Ethical Data Protection: locked.im awarded Ethical Accreditation

locked.im has been awarded Ethical Accreditation from The GOOD Shopping Guide, joining our Top 200 Ethical Businesses list after passing our independent ethical assessment. locked.im is a privacy-first digital service that tells you whether your email and personal data have turned up in a data breach, and with around 1 in 3 UK email addresses already leaked, it is a service more of us need than realise.

Privacy Built In, Not Bolted On

Most free online tools come with a catch: your details become someone else’s advertising profile. locked.im takes the opposite approach. Its breach check is free, needs no account, and stores nothing once the check is done. There is no advertising, no data brokering, and nothing sold on. As the company puts it, privacy is the product, not the raw material. You can also run a password strength check that works entirely inside your browser, so your password is never sent anywhere.

The Service That Says No to AI

In a market rushing to automate everything, locked.im has made a deliberate choice to stay AI-free. It does not feed your data into AI training or hand your results to a machine to interpret. Instead, questions are answered by a real, UK-based support team in plain English. For a service built on trust, keeping a human in the loop is crucial.

Accountable by Design

locked.im is run by a registered Isle of Man company with professional indemnity cover, a published Privacy Policy, a Modern Slavery Policy, and an Accessibility Statement. It is a signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, a member of the Human Rights Campaign, and displays an “Everyone is Welcome” commitment on its site. This is a real business with a real address and clear answers about how it works.

locked.im shows that looking after people online does not have to mean harvesting their data to do it. By putting privacy first and keeping real people in charge, it sets a strong example for digital services everywhere.

Find out more about locked.im and its ethical initiatives here.