Compliance comes as standard

Your ICO registration, checked.Before your site goes live we look you up on the ICO’s public register of fee payers. If you are not on it we walk you through registering, which for most small firms is £52 a year, or £47 by direct debit. Your site never claims a registration you do not have.

Your legal pages, written for you. A privacy policy, a cookie policy, terms and an accessibility statement, written from your answers to our questions rather than copied from another site. Anything that sets out how you trade, such as deposits or cancellations, comes from you, because it is your contract and not ours.

A cookie banner that means it. Rejecting is as easy as accepting, nothing is ticked in advance, analytics and advertising tags do not load until somebody agrees, and every page carries a link to change their mind later.

Enquiries handled under UK GDPR.Your form collects only what somebody chooses to send. Their enquiry goes into your own account, kept apart from every other client’s, and your privacy policy names us as the processor with our ICO number and says how long records are kept.

A marketing box that starts unticked. Asking you a question is not signing up to a mailing list. If you want to send marketing to people who enquire, your form gets a separate box for it, unticked, and only the people who tick it hear from you.

A form that never pretends. If a message cannot be sent, the form says so and gives your phone number instead. It never thanks somebody whose enquiry went nowhere.

Accessible from the start. We build to WCAG 2.2 level AA, the international standard for accessible websites, and the level UK public bodies are held to. In plain English, that means:

• Somebody who cannot use a mouse can reach every link, button and form with a keyboard.
• A blind or partially sighted visitor using a screen reader hears every page in a sensible order, with every picture and button described.
• Text stands out clearly from its background, so it can be read on a phone in bright sunlight.
• Buttons are big enough to tap with a thumb, and nothing flashes or moves in a way that could cause harm.

Every site also has a display preferences panel, so a visitor can make the text larger, raise the contrast, calm the movement, make buttons bigger or switch to a simpler typeface. We never install an accessibility overlay: the bolt on widgets that promise compliance in one line of code, and do not deliver it.

Begin Group Ltd is registered with the ICO under reference ZC181845, which you can check on the register yourself. This site carries its own privacy policy, cookie policy, accessibility statement and data complaints procedure, written to the same standard as yours would be.

All of it is part of the one package on our pricing page, and what goes into the site itself is on our website design page.