Fifth leaf · folios twenty-four to twenty-seven

Register and data

This leaf is about two different things that are easily confused: what these pages hold, which is nothing, and what the office holds, which is written in books.

Leaf opens at: Folio twenty-four — continued from folio twenty-three
Held by: HAVENPORT STUDIO LTD, company number 17407555, at the office below
Questions to: studio@havenportstudio.buzz

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Folio twenty-fiveWhat these five pages hold

Nothing. These are plain files: markup, one stylesheet, one script, one drawn icon. No cookie is set by them, and there is therefore no cookie table on this leaf, because a table of nothing is worse than a sentence. No analytics, counter, pixel, tag or third-party embed is loaded. There is no login, no account and no basket. Nothing on these pages identifies the reader, and nothing remembers a return visit.

The two working sheets — the apportionment sheet at folio four and the filing sheet at folio twenty-two — run entirely in the reader’s own browser. The figures typed into them are not sent anywhere, not stored anywhere, and are gone when the page is closed or reloaded. There is no form on this site that submits anything to anyone.

Two honest qualifications. First, these pages ask one other server for something: the two typefaces they are set in are fetched from Google’s font servers, so that server receives the request your browser makes for them. Block it and the pages stay readable in whatever typeface your system supplies; nothing else changes. Second, the host that serves these files necessarily receives each request in order to answer it — the file asked for, the network address it was asked from and the browser’s own description of itself. The holder keeps no copy of that, builds no profile from it and asks the host for no report about it.

The one external request on this site is a typeface. It is named here rather than buried, because a reader who cares about such requests should not have to read the markup to find them.

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Folio twenty-sixWhat the office holds about a person, and why

The registered office does hold information about people, in books, because a company register cannot exist without it. It is held in three places and nowhere else.

The statutory registers: Members, office-holders, people with significant control: the particulars a register is required to carry, and the dates on which each was entered or ceased. Held because the company is required to keep the register, and for as long as the company exists.
The closed file of residential addresses: Held apart from everything else, produced to nobody on request, never published, and destroyed first when destruction comes.
The correspondence register and the letters behind it: The name, the address replied to, the date, a one-line subject and the folio of any register the message bears on. Held so that a message can be answered and so that the answer can be found again. Kept to the rule at folio twenty.

Who reads it: whoever keeps the register at the office, and the holder’s professional advisers where a particular matter requires it. Nobody else, unless a document signed by the person concerned says so, or a public authority is entitled to it and asks in writing — in which case the request and the answer are both entered in the correspondence register, with their dates.

What is not done with it: it is not sold, rented, published, used to market anything, or sent out of the office to any party for any purpose of their own. The holder sends no marketing of any kind, having nothing to sell.

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Folio twenty-sevenAsking what is held, and having it put right

A question about what the office holds is made in writing to studio@havenportstudio.buzz, or by post to 73 Rivington Crescent, London NW7 2LF. It is entered in the correspondence register on the day it is read and answered in writing. The answer says what is held, in which book, why it is there, and how long it will be kept under the rule at folio twenty.

Say who you are and give an address to reply to, so that the answer can be sent to the right person rather than to whoever asked.
Say what you are asking about: a register entry, a letter, a recharge note, or everything held.
Where something is wrong, say what is wrong and what the right particular is, and enclose or cite the document that shows it.

A correction is made the way every correction in this register is made, and the method is at folio ten: a new line, dated the day the correction is made, citing the line it corrects. The old line stays legible. This is not reluctance — a register whose history can be rewritten proves nothing about any of its entries, including the corrected one. Where a book is one the holder may simply amend, it is amended and the amendment is dated. Where the correction concerns an entry in a register kept by somebody else — a trading entity’s own register of members, or the public record — the answer says so and says who should be written to, because this office cannot alter another company’s books.

If an answer does not satisfy, write again quoting the folio number in the acknowledgement. A second letter on the same folio is read as part of the same matter, and the matter stays open in the correspondence register until it is closed in writing.

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