Trust
How a publication aiming to be a reference set protects its own credibility.
Independence, sourcing, methodology discipline, contributor protection, and data handling. The posture behind every page on this site.
Editorial trust
Four principles every output is held to.
Principle 01
Independence
We accept no advertising, no sponsorship, and no vendor funding. We take no consultancy positions whose findings would benefit from a particular view in the publication. Revenue comes from subscriptions and from the Benchmark.
Principle 02
Sourcing
Writing is drawn from inside live UK NEC contract administration. Where a position is opinion, it is labelled as opinion. Where a position is anchored to a clause, the clause is cited. Public references (TCC judgments, NAO reports, contract data) are linked.
Principle 03
Methodology before data
The Benchmark methodology paper is published in advance of the first issue, in the open, for critique. Once an issue is published it is not retroactively edited; corrections ship as a versioned new issue.
Principle 04
Contributor protection
Benchmark data only enters via signed contributor consent. No scraping, no reconstruction. Anonymised at a published k-anonymity floor of ten contracts per cell. Contributors retain the right to withdraw from forward issues.
Data handling
What we hold, where, and why.
What we collect
Subscriber email addresses, the source of each signup (homepage, lead magnet, segment page, etc.), and optional NEC form / Option metadata where the form asks for it. No analytics that personally identify a reader.
Where it lives
Subscriber form submissions are processed through Formspree. Contributor data, when the programme opens, is held under a published consent statement and access controls. See the subprocessor list for every third party that processes any data.
Your rights
Under UK GDPR you have the right to access, correct, delete, or export the data we hold about you. Email the editorial inbox below to exercise any of those rights.
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