of that information under UK data protection law.

The site is built and hosted for The Upshot by Crounder, a technology supplier. Crounder acts only on The Upshot's instructions and does not use the site's information for its own purposes.

For anything about this notice or your information, email us at contact@upshot.email.

What we collect when you visit

There are no accounts, no sign-up forms and no advertising on the site, and it sets no cookies. We collect anonymous statistics so we know how many people use the site and what they find useful:

• the pages and tabs you look at, the profiles you open and the buttons and links you click, including links to The Upshot's newsletter and Patreon, and share buttons;
• words typed into the site's search box and the filters you choose;
• the website or app that sent you here, your browser and device type, and your rough location (country and city);
• when you visited and for how long.

To count visitors without cookies, our analytics service briefly uses your IP address and browser details to make an anonymous code that changes every day. Your IP address is then discarded and is not kept with the statistics. We do not try to identify you, and we do not combine this information with anything else.

Your browser also remembers which tab you last looked at, so the site opens there next time. That stays on your own device and is never sent to us.

Like every website, the hosting service keeps short-lived technical logs (such as IP address, time and page) to keep the site running and secure.

Why we use it

To understand how the site is used, to improve it, to see how many listeners it sends to The Upshot's podcast, newsletter and Patreon, and to keep it secure. Our legal basis is our legitimate interests in running and improving the site. We may share overall totals (for example, the number of visitors in a month) with others; these never identify you.

Who handles it for us

• Crounder, which builds and runs the site on our behalf.
• PostHog, our analytics service, which stores the statistics on servers in the European Union.
• Vercel, which hosts the site. Vercel may process technical logs outside the UK, protected by the safeguards UK law requires.
• Google Fonts, which supplies the site's typefaces to your browser.

We do not sell your information. We keep the statistics only for as long as they are useful for understanding how the site is used.

People featured on the index

The index is The Upshot's editorial content, drawn from what is said on the podcast. Its scores, ratings and verdicts are opinions, for entertainment, and are not statements of fact. It covers public figures and stories already in the public domain, and we process this information for journalistic purposes and in the public interest.

If you are featured and want to raise anything, including a correction or a request to be removed, please contact The Upshot at the address above. We will look at every request promptly.

Photos

Photos come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under the licences credited on each profile. Where a licence asks for it, our cropped and toned versions are shared under the same licence. To ask about a photo, contact The Upshot.

Links to other sites

Links to The Upshot's newsletter sign-up, its Patreon and other sites take you to services with their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for how they use your information.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of information we hold about you, and ask us to correct it, delete it, restrict how we use it or stop using it. Because our statistics are anonymous, we may not be able to link them to you.

Changes

We may update this notice. The date at the top shows when it last changed.